WoW Forever PvP and Honor

Honor, Rank Points and the 14 ranks

• Confirmed PvP progress has two currencies. Honor is spent on gear and comes from killing players, finishing battlegrounds and PvP quests. Rank Points move you up the 14 ranks to High Warlord or Grand Marshal and come from battlegrounds and PvP quests. Blizzard
• Confirmed The battleground holding its holiday week (Call to Arms) pays extra Honor and extra Rank Points. Blizzard
• Datamined Ranks have a weekly cap. The client's cap curve allows Rank 3 in the first week of a season and Rank 14 in week ten at the earliest, so the top rank takes at least ten weeks however much you play. Blizzard · Daybreak Forever
• Datamined Rank 1 needs 750 Rank Points and each later rank needs more. The client's Rank Point text says they also come from tasks handed out in Gadgetzan. Daybreak Forever
• Confirmed Blizzard evened out Honor gains across battlegrounds, so Alterac Valley is no longer the efficient map to farm. Blizzard
• Confirmed Your rank, Rank Points and what you can buy show in the Character pane (C) under the Player vs Player tab. Rank rewards are bought at the Champion's Hall in Stormwind or the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar. Blizzard · Daybreak Forever
• Confirmed Each PvP season has a journey of weekly tasks that pay Honor and Rank Points. Three tasks a season also give a Legacy Point, and because they belong to the Legacy system you can still finish them in a later season. Blizzard
• Datamined The season journey in the client is ten weekly quests. Its criteria count kills in each battleground and in the Gurubashi Arena, Alterac Valley kills, ten duel wins, and finishing and winning Darkspear Islands. Daybreak Forever

What changed from the Classic honor system

Rank rewards and PvP gear

Confirmed The rank requirements for each reward, as Blizzard lists them. Blizzard

• Confirmed Honor buys two PvP sets. The blue set is bought outright. Each epic piece is the blue piece plus an Emboldened Seal, and the Seals have rank requirements, so the blue set is the first step of the epic one rather than throwaway gear. Blizzard
• Confirmed Specs that had no PvP set in Classic get one. Shaman have healer, melee and caster sets. Blizzard
• Datamined The client holds a "Premier" copy of every rank set, bind on pickup at item level 60 (rare) and 65 (epic), sold in the faction barracks and by two vendors in Dalaran who stock both factions' sets. Eight Premier Emboldened Seals, one per armor slot, do the upgrade. Daybreak Forever
• Datamined Rank tabards in the client change with the battleground team you fight for, not your home faction. Daybreak Forever

Marks of Honor

• Confirmed Battleground Marks of Honor stack to 30 since the October 15 build, so you can bank a long evening of games before turning them in. Blizzard forums
• Confirmed Darkspear Islands Marks of Honor go into that battleground's reputation quests, and Exalted opens a short questline for the faction tabard. Blizzard
• Datamined In the quest data each Darkspear Islands bracket has a repeatable quest per faction for 3 Darkspear Islands Marks of Honor (150 reputation), and the Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin quests take one mark of their own battleground (200 reputation). WoW Forever Builds

Battlegrounds in WoW Forever

• Datamined The client's random battleground queue draws from Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Darkspear Islands. A separate Random Epic Battleground queue exists with no map listed. Daybreak Forever datamine
• Datamined Call to Arms rotates weekly between Darkspear Islands, Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch. Alterac Valley is not in the rotation. Daybreak Forever
• Confirmed Darkspear Islands is the new battleground: 15 vs 15 off the coast of Dustwallow Marsh, levels 30 to 60. Blizzard

• Warsong Gulch guide10 vs 10 · levels 10–60Capture the enemy flag three times.
• Arathi Basin guide15 vs 15 · levels 20–60First team to 2,000 resources from holding the five bases.
• Darkspear Islands guide15 vs 15 · levels 30–60First team to 2,000 points from holding bases and capturing the flag.

In the files, not confirmed for launch

• Confirmed Blizzard names Alterac Valley when explaining the Honor changes, and the season journey counts Alterac Valley kills. Blizzard · Daybreak Forever
• Datamined It is not in the Call to Arms rotation or the random battleground map list, and the beta quest data has no Alterac Valley quests. Whether it is open on November 4, and for which levels, is unknown. Daybreak Forever datamine · Daybreak Forever
• Datamined The client has a 10-player battlemaster row for Battle for Gilneas with brackets from 10 to 60, plus Gilnean sharks that bite swimmers for 10% of their health every 2 seconds. Nothing says whether it is playable at launch. Daybreak Forever
• Datamined The PvP queue list has a Mak'gora Arena in Hyjal Crater for levels 1 to 60, and the client adds a /makgora command. Blizzard has not announced arenas, rated or otherwise. Daybreak Forever datamine · Daybreak Forever

All battlegrounds →

World PvP

• Confirmed Killing enemy players earns Honor outside battlegrounds too. Blizzard
• Confirmed Horde players are attacked on sight in Dalaran since the October 15 build. Blizzard forums
• Datamined The season journey counts kills in the Gurubashi Arena in Stranglethorn Vale and ten duel wins, so both feed weekly PvP progress. Daybreak Forever
• Datamined Two arena perks in the client, Arena Master and Arena Grand Master, cut damage taken by 5% and 6% in the Battle Ring and The Maul. Daybreak Forever datamine
• Datamined Crowd control has diminishing-returns groups for roots, stuns, incapacitates, fears and silences, with Kidney Shot on its own stun group apart from proc stuns. Damage and heal over time effects such as Rejuvenation, Renew and Deadly Poison stack per caster. Daybreak Forever

Honorable kills (Classic rules until Forever says otherwise)

• Classic fallback An honorable kill is an enemy player close to your level. Killing the same player again within a day is worth less each time and eventually nothing. Icy Veins
• Classic fallback Killing enemy civilian NPCs counts as a dishonorable kill and costs you. Wowhead

Rulesets: PvP, Normal and Roleplaying

• Confirmed There are no realms to choose: you pick a ruleset. The PvP ruleset is for open-world fighting in contested territory, on Normal two players only fight when both agree, and Roleplay and Roleplay PvP are the other two launch rulesets, with Roleplay PvP combining Roleplay's naming and behaviour rules with open-world PvP. Blizzard · Blizzard
• Confirmed The PvP ruleset gets faction balance systems modelled on Season of Discovery. Horde and Alliance still cannot group, and you cannot group with players on another ruleset. Blizzard
• Datamined The client's ruleset picker lists PvP, Normal, Roleplay and Hardcore. Each ruleset has its own auction house, and battleground and dungeon queues refuse a group that mixes rulesets. Daybreak Forever
• Confirmed Hardcore comes after launch as its own closed ruleset. A Hardcore character that dies can move to another ruleset, PvP included. Blizzard · Blizzard

PvP builds by class

Each class page has the top-voted PvP build per spec and the talents the final client changed in ways that matter in PvP. The roles below are how each class played in Classic.

• Warrior PvPClassic fallback

  • Burst damage

  Mortal Strike cuts enemy healing and Intercept closes gaps, but a Warrior is easy to kite and needs a healer behind it.

• Rogue PvPClassic fallback

  • Burst damage
  • Crowd control

  Opens from stealth with stuns, then Blind, Gouge and Kidney Shot keep a target locked down; Vanish and Sprint get it out.

• Mage PvPClassic fallback

  • Burst damage
  • Crowd control

  Polymorph removes one enemy from a fight, Frost Nova and Blink create distance, and Frost or Fire spells burst from range.

• Warlock PvPClassic fallback

  • Crowd control
  • Burst damage

  Fear and Death Coil break up healers, damage over time pressures whole groups, and Felhunters strip buffs.

• Hunter PvPClassic fallback

  • Burst damage
  • Crowd control

  Long range, Scatter Shot and traps for control, and Viper Sting drains the mana of casters and healers.

• Priest PvPClassic fallback

  • Healing
  • Crowd control

  Strong heals and Power Word: Shield keep carriers alive, Psychic Scream breaks melee pressure and Mana Burn punishes enemy healers.

• Druid PvPClassic fallback

  • Flag carrying
  • Healing

  Travel Form speed and shapeshifting out of roots and slows make Druids natural flag carriers, with heals over time to stay up.

• Paladin PvPClassic fallback

  • Healing

  Plate armor, Divine Shield and Blessing of Freedom make a hard-to-kill healer who frees teammates from slows and roots.

• Shaman PvPClassic fallback

  • Burst damage
  • Healing

  Instant shocks and Windfury burst, Purge removes buffs, Grounding Totem absorbs a spell, and Shamans can heal in a pinch.

Still unknown

• The exact weekly Rank Point cap and the Honor cost of each piece.
• Whether ranks reset or decay between seasons, and how long a season runs.
• Whether Alterac Valley and Battle for Gilneas are open at launch.
• The reputation thresholds for the Darkspear Islands vendors.
• How strong any class is at level 60 in PvP: the beta stopped at level 30, so level 60 PvP was never tested before launch.

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