Yes, people have gotten rank 14 before BG’s in vanilla, or at least shortly into the launch of av/wsg (they were already rank 12ish by then)
You could have a bg that awards 100,000,000 honor every time you win or lose, and it wouldn’t affect how much time you have to play one bit as long as everyone on your server can access it
You don’t have to farm some arbitrary amount of honor. You just have to farm more than the next guy at your rank. So if both of you have access to BG’s or if neither of you do, it doesn’t change how much time you would need to spend pvp’ing. Nor would it change what rank you could possibly get
If everyone on your server earned only 200 honor each week, and you earned 250…you would continue to make progress in your rank every week until you were rank 14. The total honor does. Not. Matter.
Blue sets were out long before AQ/Naxx, that would be false. They were added in 1.4, but we have yet to see whether blizzard is putting in the 1.4 sets or the 1.12 sets, a blue post stated 1.12
So earlier I made a forum post talking about how much that set sucked, and I had about a half dozen people call me:
Stupid
A troll
Etc
And generally attempt to make fun of me. They claimed that the phase 6 version of the blue pvp set was being released now during phase 2. I’m not able to log in to check the pvp vendors, can someone confirm that the blue set is indeed the phase 2 (weaker) version?
no one knows for about another 3-4 weeks as the vendors are behind a door that you have to be rank 7 to get inside. If blizzard released the updated blue pvp gear, it would destroy raiding as the blue gear is pretty much better than T1
It’s about what that blue set would do to the entire community
Like someone else said, it is completely 100% better than the T1 set, and for my class, many pieces are better than the T2/BWL variants (chest, shoulders, gloves, legs, etc). What this would mean is that all of a sudden the meta would shift to where it would require pvp grind in order to maximize raid dps for just about everyone
It would be a huge change. Raiders would complain, moderate (non-hardcore) pvp’ers would celebrate
The first grand Marshall(s) on my server in vanilla was a shadowpriest/rogue duo. I distinctly remember that they were rank 12 at the launch of wsg. I guess they got #1 and #2 honor every week
I dunno what else to tell ya. /shrug
Edit: there is no minimum about of honor required per rank. It is strictly a comparison of you vs the rest of the server. I am amazed at how many people get this wrong