Its been some time since the event has been active. There seems to be some issue with the length of time required to finish this content from both the hardcore and casual vantage point.
I will share some baseline facts that are present from the experiences I have had so far. This is from completing every drop quest and collecting all the transmogs available from the drops associated with the boss itself.
There is 42,000 reputation required to reached Tenured.
Every weekly completion of the Big Dig quest will give you 3,000 reputation.
3,000 rep x 14 weeks = 42,000 reputation.
Each tome you acquire throughout an event will give
25 rep = Green
50 rep = blue
100 = epic
On average lets say your group will complete 5 digs every single event. (Even though many people only get through 1-2 with phasing and not understanding they could join groups in group finder).
Lets say you get 2 green. 2 blue. 1 epic from every single event.
That would be 25(2) + 50(2) + 100 = 250 reputation per event.
If we take 250 reputation and multiple that by 12 weeks worth of grinding the 3,000 reputation per week (assuming you want to only grind reputation that way), you get 1 week of the 3,000 reputation quest you don’t have to do. Leaving us with essentially 13 weeks of reputation grinding the weekly.
That’s not terrible. That’s a grind for sure.
Could it be less? Should it? I personally don’t think it’s worth fighting for change.
What I have issue with is this.
The requirement to obtain every transmog off the vendor in Thaldrazus at the Algeth’ar Academy is 238,000 fragments. (by my count)
With the current setup. We get 5,000 fragments each weekly quest completed for The Big Dig. Each consecutive completion on an alt will give you Dragon Isle resources instead of fragments. Negating any alt grind.
Every WQ you complete (once you unlock them all - per character) will award I believe 300-800 fragments each, roughly.
You can obtain fragments by completing tomes, artifacts learned throughout the course of a dig. This give on average 50-300 each.
Lets says you get 5 of these every event. Averaging 200 per item. 1,000 fragments per event. (which is really high)
Over the course of grinding out the 13 weeks of reputation required Weekly Quests / events. You’ll have amassed roughly 13,000 fragements.
Say you completed 3 World Quests every rotation. Reseting every 3 and a half days.
6 World Quests giving on average -lets’ say 700 fragments every time for good measure.
700 x 6 World quests per week is 4,200 fragements.
4,200 fragments x 13 weeks = 54,600 fragments.
54,600 fragments + 65,000 (5,000 fragments per weekly quest x 13 weeks)
114,600 fragments by the time you complete Tenured.
You need 238,000 fragments to obtain everything from the vendor - Provisioner Aristta -. That includes the mount and every transmog possible.
At bare minimum with this math. Which can be off - up or down depending on consistancy / time available to play.
It will take at least 26 weeks of doing a single event, and every World Quest.
156 WQs + 26 Big Digs weekly quests. All for 22 Transmogs. 1 mount.
There may be another angle I’m missing. My values may be off. I tried being as close to accurate without spending 4-5+ events getting averaged data sets. I used the Azerothian Archives wowhead guide post as reference for reputation and a couple other points.
Let me know what you think.
