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The Honor System
rewards players for participating in player vs.
player combat. By defeating other players and
achieving PvP objectives, players earn Honor
Points which they can use to purchase a wide
array of rewards. There are four sources of
Honor:
Honorable Kills
Killing racial leaders
Achieving Battlegrounds objectives
Achieving World PvP objectives
Honorable Kills
You receive Honorable Kills for defeating enemy
players in battle, provided they are within an
acceptable level range of your character's
level. Each Honorable Kill will net you a reward
of Honor Points. The amount of Honor you receive
scales similarly to receiving experience from a
monster. There are several factors influencing
the Honor value of such a kill:
Your victim's level: To receive honor, you must
not significantly outlevel your opponent. The
name of your opponent will display in colored
text showing their level relative to yours, with
the same grey to red scheme that applies to
monsters. Killing a "grey" player gives no
Honor, while a "red" player is substantially
higher level that yours. To receive honor you
should focus on players around your own level
(green, yellow, and orange).
Your own level: The higher level you are, the
more honor you receive for honorable kills of
same-level opponents. A level 70 character
killing another level 70 character gains more
Honor than a level 40 character killing another
level 40 character.
Subsequent kills: Killing the same character
multiple times within 24 hours is subject to
diminishing honor returns. Each subsequent kill
after the initial kill yields 10% less honor,
until the reward eventually reaches zero. Note
that the Honor calculations that appear in-game
do not take these diminishing returns into
account.
Solo or group: Members of a group or raid will
share Honor gains from kills in the same way as
XP. However, the raid penalty on XP does not
apply to Honor. Lower level members will get a
smaller portion of the Honor. The diminishing
returns for honor kills on the same enemy still
apply while in a group or raid. In addition,
group members who are too far away from the site
of the kill will not receive a cut of the honor,
much like the similar rule for earning XP.
Contribution: You must contribute to the
honorable kill to receive honor. Contribution
includes damaging the enemy, but also includes
crowd control, and healing those in battle with
that enemy.
Being present: You need to be alive and in the
proximity of the kill at the time of the kill to
get your share of the Honor.
Racial Leaders
Killing one of the powerful NPCs considered
leaders of their race nets a high amount of
honor. These racial leaders are all on a two
hour spawn timer, and the bonus for their defeat
is divided between participating solo
characters, groups, and raids based on
contribution. The racial leaders are:
Thrall
Cairne Bloodhoof
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner
Lor'themar Theron
Highlord Bolvar Fordragon
King Magni Bronzebeard
Archdruid Fandral Staghelm
Prophet Velen
Achieving Battlegrounds Objectives
Each battleground has special objectives which
will grant bonus Honor for their completion.
Every member of the faction that completes an
objective will gain this bonus Honor. For every
battleground, the objective that grants the most
bonus Honor is simply winning the match. Other
objectives will center around the features of
the individual battlegrounds themselves. For
example, in Warsong Gulch, capturing the enemy
flag will grant bonus honor to the capturing
side. Completing bonus objectives is a
significant source of Honor, and completing them
will provide faster Honor gain than simply
killing enemy players in a battleground.
World PvP
Azeroth and Outland provide ample opportunities
for fighting other players in the great
outdoors. World PvP objectives placed in
strategic locations encourage such conflict,
especially on PvE servers where the threat of
PvP combat is not as pervasive as it is on PvP
servers. These special objectives grant bonus
honor much in the same way as Battlegrounds
objectives.
Honor Point Calculation
Daily Honor
Each day, at approximately 2 AM server time, the
previous day's Honor is awarded for all
characters. The Honor from your kills and
achieved objectives are added together into your
total Honor for the day, completely independent
of other characters. You can see the Honor you
earn on the PvP tab of your character sheet.
Here you can also view your total cumulative
Honor and number of honorable kills.
Estimated Honor Point Value
Each honorable kill will register an "estimated
honor point value" in the combat log. This is
only an estimated value as it does not take
diminishing returns (from killing a single
player repeatedly) into account. You can also
send this message to your main chat window by
right-clicking on the channel header and turning
on that option in the submenus. .
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