PvP in WoW Forever: Honor, ranks and rewards

Rank Points come from the same activities as Honor and also get the holiday-week bonus. They fill a bar towards your next rank, and they are capped every week. Once you hit the cap, more PvP still earns Honor, but your rank waits for the weekly reset.

Hitting the cap every week takes you to Rank 14 in ten weeks.

Open your character pane (C) and pick the Player vs. Player tab to see your rank, your progress to the next one and what you have earned this week.

Each rank has an Alliance and a Horde title. Reaching a rank unlocks its reward at your faction's PvP vendors.

The PvP trinket at Rank 2 is the first real priority: it breaks you out of crowd control, and you will want it in every fight from then on.

Honor buys two sets of PvP armor for every class.

The blue set

The blue set is the first goal. Buy it with Honor, piece by piece, as you near level 60. Its Stamina keeps you alive long enough to matter, and you need each blue piece later anyway.

The epic set

You don't buy an epic piece outright. You upgrade the matching blue piece with an Emboldened Seal for that slot, paid in Honor. Each seal unlocks at a rank: the bracers and belt seals at Rank 8, up to the chest and helm seals at Rank 13.

New and reworked pieces cover specs the old sets ignored. Shamans, for example, choose between a healer, a melee and a caster set.

PvP runs in seasons. Each season comes with a journey: a list of weekly tasks that pay Honor and Rank Points on top of what you earn by playing. Do the week's tasks before the reset, since they are the easiest Rank Points you will get.

Three of the journey's tasks also award a Legacy Point: finishing weeks 4, 7 and 10 of the Field of Honor journey. If you miss them, they stay available in later seasons.

PvP is worth 12 Legacy Points, the largest share after class leveling and professions.

Rank 3 is the cheapest point in the whole Legacy system for a level 60 character: a few evenings of battlegrounds. The Legacy guide covers every other challenge and how to spend your points.

Every battleground hands out its own Mark of Honor. Marks stack to 30, so you can bank a full stack per battleground before turning them in for reputation quests.

Four battlegrounds are open from launch. You queue at a battlemaster in any capital city, and you play against players at a similar level.

Darkspear Islands is new in Forever: the Darkspear Islands guide covers its rules, map plan and reputation rewards.

Battlegrounds mix players from every ruleset except Hardcore. You don't need a PvP ruleset character to climb the ranks.

On the PvP and Roleplay-PvP rulesets, players of the other faction can attack you anywhere outside the safe zones, and killing them earns Honor and Rank Points. Even your campfire is no shelter there.

Each account plays one faction per PvP ruleset. Your first character on it decides which, so agree on a side with your friends before anyone creates a character. The rulesets guide explains the full rules for each ruleset.

• Spend before the cap. Honor above 25,000 is wasted: buy your next piece when you can.
• Do the journey first each week. Its rewards come on top of normal play.
• Queue the highlighted battleground during holiday weeks for the bonus Honor and Rank Points.
• Keep the blue pieces. Every epic piece is an upgrade of the blue piece in that slot.
• Bank Marks of Honor. A stack of 30 per battleground is a quick reputation boost when you need it.