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Originally Posted by Lasereth
YES!! I'm a Knight now and I'm starting to realize that if I ever go on vacation, my rank is going bye-bye. I think that it should take at least two weeks for a rank to decay by default. Two of my friends lost their rank last Tuesday. That's BS that they lost it by being absent for one week. The good news is that it only takes a minimal amount of PVP to keep your rank. The downside to that is that if you're on vacation, you're not gonna get ANY PVP in so you will lose your rank.  That's why I think the two-week thing would be perfect. |
I kind of get the feeling that the honor system is needlessly complicated, but here's just something to think about. I'm on Shattered Hand, which is a relatively high population PvP server that has a whole lot of PvP going on. I see knights literally all over the place and no shortage of knight-lieutenants. I wouldn't be too surprised if we have a knight-champion or lieutenant commander after this update.
Anyway, the fact of the matter is that I've been corporal for about 4 weeks now and not have PvPed at all since I got that rank. That is to say that when the rank is still close to the highest that anyone on the server has, it's going to be a lot harder to maintain. It's easy to keep corporal without work since there are a lot of us and it's a low-end rank. It's hard to keep knight because there are currently very few knights and it's currently a high-end rank. In a month or so when there are high officers, getting and keeping a rank like knight or knight-lieutenant's going to be a lot easier, because the system is set up to allow for more of them to be in play and not be as competitive as the high officer positions.
I think once BG comes out in live, the ganking will go down, making it more possible for leveling to occur even on mature PvP servers. I think Blizzard's only real mistake was not releasing PvP honor and BG at the same time. The honor system, while needlessly complicated (in my opinion), seems to be doing ok.