No incentive to heal in pvp

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So im a shaman. Yes i can heal, but i choose not to because it provides me with nothing but wasted mana.

Especially when honor gained is calculated by how much dmg you deal to the target. And everyone knows you get way more honor solo farming instead of being in a group. So i tag solo with instant spells like frost shock and get around 100 honor per kill. If healing gave me honor, i would also be healing from time to time but it does not. Anyone else in this situation?

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Winning fights gives you honor, but it sounds like you aren’t engaging in fights where a few heals would make a difference. Maybe you should consider not zerging 10v1 and calling it PvP then you may find some value in casting heals.

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  1. Get in a group. Honor is split equally between party members.
  2. Doesn’t matter if you heal. Doesn’t matter what percentage of damage you do unless you are splitting it with a group/individual that isn’t in your group. So you can do 0 damage, as long as your group is killing stuff you get full honor.
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Who told you this?

In a group the honor is always split equally provided everyone is level 60.

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The only difference is if you are not in the same group as the person you are healing. You’d have to at least frost shock the other player or something if you wanna split the honor they are getting.

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i dont group. I solo farm for more honor overall. Especially in areas like hillsbrad or BRM

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Wait until bg, there is no point play healing spec in wpvp

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Everyone is in this situation the amount of ice barriers and priest shields I’ve purged to get 0 honor is pathetic. Basically just wait for the insta shock once the shield is off.

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Join a group, problem solved.

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2 people In a group kill a target. They get 100 honor each.

2 groups of 2 people kill 1 target, should get 50 honor each BUT… 1 group has a healer.

Group 1 does 1,500 damage, 1,500 heals. Second group does 3,000 damage.

G1 gets 66 honor
G2 gets 133 honor.

Healer should just DPS for honor gain. Besides if their DPS dies they’re getting the full amount! Win:win

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Blizzard.made this change in later expansions. It wasn’t a vanilla thing.

Would defeat the purpose of Classic to add features from later expansions.

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It’s not though, if you’re in a party or a raid, the honor is divided equally. The only time it effects honor earned is if someone outside your group tags them and does a significant amount of damage then they split the honor with your group.

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You’re solo farming as a healer?

Okay.

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So you have no incentive to heal yourself ? If you don’t group, I don’t understand who the heck you aren’t healing…

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When BG’s come out (soon) you will be better off doing what it is that helps you WIN the BG.

Why?

Because farming HK’s is pointless in a BG, the bulk of your contribution points (points that convert to honor on Tuesday) are provided mostly by winning the BG.

Honor kills provide a very small portion of your standing in BG play.

Personally go out and enjoy the world PVP while you can and then when the BG’s ship focus on what wins games.

If you’re a monster in PVP as enhance or something then play that.

If you’re a better healer than a DPS then do that.

Good day.