It’s official! Congratulations to Alliance for winning the Honor event, which started roughly 7 weeks ago, before Alterac Valley’s launch.
To commemorate the victory, all players will get a Diamond version of Alliance leader – Vanndar Stormpike. We don’t know when the reward will be given out, but I would assume that it will happen alongside Patch 22.2’s launch at the latest.
A longer blog post with more detailed stats should also be available within a week.
But it doesn’t mean that you can no longer gain honor. You still have quite a lot of time to grind through the honor ranks for extra rewards – the event will last until the end of this expansion (Fractured in Alterac Valley), so roughly until early April. Remember that you get a Golden version of the opposing faction’s leader for finishing the entire Quest chain – so if you’re Alliance, you probably still want to grind for that Golden Drek’Thar. But Horde players definitely want to continue the grind too, because there’s an achievement for hitting 7.2k Honor point, which gives you an extra pick at one of the rewards track skins (normally given out for Level 100 every expansion).
Congratulations to the winning faction of the Battle of Alterac Valley:
For Azeroth. For the Alliance! pic.twitter.com/ojSOUq7lwc
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) January 11, 2022
And here’s how the Diamond version of Vanndar looks like:
Wait, this means that if you chose the horde, you get the alliance’s legendary in diamond, without needing to grind for the Honor points.
So apparently, players from one faction can completely ignore the event’s goal (playing matches) and still be “fully” rewarded, while the side who actually played the game has to keep grinding even more to get their reward…
Good job blizzard
10/10 design ????
Wait, this means that if you chose the horde, you get the alliance’s legendary in diamond, without needing to grind for the Honor points.
So apparently, players from one faction can completely ignore the event’s goal (playing matches) and still be “fully” rewarded, while the side who actually played the game has to keep grinding even more to get their reward…
Good job blizzard
10/10 design ????
Doesn’t feel like much of a win when you have to grind out the quest to get both legendaries while those who lost have them already.
Perhaps we’ll get a chance to acquire Diamond Drek’thar at some point. They must have designed both diamond versions in advance rather than waiting until knowing the winner. Shame to let him go to waste.
It’s a long shot, I admit, but I have an idea: what if, instead of (or along?) a card back, Diamond Drek’thar will be the reward for the mistery achievement, which used to be appear around half-time of the expansion?…
Great suggestion. Crowdsourcing always posts a solution within a day, and voila.
I also don’t expect to get him, but you never know. I’d love to see those wolves chomping.
I like this type of community engagement.
Bastards.
Obviously, we won because the alliance always wins.
Nice troll