PvP rewards preview

[Kevin]

No, it WILL increase ganking. Crap, I'm going to start hanging out in Felwood and Western Plague Lands more often.
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The other thing to keep in mind is that they are tracking dishonor. They will have actual numbers to see how often high levels are smacking around low levels and then they will have clear evidence to be able to do something about it.

It's not a bad idea. It's a pretty sound psychological principal that you reward good behavior ot encourage more of it and ignore bad behavior to extinguish it. You only punish when the act is severe. Now the big flaw is that the people who enjoy lowbie sniping and corpse camping are going to get their reward outside of the game mechanics. But you aren't going to stop people who want to grief from griefing, same as you really can't legislate morality.

However if you are repeatedly griefered by someone and you report them for harassment (the way Blizzard seems to want to police things like this though they don't have the staff to do it right) and the GM can see that the reported player has 15 times the dishonorable kills than honorable kills you have a lot stronger case.

I'm not saying it will work, but at least you have data now.

I'm assuming you are thinking there will be more griefing of the type where a group of L30's comes and kills a solo L25-30 (insert whatever level range you want here) player so that group can get more honor points. Could be, and on a PvP server I don't see anything wrong with that. That can't be done on a PvE server though so you are still safe from that. And if they camp you they get less and then none so they have some reward incentive to move on after one hit. Being killed once like that is generally not griefing in most peoples books.

There will probably be more killing of NPC's on all types of servers. That can be considered griefing, of course NPC respawns are also faster in the patch so that addresses some of that.

As for someone killing you while you are fighint a mob. Can't happen on a PvE server unless you let it happen. On PvP, it's part of the part and parcel and now when you come back and hunt the killer down you get a reward for it. But yeah, I see no discouragement for that type of behavior, though I'm not sure there should be. Of course if they base the amount of honor you get on the damage you do, and share the rest with the mob the reward for doing this isn't so high. If they start fighting you at 20% of your health and only do 10% of the total damage they only get 10% of the honor points. Sure the fight is tougher for you, or impossible but if the keep the reward low for that you can apply the reward and ignore to it again.

I'm not saying I'm right. I'm just wanting to see why you think this will increase griefing. I'd elaborate a bit more on some points as well, but my lunch break is over, I'll get back to it.