Terrible, Poor Sportmanship, Unethical... but

[Multibocks]

Has anyone noticed if you need to grind out a lot of honor its easier to hit Random BG and lose every one? By that I mean still participate in killing people, but do nothing to help objectives.

Yes its repulsive, but we take 5 spots up and you get 35 honor for losing until you win a random. Once you win you dont get much for losing.

edit: I haven't purposefully done this yet, just something I noticed

[Littleburst]

When I join on my priest I, soloplaying, I try to be constructive the first minute, but as soon as you can conclude that the group sucks Happy farming starts.

Especially because you fill 4-5 slots, I feel that I'm much more capable of adding something constructive. So In general I'll try to boost morale a bit and aim for a win. Works great so far.

[Multibocks]

Ya you can, but you get 35 for losing before your first win of the day and 22 for losses after your first win. Seems if you have a lot of time on your hands that you can kill people, but let the opposition win quickly and make more honor/hour. However you might make some people angry in the meantime.

[zenga]

So what you gonna do once you are geared and no longer need to farm honor? Start to play serious and comment on the players that then will do the same you used to do cause they gear up?

[Ualaa]

I generally try to pursue victory conditions.
Which doesn't mean I win...
Most of my teams/toons that have done the honor grind are only there because they're undergeared and not able to really contribute that much.

If I'm reported as AFK, I just farm honor and stay in combat.
Stop trying to win, if they're idiots.
I also press the macro (on all five toons), to report everyone else as AFK.

In the majority of battlegrounds, it seems a fast game -- whether you win or lose, is preferable to a slow game that you win.
And of course any fast game is preferable to a slow game that you lose.
At least from the point of view of honor per hour.

On my server I've occasionally seen people building premade losers; none since Cataclysm, but it was common in WotLK.
As in, get enough people to have the maximum number for the BG, so 3 randoms don't get stuck with 12 players not trying to win an AB.
Then run around as a group, farming honor but capping nothing.

Pretty crappy system, where that can be significantly better honor than trying to win.

[Multibocks]

So what you gonna do once you are geared and no longer need to farm honor? Start to play serious and comment on the players that then will do the same you used to do cause they gear up?

Yeah I thought of this too. Unfortunately once you get all your honor gear there is no reason to BG anymore.

[Ualaa]

Well.. have close to the honor cap, once you get the full gear.

Once the next raid content comes out, a new arena season is very close too.
And all the current Conquest Point gear becomes Honor gear.
So maybe you can buy three pieces immediately, assuming you're missing anything that would have been available via the Conquest Points.

You could also farm a secondary set of gear.
My ferals would have liked to have had a Boomchicken or Resto set, once 4.0.6 went live.