Blizzard already introduced a fair amount of changes regarding our PVP situation by releasing battlegrounds pretty early. With that being said we will now stumble upon the unrewarding Honor Ranking system Classic has from 1.12.
Each week 20% of your total standing(rank) is being removed whatever you do, and you have to earn even more honor to compensate this. Classic players with an average of 30 years old player base have commitments, kids, jobs and wives which will result in holiday seasons or other commitments where you cant play for 2 weeks for example.
So if you are rank 7.0 and go to a holiday for 2 weeks you will find yourself sitting at rank 5.1
Right now you have to be top 6% for several weeks straight only to get rank 10, not even talking about the so desired purple sets.
With raids being much easier than Vanilla Wow people will be discouraged to even rank as soon as BWL hits because P3 gear is vastly superior than rank 10 gear.
Now I assume that all Vanilla elitist will say “no changes” and these guys will probably never earn past rank 6, so my suggestion is as follows:
1.Reduce honor decay for rank 1 to 10 to 12% from 20% per week 2.Reduce honor decay for rank 10 to 14 to 16% from 20% per week
These changes will greatly improve the PVP conditions in Classic WoW enabling more than 0.5% of the player base to earn rank 14. This will not trivialize ranking past 10 but make it a much better experience.
Thank you,
Aleksandar
Darkbunny 60 dwarf Priest
Server: Bloodfang
Please, if you are not level 60 in Classic Wow do not comment. Thank you.
Also investigate every r13 and r14 grinder for breaking TOS since it is unlikely that they will achieve that rank without abuse and strip them of their rank and gear if found guilty
People will not need to abuse if changes are introduced. Right now if you are rank 13 and abuse the system you will get rank 14 in 3 weeks. Otherwise if you do not abuse you can rank 13 to 14 in like 7-8 weeks.
I think the PvP honor system is the most broken and thoughtless part of Vanilla.
It requires way too much effort and skill compared to casting frostbolt in MC or BWL. And BWL gear is superior.
Fixing the pvp/honor system will make the game relevant for way longer.
So yeah.
Let’s see some changes there.
That’s why barely anyone gets it and the rank/gear makes you unique. Not every content has to be inclusive. Similarly - very few will do the Scepter of the shifting sands questline.
BWL gear was very rare during the days, now pretty much every guild will be doing it sooner or later. So everyone who raids will have BWL gear, and only a dozen people will have rank 13-14 gear.
Why would reducing required pvp effort ever be agreeable ? it would make a lot of ranks without effort, and you should only aim for top ranks if u got no life… Whats next ? 1 free raid item of choice per player at the end of raids ?.. sorry but gear comes with effort which is different from retail i know but this is classic
No skill needed for rank 14.
Just ungodly amounts of time.
If you are standing 1 from rank 0 to 14 every week, you need 12 weeks to reach rank 14. Two weeks from 13 to 14.
No abuse needed. just alot of honor farming and coordination with your own faction.
40 players kept in control
Distribute the few items that drop
Teach them basics so they can be used for BWL & AQ in the future
Filter out greed & toxic players.
etc.
anyways high ranks where meant to require endless amounts of time/effort that should not change.
BWL and high ranks weren’t accessible to everyone, but now most of the raiding will be viable even with PUGS. Even with the proposed changes it would still take crazy amount of hours and weeks to rank up…
