DISCUSSION: The new Honor System
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Originally Posted by
Malaco
We think transmog and the armor that you wear shows who you are and we didn’t want to make something that easily gets changed or thrown away, we want you to play and achieve and that the items you wear show your effort. If we were to award players that benefited from our older systems it would be the opposite of what we want to do and that is to motivate everyone, both the casual 1500 player and the top rated players, to play and fight for what they think describes them best.
Who got motivated to farm honor for transmogs now? Let's take a look at how motivating it REALLY is. Let's start by looking at the formula.
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Originally Posted by
Malaco
How do i obtain honor?
Honor is obtained in Arenas and Battlegrounds.
The honor points resets every monday 06.00 server time
Calculations:
Arena win: 0,135 x RATING = Honor per win
Arena lose: 0,045 x RATING = Honor per lose
BG win: 400
BG lose: 100
Interesting formula. Let's do a few test-runs with it!
An average player likes to transmog these slots at least:
Head, shoulder, chest, legs, feet, belt and weapons. That's between 7 - 10 slots depending on what class/specc you run (eg. 1 weapon, 2 weapons, 2 weapons + shield, 3 weapons + shield (such as fury warrior)).
Testrun 1.
A player who likes to do 2v2/3v3/SOLOQ and is stuck at 1500 rating. Let's assume he still magically wins every game and give him the highest possible honor for a game. Even though we all know this isn't the case and this example already favors the players' honor gain massively.
0,135 x 1500 = ~200 honor per game.
20.000 honor for 1 slot.
20.000 / 200 = 100 games for 1 item slot.
100 games at 1500 x 7-10 slots = 700-1000 games for for 1 full transmog set at 1500 rating.
Better not mistake the transmogs you choose!
Testrun 2.
A player who likes to do 2v2/3v3/SOLOQ and is thriving at the highest rating. Let's take a look how it is at the top of 2v2/3v3/SOLOQ at this point, the end phase of the season with roughly 1 more month to go.
2V2 LADDER STATUS:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/11ipph3.jpg
3V3 LADDER STATUS:
http://oi62.tinypic.com/24ybprs.jpg
SOLOQ LADDER STATUS:
http://i62.tinypic.com/rckdj9.jpg
The highest rating found is 2645 in the SOLOQ bracket with a score of 161-26
Let's make it easy and assume he had his honor from scratch already calculated with 2645 rating in mind and he won all games. Even though we all know this isn't the case and this example already favors the players' honor gain massively.
0,135 x 2645 = 357 honor per game.
20.000 honor for 1 slot.
20.000/357 = 56 games for 1 slot.
56 games at 2645 rating x 7-10 slots = 392-560 games for 1 full transmog set at 2645 rating.
Now let's look at games played at the top of ladder by averaging out the amount of games played (won + loss) in the 2v2/3v3/SOLOQ bracket.
2v2: 109+5 = 114 games played and sitting rank 1
3v3: 100+20 = 120 games played and sitting at rank 1
SOLOQ: 161+26 = 187 games played and sitting at rank 1
114+120+187= 421/3 = ~ 140 games played on average for a rank 1 player.
Congratulations. It is the END OF THE SEASON and you obtained roughly 2 transmog slots and are nearing your third!
Now let's assume you are rank 1 in 2v2, 3v3 and SOLOQ ALL TOGETHER.
Congratulations IF YOU'RE A CASTER WITH 1 WEAPON: you've obtained your first full transmog set. Better not change your mind about what transmog you wanna wear!
Sorry anyone with a shield+one hander or more , you still have a few miles to go!
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Now we got settled out just how MOTIVATING this must be, let's not forget the donators.
In the past people paid between 10-60 euros for any kind of donation. From a title, a donator set, free WF on 1 character, free WF on all characters to VIP. Obviously they did so to gain an advantage. Yet still the money kept the server alive.
Currently everyone has that same gear and the staff needs a new way to gain revenue, to milk the ol' cow. Understandable after such a generous act to give free WF to everyone who doesn't have the money. The staff still needs to pay the server and ofcourse... there salaries.
Ow, about that:
Roughly 3000 dollar for a good programmer, if I recall the latest job opening.
Not rough at all for the 50% of the playerbase living in eastern-europe earning approximaly 400-600 euro a month.
But you MUST be that one serbian/russian guy who dgaf, decides not to buy bread this week and go donate!
...Except that donators who before donated for that exact same privilege are currently emptyhanded, hoping to get in good graces with the staff.... For 10% bonus honor per win (if they're lucky), a limited edition transmog set you might not like and you STILL have to farm tokens for, or... a thank you for paying their salaries.
Or you could ofcourse make the same mistake TWICE and donate AGAIN roughly 30-40 euro for 1 FULL TRANSMOG SET that doesn't even unlock it permanently...
and then BE HAPPY, cause YOU SHOWED EM! ...
Untill the staff decides they going for a new course, and you just wasted 30-40 euros for hot air.
Now really HOW can i NOT be HAPPY about THIS?
REALLY.
HOW?!
But then again, transmogs are really NOT that important, are they? They after all do NOTHING for the actual stats I play.
Cause CLEARLY that's ALL that people care about. Cause there's obviously NO reason people are motivated to play more when they look cool.
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PLEASE let us know how motivated YOU are by posting below!