If you intend to play World of Warcraft in the PvP mode, you need a basic understanding of the honor system. The honor system is basically a method by which you can gain rankings based on your performance.

The actual methodology that goes into the honor system is even more complicated than the plot of Ocean’s 12, so don’t even worry about not fully understanding it.

Just remember this basic fact and run with it: How much damage you manage to inflict upon players of the opposing faction determines the amount of honor you earn. Oh, and the kill has to be honorable.

So what constitutes an honorable kill? A question for the ages, isn’t it? But in the case of the World of Warcraft honor system, it’s rather easily answered. An honorable kill simply means that you killed an appropriate player or a special target NPC in the appropriate level range.

So what does that mean, a “special target NPC?”

Well, if you see an NPC with the word “civilian” in green in its tooltip, don’t bother because that will net you only a dishonorable kill. There is one other very important thing you should know about how the honor system works. When playing with a party, honor is divided equally among all members of the group.

What are the benefits of the honor system? How does getting a higher rank really help me personally? Well, just as achieving a higher rank in the real military gets you rewards denied to those lower on the system, the higher you rise in World of Warcraft, the more you get. Among these rewards are weapons and armor.

(Again, just like in real life!)

These rewards get significantly better the higher up the system you rise. For instance, achieving the ranking of Corporal nets you a team insignia trinket.

Kind of cool, sure, but it probably won’t save your life.

But if you can make it all the way up to rank 14, Grand Marshall, your rewards are an epic quality weapons and shield.

Don’t think that just because you’ve made it up to a rank of 10 that you can sit back and relax and cakewalk your way to Grand Marshall, though.

A key component of the honor system is a little something called honor decay. What does that mean? That means you have to keep battling not only to continue working your way up the ladder, but also just to make sure you don’t lose what you’ve already accomplished.

Fortunately, you gain rank at a quicker rate than you’ll lose it and you would have to be completely away from the game for months at time to tumble back down to the bottom ranking.

Warcraft Honor System

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