My highest rank is R14, which I achieved in SOM. I logged in today after the patch, on Whitemane in Classic Era, and my rank is R3. Why aren’t ranks updated to the highest achieved?
Yea same, I don’t understand the wording of the patch. Shouldn’t we get back our highest rank/title? If not what is the point of this? Why would we want to regrind our rank to get back to where we were, and then new people are able to rank and just never decay out of r14? Seems like being penalized for ranking before in a harder system.
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Trying to put some pieces together here. Did you also rank up to HWL in SoM Fervor?
Yes, Grand Marshal on my alliance character during SOM.
This is my R14 character. Ranked up during SOM. Highest rank shows as Grand Marshal, yet current rank shows as Sergeant.
Yeah I want to know if Fervor is having the same issue and if the linked thing is ranking in SoM vs. ranking in Era.
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I have two R14s that hit R14 on era, not SOM or classic, including this toon, that are not r14 today. Both showing low ranks like r3 and r5 I believe.
Came top the forums looking for this exact issue. Glad that I wasn’t the only one who seems to notice the wording in their previous post, and not reinstating our previous highest rank.
Can you direct me to the previous post you’re referring to?
Okay so it appears you aren’t supposed to go back to your highest lifetime rank.
This was them saying they aren’t wiping your honor tab.
You’ll retain most of your lifetime kills.
You’ll retain lifetime highest rank at the bottom of the tab.
You’ll keep your current honor rank, pending some decay from the last week.
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Maybe, but that’s also pointless. And seems kind of unfair if new r14s will be r14 forever in an easier system.
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If that’s what it means, I understand, but think that’s a weird thing to put in those bulletpoints concerning 'retaining rank". I think that was to be assumed immediately upon announcing “wiping current honor ranks” that they announced in May. I don’t think there’s one person that thought it meant they lost achieved rank long prior to this apparent “reset”(but not really a reset) reset.
But it’s also in the bullets concerning ‘retaining your lifetime kills’ which is a historical stat.
I understand that interpretation of it. A lot of us stopped pvp’ing because of the reset, and being told it was being “wiped”. We all understood “wiped” to mean reset from scratch. To then announce a week before the pvp honor system stops calculating that you’ll retain your rank, and also “retain” your highest earned rank, it also reads as you will revert to your previously accomplished rank.
Maybe splitting hairs here - but more clarity on all of this initially, and giving people back their highest earned rank, considering they’re allowing retention of current rank, seems like it would be a reasonably fair thing to do in this situation. Not the end of the world, no, but some people deranked down to ranks 1-4 from 10+ in since May based on the original announcement.
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What is the point of not reinstating the highest achieved rank? All it does it hurt people that have previously ranked. Seriously, this is really disappointing considering I spent countless hours grinding rank to hit a goal. Blizzard is saying the work I put in isn’t equal to the work of others who have recently ranked.
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Or equal to the work of people who now get to rank in an easier system, makes no sense.
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This isn’t how the post reads.
The post in question doesn’t mention it showing on the tab. It reads like I will retain...your lifetime highest rank which tells me I should be recognized as a Grand Marshal, with the title, and with access to the officer lounge.
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But lifetime highest rank is a historical stat, and always has been. It only exists on the tab, just like kills.
And by that logic - doesn’t that also mean it says ‘you will retain your current honor rank’. Which would mean you don’t go up to your lifetime highest rank? You retained your current rank - of rank 3.
Otherwise it would’ve mentioned that you would be SET TO your lifetime highest rank.
Or you would be reinstated TO your lifetime highest rank.
I get it’s confusing because it’s referencing a historical stat. And I also get there’s room for interpretation here, and that’s not amazing in the least bit. But based on this result all 3 things listed - DID happened:
- You retained your lifetime kills.
- You retained your lifetime highest rank. [this is why you can still equip things that say requires Grand Marshal on them]
- You retained your current honor rank.
If #2 was what you thought it was, then #3 wouldn’t have happened, right? The post never mentioned that they were doing #2 OR #3.
Again, I don’t like this in the least that there’s a miscommunication here. But I hope you can understand where it looks like the way I see it. Because I definitely can understand where it looks like the way you see it.
It was a historical stat in a system with decaying rank and limits on the number of people in each bracket. It made sense to not retain rank in that system. This new system isn’t that so saying “historical stat” is meaningless and doesn’t justify ignoring our achievements.
After the official achievements system was added to the game, some achievements have been retroactively recognized. Why not now?
Bottom line is the team failed to communicate effectively with the community, and failed to solicit feedback on this topic. Due to those failures, there are a bunch of people that has had their ranking achievements discarded. Slap in the face.
And, you have the audacity to sit here and defend the decision to not recognizing our achievements by arguing over semantics of previously poor communication. Just salt in the wound.
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