In World of Warcraft farming honor is exhausting and takes time. Unless, you coordinate and let yourself be slaughtered.
PvP in World of Warcraft is not for everyone. However, if you want the great rewards like titles, pets, or mounts, you need to accumulate a lot of honor. But battlegrounds take a long time and require much time investment. Some players do not want to invest this time and coordinate with colleagues from the opposing faction. They let each other kill in order to amass massive amounts of honor.
What do the players do? With the introduction of the War Mode, some players quickly discovered the fastest way to farm honor. They team up for a raid and allow the opposing faction to form a raid as well. They then meet at a graveyard. One of the two sides may slaughter the other, and all players earn a large amount of honor for it. Since the entire raid reappears at the graveyard after a few seconds, the game can be quickly repeated. Thus, honor levels fly by.
Coordinated slaughter is not new. In principle, allowing oneself to be killed intentionally in World of Warcraft is not uncommon and is not a new phenomenon. During the time of Warlords of Draenor, there were achievements where players had to kill 500 characters of a certain species. Finding sufficient dwarves or goblins was not that easy, which is why players even back then formed “farm groups” so that others could more easily achieve the achievement.
Exploit or allowed? In the official forum and on social media, some players are upset about this behavior. They view it as a clear exploit and feel that their own achievements in gathering honor are devalued when others can catch up so easily.
Other players have no problem with it, as it does not violate any Blizzard guidelines and it is only about cosmetic items.
There is no official statement from Blizzard about this yet, although it has been tolerated in the past. After all, there is no “win trading” in the classical sense, as no PvP rating is distorted.
What do you think of such methods of farming honor? Absolutely reprehensible and should be punished? Or is it okay as all parties agree?
