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Honor Points and PvP Tokens are rewards your character earns from winning in PvP combat. When your character accumulates enough of these, you can use them to buy better gear than you would be able to otherwise. You definitely want to accumulate Honor Points and PvP Tokens. This is how you do it:

Honor Points

You earn Honor Points by killing characters from the opposing faction (Alliance or Horde). More correctly, you will earn honor as long as the character you killed was no more than 8 levels lower than your character. Killing opponents who are more than 8 levels below you is considered poor sportsmanship, and doesn’t gain you honor. So target characters that are higher level than you, your level, or at least within 8 levels below you if you want to increase your honor.

Once you accumulate enough Honor Points you can use them, along with Battleground Marks of Honor, to buy stuff in Stormwind City’s Champions’ Hall or the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar. Lots of interesting stuff is available, including consumables like potions, gems and trinkets, even high-end armor and weapons.

Another way to earn Honor Points is to turn in one Mark of Honor from each battleground as part of the Horde’s For Great Honor quest or the Alliance’s Concerted Efforts quest. You can also repeat these quests to generate additional honor.

Getting PvP Tokens

Certain areas of the Outland give you PvP Tokens (the Mark of Honor Hold or Halaa Battle Token for example) as rewards for killing characters from the opposing faction. These are like the Marks of Honor you earn in the battlegrounds, except PvP Tokens are only accepted by PvP vendors in the zone the tokens are from. So if your character had Marks of Honor Hold, for example, Honor Hold PvP vendors would accept them but Halaa PvP Vendors would not. PvP Tokens become of little value when you get up to Level 70 or so, as the gear you can buy with them is meant for lower-level characters.

Now you know about how Honor Points and PvP Tokens can help your character get better gear. And you know where to go to earn them. But if you want to dominate PvP combat, or even hold your own against more experienced players, there’s a lot more you should learn. To get the latest advice and tips on PvP, including the most current strategies & tactics, you need the Warcraft Formula.

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