10 hours? Nope. Rank 14 is a 24 hour grind. I’m sure some low pop servers were different, but on Gurubashi (also low pop) back in the day, I played 18-20 hours, slept 4-6, while having my buddy in another time zone play for me those hours while I was sleeping and the competition was still steep. You don’t need a full bg group, but that definitely helps as well.
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Yeah, but some people in here are talking about past 11 and also rank 14.
rank 14 is the sweatiest grind imaginable
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Rank 10 if you have no social life. That’s like a 5-6 hour a day commitment at least. It’s like another full time job on a high pop server
The pop doesn´t matter, it´s the amount of active players competing with you. My realm had some of the highest Vanilla pop, especially on our faction. Still, we only had 5 premades and beating those 5 in honor was not that hard, by just playing 10 hours a day for the final ranks. (only one Rank 14 allowed)
If you now play on a low pop server, but there face 10 premades, then it will be quite a competition and in theory could a high pop realm with just 5 premades, be the easier path.
All servers are different, so are the factions. You can not get a full verdict of how hard it will be, without factoring this in.
From your telling, you seemed to have a very hardcore pvp realm in Vanilla, plus had xrealm, which made the grind harder.
I know a few others like me, that did not play more than 4-6 hours daily up to Rank 11 and later 10 hours for the final push. It was pre xrealm where wins mattered so much more, but I won´t deny that our realm was quite “calm” by just having 5 premades and not 10+ like on others.
My third pvp char on a different realm got to Rank 10, instant queues and higher competition, my skill was the same, so was the time I had and yet, no Rank 14 climb possible.
Ah I see,
yes, that seems unlikely, at least I did not experience it back in the days. From Rank 13 → 14 I needed three weeks, Rank 12–> 13, two I believe, the rest was usually done in one week with some jumps pre Rank 10, due the reason I explained above.
Since I did it twice, it was quite a pattern, the second time was a bit faster overall, but the final Ranks needed all a few weeks to progress through.
I never did Rank 14 with xrealms, so it can be different then. I know from some players on my realm, that they did AV all day and I really mean “ALL DAY”. 
I should have said social life too, rather than just home life. But yeah. Fortunately, my entire social life exists on the internet soooo, win for me!
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At the lower ranks, rank points and honor track pretty closely.
For rank, Rank2 your need 2000 rank points. Rank 3 you need 5000 rank points. Each rank after that goes up 5k in rank points. So for rank 10, you need to have 40,000 rank points. Each week your rank point total will decay by 20 percent. At rank 10, you will lose at least 8000 rank points each weekly reset. - to overcome that decay and move up, you need more than the decay. Yes, 8000 honor points a week will easily get you to rank 10. Beyond that, the rank points and the honor points don’t track as closely and it can be harder to predict what you will need.
Yeah so to candle’s inquiry we will probably see some R6s next week when people go from 4 to 6 but then they probably wont be hitting R8 after as I’ll assume they’ll get to 6 by the skin of their teeth.
Dedicated pvpers will probably be R8 or so by the time BGs launch will be my guess.
Think about it this way, OP. Can you really put a price on R14?
I don’t think so.
On grob the #1 rank horde side last week was 145k, so it seems like my realm might be a bit less competitive than some of the mega servers. Im glad for that. Here I come, Red Spike Pony
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Rank 13/14 would be utterly impossible for anyone with a job/school or a life. You need to be grinding 24 hours a day and unless you are account sharing it would be nigh undo able.
Were you, by chance, on Archimonde?
The raid group for sure helped someone reach GM easier. My server had a dedicated team of people who were trying to reach it so they kind of all banded together in one raid group (When you were able to get into this group it was a-ma-zing and probably the only reason I ranked as far as I did.) and would 5 cap AB and have like 2 minute wins. It was beautiful.
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I did most of my grind solo, but there were a few groups I’d run with now and then. My WSG group was very gg. Quick caps, solid blocks, and fast returns. Only a number of times did we have solid competition.
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We sound like a bunch of old women talking about the “old days” lol.
When this system was first implememted in vanilla, I wonder if Blizzard fully grasped how hard some were able and willing to no life grind this.
There is no way they sat and thought it was a good idea to make a 17+ hour per day grind for 2 months.
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Where does one find this information?
Yes. But i never leave my house so I’m not exactly normal. I don’t have friends irl or even one of those things you playas call a gf.
I got tooo much time on my hands…
In your honor tab, theres a line called Last week’s ranking. That is your rank on your faction. As to how I found out who was rank 1? Grobbulus has a subreddit and a thread which listed the top 5 or so people for each faction. I also saw the guy in game, when you inspect someone there is now also an honor tab where you can see their HKs, honor total and week’s rank.
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You’re very mistaken. Blizzard has nothing to do with how hard and extensive this grind is. That is caused purely by people. There are those who will do just enough to secure #1, and then there’s those that’ll go full sweaty and try hard and bury people’s scores by doubling or tripling their amount. But people have egos and wants, so when someone goes to that extent, others see it as a challenge and do it to. Thus, the 24hr grind is born.