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Ben Drago

As I talked about a couple of weeks ago, we’re reworking the Honor Point system for the World of Warcraft TCG. We’ve been doing final testing of the calculator this week, and it looks like we’re going to roll out your tournament history and Honor Point calculator in the next few days.

We’re happy with the base values from the previous article, which were:

Tournament base points = 20

Match Win = 3

Match Loss = 1

So what this means is you get 20 Honor Points for every tournament you play in. For each match, you get 1 additional point if you lose, and 3 points if you win. This should make it clear:

We’ve also implemented a bonus structure that will allow us to promote playing specific formats, tournament types, or at events like Darkmoon Faire Chicago. These bonuses will apply the tournament base points, so for example we can have all sealed deck tournaments for the two weeks following the release of War of the Elements give 40 base points.

So what do I do with all of these Honor Points? Well, here’s another screenshot:

Honor Points will turn into Honor Ranks. Here’s our current points table.

Rank 1 – 100 Honor Points

Rank 2 – 250 Honor Points

Rank 3 – 500 Honor Points

Rank 4 – 1000 Honor Points

Rank 5 – 1500 Honor Points

Rank 6 – 2000 Honor Points

Rank 7 – 2500 Honor Points

Rank 8 – 3000 Honor Points

Rank 9 – 5000 Honor Points

Rank 10 – 7500 Honor Points

Rank 11 – 10000 Honor Points

Rank 12 – 15000 Honor Points

Rank 13 – 20000 Honor Points

Rank 14 – 25000 Honor Points

Here’s some of the insight into this structure.

1. We want every level to mean something. Most likely this will be from a reward through our Player Rewards program (“Coming Soon ™”), an invite to World Championships, etc.
2. The first three levels are achievable by most players in a year.
3. The maximum a player can earn in a year is about 3000 points, so Rank 8 in a Year is a awesome accomplishment
4. Ranks 9-14 are targeted at Lifetime honor accumulation over several years.

These numbers may get tweaked a bit once we have a few more months of real tournament data to compare them with. We’ve done a much of modeling to try and predict how this will work with our population, but a spreadsheet will still never be as good as real world data.

If you’re reading this, there are two things that you need to do (and one thing your local TO needs to do) to make sure your Honor Points are always correct and you earn ranks and rewards.

1. Every tournament needs to get uploaded. It is the Tournament Organizer’s responsibility to do this, but it’s always better to follow up when the event is still fresh, and not six months down the road.
2. Play every tournament under the same CZE ID number. We haven’t implemented merging numbers yet, so if you play under multiple numbers you won’t earn ranks as quickly. There’s a number of ways to look up your number, but the best one is to simply add it to your CZE account right now.
3. Add your correct address to your CZE account. We won’t be “back shipping” rewards to accounts that didn’t have addresses, so do it now so you don’t miss out.

Honor Points and tournament histories should go live this week assuming we don’t find any showstopper bugs in the next 24 hours.