PvP
WoW Forever PvP: Honor, Rank Rewards & Reputation
Understand WoW Forever Honor, Rank Points and all 14 reward gates, plus Darkspear Islands entry and reputation, without unverified cap or price claims.
WoW Forever is replacing the old competitive ranking race with a new seasonal PvP progression system built around 14 ranks, PvP rewards, Battleground participation, and a new Battleground reputation. Blizzard's October 7 explanation now confirms the separate roles of Honor and Rank Points. Other beta details below retain their own source limitations.
What Blizzard has confirmed
The September 17 live Q&A confirmed several important rules:
- there is no Rated PvP planned for Forever;
- PvP uses a new progression track that resets each season/tier;
- Blizzard is adjusting Honor gains so Alterac Valley is not automatically the best answer for progression;
- a new Battleground is coming with its own reputation;
- Horde and Alliance remain separated, with no cross-faction gameplay.
Earlier developer interviews also described a 14-rank Honor-style progression track.
The 14-rank progression track
Current beta information points to ranks 1 through 14, preserving familiar rank fantasy while changing the progression model.
This is not the old system where only a tiny number of players can occupy the top slots through a weekly ladder.
Beta datamining instead suggests a seasonal progression structure with point ceilings that rise over time. That interpretation is useful for understanding the current client, but exact weekly thresholds can still change before launch.
Honor vs Rank Points
Blizzard's October 7 PvP progression explanation confirms two different functions:
- Honor is earned from player kills, Battlegrounds and relevant PvP quests, then spent on PvP gear. Upgrading a blue piece to epic also requires an Emboldened Seal, whose purchase has a rank requirement.
- Rank Points advance your PvP rank. Battlegrounds and relevant PvP quests award them; highlighted Battlegrounds provide a holiday-week boost. Rank progression has a weekly cap.
Press C to open the Character Pane, then select the Player vs. Player tab to see your rank, Rank Points and rewards available at that rank.
These functions are now officially described, rather than inferred only from build 1.60.1.69876. Exact cap values, earning rates and vendor prices still require separate verification; we do not publish them as final launch rules here.
PvP rewards and rank gates
Blizzard's published reward gates are:
| Rank | Reward access |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tabard |
| 2 | PvP trinket |
| 3 | Cloaks |
| 4 | Necklace |
| 5 | Combat potions |
| 6 | Tabard |
| 7 | Battle Standard |
| 8 | Epic bracer and belt upgrade tokens |
| 9 | Epic boot upgrade token |
| 10 | Epic glove upgrade token |
| 11 | Mounts |
| 12 | Epic leg and shoulder upgrade tokens |
| 13 | Epic chest and helm upgrade tokens |
| 14 | Epic weapons |
A rank unlock is not a free item. Check the Honor price, the correct blue base piece and the required Emboldened Seal before planning an epic upgrade. Seals have their own purchase rank gates.
- Open C → Player vs. Player under default bindings.
- Separate your spendable Honor from your progress in Rank Points.
- Check the exact vendor item and rank requirement.
- For an epic upgrade, match the base piece and token before spending.
Use Gear Set Bonuses for set effects. Exact vendor prices and weekly point amounts are not verified here.
Darkspear Islands: entry, objectives and reputation
Blizzard's October 7 Battleground announcement confirms 15v15, levels 30–60, and victory at 2,000 points. Teams control four bases and can return the central flag to a base they hold for extra points.
Queue through a capital-city battlemaster, or use the faction base in The Barrens: Darkspear Raiders at the Merchant Coast for Horde, Theramore Expeditionary Force at Northwatch for Alliance. The bases provide a portal, quests and reputation vendors.
Battleground reputation is another progression track. Blizzard describes gear and consumable rewards at standing thresholds, Marks of Honor reputation quests, and an Exalted questline for a faction tabard. Do not confuse it with Rank Points, spendable Honor or Merchant's Favor camp reputation.
This is the announced ruleset, not a live check of queue availability or a tested best reputation-per-hour route.
No Rated PvP
"No Rated PvP" is one of the clearest confirmed differences from modern WoW.
That means Forever's long-term PvP progression is being designed around:
- Battlegrounds;
- the seasonal rank track;
- Honor and PvP rewards;
- open-world PvP on the PvP ruleset;
- reputation and other PvP content.
We will not create arena-rating or rated-BG guides unless Blizzard changes that direction.
PvP ruleset and realmless servers
PvP ruleset choice is part of Forever's realmless server design. For server population, transfers, rulesets, regions, and naming, use Servers, Realmless & Rulesets.
Blizzard confirmed RP-PvP for the November 4 launch. It also plans to make that choice available during name reservation on October 27. The server guide covers the ruleset details; this page covers Honor, Rank Points and rewards.
The Forever Open tournament results
Looking for the beta tournament winner? See The Forever Open results, final score and replay clip. That completed community event used level-30 duels; its results are not the seasonal rank track described here.
Numbers still requiring release verification
Weekly point caps, earning rates, exact vendor prices and final season timing are not independently tested on the release client. The published rank gates and Darkspear entry rules above are official; that does not make every datamined quantity final.
Related guides
- Servers & Rulesets — PvP ruleset and realmless structure.
- Gear Set Bonuses — PvP armor and set effects.
- WoW Forever Beta — current beta phase.