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Gaining Honor

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.
* 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.

* Outland World PvP
o Rewards
+ Hellfire Peninsula PvP
+ Zangarmarsh PvP
+ Bone Wastes PvP
+ Nagrand PvP
* Azeroth World PvP

Honor Point Calculation

As of patch 2.4, Honor is no longer calculated nightly! Instead, Honor is instantly and directly added to the total at the top of the PvP tab of your character sheet (default key 'c') preceded by the word "Honor." This Honor is available to be spent immediately. You can still keep track of the Honor and kills you've accrued for the day in the Today column, as well as what you earned the prior day in the Yesterday column of this PvP tab.

In addition, accrued Honor is no longer estimated and diminishing returns have been removed from honorable kills as well. However, characters that die 50 times or more in a single battleground will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle.

Battlegrounds: Instant Honor

There is a repeatable quest called "Concerted Efforts" which allows you to turn in four Marks of Honor for 314 honor. One mark is required for each battleground: Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, and Eye of the Storm. If you have a store of marks, you can turn them in over and over to gain honor to buy an item. The questgiver for this quest is found near the battlemasters at major cities.

Battlegrounds: Daily Quest

Every day there is a daily quest for Battlegrounds which offers money and bonus honor if you win that specific battleground. The questgiver for this daily quest is found near the battlemasters at major cities.

Other Information

# Note: Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will be worth no honor
# Players can purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP items from reputation vendors.

[Aozen]

whats the point of this?

[OblivionMage]

Reputation farming :/

[mudfish]

looks copy paste imo

[mschultz32]

Edit : Im wrong.

[Emilie Autumn]

nice guide this would be very usefull for beginers/PvP noobs to understand the honor system, i get allot of qurestions from guildies about how it all works GJ +rep =)

[Raskel]

Official Site:
Honor System:WoW -> PvP -& Honor System FAQ
Honor Guide:World of Warcraft Europe -> Info -> Basics -> Honor System Guide

[Darkone]

Yes, a nice Guide.
But what about the Troll Race leader
Vul'Jin?

~Darkone

[Blazara]

Looks like a copy and paste from wikipedia imo..

[Aozen]

nice guide this would be very usefull for beginers/PvP noobs to understand the honor system, i get allot of qurestions from guildies about how it all works GJ +rep =)

do you play on a PVE realm?