After today's 22.0 patch which started getting things ready for the release of next week's Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion, players have begun to receive Honor Kills earlier than intended after playing games. Blizzard then confirmed in their known issues update that they would be looking into the early release and deciding what to do.
Well, good news everyone! Blizzard has decided that the faction war event will be starting early and that it'll be hotfixed tomorrow to make the legendary questline pop up.
That isn't the whole story though.
Honorable Kills Early
It was reported as soon as the patch hit that we were seeing Honorable Kills popping up in-game but also that the legendary questline unlockables, golden cards, were arriving in collections as well.
Off to a great start!
This means that even though we don't have the legendary quests in our quest log, which is being hotfixed tomorrow on December 1, they are still triggering in the background and giving us rewards. This leads to a situation where the client isn't telling us that we're earning these rewards even though they are appearing in our collection. Unfortunately, the new cards are not usable in decks yet since Alterac Valley hasn't launched, but getting a start to unlocking these cards is a huge plus since it'll help us open other cards in our pack openings on December 7 when everything releases.
So in conclusion, it is currently worth grinding Hearthstone even before the hotfix arrives because we're getting some progression in. Also, these honor kills are contributing towards the big 7200 Honor achievement which rewards one of the 10 hero skins that originally came from the rewards track. Cool!
See Your Faction In-Game
Don't forget that you'll see your faction and your opponent's faction in-game so you can know how much honor you can earn for your win.
- 10 Honor for every game played
- 10 more Honor for every game won (20 total)
- 20 more Honor for every game won versus an opponent of the enemy faction (40 total)
Blizzard Post
Quote From GnomeSayin We’re excited to share that the Battle for Alterac event will begin early! With hotfix planned for release in the next day, all players will begin their faction’s quest line and start earning their Golden card rewards! These cards will remain locked until the expansion launches on December 7.
Comments
This system could be a good prelude to a title system.
Playing Wild last night, Almost every opponent I fought was Alliance (like me). Made me wonder what they AvH balance looks like when comparing players who mostly play Standard vs players who mostly play Wild?
Personally I chose Alliance because I thought Vanndar would have more potential for crazy Wild shenanigans. But figured everyone would gravitate towards Drek’thar simply because he’s a better tempo play and HS meta has been fast lately, especially in Wild.
But after yesterday I’m thinking either 1) more Wild players went with Alliance for the same reasons as me or 2) at end of month I was just getting matched up with the players in Wild that enjoy off meta and/or meme decks like me and it’s those players who went with Vanndar, not necessarily a reflection of a Wild majority.
Probably #2.
what is the meaning of "private" and " scout" ? tks
Mere titles granted as you progress down the honor ladder. Meaningless to gameplay, but might grant a small boost to self esteem every time you stare at it.
Mini-rant: "For the Alliance" as a battlecry was a mistake. For one thing, "For the Horde" came first by a substantial margin, and "For the Alliance" is an obvious derivative. Weak. Second, try belting them both out, and one works far better. "For the Horde" is three even syllables, "Horde" can be extended out as long as your breath holds making it a great war cry, and the assonance of "For" and "Horde" makes it flow. "For the Alliance" is five uneven syllables with no common sounds, a stress on a non-ending syllable, a final consonant that cuts it short, no ability to draw it out... it is inferior in every way.
The intro cinematic to Battle for Azeroth had a vastly superior option: "Stand As One", which Anduin belts out as he's rallying the Alliance troops he's just rezzed. I could discuss its linguistic merits in the terms above, or I could just dare you to belt it out without feeling jazzed. Try it! Try it. It shouldn't take you more than one repetition to agree that it feels so much better as a battle cry than "For the Alliance".
I don't know what the down votes are for. That was one of the better posts I've seen online in a while. I loved the linguistic and demogougic (I think I just made that word up) analysis. Bonus points for the use of the word 'assonance'. It serves the dual purpose of making the kiddies giggle and the word smiths nod their heads knowingly.
Of course, you utter 'for the alliance' like a gentleman.
Can anyone confirm how experience from the FiAV achievements will work? There are a couple that you can get progress on right now without the new cards, Hunter has a trigger secrets one and there is a neutral one about winning games after playing a hero card. If I complete some stages now, will I be able to wait and claim the XP on the new track or will it be auto claimed on the current track when it rolls over to the new one?
If you earn an achievement now you can wait until the reward track refresh to click it. If you do that, the xp should go towards the new reward track.
Any indication how many players selected Alliance/Horde? And was there any mention of scaling honor points by the end of the season according to the number of players who chose either faction? Because it's not much of a contest if 80% of players choose one of the factions, especially since one favors faster-grind and budget-friendly aggro decks, while the other encourages longer games (so, fewer honor points earned over time).
If you want statistical information there is none. Based on my end-of-season dash yesterday evening I have the impression that the Horde is outnumbering the Alliance a bit. Also on Reddit people made polls on what people chose which the Horde won but not by a huge margin.
Btw: For the Alliance!
Tommorow's news: All honor points gained today will be reset and restarted when the expansion releases.
Blizzard Dev 1: Oh no the patch released the Alliance vs Horde too early! The players will think it is a bug.
Blizzard Dev 2: We can rollback with the hotfix and then rerelease on the 7th.
Blizzard Dev 1: The players are already complaining about the grind even though they got the entire expansion to grind it out!
Blizzard Dev 2: We are in a pickle now while having to deal with Bobby Kotick's nonsense.
Blizzard CM (GnomeSayin): Guys, we can just treat this bug as an early xmas present for the player, so I will announce it in the forum that this was intentional. You guys can just hotfix it by already adding the legendary questline and giving the player an early start to the grind.
Blizzard Dev 1: GENIUS!
Blizzard Dev 2: For Gnomeregan!
Ah so it's just like Classic WoW where random server rollbacks during the launch of it/AV caused issues. :
the expansion is not even out yet and theres already pre-bugs popping up? is it possible to learn this power?
EDIT: is humor dead these days?
For the HORDE!
Has anyone experimented with conceding and gaining Honor? I'm not particularly interested in auto-conceding my way to 7200 Honor, but I don't like to feel like I can never concede a game without losing out on some reward.
Tested concede on t1. No honor points :(
I imagine it follows the same rules as completing quests - you have to make it to turn 10 (lol) or have one player go down to 15 health before it counts.
From all of this, I'm just more exited Fluxflashor is on team horde. FOR THE HORDE!