Prestige PvP System and Rewards

By perculia Updated: 2019/12/01

intro to PvP guideWhat is Prestige and Honor?War Mode SystemSummary of Differences from Legion

Prestige isn't tied to unlocking Honor Talents or War Mode.

Honor doesn't reset like Prestige.

Unlike prestige ranks, honor is account-wide.

Calculating your BFA honor rank takes the based on Honor Totals earned across all characters. "What's being combined is your amount of honor earned. So all partial credit will count. But that also means that two Prestige 1 characters don't add up to a Prestige 2 account (because P1 takes less Honor than P2)."

Prestige rewards from Legion are still obtainable in Battle for Azeroth.

Players will gain Prestige at different rates. The Legion Prestige Rewards will be available at different points with the BFA Prestige system.

What are the Rewards from Honor?

The currently available Honor levels and their rewards are shown below; your character badge change every few levels, as show in the achievements.
The portrait is a nice touch which also means you can tell at a glance how much PvP someone has done.

Honor Level Achievement

Reward

Honor Level 5

Dutiful Squire/Dutiful Gruntling

Honor Level 10

Honorable Pennant, First PvP Artifact Apperance

Honor Level 15

Prestigious Bronze Courser

Honor Level 20

Alliance Enthusiast/Horde Fanatic

Honor Level 25

Honor Level 30

Prestigious Pennant, Second PvP Artifact Apperance

Honor Level 40

Prestigious Ivory Courser

Honor Level 50

, Third PvP Artifact Apperance

Honor Level 60

Elite Pennant

Honor Level 70

Prestigious Azure Courser

Honor Level 80

, Fourth PvP Artifact Apperance

Prestigious Forest Courser

Honor Level 150

Prestigious Royal Courser

Prestigious Midnight Courser

Honor Level 300

Honor Level 400

Sir Snips/Bucketshell

Honor Level 500

Prestigious Bloodforged Courser

How Long Will Each Prestige Level Take?are

Activity

Honor per day

Time to..

Prestige

Complete a season

1x PvA WQ

500

~3 months

~year

3x Tower WQ

900

1½ months

6½ months

3x Tower WQ + 1x PvA WQ

1,400

~month

4¼ months

3x Tower WQ + 1x PvA WQ + first BG win

1,700

3 weeks

3½ months

3x Tower WQ + 3x PvA WQ

2,400

~2 ½ weeks

~2 ½ months

3x Tower WQ + 4x PvA WQ

2,900

~2 weeks

~2 months

3x Tower WQ + 4x PvA WQ + first BG win

3,200

2 weeks

1¾ months

Click here to see details on every way to earn honor through Legion content.

What Activities Rewards Honor?Honor and Prestige Farming Guide

Source

Honor

First Win of The Day - Random Battleground

300

First Win of The Day - Arena Skirmish

150

First Win of The Day - Rated 2v2 Arena

300

First Win of The Day - Rated 3v3 Arena

300

First Win of The Day - Rated Battleground

800

Random Battleground Victory

150

Random Battleground Victory

150

Random Arena Skirmish Victory

Rated 2v2 and 3v3 Arena Victory

150

Rated Battleground Victory

150

Comments

Comment by glassleo

The Honor needed per level for the first prestige listed in the table above is was wrong (thanks for fixing it Perculia!)

Edit: looks like level 50 is still 550 Honor making the total 21,950 and not 22,000.

It should be:

1-10 350
11-20 400
21-30 450
31-40 500
41-50 550
Total 21,950

Comment by SiegmundFretzgau

From the latest beta build, the Honor Levels for BfA:
5: Dutiful Companion (old prestige 7)
10: Honorable Pennant (old prestige 3) and first artifact color
15: Prestigious Bronze Courser (old prestige 4)
20: Wyrmtongue Minstrel (old prestige 1)
25: The Honorable (old prestige 5)
30: Prestigious Pennant (old prestige 8) and second artifact color
40: Prestigious Ivory Courser (old prestige 9)
50: The Prestigious (old prestige 10) and third artifact color
60: Elite Pennant (old prestige 12)
70: Prestigious Azure Courser (old prestige 13)
80: The Unrelenting (old prestige 14) and last artifact color
90: Esteemed Pennant (old prestige 16)
100: The Unstoppable Force (old prestige 18)
125: Prestigious Forest Courser (old prestige 17)
150: Prestigious Royal Courser (old prestige 21)
175: Glorious Pennant (new)
200: Bound by Honor (old prestige 22)
250: Prestigious Midnight Courser (old prestige 25)
300: The Tactician (old prestige 26)
400: Sir Snips (A)/Bucketshell (H) crab pet (new)
500: Prestigious Bloodforged Courser mount (new)

all old rewards are there plus one new toy, pet and mount. If Honor Levels gets counted the same way as in Legion, be prepared for a long grind.

Comment by Morwo

"If you Alliance then queuing specifically for Alterac Valley once you've won the random battle ground of the day is a good way to get honor."

the hint for alliance on alterac just made my day. good guide, looking forward to use it in BfA again!

Comment by CheckDirEinenAb

I'm pretty sure Blizzard will increase the rate AND sources of honor you can get with BfA.

A comparison:
Have a look at Shiny Pet Charm in WoD in relation to Legion.
You had to farm 500 for Magic Pet Mirror which was a huge amount in WoD.
In Legion you need 1000 for Narcissa's Mirror, but you gain like 20 token for a single pet battle world quest.
So new players are able to farm the old stuff at a reasonable time, but on the other hand long-time players didn't get punished in any way.
(They actually got a nice little bonus in the new expansion)

Now look back at the honor gain and rewards:
Keep in mind that Blizzard actually nerfed the menagerie quests in the old garrison, so I guess they increase prestige levels and honor to avoid nerfing old content this time (e.g. like the current tower WQ). This always needs to happens to keep the main attraction at the new content.

So you will probably get a big bonus in BfA (like starting at prestige 50-200 depending on your old progress) to skip at least a part of the old rewards.
And you get new cool stuff with 301-500 (most likely even even more with upcoming patches).

Comment by NinjaFlibble

I thought the pvp artifact appearances were still obtainable after BfA launches...

Comment by Kurtosis

If this is account wide, does this mean earning Prestige 2->6->11->15 on one character unlocks those artifact appearances on all our characters account-wide?

Comment by 1240829

Not sure if my calculations are 100%, but I think I have worked out how much honour is required account wide for each prestigious reward.
Please correct me if I am wrong. Prestige 1 requires 22000 honour, and all other levels requires 44000 each.

PRESTIGE LEVEL-HONOUR REQUIRED

1-22000
2-66000
3-110000
4-154000
5-198000
6-242000
7-286000
8-330000
9-374000
10-418000
11-462000
12-506000
13-550000
14-594000
15-638000
16-682000
17-726000
18-770000
19-814000
20-858000
21-902000
22-946000
23-990000
24-1034000
25-1078000

Hope this helps everyone work out what rewards they will get once Legion honour is account wide.

Comment by Rabbitzan12

I don't even know how much honor all my characters have put together honestly.. but I haven't even prestigued once yet...

Comment by AveryZan

Uh pretty sure they botched something. Rank 125 gives the Forest Corsair. which was a rank 17 prestige reward. After combining all my honor I'm right below 125 which gives me this mount again? Bizare

Comment by zauriak

Is it me or this list is not fully completed with portraits i have noticed that some people have this sort of fist portrait which is not shown on here.

Comment by therandomizer

Seems like something which was not mentioned in other comments is that at honor level 250 there seems to be a reward for honor level 253. After looking into it a bit the 253 reward seems to be one of the old icons (silver fist) and at 254 there is a golden fist icon reward.

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