Honor reduced ~30%

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Var, are you basing your calculations on the blizzard default screen? 600 an hour sounds way low - I get more then that pugging AV (AFTER the 30% nerf). I'm not sure what exactly I get in premade AB's, but its certainly much more then that. However, my server is pretty much the undisputed champ of our battle group - I think I have lost one game ever when running premade since xserver came out.

I was in the same pre-made AB crew as Vor Lord. For about 5 hours (I stayed longer) I recieved 3441 honor. This is close to VorLord's numbers. In that time we only lost two matches with a 3-2 base spread and 5 cap'ed the few pugs we saw. Most of the matches are against well geared pre-mades, so they are a much harder fights to win. Since they normally don't go up against organized resistance, we have a small edge from an experiance point of view but they normally have better gear then us, so its a wash. The bonus honor spread is close to 50/50 since these are close matches (but much better then getting stomped in a PUG as Horde).

In AV on the otherhand, I ended up in two well run Horde matches. I had ~500 bonus honor in about 45 minutes counting both wins plus some additional honor kills that will be calaculated this evening. Since it is much harder to get pre-mades for WSG or AB as Horde and the Alliance is almost always pre-made (forcing hard matches with lower bonus honor), AV without the pre-mades is pooling better Horde players on average. Thus, creating a better winning situation and better bonus honor per time invested for Horde.

Granted, I would rather play AB with a Horde pre-made because they are hard fun fights and the voice chat has me rolling on the floor laughing. Winning a close match always feels great. But from a time perspective, AV will grind out more honor faster. In AV, read the raid chat and do what the leader tells you. If 80% do as they are told, victory will be yours in minutes (10 on D, 30 on O and 3-5 ppl camp the flags until they flip, rather simple eh?). Horde victorys require a little patience given the geography, placement of npcs etc. but not too much.