So we are getting the PvP honor system on Tuesday 11/12…next week basically.
As I was one of the dumb dumbs to no-life to Warlord back in Vanilla, I remember a few things. But which features are we getting?
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Will the rewards for the ranks be active? Or is this the release that just rewards Ranks and not the gear? So we sit on piles of CP points with nothing to spend it on. I still remember the statement for WoW Classic that Honor rewards and BG rewards were being held back because the gear rewards were vastly better than current raid gear like MC, Onyxia, and even some BWL…therefore are we really getting PvP Rank gear rewards or is that ‘later’?
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Will we get the Honor tracking tab in the UI or will we need to rely on Addons to estimate our current week’s Honor? I remember this weekly mystery and solved it by coding one of the most used addons for Honor back in the day that allowed players to see instant honor point amounts and various per minute, hour, session stats on Honor. It would be nice if they gave us the Honor tab showing this instead of using addons again.
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Will we have to maintain our PvP Rank to continue wearing our purchased PvP gear? ‘You think you do, but you don’t’ moment here. Remember before patch 1.6 we had to maintain PvP rank else your…say ‘Warlord’ gear became inactive.
Here are the 1.6 patch notes on this. I think we WILL have to maintain rank because 1.6 was BWL release…
Patch 1.6.0
- The honor screen now displays a bar indicating how far along your current rank you are (Scout, Private, etc). This will let you know whether you are moving towards your next rank or falling back towards your previous rank from week to week.
- There is a new “This Week” section of the Honor tab, which will display PvP accomplishments of the current week.
- The “This Session” section of the Honor tab has been changed to “Today”, and will now display the entirety of your accomplishments for the day instead of the most recent session.
- Honor system reward items with a rank requirement will now require a lifetime “highest rank” of that rank, rather than requiring the character to currently have the required rank.
- Players rank 11 or higher can now chat in the WorldDefense channel.
- The WorldDefense and LocalDefense channels will now display your rank as well as your name when chatting.
Yes, remember this Honor system was replaced because it was all about no-lifing PvP kills in World. Before Battle Grounds…it was actually a horrible system which is why it was replaced after BC. But…that’s Vanilla…I just want to know what patch level of the Honor system we are getting.
— Uber