The Honor Problem 2.0

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Everyone hates the honor grind; sure. BUT this is literally insane.
If you play horde you do not get any bonuses on honor other than the spoils of war. However, on alliance you get not only the 40% spoils of war but also a 50% bonus on Honorable kills AND victories.

So I decided to put it to the test. I played 15 BGs on my alliance character and 15 on my horde… results are shocking.

Alliance:

  1. Lose | 837 Honor
  2. Win | 1842 Honor | first win of the day
  3. Win | 1426 Honor
  4. Lose | 701 Honor
  5. Lose | 721 Honor
  6. Lose | 632 Honor
  7. Win | 1428 Honor
  8. Win | 1692 Honor
  9. Lose | 962 Honor
  10. Lose | 681 Honor
  11. Win | 1328 Honor
  12. Win | 1258 Honor
  13. Lose | 761 Honor
  14. Lose | 712 Honor
  15. Win | 1412 Honor

Alliance Total: 16393

Horde:

  1. Lose | 391 Honor
  2. Win | 1041 Honor | First Win of the day
  3. Win| 954 Honor
  4. Lose| 429 Honor
  5. Lose | 469 Honor
  6. Win | 915 Honor
  7. Win | 876 Honor
  8. Win | 793 Honor
  9. Lose | 463 Honor
  10. Lose | 419 Honor
  11. Win | 846 Honor
  12. Win | 926 Honor
  13. Lose | 627 Honor
  14. Lose | 612 Honor
  15. Win | 841 Honor

Horde total: 10602

A ~6k honor gain difference is crazy considering that horde wins are as much as alliance loses if you just end up getting HKs instead of playing the game.

The results are pretty telling when you need 150k honor to get 9/9 gear and in just ~130 wins compared to Horde’s ~225. Its almost more worth it to go Alliance then swap BACK to horde for pushing due to the superior racials…

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It’s almost like they’re trying to incentivize people to play the dead faction.

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People would play Alliance if their racials were at least on par with Orc’s or Trolls.

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Second most cooked post I’ve seen on here today.

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Oh it’s one of those.

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Its not the racials. Its the population in order to play the game.

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Yep, ship sailed a long time ago for racial inequality. Now it’s just having people to play with.

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Barring orc, alliance has a lot better racials anyways. Look at the ladder and you’ll see a lot of r1s play alliance.

The only reason people play Horde is because that’s just where everybody is. No one wants to play the dead faction.

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Dude, I’d 100% trade will of the forsaken for shadow meld or human racial.

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16393/10602 ~ 50%

Not really shocking. But yes the honor grind is trash still.

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Id deff go alliance if all you guys did. <3