WoW PvP Secrets: Understanding Honor Points and PvP Tokens
Engaging in PvP combat has many benefits. Two of these benefits 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 places but that lets you buy gear that you otherwise wouldn’t have access to. You’re smart to learn about these, as getting them is one way to speed your character’s advancement through the levels.
Earning Honor Points
When you kill characters from the enemy faction, your character earns honor. More correctly, you will earn honor as long as you kill characters that are no more than 8 levels below your character. Killing characters that are more than 8 levels below you not only doesn’t give you honor, it is generally considered bad sportsmanship. So target characters that are higher level than you, your level, or at least within 8 levels below you if you want to increase your honor.
Once you accumulate enough Honor Points you will be able to use them, along with Battleground Marks of Honor, to buy stuff in Stormwind City’s Champions’ Hall or Orgrimmar’s Hall of Legends. Lots of interesting stuff is available, including consumables like potions, gems and trinkets, even superior or epic armor and weapons.
You can turn in one Mark of Honor from each battleground to gain extra honor as part of the Concerted Efforts quest (Alliance) or the For Great Honor quest (Horde). These quests are repeatable too, so you can grind out honor this way if you like.
Getting PvP Tokens
You can earn PvP Tokens in the Outland (the Mark of Honor Hold or Halaa Battle Token for example) as rewards for killing characters from the opposing faction. These are like the Marks of Honor you get when you fight in the battlegrounds, except PvP Tokens are only accepted by PvP vendors in the zone the tokens are from. So if your character had Marks of Honor Hold, for example, Honor Hold PvP vendors would accept them. 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.
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