World of Warcraft Honor System Live

Available now from the World of Warcraft Patch servers, the Honor System has been put into production. The Patch Notes are available on the official site and besides the Honor System includes new art, bug fixes, and new live events in Kalimdor and the Gurubashi Arena. There will also be, starting in May, a "Children's Week" celebrated in Orgrimmar and Stormwind. "It is a time to give back to the innocents of war: the orphans!"

Screenshots and info!

[JorenDahn]

PvP Honor ranks and corresponding rewards listed here [worldofwarcraft.com].

Official images of PvP armor sets [worldofwarcraft.com] Wow, sexy.
Official images of the new mounts [worldofwarcraft.com]
Official listing of PvP weapons [worldofwarcraft.com] No pics though. :(

Re:Is there a stand alone downloadable patch?

[antdude]

Thanks. I didn't find it there earlier when I checked. SOmeone told me FileShack [fileshack.com] has a copy too.

Re:It Will Be Interesting...

[meta-monkey]

I don't think there's anything like that...there are diminishing returns for the same player killing the same player over and over again, but not guild. That doesn't matter if you're in a group or not...the first time you'll get 100% of the honor points you would get, based on the group bonuses, and the next time you'll get fewer, and fewer, until probably after you've killed the same guy 4-5 times you won't get any points for killing him at all for a day or so. I don't think guilds have anything to do with it. If that were the case, large guilds woud be a serious disadvantage, and you'd be better off just disbanding your in-game guild but still teaming up over Ventrillo or something.

Re:Honor with no Dishonor

[Chyeld]

Consider this:

People who are already ganking lowbies are doing so for one of two reasons. Either they like being a-holes, or they are bored and have no incentive to do otherwise.

People who are interested in gaining Honor are going to do so for two reasons. They want recognition and they want phat loot.

If someone is already ganking, then the Honor system currently gives them incentive to concentrate on higher targets. So the majority of the bored ones are more than likely going to switch.

If someone isn't already ganking, then the Honor system gives them a reason not to. Not because they will be directly penalized by it, but because wasting time on killing lowbies when others are going for real kills is going to drop them lower in the rankings.

You will never lose the a-holes. Even if you instituted an insta-perma-ban on people who killed anyone grey to them, you'd still have people with too much time on their hands and a fist full of momma's credit cards who are willing to level someone up and get that one kill just to be a dick. But I don't see how this is going to increase their numbers at all.

What I'm really waiting to see is what happens when they finally introduce the Battlegrounds. Once those are in, you really won't have time to PvP outside of them unless you are just waiting for your turn to go in. From what I can tell, the oportunities to gain honor inside the BG will more than outstrip the opportunities outside.

Re:Is there a stand alone downloadable patch?

[endx7]

Filefront [filefront.com] has it.