Intro to WoW PvP: Understanding Honor Points and PvP Tokens

Engaging in PvP combat has many benefits. Two of them are Honor Points and PvP Tokens. These special PvP rewards work almost as an alternate form of gold, one that you can use only in certain shops but that lets you buy more powerful equipment than you could otherwise get your hands on. Learning about these will definitely pay off, as getting them is one way to speed your character’s advancement through the levels.

Getting Honor Points

When you kill characters from the opposing faction, you will earn Honor Points. More correctly, you will earn honor as long as the character you killed was no more than 8 levels lower than your character. Killing characters that are so much lower than you not only doesn’t give you honor, it is generally considered bad sportsmanship. This means that if you want to increase your honor you need to pick on characters your own size, or at least ones that are within shouting distance of your level.

Once you accumulate enough Honor Points you will be able to use them, along with Battleground Marks of Honor (earned, not surprisingly, for your actions in the battlegrounds), to buy stuff in Stormwind City’s Champions’ Hall or the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar. The available items range from consumables, to gems and trinkets, even high-end armor and weapons.

Another way to earn Honor Points is to turn in one Mark of Honor from each battleground as part of the Horde’s For Great Honor quest or the Alliance’s Concerted Efforts quest. These quests are repeatable too, so you can grind out honor this way if you like.

Getting PvP Tokens

Certain areas of the Outland give you PvP Tokens (the Mark of Honor Hold or Halaa Battle Token for example) as rewards for killing enemy characters. Tokens are a lot like the Marks of Honor you get when you fight in the battlegrounds, except that only PvP vendors in the region the token comes from will honor them. So if your character had Marks of Honor Hold, for example, Honor Hold PvP vendors would accept them but Halaa PvP Vendors would not. PvP Tokens are most valuable to you when you are below Level 70, since the gear you can buy with them doesn’t go up past this level.

Now you know about how Honor Points and PvP Tokens can help your character get better gear. And you have some good ideas about where to go to earn them. But if you want to dominate PvP combat, or even hold your own against more experienced players, there’s a lot more you should learn. To get the complete story on PvP, including the most current strategies & tactics you can use to dominate all aspects of PvP, you need the PvP Bible.

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