PvP rewards preview

[Kevin]

I thought they said they were only tracking "dishonorable" kills of NPCs.

I may have misinterpreted then. I hope they are tracking the PvP ones.

Yes that'd be great if it rewarded good behavior, rather than providing additional incentives to use lame tactics not encompassed by the system.

Yeah, I'm not sure it will work, and there are still problems, but it just feels like that might be their intent.

But you aren't going to stop people who want to grief from griefing ...

Indeed. But it would be nice if there were some reasonable limits, such as a temporary ressurection sickness type state applied from numerous gray kills in a short period of time.

Yeah, and this is why I hope they pay attention to the data they are collecting. They did say they would consider penalties in the future if they thought it was necessary. What that means is of course is anyones guess.

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.

Not against the rules, no. But shouldn't an "honor" system try to encourage fair fights? That's what it seems like they're trying to do with it anyway. Just pointing out that it could backlash.

Yeah, this one is a bit tricky. It encourages more grouping for quests, just being a duo cuts down on a lot of this type of thing right now, though that could very well get over-ridden. This is another one where relying on people realizing that they get less honor for the kill since it gets split around the group doesn't help either.

True, but I wouldn't want to be killed once by 50 different groups trying to get their PVP rewards either.

Yar. Of course if you are in an area that has that many of the opposing faction without much or your faction in the area it's time to move on to somewhere else. That's how things are now and I'm not sure you can really change that. If the Horde controls a questing area the Alliance needs to fight back for it, or forget it for a time. If the 50 kills are space out over 50 hours of play time, then I don't think I'd care.

I'd hope they design it like that, but I didn't see anything in their preview to suggest that they've not overlooked mobs. Let's hope it was an oversight on the writer's part and not on the design team's.

One more thing. A lot of players are going to see the message "You've gained an honorable kill!" when they just got barely any honor points, and consider it just as good as getting full credit because they don't know any better.

Yeah, that was my assumption as well. I'm hoping they designed it that way, and yeah, relying on the average WoW players knowledge to hope things get better is a very risky propostion.


I do think though that griefing will go down, or at least what I consider griefing. Then again things might not chage at all, or they could get a lot worse. I'll just have to wait and see.