You spend Honor at the PvP vendors in Orgrimmar if you play Horde, and in Stormwind or Dalaran if you play Alliance, in World of Warcraft: Forever. Blizzard’s known issues list, last updated November 5 and unchanged as of November 11, still says those vendors are “temporarily unavailable in all locations,” so check the vendor in your city before you plan a purchase.
Blizzard calls the currency Honor rather than Honor Points. Below: where the vendors are, how to handle the outage, everything Honor buys by rank, what we would buy first, and why Marks of Honor and battleground reputation are a separate track. Gear rules come from Blizzard’s PvP progression overview.
Where the PvP Vendors Are
| Faction | City | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| Horde | Orgrimmar | The Horde’s capital |
| Alliance | Stormwind | The Alliance’s capital |
| Alliance | Dalaran | Horde characters cannot use it: they are attacked on sight |
Blizzard’s list names the cities, not the vendors themselves, so a city guard is the first place to ask once they are back. Blizzard’s notes say the Horde “will be attacked on sight” in open-world Dalaran, which makes that stop Alliance only in practice, and our Dalaran guide explains who can enter.
What to Do While the Vendors Are Down
Blizzard has given no date for the fix, and its hotfix posts through November 10 do not mention it. If a vendor is back when you read this, skip ahead. If not, three things help:
- Keep playing for rank. Rank Points are separate from Honor. They keep building from battlegrounds and PvP quests, up to a weekly cap, so the outage does not cost you rank progress.
- Watch the Honor cap. You can hold 25,000 Honor. Blizzard’s November 2 notes say “killing a player while at Honor cap will no longer show honor gained in floating text or chat messages,” so nothing on screen tells you when you have stopped earning. Check your total now and then.
- Work on reputation. The battleground reputation vendors below are not on Blizzard’s list.
What Honor Buys
Honor buys two sets of PvP gear. There is a blue set, and an epic set that takes the blue piece plus an Emboldened Seal to upgrade it. Your rank decides what you can buy, and Honor pays for it.
| PvP rank | Unlocks |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tabard |
| 2 | PvP Trinket |
| 3 | Cloaks |
| 4 | Necklace |
| 5 | Combat Potions |
| 6 | Tabard |
| 7 | Battle Standard |
| 8 | Epic Bracers and Epic Belt upgrade tokens |
| 9 | Epic Boots upgrade token |
| 10 | Epic Gloves upgrade token |
| 11 | Mounts |
| 12 | Epic Legs and Epic Shoulders upgrade tokens |
| 13 | Epic Chest and Epic Helm upgrade tokens |
| 14 | Epic Weapons |
Press C, then open the Player vs. Player tab, to see your rank, your Rank Points, and what is available to you. Blizzard also added sets for specs that used to go without, so Shaman now have healer, melee, and caster gear.
We are not printing a price list. Blizzard’s October 1 notes raised most Honor costs by about 50% and lifted the cap from 15,000 to 25,000 to match, so older price lists are out of date. The vendor window will show the real prices.
What to Buy First
This order is our own reading of the rank table, built for someone who plays battlegrounds a few nights a week:
- PvP Trinket at Rank 2. It has the lowest rank gate of any combat item on the list.
- Blue pieces for your spec. Epic set pieces start from their blue versions, so nothing spent here is wasted when you upgrade.
- Cloak and Necklace at Ranks 3 and 4. They fill slots the upgrade tokens never touch.
- Bracers and Belt upgrades at Rank 8. These are your first epic pieces, then Boots at 9 and Gloves at 10.
- Big pieces from Rank 12. Legs, Shoulders, Chest, and Helm come late, so keep Honor ready for the week you reach each rank.
Treat tabards, the Battle Standard, and the Rank 11 mounts as things to buy once your gear is sorted. Combat Potions are worth keeping if you push ranks hard.
How to Earn Honor
Blizzard lists these sources:
- Defeating other players, in battlegrounds or the open world.
- Completing battlegrounds. Blizzard says it evened out Honor rates so you do not need Alterac Valley “solely for Honor efficiency.”
- PvP quests and the weekly tasks in the PvP season’s journey, which also pay Rank Points.
- Holiday-week battlegrounds, which pay extra Honor in the highlighted map.
The For Great Honor perk raises what you earn; our best Legacy talents guide has a PvP build around it. If you are still choosing a character, read our best PvP class guide, and if you want open-world fights to count, our ruleset guide covers the PvP ruleset.
Marks of Honor and Reputation Are Separate
Battleground Marks of Honor are not Honor. Blizzard’s Darkspear Islands overview says you turn them in on reputation quests, and its beta notes raised the stack size to 30. Hold on to them until you can see what the vendors ask for.
Reputation buys its own gear. The Darkspear Raiders base at the Merchant Coast (Horde) and the Theramore Expeditionary Force base at Northwatch (Alliance), both in the Barrens, have vendors with “trinkets, rings, cloaks, weapons, armor pieces” at different reputation thresholds. Each battleground reputation you take to Exalted also pays a Legacy Point; our Legacy Points guide lists them all.
Every other guide is on our World of Warcraft hub.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do you spend Honor in WoW Forever? At PvP vendors in Orgrimmar for the Horde, and in Stormwind or Dalaran for the Alliance.
Why can’t I buy anything with Honor right now? Blizzard’s known issues list, last updated November 5, still says PvP vendors are temporarily unavailable in all three cities as of November 11. Check the vendor in your city, or the list, for the latest.
What is the Honor cap? 25,000, raised from 15,000 during the beta.
Do you need a PvP rank to spend Honor? For many items, yes. Rank 2 unlocks the PvP Trinket, and each Emboldened Seal has its own rank requirement.
Can Honor buy PvP rank? No. Rank comes from Rank Points, earned from battlegrounds and PvP quests, with a weekly cap.
Are Marks of Honor the same as Honor? No. Marks go toward reputation quests, and reputation vendors are separate from PvP vendors.