Obsession, pt 2

Obsession isn't pretty.

There is a new set of some awesome armor on World of Warcraft that one can get, but only through battlegrounds. I wanted to get a piece of the armor this weekend, so I calculated exactly what I needed and I made that my goal for last night.

When you go into battlegrounds you receive these tokens for the particular field. For example, if you go into the Arathi Basin, when you come out of the battlefield you get the Arathi Basin Token. If you lose the battle you get one token, if you win you get 3 tokens. You are also awarded a numerical "Honor" point for the various actions you made in the battleground.

In order to puchase the gear I wanted, I needed 30 Arathi Basin Tokens and 14500 Honor points.

Now, this is where the system sucks. When you receive honor, it is put in a special slot for that specific day and the honor is just an estimation. The servers calculate your honor at 2AM Pacific time and you seem to lose some of the honor that was estimated. You also cannot spend that honor until this process occurs. Since you cannot tell exactly what you will get, this makes reaching your goals difficult. Even more upsetting is that if you failed to get enough honor, you will have to wait until your next days total is calculated.

Given this idiotic Honor system (I can only assume it was put in to piss off people like me), the only way I could make certain I had enough honor points was by padding my estimate with excessive amounts.

So last night, I originally had a goal of getting 5,500 honor. That's when I found out about the possibility of losing some honor during the 2AM calculations. So to play it safe, I collected 7,000 honor. More than enough, right?

Well, by the time I reached that goal, I was mere minutes from the 2AM deadline, so I stayed online to see how much I would have. I did reach my goal, but I only had 285 honor left. So out of the extra 1,500 honor I collected, I lost 1,215 of it.

Now, this DOES piss me off. However, since I have been enjoying the battlegrounds (it is all still new and shiny to me), that offsets any negative feelings I have for it. I do have to say this to Blizzard (the developers of World of Warcraft):

This is a mistake, you need to scrap this system. It is never a good idea to take away nearly 20% of what people have achieved and there is no reason for it. If I could have counted on the numbers being correct, I would have stopped playing the battleground last night and looked to see if some guildmates needed help or logged off hours earlier.