As u might have seen before the whole honor system will be changed in pacth 3.3.3 to make it ready for when the rated battlegrounds hit in cataclysm,in this post i will go trough the most changes and will show what this will mean for us “hard working pvpers” :
In short the following will be added/changed:
-Random battleground system (similair to the random dungeon) (only for lvl 80s)
-Weekend/Holliday battleground will be called “Call to arms”
-Battleground marks of honor will be removed!
-Daily Bg quest will be Removed (replaced with the random bg)
-Honor increased from honor kills / honor decreased from wg weekly quest / xp in bg’s Decreased!
Ok now lets see what this means for us and how we handle with the upcomming changes:
= The Random Battleground Finder =
The random battleground finder works the same as the random dungeon finder.
Just queue up and join the online sensation ;) but with the Daily BG quest removed u get an similair reward the first time u join an random BG on that day.
This reward only works once a day just like the daily quest and is given instantly after the first random bg has been won .
The rewards for the first random bg are (win):
-Honor equal to 30HK’s
-25 Arena points
The rewards for 2nd random bg and up are :
-Honor equal to 15 HK’s
if u lose you will be always granted honor equal to 5 hk’s and a little note:
the random bg will NOT stack with the Call to Arms(old for weekend/holliday bg) so if for excample AB is the Call to arms bg and u get into that bg trough the random bg finder u wont get double paid for it..
= Call to Arms =
the old weekend/holliday Bg’s will be revamped to Call to Arms and will be using the rewards as the random bg finder but these rewards wont stack!so ist best to first run an random bg and after that an “specific BG” and then u choose the Call to Arms bg for excample WSG.
The rewards of the first Call to Arms BG are (choose specific bg and not random) (win) :
-Honor equal to 30Hk’s
-25 arena points
-Rewards for 2nd call to arms and up:
-honor worth of 15 HK’s
as u have might saw above the call to arms bg and the random bg wont stack if u win an bg with the random bg finder wich is the call to arms bg aswel but if u do them seperate u can gain an aditional 25 arena points a day on Friday,Saturday,Sunday & Monday! And brings the total of arena points earned in bg’s up to 50 arena points a day on the days the call to arms bg is active!
= Battleground marks of honor removed! Frequently asked questions=
ok here we go! The marks of honor where u now still get 3 if u win an BG and 1 if you lose will be removed! The npc where u can turn em in now will still be availleble and will accept induvidual marks aswel when patch 3.3.3. will be live so no worries you will get rid of ure spare marks and if u for excample only have 100av marks u can turn em all in individual!! Issnt that great?
Another much discussed thing is the reward u get from turning marks in individual,as for now turning in an individual mark will get you 2000 honor on the Public test realm but dont get too happy now this will be prob nerfed to 150-200 honor because if u have 100 of all bg marks of honor you will get about 1.200.000 honor if u get 2000 honor for every mark..sounds great to me but blizzard wont let that happen because if everyone gets so much honor and u already bought everything u can buy with honor ppl start to buy epic gems for 10k honor and then the total epic gem market will collapse! So i guess this “2000 honor for a mark” thing will be nerfed to the ground!
Good thing is that everything u previously needed shitloads of marks for will be made availleble for purchase with honor only! That especially great for the pvp mounts and will reduce the farm time for them alot! (note pvp mounts will cost 50.000 honor and that prize is confirmed)
= Daily bg Quest replaced with the Random Bg finder=
as i mentioned above the Daily bg quest will be replaced with the random dungeon finder.
The rewards for this random bg are summed up above in this post!
= Honor/Xp changes =
as mentioned above the way we get honor will be changed 2! First of all we get an 100% increased honor from honor kills (HK) wich is wonderfull! Nothing to add about that except for the fact that all honor gains will be based on honor kills,where you first got an fixed amount of honor for destroying/capturing towers you will now get an fixed amount based on honor kills for the same act!
Wintergrasp weekly quests will be nerfed with 50%,when patch 3.3.3 goes live you only get 50% of the honor you get now but the 100% increase of honor on the honor kills will compensate that generously!
XP earned in battlegrounds will be nerfed aswel with 50% less XP in the battlegrounds,personally i think this will suck like a gnome trough an garden hose (sorry septar) because this will discourage ppl to lvl their char trough pvp and makes ppl return to their apropiate quest area instead of an battleground wich makes ppl below lvl 80 having a hard time to get into an BG..long wait times in the queue sucks bigtime!
= what can we expect in the (close) future in pvp land? =
alot! Looks like blizzard is going to give the pvpers the love the pvers always had!
-We get the Rated Battlegrounds in cataclysm ofc where u can get an arena rating+arena points based on the total won bg’s (wich is great for the premade’s) and gives acces to the higher tier pvp gear wich is now exclusively availlable for the high end arena teams (yeah iam more of an BG lover)
-the retrun of the pvp ranks in cataclysm! (prob.based on bg rating)
-Guild lvling!wich makes earning guild xp possible for the top 20 pvpers of our guild and will grant an guild talent every time the guild dings (max lvl will be 20) and we will spec deep in the pvp tree ofc!excample of an pvp talent = increased honor fro guildies from bg’s!!! awesome!!
-Alterac valley will be nerfed down from a 40 player bg to an 25 player bg but this will bring some interesting changes into the gameplay and tactics ofc!there no release date for that can be in cataclysm but can also be brough tin trough an patch.
-New battleground called the battle of Gileas city and focus the battle between the worgen and the forsaken and an new quest hub named Tol barad this brings wintergrasp based gameplay and gives alot of daily quests for the one who took the city! And much much more!cataclysm here we come!
= My opinion about patch 3.3.3 and the upcomming pvp changes! =
well first of all thx for reading this post,took me a while to convert all the relevant changes into a usefull post but we are finally there ..the end..oow wait my opnion haha:
i personally think this patch will give us an huge boost as pvping ppl,we get more honor for what we do the most killing hordies and we get an random bg finder wich is awesome aswell!
Only real downsides will be prob that lower lvl ppl will have an longer queue expierience and an possible downside will be prob that the honor gained from turning in seperate marks of honor will be nerfed to the ground! But all of these changes are ofc made to build an base for the pvping in cataclysm and the rated BG’s!! will be good times for us as the No.1 pvp guild of anachronos!
Iam excited and looking forward to all the good stuff the future will bring to us!
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