And MoP took it a step further by also letting you buy an item to get double rep account wide so your alts had half the grind.
I don’t know why they took a step back when it comes to rep QoL changes at the same time they made rep grinding more important. And have continued to ramp up the importance of rep grinding ever since to the point where you need it not only for flying, story, but also ilvl (though we do get a QoL change for that last one in 8.1).
Personally I go out of my way to avoid rep with alts, to the point where I’ve dropped some crafting professions to avoid needing to rep grind on alts. I loath grinding rep with WQ. It’s like the monotony of a daily quest hub, but spreads them all out so you get mind numbingly bored form all the excess travel before doing the same quest you’ve done 18 times.
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No, account wide rep would be a terrible idea for the game.
I don’t want my alts to be hated in Booty bay. I also don’t want my alts to be exalted with factions they’ve never met.
If you want rewards for an alt, go play that alt and earn them.
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I’m on the fence with this. I despise them gating races behind these tedious time-gated world quest humping trickle grinds but didn’t mind them when it was just mounts, pets, and tmog gear as rewards. I wouldn’t agree with it if it actually mattered, besides time gating, like in EQ.
I prefer surumar type grinds with a huge story and such. If reputation mattered with the story then I wouldn’t want account-wide reputation. With how they’re using it the requirements should at the very least be cut in half or more for alts. After all, this game has become gated enough.
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Why? What is it about repeating a very boring process multiple times that makes it supposedly better? Alts are just that, alts. It diminishes your achieve ment as a player in no way just as spending your time grinding boring and mostly outdated content multiple times in no way makes you a better or more respected person. It is just a n aggravating time sink that serves no purpose other than to pad blizzards new time in game metric or whatever they are using because sub numbers have taken a very unfortunate nose dive.
I really wish they’d bring back rep tabards. They make it such a slog to gain rep on alts. It wouldn’t be half so bad if we had tabards.
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nope. Reputation is one of the few ways we have to individualize characters. Each character is supposed to be different, yet we have seen it slowly eroded with systems like transmog. A line needs to be drawn.
this i definitely agree with.
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How does reputation make your character feel more individualized? All because of a tab that no one can see?
You dont think that the achievements earned in other areas such as raids, dungeons, exploration, and pvp arent enough to differentiate? Seriously, rep rewards are more QoL than determination of differentiation.
Even if it wasn’t accumulated rep between characters, but your rep on your account that is shared is the highest reputation achieved by a single character. So you could have one exalted on one character, and another on another.
They should add a family system where the rep would be facilitated on a alt, making him achiev rev or near it when finish the history of the rep on the map. That or add the commendation, from mists, or tabard with rep back.
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I just want to say that not having account wide rep (blue achievement and full rep bar for alts) discourages me from playing alts. I start one then realize I have to go through the rep grind again, which is not fun.
The fact that the new system aggregates exalted reps is irrelevant to me because I am a completionist. If my alt doesn’t have exalted rep, I feel obligated to do it again and I just don’t want to do that.
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Here’s am idea that fits the RP element and solves the problem of giving players choice: make an account bound "letter of introduction " item available at exalted that boosts an alt to exalted (or revered if that’s too much) that starts a quest to meet with an important figure in that faction. Surely someone exalted with a faction would have enough sway, or at least be trusted enough that their word would carry a lot of weight. And players that enjoy the grind don’t have to use it.
Added bonus, it gives blizz another gold sink item to sell, which I’m sure they’d love.
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I would go with the rep tabard idea or something similar.
It’s not like this type of catch-up mechanic hasn’t been done already; it would be nice to have this one again.
I like this idea a lot.
There needs to be account wide rep of some sort in this game, but leaving the choice of whether or not to use it would help make it acceptable for everyone I believe.
Yes anti-account wide rep people, I see your opinions of “ we don’t want it, don’t make us play that way.” That’s fine, but it goes both ways. Many of us do not enjoy repeating the grind, which is why we need some sort of choice whether to opt in for account wide rep or not depending on preference.
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I’m mostly agreed with OP. Rep should be account-wide, buuut maybe not for current content? I mean, I have a serious alt problem myself. Not that I play all of them, or even most of them, but in BfA I had to delete some alts to get under the 50 cap so I could make a couple allied race alts. So, shared rep would be a big benefit to me. Even so, I kinda feel like rep should remain per character in the current expansion, but all previous expansion rep should be account-wide. I just have a hard time believing there are many players who want to grind old content rep on new alts for fun.
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You must have all the time in the world to play bfa cuz all that rep grinding on so many alts takes a lot of time. God i miss the college days of not having to work and pay bills…
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All toons should contribute to your account level rep with exception of those mutually exclusive reps e.g. Scryers and Aldor. The only reason to not do this is artificial time gating. That is all.
as someone who plays alts religiously, i agree with this post. no one wants to have to start all over… if they do, that’s what classic’s for.
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Just have the option to turn off account wide rep there problem solved for anyone who wants to grind can grind…But I bet those people will not turn it off ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
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OP: Please to remember that not everyone is a grizzled hardened vet of this game.
Also, some of us LIKE the idea of certain features being character/server bound; helps prevent further homogenization, of which this game has seen too much.
To conclude, each new character will have a new path. Learn to enjoy each difference, each nuance. It has always amazed me how, no matter how I seem to be playing the same way, each of my little cuties always end up different.
Enjoy.