Mini update for today's official announcement, I'm still going through most of the submissions from the guide contest and should be done in a few hours. After that, I'll announce the winners and release their guides on the front page over the next few days to keep you guys busy during the holidays. I might end up offering a few more prizes than intended ...

Also, if you were late and couldn't send your guide before the deadline. Send them in PM, you won't qualify for the contest but if the guide is very very awesome I might consider extra minor prizes. (I insist on the "very awesome")

Rated BGs Now Award Honor at Conquest Cap
Originally Posted by Bashiok (Blue Tracker)
We've recently made a change in an effort to promote continued play in Rated Battlegrounds. Now when a player is at their weekly Conquest cap they will receive the full amount of Honor from kills, objective completions, victories and losses while in a Rated Battleground match. Those not at their cap will continue to earn Conquest normally, and will only earn Honor once they reach their weekly cap.

Whether you’re capped and others on your team aren’t, or you’re all capped and just want to keep playing, we hope this change will allow more flexibility for those participating in Rated Battlegrounds.

Magmaw 25 Heroic World First Kill by Method
Method was the first guild to defeat Magmaw in 25-Man heroic mode last night! Congratulations to them.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Rated BGs Award Honor at Conquest Cap, Magmaw World First Kill started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. Palcica's Avatar
    If guide is deleted from the subforum,that means that it has no chance of winning,or gaining anything?If so,sad
  1. scvd's Avatar
    hahahahaha Rogerbrown getting Glad, farmed his ass in 3's
  1. sluddyazin's Avatar
    let me rephrase so you understand what i'm saying, i dont say its too easy, all i'm saying is being the first is fine if theres a competition going on, being the first while the other top guilds are on break chillaxing isnt worth as much

    the dude i was talkin to, was measuring the diffculty of those heroic bosses by the time it took to get them killed and thats just wrong over winterbreak, all i'm saying is lets see how long they'll last in the new year when every top guild is dedicated to downing them no matter what.
    Rephrased this says, "I'm a huge fanboi of another top end guild and am butt hurt that they aren't getting any world first's so I'm going to make excuses on their behalf."

    OR

    Rephrased this says, "I'm a member of another top end guild that is butt hurt we aren't getting world firsts and going to make excuses why we are unable to."

    In either case, grats to Method for being the current #1 guild and cry more to the OP.

    EDIT: Oh yeah I forgot to mention that other top end world first guilds are definitely not trying as hard. /sarcasm
  1. Safari's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wega View Post
    let me rephrase so you understand what i'm saying, i dont say its too easy, all i'm saying is being the first is fine if theres a competition going on, being the first while the other top guilds are on break chillaxing isnt worth as much
    Only one (top) guild was chillaxing last night so it`s not hard figuring out where this is coming from
  1. Seref's Avatar
    Too bad Arenas don't give honor. Other than "possibly" increasing your rating/conquest cap for next week, there isn't much incentive to do Arenas instead of bgs once you've gotten to cap. Which is a shame because I like Arenas...
  1. Markluzz's Avatar
    I like the speed they have been going at, they are top end guilds they might have taken a break on Christmas and a couple days around that but not enough to slow every single guild down except method.

    Its obvious its harder because look at wrath content, most of it, except ulduar, was cleared by these guilds on heroic withing the first 2-3 days excluding the end boss or sometimes including it. I cant wait to see how long it takes for the world first sinestra kill.
  1. mtawney1313's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arck908 View Post
    If this is all farm for them why aren't they 11/12 Heroic, instead of just now being 7/12 heroic what is it 1-2 weeks into when heroic was first available?
    Because farming the content requires SOME gear at least.
  1. Areit's Avatar
    I'd just like some proof, judging from that killshot, that this wasn't an exploit.
    I'm guessing you frapsed it, just release the last 60 seconds of the fight to prove your innocence, please. Otherwise this is beyond pathetic.
  1. Kuipo's Avatar
    I'd also like to know which font that is, but also I like how one of the guys off to the right there has the "Scarab Lord" title. That's definitely a title to run around with.
  1. bas's Avatar
    congratz Method
  1. underdogba's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arck908 View Post
    If this is all farm for them why aren't they 11/12 Heroic, instead of just now being 7/12 heroic what is it 1-2 weeks into when heroic was first available?
    While it is definitely an exagerration to refer to raiding in beta as putting these encounters on "farm" status once the content goes live, it would be totally remiss to not consider how huge an advantage it was to be raiding this stuff in the beta.
  1. Safari's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Areit View Post
    I'd just like some proof, judging from that killshot, that this wasn't an exploit.
    I'm guessing you frapsed it, just release the last 60 seconds of the fight to prove your innocence, please. Otherwise this is beyond pathetic.
    Because we handled loot before the screenshot, and because we still have a hard time getting everyone in line for a screenshot, the boss despawned on us before the shot was taken
    The fight was frapsed and ventrillo was recorded. We enjoyed this encounter a lot and will release the first kill video (including nerdscreams) in the future.
  1. Vinhz's Avatar
    Even Premonition did this before Paragon, who said Alliance are bad
  1. Varbaro's Avatar
    my guide disappeared from the contest topic. :O ?
  1. sixx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Syncness View Post
    They raided constantly in beta, this content is just farm for them.
    There were no heroics in beta. Just sayin.

    ---------- Post added 2010-12-30 at 02:25 PM ----------

    I also would like to know how to change the font of the names of the players like that in the kill shot, never ever figured how to do that , would be awesome if someone knows
  1. The Little One's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Varbaro View Post
    my guide disappeared from the contest topic. :O ?
    I know you're super busy, Boub, but can you give a slightly more specific idea of what's going on with the guides? Are you deleting the ones that didn't win or are you just moving them around? It makes some of us who put alot of effort into our a guides a little nervous to think you might just be deleting them. D:
  1. Beliandra's Avatar
    What I found interesting about this is that Magmaw - who is surely one of the easiest bosses on normal mode - turned out to be the 7th boss killed on hardmode. Interesting to see that the jump in difficulty on Magmaw must be greater than it is on some of the other bosses, e.g Chimaeron.
  1. Skulli's Avatar
    lets hope no exploit kill
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpWuzOebsQ
  1. jsz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Skulli View Post
    Magmaw != Atramedes
  1. Skulli's Avatar
    ups, nvm

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