Blizzard hasn’t mentioned decay, and nothing in the game takes points away: your rank is a bar that only fills. Classic Era itself stopped decay in December 2023.

Does my rank reset every season?

Blizzard hasn’t said. The PvP tab shows the season and a countdown to its end, the lead designer said rank 14 can be reached “within a season or within a patch cycle”, and the roadmap plans a PvP season refresh in spring 2027 and another in summer 2027.

When does the first season start?

No date yet. Forever launches on November 4, and Blizzard hasn’t said whether the first PvP season starts the same day.

Do I need Alterac Valley?

No. Blizzard evened out the Honor each battleground gives, Alterac Valley opens only at level 51, and it isn’t in the Call to Arms rotation. It still counts for the journey’s kill tasks and for its Legacy reputation.

Does world PvP count?

Honorable kills anywhere give Honor. Rank Points, in the game’s own words, come from battlegrounds and from tasks given in Gadgetzan.

What happens to Rank Points past the weekly cap?

Blizzard hasn’t said whether they wait for next week’s cap or are lost.

Do I need a rank to buy the blue set?

No. The blue pieces need level 55 and Honor, nothing else. Ranks gate the seals, the rank rewards and the weapons.

Are there arenas or rated battlegrounds?

None announced. The beta holds two arenas, Hyjal Crater and Mak’gora Arena, and a Battle for Gilneas map that Blizzard hasn’t talked about.

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PvP ranks and Honor WoW Forever

The 14 PvP ranks of original WoW are back in Forever, from Private to Grand Marshal for the Alliance and from Scout to High Warlord for the Horde. Battlegrounds and PvP quests give you two things: Honor, which you spend on PvP gear, and Rank Points, which raise your rank. Each new rank unlocks rewards you can buy.

You can’t climb as fast as you like: each week, the game raises the highest rank you can reach, and rank 14 opens in the tenth week of a season at the earliest. In 2004, your rank depended on how much you played compared with the rest of your server. In Forever, every player needs the same number of points.

Below: what each rank takes and unlocks, how Honor buys the PvP sets, and what you can already do at level 30 on the beta, where Darkspear Islands, the new 15 against 15 battleground, is open.

By Vektor, updated October 7, 2026.

The Player vs. Player tab of the character pane, on a Horde character at rank 0

The 14 ranks

Each rank takes a few more Rank Points than the one before: 750 for rank 1, 3,000 for rank 14. Once you have a rank, its rewards are on sale for you in the Champion’s Hall in StormwindHall of Legends in Orgrimmar.

Rank	Rank Points	Total	Earliest	Unlocks
Rank 1PrivateScout	750	750	week 1	Private's TabardScout's Tabard
Rank 2CorporalGrunt	900	1,650	week 1	Greater Insignia of the AllianceGreater Insignia of the Horde
Rank 3SergeantSergeant	1,050	2,700	week 1	Faction Cloak
Rank 4Master SergeantSenior Sergeant	1,200	3,900	week 2	Premier Master Sergeant's InsigniaPremier Senior Sergeant's Insignia
Rank 5Sergeant MajorFirst Sergeant	1,350	5,250	week 2	Combat Potions
Rank 6KnightStone Guard	1,500	6,750	week 3	Knight's ColorsStone Guard's Herald
Rank 7Knight-LieutenantBlood Guard	1,650	8,400	week 4	Alliance Battle StandardHorde Battle Standard
Rank 8Knight-CaptainLegionnaire	1,800	10,200	week 5	Elite Wrist Upgrade Elite Waist Upgrade
Rank 9Knight-ChampionCenturion	1,950	12,150	week 6	Elite Boot Upgrade
Rank 10Lieutenant CommanderChampion	2,100	14,250	week 7	Elite Glove Upgrade
Rank 11CommanderLieutenant General	2,350	16,600	week 7	Black War Mounts
Rank 12MarshalGeneral	2,500	19,100	week 8	Elite Leg Upgrade Elite Shoulder Upgrade
Rank 13Field MarshalWarlord	2,650	21,750	week 9	Elite Chest Upgrade Elite Helmet Upgrade
Rank 14Grand MarshalHigh Warlord	3,000	24,750	week 10	The rank 14 weapons

Rank Points: what it takes to reach that rank from the one before. Total: from the start. Earliest: the first week of a season when the game lets you reach it.

The weekly cap

Each week, the game raises the highest rank you can reach this season, up to rank 14 in week 10. The limit counts everything you’ve earned since the season began, so starting late doesn’t hold you back: a player who starts in week 5 can go straight to rank 8 (10,200 points).

Week 1Rank 32,700+2,700
Week 2Rank 55,250+2,550
Week 3Rank 66,750+1,500
Week 4Rank 78,400+1,650
Week 5Rank 810,200+1,800
Week 6Rank 912,150+1,950
Week 7Rank 1116,600+4,450
Week 8Rank 1219,100+2,500
Week 9Rank 1321,750+2,650
Week 10Rank 1424,750+3,000

Two ranks are never a week’s ceiling: 4 and 10. Week 7 jumps two ranks at once, to 11 and the black war mounts. How many Rank Points a battleground or a quest gives is not public yet, so neither is the number of games a week takes.

Honor and the PvP sets

Honor

Honor comes from killing players of the other faction, from battlegrounds and from PvP quests, and lands at once in your currencies. You can hold 25,000: Blizzard raised the cap from 15,000 on October 1, when it put most PvP prices up by about 50%. The new prices aren’t public yet.

Every battleground now gives about the same Honor for your time, so Alterac Valley is no longer the only efficient one. The Legacy perk For Great Honor adds up to 10%.

Blue, then epic

Each set comes in blue for Honor, item level 60, from level 55, with no rank needed. The epic version, item level 65, needs level 60: you bring the blue piece and the Emboldened Seal of its slot, and each seal is sold from a rank.

Wristrank 8
Waistrank 8
Feetrank 9
Handsrank 10
Legsrank 12
Shoulderrank 12
Chestrank 13
Headrank 13

On a warrior’s chest, the blue piece has 25 Stamina and 11 Strength, the epic one 34 and 21.

The sets, class by class

Fifteen sets per faction. Shamans and druids get three each, paladins and priests two, so healers and casters have their own. Horde paladins and Alliance shamans, who had none in 2004, get theirs.

Class	Blue, for Honor	Epic, with the seals
WarriorAll specs	Lieutenant Commander's Battlegear Champion's Battlegear	Field Marshal's Battlegear Warlord's Battlegear
PaladinHoly	Lieutenant Commander's Aegis Champion's AegisNew	Field Marshal's Aegis Warlord's AegisNew
PaladinRetribution	Lieutenant Commander's VindicationNew Champion's VindicationNew	Field Marshal's VindicationNew Warlord's VindicationNew
HunterAll specs	Lieutenant Commander's Pursuit Champion's Pursuit	Field Marshal's Pursuit Warlord's Pursuit
RogueAll specs	Lieutenant Commander's Vestments Champion's Vestments	Field Marshal's Vestments Warlord's Vestments
PriestShadow	Lieutenant Commander's Raiment Champion's Raiment	Field Marshal's Raiment Warlord's Raiment
PriestHoly and Discipline	Lieutenant Commander's InvestitureNew Champion's InvestitureNew	Field Marshal's InvestitureNew Warlord's InvestitureNew
ShamanEnhancement	Lieutenant Commander's EarthshakerNew Champion's Earthshaker	Field Marshal's EarthshakerNew Warlord's Earthshaker
ShamanRestoration	Lieutenant Commander's WartideNew Champion's WartideNew	Field Marshal's WartideNew Warlord's WartideNew
ShamanElemental	Lieutenant Commander's ThunderfistNew Champion's ThunderfistNew	Field Marshal's ThunderfistNew Warlord's ThunderfistNew
MageAll specs	Lieutenant Commander's Regalia Champion's Regalia	Field Marshal's Regalia Warlord's Regalia
WarlockAll specs	Lieutenant Commander's Threads Champion's Threads	Field Marshal's Threads Warlord's Threads
DruidFeral	Lieutenant Commander's Sanctuary Champion's Sanctuary	Field Marshal's Sanctuary Warlord's Sanctuary
DruidRestoration	Lieutenant Commander's Refuge Champion's Refuge	Field Marshal's RefugeNew Warlord's RefugeNew
DruidBalance	Lieutenant Commander's WildhideNew Champion's WildhideNew	Field Marshal's WildhideNew Warlord's WildhideNew

Point at a piece for its tooltip. Each set also has a bracer and a belt outside the set, blue and epic, the epic ones from rank 8.

Where the points come from

Rank Points come from battlegrounds and from tasks given in Gadgetzan. Honor comes from the same places, and from every honorable kill. Battlegrounds mix players from every ruleset except Hardcore.

Battleground	Levels	Players	Call to Arms
Warsong Gulch	10–60	10 vs 10	Yes
Arathi Basin	20–60	15 vs 15	Yes
Darkspear IslandsNew	30–60	15 vs 15	Yes
Alterac Valley	51–60	40 vs 40	No

Each week, one of the first three is the Call to Arms battleground, in turn: Darkspear Islands, then Arathi Basin, then Warsong Gulch. That week it gives more Honor and more Rank Points.

The Field of Honor journey

Each season comes with ten weekly quests that give Honor and Rank Points. Weeks 4, 7 and 10 also give a Legacy point each, and those three stay open in later seasons. The quests aren’t public yet, but these are the tasks waiting in the game:

Complete 3 Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin or Darkspear Islands battles
Win a Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Darkspear Islands or Alterac Valley battle
25 kills in Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin or Darkspear Islands
200 kills in Alterac Valley
25 kills in the Gurubashi Arena
Win 10 duels

12 Legacy points

PvP pays 12 of the Legacy points a character can earn, one each:

ranks 3, 7, 10, 13, 14
Exalted with each battleground’s faction
weeks 4, 7, 10 of the journey

Darkspear Islands at level 30

It’s the new battleground, and the only one the beta lets you queue, from level 30. Fifteen against fifteen on islands off the coast of Kalimdor: four bases to hold, a flag in the middle to carry to one of yours, first team to 2,000 points. Stay out of the water: sharks.

Queue at the battlemaster of any capital, or in the Barrens at your side’s base: Northwatch, where a portal takes you inthe Merchant Coast. Wins and marks build up your standing with the Theramore Expeditionary ForceDarkspear Raiders, whose quartermaster sells gear you can wear at 30. Hand in 3 marks for 30 Honor and reputation at level 30 to 39, and the tabard waits at Exalted.

Honored
Theramore SignetMilitant's BandSeal of the ExpeditionExpeditionary's Cape
Insurgent's BandDarkspear SignetDarkspear Warding PendantDarkspear Raider's Cloak
Revered
Rebels' Rugged ReaperClever Expeditionary's SpellbladeInsurgent's ManifestoGuerrilla's Jagged Mace
Darkspear Raider's ReaperDarkspear Insurgent's SpellbladeTome of the Darkspear ProphecyDarkspear Skirmisher's Bludgeon

All of them need level 28, and most come again for levels 38, 48 and 58.

Rank Points don’t seem to count on the beta yet: the PvP tab still reads 0 / 750 for players who have farmed 2,000 Honor.

For the rest of your gear at 30, each class has a PvP list among our best-in-slot lists, and the duel tournament guide covers the level 30 Horde tournament of October 17 and 18.

Questions

Does rank decay?: Blizzard hasn’t mentioned decay, and nothing in the game takes points away: your rank is a bar that only fills. Classic Era itself stopped decay in December 2023.
Does my rank reset every season?: Blizzard hasn’t said. The PvP tab shows the season and a countdown to its end, the lead designer said rank 14 can be reached “within a season or within a patch cycle”, and the roadmap plans a PvP season refresh in spring 2027 and another in summer 2027.
When does the first season start?: No date yet. Forever launches on November 4, and Blizzard hasn’t said whether the first PvP season starts the same day.
Do I need Alterac Valley?: No. Blizzard evened out the Honor each battleground gives, Alterac Valley opens only at level 51, and it isn’t in the Call to Arms rotation. It still counts for the journey’s kill tasks and for its Legacy reputation.
Does world PvP count?: Honorable kills anywhere give Honor. Rank Points, in the game’s own words, come from battlegrounds and from tasks given in Gadgetzan.
What happens to Rank Points past the weekly cap?: Blizzard hasn’t said whether they wait for next week’s cap or are lost.
Do I need a rank to buy the blue set?: No. The blue pieces need level 55 and Honor, nothing else. Ranks gate the seals, the rank rewards and the weapons.
Are there arenas or rated battlegrounds?: None announced. The beta holds two arenas, Hyjal Crater and Mak’gora Arena, and a Battle for Gilneas map that Blizzard hasn’t talked about.