Do You Know About 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 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.
Getting Honor Points
When you kill characters from the enemy faction, your character earns honor. I should say that your character 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 usually considered bad sportsmanship. This means that if you want to gain honor for your kills 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 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
Certain areas of the Outland give you PvP Tokens (the Mark of Honor Hold or Halaa Battle Token for example) as a reward for killing opposing players. Tokens are a lot like the Marks of Honor you earn in the battlegrounds, except PvP Tokens are only accepted by PvP vendors in the same zone where your character earned them. So if your character had Marks of Honor Hold, for example, Honor Hold PvP vendors would accept them. PvP Tokens become of little value when you get up to Level 70 or so, as the gear you can buy with them is meant for lower-level characters.
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