Ok, I am not exactly sure what you are asking here, but I will give you a rundown of how honor works. Unless you have bushido, honor will only do you good in the form of honoring yourself so you can walk amung monsters and they will not flag on you. Now with bushido, you honor a fully healed up monster, and you will start gaining in perfection. With each hit you gain in perfection until you miss, then you lose it. Once you gain perfection, your hits will do more damage, separate from the DI you possess. If you throw in lightning strikes which will give you a 50% HCI bonus, you will also get a chance at a critical strike, which can be in the hundreds of hp damage. You must invoke the virtue to use it. What I did is setup a macro for honor, and before I attack something, just use it. I hope that helps with whatever you are trying to ask.