Feedback in the open beta was that gear unlocks for reputation were going to be far behind just doing delves and mythics. The reputation takes 10x the effort to obtain and the gear is totally useless. The crests are nice and crafting runed harbinger token at the end is okay as well. But why even put the gear in as a reward if it becomes useless. I would propose in the future that the different factions have themed meaningful armors and weapons only obtained through reputation. I mean a shadowy spider zone with necro books and weapons, A light chapel with an iconic blade. A dwarven dugout probably axes and hammers. A beast filled pasture with bows. The idea is that a player that started Tuesday of this week and just did delves and world keys, should not be more geared than someone who had been grinding reputation and quests since release.
Because faction rep is Warband bound now, so alts have immediate access to them.
And that’s it.
Reputation rewards/gear is not aimed at the players who can do mythics or high tier delves, it is aimed at alts and casual players.
Because it’s really only useful as a catchup mechanic for alts due to warband rep sharing, and it was useful for the few pieces you could get before S1 started. Rep gear has never been useful after the start of a season
They would never need them because delve progress is also war bound.
They might as well just get rid of reputation now. I used to get all my character exalted in all reps but to me it is pointless content to do if one does it and all my character get the relatively meaningless rewards.
Except, you can play more casual doing mythics than grinding rep.
Also, not everyone will do dungeons or play delves at a high level. Just because you do, doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty who won’t.
Exactly… But why? It is harder to get rep than to go in to a few dungeons.
So why is their time and sub worth less than the person doing a few mythics?
But you have to do dungeons and delves to get the rep at a decent pace. You can’t get rep just by doing world quest for 2 hours at 50 rep each that gives you 500 rep and doing one dungeon you get 1500 rep.
I was able to get the 583 items fairly early… everything feels about right.
Its been almost a decade since rep items were meant to be powerful hasn’t it?
We get a few flavor color mounts and crests now. The armor of the people you saved is pretty underwhelming.
Hold my beer.
I really disagree… while the armor isn’t my standard mog I adore the steel with gold trim and swap out now and then.
Granted it is a taste argument.