How honor works
You earn honor by killing players of the other faction and by winning battlegrounds and their objectives. Kills of the same player give less honor each time on the same day. In Classic, your honor for the week decided your standing against everyone else on the realm, and that standing moved your rank up, or down if you stopped playing. Blizzard has not said whether Forever keeps the weekly ladder and rank decay unchanged, so plan as if it does.
What is new in Forever
- Darkspear Islands. A new battleground for levels 30 to 60 with 15 players per side. The Alliance fights for the Theramore Expeditionary Force and the Horde for the Darkspear Raiders.
- Field of Honor. The game files contain a weekly PvP season journey. Weeks 4, 7 and 10 each give a Legacy point.
- Legacy points from PvP. Ranks 3, 7, 10, 13 and 14 and Exalted with each battleground reputation count as Legacy challenges. The For Great Honor perk in the Legacy calculator raises honor gains by up to 10%.
- Realm rules. Forever uses rulesets instead of realm lists: Normal, PvP and Roleplaying. Hardcore is planned and will replace the PvP Legacy challenges with its own.
Which battleground to play
Warsong Gulch is the first one you can join and the fastest way to learn the flag routes. Arathi Basin rewards groups that hold three bases. Alterac Valley is the long 40-player battle with the best mount rewards at Exalted. Darkspear Islands sits in the middle of the level range and is new for everyone, so it is the easiest place to stand out.
Gear from ranks
From rank 7 the quartermasters sell rare armor, from rank 12 epic armor and at rank 14 epic weapons. The full list per class is below; the stats come from the Forever game files.
