For my honor I will kill you

Honor (hon·or –noun)

1.       a source of credit or distinction: to be an honor to one's guild.

2.       high respect, as for worth, merit, or rank: to be held in honor.

3.       the privilege of being associated with or receiving a favor from a respected person, group, organization, etc.: to have the honor of serving the Alliance (or Horde).

4.       chastity or purity in a woman. (I had to throw this in. It has been my evil plot on occasion when I say “I have no honor!” … because Hydra doesn’t PvP…to get responses from guildies of “You are a woman with Honor.”… *snicker*... you can be evil with honor.)

5.       to show a courteous regard for: to honor an experienced PvPer.

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After reading Megan’s blog on the true PvPers perspective of undergeared people (like me) in BG it made sense. I enjoyed the view and learned from it. But I also KNOW I am undergeared. So I stick my undergeared self to a geared player and help them. Watch them and ask questions… occasionally they answer.  I am also getting better at recognizing the different graphics for shoulders, which is how Megan suggested evaluating players. If I do get a chance too inspect, I do for the giggles. I figure my crafted shoulders say…

“Kill me first! Because I don’t know what I am doing here and you will immediately get a HK within 10 seconds.” Which is only 85% accurate… it may take 20 Seconds if I can get the fear to stick.

I don’t like dieing … but understand that with my current gear I will die… a lot. So I typically position myself near the GY to return to help out as soon as I am able.

I am still trying to understand AV… with my initial foray and then with BRK months ago… I really didn’t understand what the heck was going on. Even reading and reading it wasn’t clicking to me. But then in a game, someone said something about a “Tank”, while I was standing around wondering why no one was killing the Horde elite. I realized what AV really was…

 “People try to take down bosses like in PvE but make it a PuG of random specs then add the idea of Horde vs. Alliance so they can test who can do it faster.”

While trying to understand resources I finally connected MY dieing as affecting our resources… so I am making a concerted effort to stop that. Honestly I really didn’t care about dieing. I was more concerned with getting lost.

Well AV is starting to click and you know what? It is hella fun. I thought it was going to be harder to get the 40 marks for AV when I started off with 7 marks from a few games and then my day with BRK. Well I need a couple more to reach 40 and still am a little over half way in the honor needed.

The additional honor from daily PvP quests have helped. I also found that you are grouped with more undergeared people during the hours that people are just coming home form work. It also brings out PvPers like Megan that are there for the daily quest. Most times it only takes me 2-4 games for the win.

I also have been reading posts about “farming honor”. I know that is an accurate description. But the RPer in me and the honor I have for the other player will not let me to “farm” them for points. It is not honorable and is disrespectful.

So Hydra now has marks from WSG, AB, AV, and EotS. (I so didn’t need more stuff to bank…I really need to cull through some hats.)

One last thought…

I want to say thank you to the Horde Priest that sent me mind controlled off the Lumber Mill cliff in AB. Seriously. Thank you. Because you happened to get me right after I sacrificed Sartaz (I had the wrong minion out. I was farming before being sucked in.) And since I was now out of the way and “dead” I was able to come back and kill you. Have a good day.