The Stormwind Crusaders "An island of PvP in a PvE world "

New Honor Changes patch 3.3.3 update!

VivaLaDen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:09:10 -0000

Posted 03/15/2010 07:09 PM by VivaLaDen.

On the Public Test Realm every Mark of Honor is now worth 185 honor instead of the last build where u received an 2000 honor for ure marks!

its most likely that it will stay 185 honor when the next patch goes live and this means that turning in 6 marks at once (with the quest) would be more rewarding then turning them in seperatly! soo make sure u got at least a couple sets of 6 marks of honor ready for when the next patch goes live ;)

Another change (read nerf) would be that the so called first
"Random battleground" and "Call to Arms" wont stack anymore!!
this means that u can only claim the reward once a day!so if u completed ure first daily BG and won and after that u win the Call to Arms u wont get another honor Bonus of 30 hk and 25 arena points! and u will only get an 15 hk reward counting as if u where doing the daily for the 2nd time..

(p.s. see the last post "New honor changes in patch 3.3.3, the basics" for more info on patch 3.3.3, this post counts as an update to that post!)

note: as for now (15 march 2010) we still have no indication that patch 3.3.3 will go live this wednesday because the maintenance is still schedualed from 05.00 - 11.00 so no extended maintenance as with the launch of a new patch..

New honor Changes in patch 3.3.3 , the basics!

VivaLaDen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:54:32 -0000

Posted 03/09/2010 10:54 PM by VivaLaDen.

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!

Swc's newest Officer...welcome aboard Septar!

VivaLaDen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:22:08 -0000

Posted 03/04/2010 10:22 PM by VivaLaDen.

The Guild's management would like to introduce our newest Officer Septar!

Septar was the Guildmaster of the <Pagans of Valour> and an experienced leader in the standard guild affairs and an veteran on the battlefield!

normally we wont recruit officers outside our own guild but as with many rules theres always an exception.

Septar has been granted the "Colonel Rank" wich means he is considered equal to the Guildmaster and will replace him when he is gone and also gives his opinion/vote to important Guild related decisions..

I expect everyone gives him the same respect/treatment as Vivaladen & Blutjagdhund and that you all give him an heartly welcome to our Guild's Management!

the setup of our current officer Roster is now:

-General Vivaladen (Guildmaster)
-Colonel Blutjagdhund (2nd in command,equal to the guildmaster)
-Colonel Septar (2nd in command,equal to the guildmaster)

Please stay tuned for the upcomming officer recruiting post on our forum!
this will be to fill the open aplications for the Major rank wich is our guild's standard Guild officer rank!

welcome Pagans & Pvg'ers

VivaLaDen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:06:46 -0000

Posted 03/04/2010 10:06 PM by VivaLaDen.

Dear members of <Pagans of Valour> and <Pvp for Glory>!

the Guild,s Management would like to welcome you all to the Stormwind Crusaders!

the last weeks we were very busy as an guild to accomlishing our main goal and that was to Unite the PvPers on the Anachronos Realm.

and we have succeeded!we still grow in numbers every day and we never could imagine that there where so many pvpers on our realm!

may we all stay focussed at what we do best and ofc under the same banner!together we are strong and we will push hard to provide u guys with the best pvp expierience possible,especially with the huge load of new pvp content that the upcomming patches and expansion brings!

well again many friendly greetings and an Heartly welcome Crusaders!!

Warning! Authenticators now Vulnerable!

VivaLaDen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:45:31 -0000

Posted 03/01/2010 04:45 PM by VivaLaDen.

Anyone who has an authenticator attached to their account should run a search (and probably an antivirus scan in case it's on the threat list already) immediately and ensure the file emcor.dll does not exist on your computer. This file is one reported to be allowing hackers to access World of Warcraft accounts that have authenticators attached to them. It's also possible there are other variations of these suspicious files, so if anyone has additional information please respond in the comments.

Based on this thread, the file may be found in /users/username/appdata/Temp. Since the file is fairly new (first mentions of it are only a few days ago), and the common source is unknown, I urge everyone to not log in to World of Warcraft or the account management site until you've run a scan. Confirm your computer is secure before using your authenticator, because this DLL file is allowing hackers to crack through it and access your account.

A warning sign that you're currently infected with this keylogger is that WoW will say your authentication code is incorrect, even if you know for sure you typed in the correct code.

Greetings the Guild's Management!

PvP Changes patch 3.3.3! all go farm the BG's for marks of honor!!

VivaLaDen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:27:20 -0000

Posted 03/01/2010 03:27 PM by VivaLaDen.

Upcoming honor changes in 3.3.3

The battlegrounds in World of Warcraft have seriously needed to be reworked. It’s been a clunky quest driven system while PvE has gotten a smoother interface and a more streamlined method of dealing with the daily hassle of doing a daily dungeon. We’re getting a rework in patch 3.3.3 including new calculations for honor and a new random battleground tool to replace the daily battleground quest.

Honor Changes

The amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill has been increased by 100% for characters of all levels. Given that all avenues in the game which award players with Honor do so with a calculated conversion from a specific amount of Honorable Kills, this change means that all Honor players can obtain through various means will be increased by 100%. To offset against this in two key areas, experience gains in Battlegrounds have been reduced by 50% and Honor awarded for completing each Wintergrasp weekly quest has been reduced by 50%. When pairing the Honor rewarded from Honorable Kills being increased by 100% with the 50% Honor reduction from Wintergrasp weekly quests, and 50% experience-gain reduction from completing objectives in Battlegrounds, players will notice no change in the net amount of Honor or experience awarded in either case.

That’s a really confusing quote and it’s kind of hard to understand what they’re doing. Let’s break it down. Basically you’ll get double honor now for killing a player. In exchange, the Wintergrasp quests, the battleground objectives, and the experience gained in battlegrounds will be halved. This is supposed to even out to where you won’t notice a change in the amount of honor awarded in either case. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to mean that you’ll get the same amount of honor and XP as you get now or if the double honor from kills will make up for the rest. Whatever the change, you’ll be getting more honor now than before from killing other players and that’s a good thing.

Random Battleground Tool

You and up to four other adventurers can queue up now for a random battleground. Obviously the battleground will be selected randomly, but the rewards will be much greater than selecting the battleground like you normally would. This will only be available to level 80s, but Blizzard may change their mind about that in the future.

If you win the battleground then you’ll get 30 Honorable Kills worth of honor and 25 arena points. That’s until you win your first random battleground. Afterward, you’ll only gain 15 Honorable Kills worth of honor if you win. If you lose then you’ll get 5 Honorable Kills worth of honor regardless on your current standing.

This is a wonderful change from the daily quest and gives more players an incentive to PvP. It also helps get people in the battlegrounds that are fun but aren’t in any way efficient for farming honor (and makes them worthwhile too). This is something big to look forward to.

Holiday Bonus Changes

The weekly call to arms will be changed a bit. The weekend holiday bonus now be known as “Call to Arms” and changes the way additional honor is awarded. You’ll now get a flat honor award instead of just double honor. The first win a day of a Call to Arms battleground will award 30 Honorable Kills in honor and 25 arena points. Each additional win will give you 15 Honorable Kills worth of honor. Losing will give you just 5 Honorable Kills worth of honor regardless of if you’ve won or lost.

These bonuses WILL NOT apply if you do the random dungeon option.

Marks of Honor (Bg-marks)

Marks of Honor WILL BE removed. This means that you’ll no longer have to farm a SPECIFIC instance in order to get a piece of gear! So spend yours now or wait to use the traders when 3.3.3 hits who will trade your marks in for honor.

as for now (01-03-2010) its confirmed that every mark of honor u will turn in will give you 2000 honor!! this ofc still can be changed because its on the PTR and not live yet! and with the marks of honor being removed alot of (lower lvl) pvp gear and ofc the pvp mounts will be made availlable for purchase with honor only!

i would strongly suggest that every guildie will try to get as many marks of honor as they could get their hands on so that u can get a huge honor checkout when these changes go live! with this huge checkout of honor u can get ureself the latest pvp gear but remember the hordies will do this 2 haha! also expect the jewelcrafting market to collapse!with so much honor turned out ppl will but alot of epic gems 2!

So far the system looks like it’ll be a ton of fun and give us a bit more balance into the battlegrounds that are neglected while giving honor farmers a bit more honor. This will make the PvP grind a bit easier and more attractive to newer PvP players. Kind of a PvP boost if you will.

Wintergrasp Changes

The internal balance changes will be changed. If you want the technical details then click here. Basically if one side KEEPS winning then it makes it easier for them to lose. A simple yet needed change for some servers that have too many people on one side interested in Wintergrasp and not enough on the other.

Overall these changes seem to appeal to the casual crowd who are intimidated by the PvP system. This makes it easier and more accessible meaning that PvP might return as one of the main activities in the WoW end game. During WotLK PvP has kind of been on the back burner as players focused more on the more accessible PvE, but these changes will hopefully boost it up enough that we’ll see more PvP going into Cataclysm and a more varied endgame.

Start Saving Battleground Marks of Honor!! (1 mark = 2000 honor op ptr)

VivaLaDen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:37:20 -0000

Posted 02/27/2010 05:37 PM by VivaLaDen.

Well, this next patch is shaping up to be a doozy on the PTRs for battleground players.

The biggest news is the turn-in ratio of Battleground Marks of Honor: 2000 honor for 1 Mark. Yes, you read that right: 2k for 1 Mark. This is 9 times as effective as the current Wintergrasp honor system, and 8 times as effective as the Mark turn-in quests.

That’s right — all those Marks that are worth 248 potential honor on the live servers are a lot more valuable on the PTR. Stop turning them in now.

The only advantage to Wintergrasp Marks is that they are Bind to Account, allowing you to send them to your lower level alts. So you pay a premium for their transferabillty.

Holy moly. I’m practically speechless about how much potential honor this represents.

Actually, I’m not speechless. Six battlegrounds with a maximum of 100 Marks each with a value of 2000 honor equals 1.2 million honor points.

Say that again with me: 1.2 miiiiiillion honor points.

The best part? It doesn’t count against the honor cap.

Obviously, the situation on the PTR is evolving rapidly. Things are changing there almost every day. I have no way of knowing if this ratio will make it into the live servers.

But the fact that Blizzard was willing to even consider this means that there’s a chance it will happen.

If it does, be ready for it. Your gearing strategy should probably focus upon acquiring as many Marks of Honor as you can, as quickly as you can. Go for high-risk/high-reward strategies like the Blitz, 4 towers, 5 nodes. Do not be conservative – win and lose quickly and move on. This is counter to all previous wisdom, but let me repeat again:

You can have a bank of 1.2 million honor.

Not only will everyone have great PvP sets, but the epic gem market is about to crash.

This is going to be a hell of a weekend in the battlegrounds.

An island of PvP in a PvE world (we made it to WoW.com)

VivaLaDen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:04:21 -0000

Posted 02/24/2010 10:04 PM by VivaLaDen.

Dear Crusaders! Proudly i Announce that today our Recruiting message has even reached outside our server's Trade channel--> we are now even recruiting on wow.com!

Lisa Poisso of the wow.com staff has called <The Stormwind Crusaders>:

" An island of PvP in a PvE world "

And with that name we put ourselves on the map as THE PvP guild of the Anachronos server!

we of the swc's management love the "An island of PvP in a PvE world " phrase soo much that from now on we adapt it as our "Guild's Motto" because it totally reflects our situation as the lonely pvp guild between all the pve guilds.

Gratz all and here is the link:
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/24/the-classifieds-the-syndicate-marks-14-years-of-gaming/

Greetings the Guild's Management

Upcomming Battleground and Honor Changes!

VivaLaDen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:16:31 -0000

Posted 02/19/2010 04:16 AM by VivaLaDen.

Zarhym has announced today major upcoming battleground and honor changes. These changes will be present in the next minor content patch, which will be on the PTR soon. Some of the key points:

-Marks of Honor are going away.
-Holiday weekends will now be denoted as "Call to Arms" and award tiered system of honor for participation. The tier is based on you winning or losing the battleground, and if you've won or lost before.
-Honor kills reward 100% more honor, Wintergrasp weekly quests give 50% less honor, and XP rewarded from honor kills are reduced by 50%.
Implementation of the Random Battleground Finder -- much like the current Random Dungeon Finder.
-There are further honor rewards, which are similar to the ones provided by the Call to Arms.
-Obviously, there are a ton of implications in these changes to the basic way people participate in PvP. These changes also represent a good start to the massive overhaul we'll see in Cataclysm when rated battlegrounds are introduced.

The full statement after the break.

From Zarhym:

We have several changes planned for Battlegrounds in the next minor content patch and would like to share them with you now. This patch will be available for public testing and we encourage you to participate, queue up and provide some feedback on these changes.

Firstly, say goodbye to Battleground Marks of Honor. We feel this currency system is a bit outdated and are getting rid of it. Any items which require these marks as currency will have their costs adjusted appropriately to remove this requirement. The quest NPCs will still be available to award players Honor for turning in leftover marks, but this is only to help players clear this expired currency.

Next, the Battleground holiday weekend will now be denoted as "Call to Arms" in the Battleground tab and Calendar. If you prefer a specific Battleground over all others, look for those words next to its name to determine whether or not you'll receive bonus Honor. The bonus awards for Call to Arms Battlegrounds have been adjusted.

◦Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
◦Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
◦Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
To bring the rate at which players obtain PvP rewards with Honor more in-line with the rate at which players obtain PvE rewards via the Dungeon Finder, we'll also be increasing the amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill by 100%. In light of this, the amount of experience provided from an Honorable Kill, and the amount of Honor awarded for completing the Wintergrasp weekly quests, have been reduced by 50%.

It's important to note one thing about these 50% decreases. All Honor awarded for completing objectives in Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp is actually based on an Honorable Kill conversion rate. So if you destroy a tower in Alterac Valley for example, the Honor you're awarded is actually based on a flat number of Honorable Kills. Since Honorable Kills will now award 100% more Honor, completing such objectives will also award more Honor. This is why experience gains based on completing Battleground objectives and Honor awarded from the Wintergrasp quests are being decreased by 50%.

Now that we hopefully have your attention, we're pleased to announce the implementation of the Random Battleground system! This system will work virtually the same as the Random Dungeon option in the Dungeon Finder. Players can queue with a group of up to five players for a Random Battleground in the Battleground tab. As with the Random Dungeon option, the Battleground chosen will not be revealed until players zone into the Battleground for which they are selected. The bonus rewards for this system are identical to the updated Call to Arms bonuses.

◦Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

◦Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

◦Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

◦When using the Random Battleground option, players will not receive additional rewards if the Battleground chosen is under the effects of the Call to Arms bonuses. In other words, the bonuses do not stack. In addition, if a player has been rewarded 30 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency from either the Random Battleground system, or the Call to Arms Battleground, he or she will be rewarded 15 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency that day for each additional victory. This applies whether the Random Battleground system is used, or the Call to Arms Battleground is chosen specifically, as a player cannot be rewarded the full amount of bonus Honor more than once per day.

All of these features and changes will be available in the next minor patch which should be hitting the public test realms in the near future. Please help us out by testing this system and providing your feedback so we can make some fine-tuning adjustments before the patch's release.

source: wow.com

Dead to the Warchief!

VivaLaDen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:59:35 -0000

Posted 02/18/2010 07:59 AM by VivaLaDen.

the guild's management would like to give everyone a huge Gratz who participated in the Confirme kill on Thrall yesterday evening!
keep up the good work guys!