The way your honor level is determined this season makes no sense. If you had honor level 5 last season you are placed in a higher honor level as a start, which in turn locks you away from the rewards for getting the previous sub-levels. What gives?
You get access to the higher level rewards quicker and once you max out honor you keep getting top tier rewards. It is definitely much better
By starting at a higher honor level, you get tons of essence, skins, capsules, etc. faster. You also enjoy the basic passive rewards of being higher honor without first working through the lower levels.
Starting at a lower honor level misses out on all of those passive bonuses for a long period of time. This is offset by what, 2-3 keys? Over the course of weeks/months? Hard pass.
Edit: I'm also pretty sure, based on the wording in the patch notes, that Honor 5 people continue to earn "checkpoint" bonuses even though there are no checkpoints for them to earn. This means that they'll regularly receive those Honor 5 boosts of Honor 5 orbs, three fragments, and 250+ BE. Compared to the piddling 2 fragments per Honor 2 checkpoint, I can't imagine why anybody would want to start at a lower honor level. Higher honor levels start getting better rewards faster, and continue to get better rewards than lower-honor players indefinitely.
I think all of these comments are useless, as this is common sense...but doesnt it make sense to grant us all the capsules that would have been included in all the levels/checkpoints up to where they placed us? That would make sense...but riot and logic never have seen eye to eye
Said something similar in another post.
Why bother resetting honour if you don't give the one per year forgiveness to the dishonorable, and drag down those who climbed to the top?
Side note: Fer crying out loud Jo0o do you just stalk these boards waiting to pour you honour "wisdom" on anyone else who questions it? -_-
