(This isn’t a crying post about imbalance, just sharing my grind results)
I recently started an alt with the sole intention of gearing as fast as I could through the honor system, and I wanted to share the results. I know there are a lot of similar threads about gear and different opinions, but just wanted to share some feedback. I didn’t really want to run anything but BGs, and only diverted from that a little. I didn’t care about losing, and expected it with gear disparity, but i figured i could make the most difference in epics due to things like objectives and vehicles.
Most games, I gave it my all, but in Ashran if things looked like a stomp, I would run artifact routes most the games with leaping/sprinting to get an extra 400-500 honor each game.
I mainly ran eBGs as alliance since it seemed to be the best honor per hour. Here is the breakdown.
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It took me ~3 Days and 3 Hours, but i did a few H-CN bosses, 2x4 farm, and had to farm a little bit of renown so we will call it 72 hours.
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Other than eBGS, i ran the weekly skirmishes quest this week for the 2k honor, and ran 4 RBGs last week for the quest as well.
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I might be a little off in my calculations, but pretty close on most of it.
Reflex Link - https://imgur.com/a/ETpNcwc (Some of the skirmishes got looped in as well as 4 RBGS, will mention later)
Total Honor Gained: 91,478 (Had 278 leftover, so 91,200 total needed)
Total Conquest Gained: 1605 (I tried to do weeklies when i could)
28 Wins / 92 Losses 23.3%
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Alterac Valley - 5 wins, 30 Losses 14.28%
Honor Total - 16,085 High - 887 Low - 188 Average - 460 (22.75 HpM) -
Ashran - 5 wins, 21 Losses 19.23%
Honor Total - 9,170 High - 1219 Low - 133 Average - 353 (21.88 HpM)
Im pretty sure the honor from frags is not reflected in this count -
Wintergrasp - 10 wins, 18 Losses 35.71%
Defense - 10 games, 10 Wins
Offense - 18 Games, 18 Losses
Honor Total - 16,668 High - 826 Low - 258 Average - 595 (19.84 HpM) -
Isle of Conquest - 8 wins, 23 Losses 25.8%
Honor Total - 11,937 High - 587 Low - 243 Average - 385 (29.99 HpM)
- After writing all this, i realize a large part of my honor income was from quests, ashran turn ins, and some skirms/rbgs. I ran 4 rbgs one week, and won 1 to complete the quest. I also ran about 30 skirms to finish the quest the following week. So with looking at the results from this experiment it looks like a little over half the needed honor came from the actual bgs. Im not 100% but it could take about double this time investment if you dont do quests.
So the plan was to cap what I can, grab renown from wins along the way, and grind the 22 renown when it was needed. With my super low win rate, I figured I could get a decent amount of wins and maybe cap that way but after 11 or 12, wins stopped giving renown. Not exactly sure how it works but i got it from every win up to that point and it was random after. I really see how peoples eyes glaze over in some of these BGS, like most have mentioned, and even though it was pretty fast honor…to a degree, i wouldn’t do it this way again.
Almost didnt post this since after typing it out and adding up the results from reflex, its crazy how ~40% of the honor isnt visible.
