Disclaimer: I don’t care if they increase the honor further. They could increase it 100x for all I care. That said, facts are inside.
Adrianne Rich — “Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
This also explains why the video that Zinqf linked showed a solo Grand Marshal kill giving 40 honor. It was likely a display issue.
Bonus image of someone complaining about only getting 8,000 honor in 14 hours of PvPing:
Here’s someone complaining that marks are too easy to obtain and honor is too hard. This was before they nerfed the honor gain by an additional 30% in the original TBC pre-patch:
Here’s someone complaining about low honor in AV:
Source:
Looks like around patch 2.3 the cost of the level 60 PvP gear was reduced from the pre-patch values:
We’re getting more honor with the double honor event, and the items cost less than they did in the original pre-patch. Current prices on the TBC Classic pre-patch:
The rest of this post is the information I collected before finding the Blue post above:
Some supposition from that post:
The rough rule that we’re using is “10% the honor you used to get.” So, think like 500-1000 honor an hour depending on how you play.
At 1000 an hour an epic 2-hander would be 45 hours of pvp. For casual players, this is not a “freebie” at all and more like 60-90 hours.
Folks in beta are all reporting about approx 20 Honor Points per solo kill in the 61-64 range. Some report up to 30 at higher levels. I’ve also noticed that we’ll get from 1-13 or so within pvp groups (i.e. splitting honor).
This Blue post talks about a 30% honor nerf that happened one week into the pre-patch:
Posted by Nethaera 12/12/06, 11:24:29AM CST Quote:
Now that the Before the Storm content patch has been live for the past week, we’ve had a better opportunity to track the rate at which players are accumulating honor, and subsequently how easy it’s been to obtain honor rewards. In gauging these elements, we’ve determined that the effort required to obtain honor rewards is more trivial than we had intended. As a result, during today’s maintenance we’ve applied a hotfix that reduced the amount of honor gained by approximately 30%. This change allows the honor rewards to be obtained at rate that better reflects the item’s in-game value.
Here’s a video posted on December 19th, 2007 of a solo kill on a rank 7 Warrior that gave 12 honor. DR of one kill would put it at 12 from 14:
Here’s a video posted on December 14th, 2006 of a solo kill on a rank 10 Warlock that gave 18 honor. DR of one kill would put it at 18 from 20 if this video was taken before the nerf and uploaded after:
The way people recorded videos back then, it would make sense that the players who recorded these videos had a fight without their recording software running and decided they could record a cool PvP video, so they decided to go back in for another round. This would explain the DR on these world PvP fights.
Here’s a video uploaded on December 28th, 2006. At the start of the video you can see he’s using the Black Pearl Panther trinket, so it’s the TBC pre-patch. It’s hard to tell but every single kill looks to be below 20 honor:
Another video. Uploaded on December 16th, 2006:
Every single kill is in the 10’s on all kinds of different ranked players.
