You’re asking about how many arena points you can get doing “yolo 5s” in WoW TBC (The Burning Crusade), i.e., casually queueing 5v5 each week mostly for points rather than pushing rating. The short version: 5s gives the highest arena point payout at a given rating, and a low‑to‑mid rating “yolo” team can still earn a few hundred points per week if you at least get some wins in and stay around 900–1000 rating.

What “yolo 5s” Means in TBC

In TBC context, “yolo 5s” usually means:

  • A 5v5 team made mostly to farm points, not to sweat rating.
  • People zerg through 10+ games a week, often with random comps and minimal coordination.
  • The goal is: spend minimal time, get weekly arena points for gear, and not care about W‑L beyond staying at a stable rating.

Players often call it a “trash 5s team” or “points team,” and many alts or casual players use it to gear up.

How Many Points Can You Get?

Arena points in TBC are determined mainly by:

  • Your personal rating and team rating.
  • The bracket (2s, 3s, 5s) — 5s has the best multiplier (it pays the most at the same rating).

Key practical benchmarks people report:

  • At around 950–1000 rating in 5s, you can get about 350–400+ arena points per week.
  • One player notes that sitting “around 950–1000 rating” with a casual 5s team yields roughly 350 points per week with just ~10 games played.
  • Another mentions that 5s at 1000 rating gives “like 400+ AP per week ,” which is more than the same rating in 2s or 3s because of the bracket multiplier.

If your team is very low rating or never wins:

  • People at extremely low rating or constant 0–10 weeks have reported getting single‑digit points (e.g., 3 arena points for 10 losses) — basically nothing.
  • You “need some rating to gain points,” and there’s generally a minimum rating threshold (often quoted as around 100 rating for ~200+ points in some calculators, though exact values can vary by patch/server).

So for a typical yolo 5s that:

  1. Plays the minimum 10 games per week.
  2. Wins a few games to hover around 900–1000 rating.

You’re usually looking at hundreds of arena points per reset (roughly 300–400+), not thousands.

Why 5s Is Best for “Points Per Time”

Players consistently point out that 5v5 is the best bracket if your only goal is points:

  • For the same rating , 5s gives more points than 2s or 3s because of bracket multipliers (2s gets the least, 3s in the middle, 5s the most).
  • Community calculators and addons explicitly model this, with 5s using the “full” value while 2s and 3s apply reduced multipliers.
  • As one player explains: if your 2s, 3s, and 5s teams all had the same rating, you’d only be awarded points from the highest paying bracket, which is 5s.

This is why people create “trash 5s” teams: they’re the most efficient way to stockpile arena points per week without playing a ton.

Extra Mechanics That Matter

There are a few important quirks of TBC arena that affect yolo 5s:

  • Below ~1000 rating you don’t lose rating on losses (on many TBC systems), so early on you can spam games to push up, then hover at a comfortable rating.
  • Once a team reaches 1000 rating , new players added to the roster often start at that rating, making it easier for friends/alts to join the point farm.
  • You only earn arena points from your highest-rated team each week, so if your 2s and 3s are the same rating but your 5s pays more, you’ll get paid off 5s.
  • At the end of the season, unused arena points typically convert to honor (e.g., one player cites 1,000 AP converting to 10,000 honor), which makes long-term yolo 5s even more attractive.

Example: A Typical Yolo 5s Week

Here’s a simple illustrative scenario to show what “yolo 5s” looks like in practice:

  1. You and four friends (or pugs) form a 5s team.
  2. Week 1: You spam games until you hit around 950–1000 rating , then stop when your rating starts dropping on losses.
  1. Weeks 2+: Each week, you:
    • Queue for 10 games.
    • Win 3–5 games, lose the rest, hovering around that same rating.
  2. Each reset, you collect roughly 350–400+ arena points from that 5s team.

Over several weeks, that’s enough to steadily build up the arena gear set without ever “sweating” rating climbs.

Bottom Line

  • How many points in yolo 5s?
    • At very low rating and constant losses: basically near-zero points (single digits).
* At ~950–1000 rating with casual play: about **350–400+ arena points per week** from a 5s team.
  • Why 5s? It has the best point payout at a given rating, so a relaxed “yolo 5s” team is usually the most efficient way to farm arena points in TBC.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.