We really need account wide rep. Exalted reputations define your main. Blizzard changes how classes function every xpac…
So I am basically locked into a main - a lame shaman - that hasn’t played the way I enjoy for over a decade (2H WF).
Plus Blizz has just really geeked shaman up this expac…and keep making hollow promises to fix the class. I’d love a class transfer feature for mains.
Account wide rep, to me, gives the player more portability as a main.
If one doesn’t like how blizzard changed the play style of x class…then one could swap to a class that is more enjoyable. If one wants to start a new race/class combo from the newest launch, then one could just swap.
In it’s present form…it’s lame…if you are not on your main then you’re wasting time…if you’re on your main…and it sucks because of blizz changes the mechanics , then it’s unfun…and if your on a new toon that you enjoy to play…you start earning reps/achievements…just to repeat the cycle the next expac.
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I’d fully support and agree with account-wide rep.
Otherwise, I’d just appreciate if they did a MOP type catch up for all outdated reps (guy on the boat that you camp that drops tokens with rep).
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To those people that say no: whats the difference between having only one character and sharing account rep?
The only thing the re-grind does is burn players out on making alts. It’s effectually killing most players interest to play the game
What? You already outgear rep gear by like, doing a single raid finder q, ha.
You play a game where you traveled back in time to stop some guy from getting orcs to invade a planet already invaded by orcs
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On an alt: look at the rep gear…and sigh as you know that by the time you reach exalted…its useless. Mog gear.
Im already exalted on one toon…so why put the gear there? Its worthless and will be little else than mog feed.
My alt could use it NOW.
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So they should make a toggle so you can choose which factions your alt will be aligned with.
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ACCOUNT WIDE REP FOR ALL NOW ![:hocho:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/hocho.png?v=6" ":hocho:")
If you read 8.1 patch notes, you wouldn’t have had to SCREAM that here. You’re not getting it NOW tho. Wait 2 weeks.
I have been wondering for a while why they stopped doing this. We should have alternate ways of getting rep and the tabard used to be the best way. I recently went to Silvermoon on this character and grabbed the tabard and went into the old dungeons over and over until I got exalted. Took me a few hours to do and was actually semi-enjoyable. If Blizzard is reading this forum I really wish they would re-implement this. Having a tabard for decorations only is kind of a kick in the nuts. Sure you show their colors, but it should be a bonus for all the alts that are “pledging their loyalty” by wearing your colors.
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You misunderstood.
Rep is NOT going account wide. What is happening is that the rep UNLOCKS for the neck upgrade from Champions of Azeroth rep will be account wide. So once you get to revered on one character all your alts will get the neck upgrades automatically.
They are also making it so that reps count account wide for the purpose of the rep achievements so that if you x number of exalted reps on one toon and y number of exalted reps on another, they add up for progress on the number of reps exalted achievements. That’s not the same as account wide rep.
Account wide rep means getting exalted with one character, means ALL your characters can access recipes, gear, etc from the rep vendors which would make alts more appealing and easier to start off with once hitting max level, but Blizzard doesn’t want that to happen because they think its too advantageous.
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Not only is Account Wide Reputation a “quality of life” change which should have been implemented long ago but it might even be a way to interest some who left who loved having all the crafting skills but dreaded having to max 5 or more reputations every expac on every crafter in order to learn the desired recipes. On a parallel note; Time Walking. We see they can scale old material to current relevant item levels. Why then can veteran players not visit a Consortium NPC to invest some currency into their hard earned Raid and Quest Loot from old material to see it upgraded to current relevant material item levels? Transmog was a decent first step. Letting people pay to keep old gear scaled to relevant item levels would be great for nostalgic players and new players who want to keep old gear for either it’s ‘flavor’ or simply for the perceived ‘edge’ it offers their style of play.
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Reputations shouldn’t be aggregate account wide, but they should be account wide, being the difference that your highest rep obtained should be shared across your characters. That way everyone reps up at the same rate as alt-a-holics and preserves the journey.
This is what is wrong with the game. No one wants to work for anything. You just want Blizzard to give you stuff for nothing. Now its Profession recipes for nothing. I enjoy going back on alts and gaining rep for factions where I want to get old recipes.
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I concur. The tabards in the dungeons were a great idea. Don’t know why they changed it.
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my 2c, is id like account wide reps. sorry to the 3 ppl that think it should remain the same.
I’m down for this, but it may be tricky to do.
I can reach exalted on my gnome to roll a Horde Highmountain Tauren, but I can’t piggyback my revered rep for my dorf DK? Something is skewed here. The precedent has been set.
What progression are you seeing with reps?
The rep gear has been useless since M+/raids/warfronts/lfr/pick_your_source opened.
The only thing I could think of that is still of any marginal interest is an army of alts with all professions…depending on your server you could just factor in the extra material cost to your wares.
This game is not based making people happy, instead it is based on how much money they can make. Think about, why do they time gate every thing when they didn’t have to do that back in The Burning Crusade?
TBC was time-gated by the slow leveling, bad gear, mobs too hard, not much gold, lots of mat farming to craft anything (yes, we could make BiS gear but it took many weeks to make one thing). And there were obstacles to even making cloth - the Area 52 one summoned two super hard hitting mobs…had to make cloth in the bank so the bruisers would help kill them. I died a lot making cloth - may have been limited how many you could make per day or week.
It was a large area on ground mount. Even when you finally got to max and got flying, it was slow. Epic flying cost 5000g and that was a lot A LOT back then. Everything was still far away. Dungeons were large, raids were too - those took up lots of time.
It was very time gated. We just didn’t have a term for it back then. We just played the game.
I’m still happily playing.
You will have a different mindset depending on whether you think the game starts at max level or level 1. And what you think an alt is, to me it’s a complete new character for others a duplicate of a main with a different set of abilities. It’s up to you what you make of the game, but Blizz has to set a baseline somewhere. And that baseline revolves more around single character progression than an army of indifferent alts. That said currently your army of alts are all individual characters. And I personally like that.