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No More Marks

Zarhym wrote:

# Firstly, say goodbye to Battleground Marks of Honor. We feel this currency system is a bit outdated and are getting rid of it. Any items which require these marks as currency will have their costs adjusted appropriately to remove this requirement. The quest NPCs will still be available to award players Honor for turning in leftover marks, including individual Marks of Honor if a player has more marks from one Battleground than another, but this is only to help players clear this expired currency.

BG Holidays = Call to Arms

Zarhym wrote:

# Next, the Battleground holiday weekend will now be denoted as "Call to Arms" in the Battleground tab and Calendar. If you prefer a specific Battleground over all others, look for those words next to its name to determine whether or not you'll receive bonus Honor. The bonus awards for Call to Arms Battlegrounds have been adjusted.

* Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
* Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
* Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

Random BG!

Zarhym wrote:

Now that we hopefully have your attention, we're pleased to announce the implementation of the Random Battleground system! This system will work virtually the same as the Random Dungeon option in the Dungeon Finder and will replace the Battleground daily quests. Players can queue with a group of up to five players for a Random Battleground in the Battleground tab. As with the Random Dungeon option, the Battleground chosen will not be revealed until players zone into the Battleground for which they are selected. The bonus rewards for this system are identical to the updated Call to Arms bonuses.

* Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
* Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
* Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

Apparently the "Call to Arms" bonus does not stack with the "Random BG daily" bonus. If you get one of them done first, you won't get a bonus for the other, and if you happen to get them both at once they don't stack.

Zarhym wrote:

The current plan is to leave the honor cap at 75,000. This could change depending on testing and evaluation.

This is for the next minor content patch 3.3.3 which will be hitting the public test realms in the coming days. Per usual, I'm unable to provide a specific patch date, but this patch will be available long before Cataclysm. Wink

Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 106

while this did make me jump with joy it is a little too late imo, 2nd my guess is the honour cap is gonna be removed, hence considering ure gotta get close to 3k honour just from completing the random bg

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:43 am

Don't really see how this fixes the main problem of bots and afkers sadly.

Although they are blizzards best customers, they pay to not play the game - why should blizzard do anything Sad

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:31 am

but if we didnt have bots and afkers, how would all the healers get their 20-0 achievements?

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:10 pm

i got it first bg i stepped into at about level 16 kthx

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