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Honor
From wow.incgamers.com
Definition - What you get by killing members of the opposing faction anywhere in the world.
Honor
Honor is completely unrelated to Reputation and Faction. This can be confusing, because people tend to mix it into any discussion involving faction and reputation. Honor is what you get by killing members of the opposing faction anywhere in the world. (These enemy players have to be suitably close to you in level. You gain no honor by ganking newbs). You gain honor in direct relation to how much damage you do to them. If you kill an enemy player by yourself, you gain all the honor. If you and a friend gang up and kill him, you get a portion of the honor based on how much damage you did to him; your friend gets a similar portion based on his damage.
The amount of honor you gain in a given week results in your honor rank. The ranks for the Horde and the Alliance are called different names, but they are equivalents. You accumulate honor for killing the enemy anywhere in Azeroth, not just in the BGs. There are still hotspot locations around the world where people gang up to ruthlessly gank one another. Prior to the implementation of the battlegrounds, the hottest of these hotspots was Tarren Mill-Southshore corridor. The Alliance raided TM every day, and if they didn’t, the Horde raided Southshore. The area basically served as a big, informal battleground. If you wanted to accumulate some honor, TM was the place to go.
Your honor rank allows you to purchase items from special vendors in your capital city. These items range from very good to truly epic, depending on your rank. Unlike reputation (which is permanent) honor is very temporary. If you PvP a lot, you’ll go up in rank. If you don’t PvP much at all, you’ll go down in rank.
In addition to killing enemy players, you can also gain bonus honor by accomplishing some objectives in the various battlegrounds. In Alterac Valley, for example, you gain bonus honor by killing various NPC commanders and leaders, and by destroying towers or capturing graveyards. In Arathi Basin, you gain bonus honor according to how many resources your team gathers. Generally speaking, the relative value of bonus honor varies. Remember, the most consistent method of gaining honor is to kick the living crap out of your enemies.
Just as each of the battlegrounds has a different system of accumulating bonus honor, each has a radically different set of objectives. These require some in-depth explanation, as there are numerous nuances and strategies for gaining reputation with each of the three battleground factions.
The honor system in the expansion has been completly revamped and items can now be bought with arena and honor points rather then gold. In addition, a few items such as PvP Epic (land) mounts can be bought with Battleground tokens. Honor points are awarded every day as opposed to once a week.
Arenas
- When a player enters an arena battle, all buffs and conjured items are purged/deleted. This is done to ensure no outside buffs or items from members outside of your team are able to be used in an arena battle.
- No consumables other than bandages and conjured items can be used while in the arena. There is a waiting area similar to battlegrounds where players on the team will be able to conjure items and cast buffs.
- Abilities/spells/items with cooldowns longer than 15 minutes cannot be used while in the arena.
- Each arena team is given a rating, and will be matched up in the arena queue against teams of a similar rating (matching within that specific cross-realm battlegroup). As time progresses the matching system will broaden its search up to a limit if a closely rated team cannot be found.
- Ratings adjustments are made in the same way that ELO ratings adjustments are made. This system works by adjusting each arena team's rating from a specific match based on the rating of the team they are up against. If a team wins against a team of a higher rating, the increase of their arena rating would be much higher than if they had won against a team of a lower rating. This system will help promote players improving their skill and besting teams which may have previously held the top spots.
- At the end of each week, characters receive arena points based on their team's rating. A team must have fought a minimum number of battles for the week, which is currently set to 10 games. A player must have played in at least 30% of the team's battles that week in order to be eligible to receive arena points. Each eligible player will then receive a fraction of the teams total awarded points to spend on arena rewards.
- Players may spend their points on arena rewards, or save their points until they have enough to get the rewards they desire.
- There is a limit to the number of points a player can stockpile, which is currently planned to be as high as the most expensive item.
- At the end of a season, players on a team are given a title based on their team's relative position on the ladder which will last through the next arena season.
- You must be level 70 to participate in Arenas.
- Matches are single elimination
Current Arenas in the expansion
