With the nerf to honor there is no reason to try in BGs, and it is more efficient to afk and lose quickly.
I’ve been running AB. A 5 cap win/loss takes 5 mins and you get 1 mark. A well fought AB takes at least 15 mins and usually 20+. I’ll be generous and call it 15 mins. Assuming a 50/50 winrate and a 5 minute queue time you are getting an average of 2 marks every 20 mins best case scenario.
If you loss farm you get 1 mark every 10 mins assuming the same 5 min queue time.
Both of these methods net you 6 marks per hour, but with the loss farming this rate is guaranteed and in reality most well fought games will be longer than 15 mins. Loss farming is also much easier as you don’t have to do anything.
Honor gains are pathetically low so they are a non factor.
Give me a reason besides sportsmanship why I should try in BGs. Trying hard should give tangible rewards over afk farming and it currently doesn’t.