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PvP
In World of Warcraft, Player vs. Player (commonly abbreviated PvP) denotes combat between players of any kind such as:
- Dueling – One versus one combat in a controlled environment. This cannot be done in cities. However, small towns and the areas immediately outside the entrances to capital cities are very popular for dueling.
- Battlegrounds – Horde versus Alliance combat in a competitive environment. Players that win will receive ‘marks’ for the appropriate battleground, which are used as a sort of currency to purchase rewards from PvP vendors.
- Arena PvP System – Organized on-going tournament that allow for matches that take place in instanced controlled environments between players of the same faction as well as the opposing. Available in 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 formats. Players create teams and boost their Team Rating to earn Arena Points by beating similarly rated teams.
- Random PvP – Whenever a player character comes across another player character of the opposing faction whose PvP flag is turned on (on PvP realms this flag will switch on whenever you go outside the low-level zones that your faction controls, although it can still be activated in these zones, or Sanctuary areas) that player can attack the other. This was often called “World PvP” before the introduction of zone-specific PvP combat goals, and often still is called by this name.
- World PvP
- As of Patch 1.12, the Eastern Plaguelands and Silithus have special PvP related goals.
- In Outland
, 4 zones have PvP objectives: Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest, and Nagrand
- PvP Zones
- Wintergrasp is a zone that is fully dedicated to PvP and World PvP.
Killing players of an opposing faction that is the same level, a higher level, or up to eight levels lower will gain a player Honor Points. Killing players of too low-level will result in zero honor and is usually considered a form of poor sportsmanship.
As of Patch 2.0.1, players can use Honor Points with Battleground Marks of Honor to purchase items in Stormwind City’s Champions’ Hall or Orgrimmar’s Hall of Legends. The available items range from consumables, to gems and trinkets, and to superior and epic armor and weapons.
Also, as of Patch 2.4, players can turn in one Mark of Honor from each battleground (4 total; 
[PvP] Concerted Efforts or 
[PvP] For Great Honor) to gain extra honor ( 314 
). These quests are repeatable.
There are three categories of Arena teams: 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5. Any player can be a member of one or more Arena teams, but only one of each type. For example, you cannot be a member of more than one 2v2 Arena team at any one given time but you may leave your current Arena Team using the /teamquit {2v2, 3v3, 5v5} command before joining a new team.
Arena points are awarded at the end of each week based on your Arena Team’s rating. Your Arena Team rating raises or lowers based on the games played by the Arena team. Obviously, winning will boost your team’s rating and losing (even if by forfeit due to leaving the arena prematurely, disconnecting and/or not joining a queued game) will lower your team’s rating.
You need to play at least 30% of the total arena matches your team participates in for the week to be eligible for being awarded Arena Points at the end of the week. For example, if you played three games but your team played a total of 11 games for the week, you will not receive any Arena Points after the weekly update. Only the highest Arena Points from your 2v2, 3v3, or 5v5 teams will be awarded to you each week. So if you are getting more points from your 3v3 team based on its Arena Team rating, you will receive Arena Points based on your 3v3 team and none from your 2v2 nor 5v5 teams.
Arena matches do not award Honor Points nor PvP tokens of any type.
Arena points can be used to purchase epic items from Meminnie in Blade’s Edge Mountains or Leeni “Smiley” Smalls in Area 52 (season 3 items). Vixton Pinchwhistle in Area 52 sells season 2 items.
Additional info for Arena PvP System is also available at the official Arena page and a point estimation tool is available at the WoW Armory Arena Calculator.
PvE
Player vs Environment, commonly referred to as PvE by most online games and gamers, is the player-controlled character (you) competing against the game world and its computer-controlled denizens, as opposed to Player vs Player. To the PvE focused player the primary challenge comes from tough mobs like instance bosses rather than other player characters.
Additional notes:
- Player vs. Environment is the dominant form of MMORPG games.
- Blizzard refers to PvE servers as “Normal” servers.
- Also incorrectly known as “Player vs. Everything/Everyone”.
- In some online games, PvE is known as Player versus Monster (PvM for short).
PvE also refers to PvE Realms which are realms where “Consensual Combat” generally prevails. This means most players will only engage in PvP combat if they choose or do some action that enables their PvP flag.
See PvP flag for more information.
PvE realms
- Some players consider being able to play with no risk of random player vs. player combat a pro. You can level and train skills without interruption. If you are a casual player who just wants to play the game and train with less interruption, then PvE realms may just be for you.
- If you prefer Alliance-favored population imbalance, research has shown that the population of PvE realms are much more prone to be Alliance weighted, with population ratios often hovering around 2:1. [citation needed]
- Such distasteful practices like corpse camping, ganking, and griefing tend to be less prevalent.
- Some players like the thrill and risk of random player vs. player combat, and would consider PvE realms to have a difficulty that is too low.
- Less motivation for grouping, since solo play is much easier. Contested territories in PvP realms encourage group play since guarding and holding farming, questing and resource sites requires more coordination.
- If you prefer more population balance, research has shown that the population of PvE realms are much more prone to be Alliance weighted, with population ratios often hovering around 2:1.
- Any player can quest / grind their way to 80, without learning many of the fundamental skills of their class or gameplay, and arrive at level 80, with little to no clue of how to run an instance, raid, or PvP (see huntard or loladin).