Rep grinding, its fun the first time on your first character to reach exalted (and reaching over 100 exalted reps like me) but absolutely horrid if you want to do it a second, third, or fourth time to get rep transmog items (assuming you go for exalted on a character of each armor types). The solution to this suckiness is to have a system for account wide rep.
So how should we accomplish this? An opt in system because I know some of you people are sick and twisted and want to grind Ogri’la rep for a 5th time.
We should have a token system and vendors. Each vendor in in the capital city and they can have a title before there name of Diplomat (incent name) and the guild tag of (Expansion Name) Reputation Diplomat.
So you go to the Diplomat and they have all of that expansions reps on there. The tokens are BoA but to purchase a token for say Argent Dawn rep you need to have exalted rep on that character. You get on your character with exalted rep buy the token for 1 gold and send the token to your alt which they consume and are now instantly at exalted rep. You can also find these tokens for the specific rep on each individual rep quartermaster.
There should be a few restrictions with some reputations however. Mainly Aldor/Scryer where the token to use requires you to have completed the aldor/scryer into quest to avoid you being exalted with both factions at the same time (and have to farm so many eyes/venom sacks to reset the rep to get the achievement of getting exalted on both of the reps on one character like I have). To which a special token can be bought if you have completed Hero of Shattrath to immediately flip from exalted with one to the other (for those like me who strive to collect every crafting recipe). Similar thing for the Oracles/Frenzyheart reps in Wrath but those are easy to flip since you can instantly reset them.
Now a few reps that should be excluded from this system. The centaur clan reps are instantly exalted by doing a simple questline, same with Hozen and Jynu reps respectively. Since these reps are extremely quick and easy to hit exalted I don’t believe a token should be there for them.
This system would be a godsent for transmog collectors. Most people see their alts as different loadouts. And for those who don’t have this view this is an opt in system so if you don’t want your alts being instantly exalted with a rep you don’t have to. If you want to regrind a rep go for it.
The main goal of this system is so collectors don’t have to re-grind a rep 3 more times to collect all of a reps transmog for each armor type and weapons and to access recipes on alts.
I mean I prefer the regular rep system we have now. But they could change how newer reps work in the future to be something like honor level but that doesn’t address old reps.
Why? That’s how Blizz has designed the 40 renown thingamajig and it’s annoying. I can’t just go to the vendor and buy the thing I have to logout, log onto the character with 80 renown, buy the thing, mail it then logout again and get on the character I was on before.
Just have a vendor with the account wide things you can go to and buy your items.
would not work - if blizzard won’t enable to everyone to fly right at the start because some people feel they have no choice except play in a manner they don’t like, you can’t do this for the same reason.
then you shouldn’t have all the transmog and recipes for alts.
It would remove content from me because I like to go back and work on things like that at times during an expansion and I sure the heck aren’t going to do it if everyone else is enjoying the reward for free.
Plus the main reason I don’t play FF is because I like alts - people like you keep on wanting to make this an account based game not a character based one.
It would cost blizzard money for no real gain except enable you to quit playing sooner as well.
A token or account wide catchup system isn’t account wide rep. I don’t want to get rep on my alts faster, I want them at the same level as my main. I want to be able to decide one day that I want to play my shaman and still get progress on my rep. The next day maybe I want to play my paladin. 99% of all MMORPGs in 2022 allow me to do this one way or another, but WoW still locks me into the same class I have played for over 10 years
I’m sick of it, just let all rep be account wide FFS. It’s really that simple. If people want muh RPG muh immersion they can make a checkbox akin to “character specific achievements” only.
How does that make it impossible? Literally the simplest solution is allow rep to be gained only once per account from one time quests and once per daily/world quest. It’s literally that simple
again what you suggest would remove content from me. I currently am doing dailies FOR rep in part on 3 characters. Why should your desire not to earn rep trump my desire to want to play 3 characters to earn rep.
I would just stop playing. I enjoy playing my alts but I am not going to waste my time earning stuff while other people get the benefits for free. Not to mention, they would have to entirely restructure the rewards system and whenever blizzard ‘fixes’ things like this people aren’t happy anyway.
Well that’s unfortunate. Can’t please everyone. Dunno what else to tell you. I’m not gonna stop asking for account wide rep though, if you lose your 3 identical grinds well that sucks I guess lol
It’s entirely on the player if they start multiple characters on the same reputation grind, but once you reach exalted, it meets criteria and sets flag to true on the vendor.
As for items or friendly/honored/revered requirements, have it as subcategories within the achievement.