There are three different ways to PvP in DDO:

Challenges

Using the PvP challenge system, you can chose an opponant from any public zone by clicking on them, and hitting the "challenge" icon on your inspect orb. You and your opponant are transported to a private arena to settle your differences!

Open Tavern Brawls

Maybe you'd like to duke it out in a non-team free for all? Some taverns feature a special area where anyone can jump in and start to PvP with whoever is standing around! In these open PvP brawling pits, it's everyone for themselves, and it can encompass beyond 12 players at a time. No one has to be on a team, and there's no special steps to take prior to going in - just step into the pit, and start swinging!

You will receive an alert when you have crossed into the the PvP enabled area, and when you have exited the PvP enabled area. What if you die in the brawl pit? Just step outside the PvP area and you'll be able to spring back to life. You'll want to speak with the tavern keeper though for some drink and food to regenerate your health and spell points back up, and nurse your bruised pride. Brawling is a quick and fun way to have a little PvP action inbetween your quest!

Global Match-up Arenas <<~~

If you'd like to be placed on a PvP team against others from anywhere on your server, you'll want to visit Jackson Laws, located in any tavern that has a PvP brawl pit. Any player can speak with Jackson Laws and enter into a team matching queue where players wait for teams to be matched up according to level and number of players. If there are not enough players to make up two full teams within 30 seconds, players will be queued for a 6 vs. 5 match, and 30 seconds later, a 5 vs. 5 match, etc., until it matches a suitable combination based on how many players are in queue. The matching system uses 6 tiers to assign teams based on player level:

Level 1-2 are grouped together
Level 3-5 are grouped together
Level 6-8 are grouped together
Level 9-12 are grouped together
Level 13-16 are grouped together
Level 17- 20 are grouped together

Players can choose their own teams before choosing the arena, and immediately teleport to the PvP match when your party leader is ready to enter an arena! Simply start by forming a party. Once the party is formed, the party leader will be able to right-click on the party UI and choose "Convert to PVP Group." You can now add up to 12 people, as if you're going on a raid (max 6 vs. 6). Then assign each player to the red or blue team, or have the game assign a player to a "random" team.
When the team is assigned, the party leader can select an arena event, click “Choose,” and the PVP group is teleported into the arena for battle!

If you prefer the original matching system, it is still available. Simply speak to Jackson Laws, the arena NPC.

Here are a few tips to remember when using this system:
Assigning a team member to "Random" clears the assigned team color. Upon entering the arena, undesignated players are assigned to the red or blue team randomly. (the system will automatically attempt to balance the number of players on each team).
Upon entering the arena, the team will appear to be disbanded, and party and voice chat will appear disabled. However, once inside the arena, you'll notice the red and blue teams will be grouped separately, and party and voice chat will be re-enabled for each team.
When an arena event is over, the party disbands. Players will be teleported back to their starting location in town.

I would like to do some arenas.... I think it would be a great idea to to get away from the XP grind once and a while and just open up a can

The only problem I found is there is not hardley any Arean teams ever running that I have found..

Let me know your ideas.. I was thinking maby we could try to group up in a tavern.. Show how awsome our group is.
and just let people know in the tavern that we want a arena match..
We could start something

Also guys group up 2 gether pvp eachother and discuss your spells and such, this will help eachother max out our skills

ha! Zuork and I tried a little pvp to see who was better...though I got owned badly... But it was a bit difficult in public areas cause there were people interfering with us and it was annoying... My fighter is weak compared to zuorks barb but I'm still sure my wizzy is stronger then twiinkys sorcerer lol

lol vurg give him some pointers man then see how he does

One thing that I always did was, when I was the one pulling a party for a Raid, I'd also have posted that immediately after the Raid, all Party Members were expected to have a quick fun run through an Arena Battle.
Surprisingly, it worked out a lot.

Yeah it was a great pvp with vurgil there but many people messing around make things really hard xD indeed it was really fun when he counted 3, 2, 1 and then a wiz appeared and used hold on us hahahha then vurgil said "OMG"... and the barbarian have the advantage of sunder and trip DC been very high(my strenght goes to 30 with the rages active so for sunder its DC 20 but for trip i got a great sword of vetigo +4 that I only use for pvp that improves the DC to 24 to the balance check and i havent seen many people wasting points in this skill so things get really easy for me against some higher lvl players... and of course i have balance skill this is one of the dwarven best choices for pvp skills because it's dwarven +4 bonus even not been a barbarian class skill

and it would be cool to see others sharing theyrs pvp experiences here, pvp in DDO is far from being what we wait but maybe someday it will improve... well i hope so xD

Zuork I want a rematch with you, but no buffs haha. It kind of is a bit unfair since fighters don't really have any buffs. And phaq, twiinky is a good sorc, it's just he blows through mana like it's water. Like I'm not really trying to be like an ass but as a necro I can have two summons out ( one of my skellys and my earth elemental ) which help keep ms from using a lot of mana so when I need to I can use a lot to help save from a party wipe. Plus with less mana you use the less agro you pull which helps keep me alive lol

and zuork next time we fight let's try to bring phaq so maybe the people there will leave us alone lol

Well keep in mind Vurgil, Barbs usually don't have the AC a fighter will have, unless Zurok spent extra skill points or got a feat to change that you should be able to take the damage he deals out if you have armor that is fortified, reinforced, or has DR of some kind, use a shield instead of a two hander for the bonus AC or attack methods, and sunder/disarm is your best friend.

I agree with the disarm been a trouble, but even with this the massive strenght(my strenght is 24 mod +7, and it goes to 34 mod +12 with the rages) of the barbarian gives a lot of massive damage what makes a DR not so great at all and the trip with a DC 25(now its 26 to 28 depending on buffs) with vertigo +4 makes the fight between both classes a "who hits first have the advantage" because the shield DR of the fighter goes down when hit by trip( I think so...), a normal char with full balance skill in lvl 8 have a +11 grad and a mod between +2 and +6 what gives a maximum of +17(of course without magical improves) so DC 28 is at least a chance of 55% to fail in the test so its really an advantage to the barbarian even against chars prepared against trip those without balance skill fail with a 95% of chance(only because a 20 in the dice is always a success)

a fighter have many advantages too, i'm speaking here about the barbarian ones so Im not saying that the barbarian is better than any DPS class im here just to share about my char and to hear about the others share experiences is everything :p thx for that drakiis and vurgil lets have our training brawls at the tavern anytime auhhuahuahuahua

ill bring my lvl 19 so i can kill every one who messes with you

hahahaha we will really need u there Phaq!!!

There is a lot of things you can do with your toon and its based on your own unique play style. Conventinal wisdom is not always the best answer. I have a level 14 fighter that is basicly an itmitank he has a 38 armor class before buffs and a 27 strength with a 1 min +8 clicky 7 times and a 31 intimidate skill. Now here is the interesting part I took Kensia fighting enhancement I and II. This gives him dps type damage output while using a tower shield. I didnt invest in the traditional combat skills because I found for me they were very difficult to use effectively in a major combat situation. I chose rather than invest in trip and sunder to invest in a parylyzing weapon that renders most opponets as helpless if not more so than trip. The so called experts would totally advise against this kind of build because its to diversified but I challange you to find a more effective fighter at that level.
What I'm driving at is experiment with your toon and see what works for you its different for everyone.

also what works for pvp doesnt always work for pve and vise versa

"Conventinal wisdom is not always the best answer" from StValentine <<< thats what I think too and thats my objective posting here... There is always something "different" or "unconventional" that mostly will work better than conventional stuff... Sharing them between KGB members will always give us a new perspective or point of view from things that we could have not seen making us stronger... We gain some extra eyes and brains hahuahuahu

haha, and zuork once i get my fighter level the same as you barb well try it again, im just working on get vurgil ( my level 10 wizzy) to level 11