Blizzard has explained that some players have been abusing Dishonorable Kills on Classic Era realms to gain additional rank points, because each rank rewards are different and players are intentionally downranking. Blizzard has a fix that will go into effect on the week of Tuesday, September 12th.
Xfour: It would benefit my rogue to kill a poor civilian, this seems wrong. We’ve been working to correct that.