Farming Honor

[Bettysue]

When your faction controls WG, you get stone keeper shards. 30 stone keepers shards = 2000 honor. Most dungeons can be done in about 30 mins, which is around 3-3500 honor per hour.

Bosses in heroics drop 2 shards per kill, and majority of the heroics have 5 or fewer bosses, so going with the 10 per 30min rule, it would take you ~2 hours with travel time to get to 3 instances to get 2k honor, netting you approximately 1k/hr...aka a pretty poor rate for honor.

They are a nice way to pad a couple points to grab a new piece "today instead of tomorrow" type thing, but instances aren't really a viable way to "farm" honor. Especially considering every2.5 hours you'd have to go win WG again just to continue farming.

[SideWays]

Bosses in heroics drop 2 shards per kill, and majority of the heroics have 5 or fewer bosses, so going with the 10 per 30min rule, it would take you ~2 hours with travel time to get to 3 instances to get 2k honor, netting you approximately 1k/hr...aka a pretty poor rate for honor.

They are a nice way to pad a couple points to grab a new piece "today instead of tomorrow" type thing, but instances aren't really a viable way to "farm" honor. Especially considering every2.5 hours you'd have to go win WG again just to continue farming.

Bosses in heroics drop 4 shards per kill, bosses in non heroics 3 (atleast the higher lvl ones).. I can complete Gundrak in 20 mins which means I get 5x4 shards in 20 mins => 1shard/min.

You can make 4k honor in 1h this way.. Not that much but its rly good if you are gearing up your team for PvE too..

Edit: Well I should have read Stealthy's post before posting -.-

[Fuzzyboy]

Bosses in heroics drop 2 shards per kill, and majority of the heroics have 5 or fewer bosses, so going with the 10 per 30min rule, it would take you ~2 hours with travel time to get to 3 instances to get 2k honor, netting you approximately 1k/hr...aka a pretty poor rate for honor.

They are a nice way to pad a couple points to grab a new piece "today instead of tomorrow" type thing, but instances aren't really a viable way to "farm" honor. Especially considering every2.5 hours you'd have to go win WG again just to continue farming.

Like SW says, heroic bosses drop 4 shards, not two. And it's not a matter of me winning WG in order to farm, but obviously just running heroics when your faction has WG and doing other stuff when they don't :-)

Stealthy has a good point about effiency, especially until you've ran out of stuff to spend emblems on. All in all, I think they WG when dailies are up, heroics when WG belongs to your faction and dailies/AV when it doesn't is a good route. Only problem for me is that im at about 55k honor due to honor tokens, and I have no plans to spend them until next season, so shards and WG commendations are the only real way to go for me atm.

[Bettysue]

Like SW says, heroic bosses drop 4 shards, not two. And it's not a matter of me winning WG in order to farm, but obviously just running heroics when your faction has WG and doing other stuff when they don't :-)

Stealthy has a good point about effiency, especially until you've ran out of stuff to spend emblems on. All in all, I think they WG when dailies are up, heroics when WG belongs to your faction and dailies/AV when it doesn't is a good route. Only problem for me is that im at about 55k honor due to honor tokens, and I have no plans to spend them until next season, so shards and WG commendations are the only real way to go for me atm.

Ya my fault heroic bosses do indeed drop 4, I still wouldn't call it the best farming method but for a slow night in BG's it could help quite a bit I suppose.

[Stealthy]

Few things I thought I'd add since it's kind of relevant to the discussion:

1. The honor tokens purchased with the shards are account bound - you can send them to other toons on the same account. So you can use your shards to start gearing a 2nd team if you've already gearded your primary team. Note - you can also use the Wintergrasp Marks to buy honor tokens (9 marks = 1 token)

2. Honor tokens can effectively let you get past the 75k honor cap, so they can be useful to store up if a new arena season is starting soon (which means a new tier of honor gear).

3. If you reach the 75k honor cap, use some of your honor to purchase epic gems (10k honor each). The cost of the gems is low enough so you can keep yourself near the honor cap without having honor points go to waste.

Cheers,
S.

[Lyonheart]

Few things I thought I'd add since it's kind of relevant to the discussion:

1. The honor tokens purchased with the shards are account bound - you can send them to other toons on the same account. So you can use your shards to start gearing a 2nd team if you've already gearded your primary team. Note - you can also use the Wintergrasp Marks to buy honor tokens (9 marks = 1 token)

2. Honor tokens can effectively let you get past the 75k honor cap, so they can be useful to store up if a new arena season is starting soon (which means a new tier of honor gear).

3. If you reach the 75k honor cap, use some of your honor to purchase epic gems (10k honor each). The cost of the gems is low enough so you can keep yourself near the honor cap without having honor points go to waste.

Cheers,
S.

i mix it up.. i do WG a few times a day normally ( just for fun..quests are a bonus ) I run a few heroics IF we own WG and ill do an AV or two. I get 100k+ a week easy. I never "try" to get honor.. as I just use it to buy epics since I have all the non rated gear.