WoW: Long division is your friend
Mike and I had a discussion this weekend about Honor in the battlegrounds. He’s decided that going for the flag is a waste, most of the time, and that racking up kills was the way to go. I maintained that capturing the flag IS the game.
I’m talking about level 19 battlegrounds here. I’ll admit that it’s most fun to go for the kills mid-field, but I wasn’t sure, honor wise, if kills or wins gained more. I did the math.
Saturday I got 52 kills with no wins. The next day I checked my honor and I’d received 263 which is a little more than 5 honor per kill. I’m going from memory here, but don’t you get 188 honor for winning? That would be the equivalent of over 37 kills
True, sometimes you get 37 kills but that’s not often, at least not for me. And your honor for winning would be the 188 plus 5 per kill and that’s not counting any flag captures or returns.
I’m a super twink. One on one with a non-twink isn’t much fun for either of us. I try not to feed my ego by focusing on that. I score my personal battleground experiences differently. I’m trying to move the flag. It doesn’t matter if we win or I get any kills. My score is marked by how I’ve done moving or protecting the flag. My score doesn’t appear on the battle ground wrap-up screen, but I know how I’ve done.