The 75K Honor Cap goes against Developer Intentions

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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The current 75K honor cap is a design oversight if they keep it this way for all of Wrath Classic. Originally the design was for the honor cap to be around double the cost of the most expensive item. In 3.3.3, they removed battleground marks, adjusting the cost of items to be up to 60k honor.

In original Wrath, it didn’t matter much that they didn’t increase the cap since they shortly after revamped the honor system in Cataclysm. However, here, we have the 3.3.3 honor system with the 2.0 75k cap starting from the beginning of the expansion. I propose that it is increased to 120k to better meet the original intentions of the developers.

Edit: To clarify, this is about raising the honor cap once Wrath starts, not right now during pre-patch. To describe how the experience will be in Wrath if nothing is changed, it will be as if we had a 35k honor cap in TBC.

Source: Patch 2.0 Honor System Changes posted on the office World of Warcraft website (2008, page no longer exists but can be found via Waybackmachine)

Is there a limit to how many honor points I can accumulate?

Yes, there is a limit to how many honor points a character can accumulate, but it is currently set to be approximately twice as much as the most expensive reward. If you max out your honor points, you’ll need to spend some before you can earn additional honor points.

The limit of course, is subject to change depending on what works best for long-term game balance.

Once I gain Honor Points, do I keep it indefinitely, or do I have to keep earning it?

You keep them until you spend them. There is a limit to how many honor points a character can accumulate, but it is currently set to be approximately twice as much as the most expensive reward. If you max out your honor points, you’ll need to spend some before you can earn additional honor points.

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yes. lets go back to av.

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I’ve never had much of a problem… I spend my honor.

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This problem didn’t exist in TBC Classic since we had the original honor cap designed for that expansion. However, keeping the 2.0 honor cap for the 3.3.3 honor system will be a problem for the first time with Wrath Classic.

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Honestly, i think it is fine. It stops players skipping miles ahead in the early stages of gearing for PvP. New players or alts who are seasons behind benefit from this massively.

All increasing the cap does is let maxed out characters just skip a huge portion of tge BG honor grind by banking points just prior to a new season.

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It won’t be in WotLK, either. I spend my honor.

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The other side to that is it will hurt battleground participation for the later portion of each phase.

That said, letting players have the flexibility to purchase 2 items with honor cap, as opposed to a single item, isn’t skipping a huge portion of the honor grind. It is just the originally intended amount of honor that a player should be able to hold at any one time.

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what does that do? wouldn’t these ppl have arena gear already ?

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That’d be cool, I’m over here capped at 75k with nothing to spend on plus 100 marks of each BG helping my friends cap.

Nothing else to do in prepatch if they increased the cap that’d be amazing and maybe give us another week of fun.

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I don’t think increasing the cap so you can bank more honor is the point here.

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Correct. The issue is that having the 2.0 honor cap with the 3.3.3 honor system will feel as if we had a 35K honor cap in TBC.

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