Based off of SOD, I assume we will all be capped at R11 0%, which unfortunately increases the grind duration by one whole week (thanks Blizzard).
It seems they plan to increase the rank cap “a few weeks” after BWL launches.
So how does it actually work, as someone who was not there for SOD and their ranking cap stuff:
Can we PVP for the week before they patch the ranking cap increase, and then the week it goes live, our previous week honor will progress us beyond 0%?
Is there just a complete honor point gain block once you’re at 0% r11? As in you kill people, you get 0 honor?
Do they plan to increase the rank cap on a Thursday like they did with adding BGs? Which means we basically should not PvP until the week that they plan to add it, but honor we earn on Monday-Thursday will still count towards the following Tuesday’s honor reset?
Anyone familiar with how this is likely to work, your input appreciated.
People were able to start grinding honor the week before it was uncapped and gain progress when the cap was removed. Basically everyone did it for the first uncap at r10 or whatever, and then they didn’t tell us when the uncap was for r13->r14 so some people got r14 a whole week early because they’d been actively pvping.
Early as in the target for people having R14 per Zirene was week 2, and there were definitely R14 shamans pvping during the first week of AQ.
Where is this confirmed? The roadmap has them releasing at the same time. I’d like to know so I can just quit now because that’s too timegatey in favor of raid loggers for me. I play classic to go hard at ranking.
edit… nm I think I see it, tho I don’t know if they’ve been more specific about “a few weeks” elsewhere.
At the launch of the phase, the Honor cap will be set to Rank 11, with it extending to Rank 14 shortly after the release of the Blackwing Lair raid dungeon at a later date.
It’s in the post where Blizzard announced honor starting on the 9th and BGs on the 16th but the actual wording was “shortly after bwl launches” the assumption is that means a few qeeks
It did on SoD. People hit Rank 14 a full week earlier than intended.
I’m gonna write this out to fully explain it
Week 0, rank is capped at 11, you grind honor to the expected cap to make your maximum progress despite already being rank 11, and thus capped.
Week 1, rank uncaps, your honor progress is granted.
Now, they could always prevent this by just running honor calc’s first. But they seem incredibly incompetent so I think you’d be asking a lot of them.
So in essence when people say “they’ve added an extra week to the grind” it’s actually not technically true as long as we know the rank increase maintenance a week beforehand?
Ah, yeah, you’re right, it just means we get it 1 week earlier “than intended”, assuming only it’s “intended” that we’re at 0% when the ranking cap is increased. So not really reducing the grind.