Upcoming Battleground Changes

[Littleburst]

I don't like this patch. More honor gained from HK's -> Brainless honor farming incoming. I'm happy i'm leveling a pve team atm. Because now there's hardly a point in trying to do objectives in BG's, just joining the asshats farming HK's is more effiecient for honor.

[Talos]

I don't like this patch. More honor gained from HK's -> Brainless honor farming incoming. I'm happy i'm leveling a pve team atm. Because now there's hardly a point in trying to do objectives in BG's, just joining the asshats farming HK's is more effiecient for honor.

Aparantly you didnt read it entirely.
They explain in the 2nd walloftext about how honor gained from objectives is based upon a honorkill count.
Meaning that while they up the honor rewarded for a honor kill they are ALSO upping the honor reward for getting an objective.

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%.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I wonder if they're doing this to find out if they have a BG version of oculus (i.e.: one that everyone /afk's out of immediately). :P

[Fat Tire]

I wonder if they're doing this to find out if they have a BG version of oculus (i.e.: one that everyone /afk's out of immediately). :P

Isle of shit


Everyone will random on this BG holiday.

[Mystic]

My least favorite is Strand of the Ancients. On the joy scale it is much less than Isle of Conquest.

[Littleburst]

Aparantly you didnt read it entirely.
They explain in the 2nd walloftext about how honor gained from objectives is based upon a honorkill count.
Meaning that while they up the honor rewarded for a honor kill they are ALSO upping the honor reward for getting an objective.

That's true, but if you get rewarded 30 HK's for winning a BG, who's gonna bother running the flag/defending a base then if you can easily farm 60 HK's in the battle instead of caring about the objective. I'm aware that it fails a bit, since you also get honor from capping the flag, but i do think that is how most people will think. Especially since you're not guaranteed that you win the battle, where your HK's are guaranteed honor.

[Ogloo]

This sounds like its gunna be fun.

[Gramzngunz]

This sounds like its gunna be fun.

Why did you server transfer Og?!?! Was it something I said? lol

[Fursphere]

I think this will make ALL BGs much more populated. Instead of mindlessly grinding AV - you're going to get flavor in all BGs - and players of all skill levels all over the place.

It might kill premades too, as you won't get a bonus if you skip the random.

Now they just need a "queue me up for a random whatever" option - meaning instance OR battleground.

[Gormand]

*sigh* now I wish I had chosen to play through my mages from 60 instead of my PvE team first.

I hope they do increase the maximum honour you can have, otherwise the cost of items are just going to cap out at 75k

On that note, it may be worth farming BGs now for tokens, some of the more expensive token items(IE Mounts) may end up being much lower in cost when the change hits and so the honour gained from the tokens may be worth it.
At the very least it will be a bunch of free gems when the change hits.