These are reputations that have been defunk for years. There is 0 reason to put restrictions on them.
But they arenāt āputtingā restrictions on them - they already have restrictions on them. The question is whether itās worth the non-trivial effort of removing those restrictions, or not. So far, the answer has mostly been ānotā. The OPās suggestion is an approach that removes most of those restrictions, with much less effort, which is more likely to be considered worth it.
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Nice.
I dont know why they dont just see my wow account as one big account for reputation. So when I hit exalted or max with any group, thats my account wide rep.
Until I get it done 100% on a character, the rest of them dont get any benefit from it.
The only restriction is that it isnāt accountwide yet and daily quests which can just be made account wide quests like the pet battle quests.
There should be no other restrictions but daily quests after theyāre made account wide.
OP offers a bad suggestion as it gatekeeps old rep and denies the freedom to raise the account rep with any character you want whenever you want. OPs suggestion would force the current system of just doing it on the main.
Thereās a fundamental question that needs to be asked here. Are we role playing a character or an account?
Thereās obviously some game play concerns around making every toon on an account redo every aspect of the game that a main has already done, but thereās a lot of things that are toon specific rewards and you shouldnāt be able to do something on one and get the reward on everyone.
Of course it is. If a reputation has any sort of player power or profession rewards, high end players will be āforcedā to grind them.
SWTOR did account wide rep perfectly.
You can get a certain amount of rep a week, 12,000 for example, and you can get that 12,000 on one character or twenty. Completely takes away the āyou can get exalted in a dayā argument.
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Sure - I should have said, Ionās objection to shared rep seems to be people ācheatingā and accessing too much power too quickly. Old rep is irrelevant (bar toys, etc).
I think my real problem with a lack of shared rep is completism. My partner has stuck with their mage for years because it has all the reps. And they will not switch, despite much preferring other classes - because they donāt want to abandon all that work.
Literally me 
Down to the correct class too!
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Again, not forced, they make a choice to. No one is holding a gun to their head for .25% increase in dps/healing throughput.
The best solution to Account-Wide Reputation is simple:
Once a reputation hits Exalted (or in the case of Renown, the highest Renown) - it becomes account-wide.
This prevents the biggest fear with account-wide reputation - that using alts will become the fastest way to farm reputation and invalidates every other fear that account-wide reputation has.
Itās a very simple fix.
And this is coming from someone who has every reputation in the game that Alliance can raise (except 2, Shendralar and Zandalar) at Exalted, so donāt @ me saying Iām just trying to avoid a grind or something. Iām trying to avoid having to do the grind multiple times, which is something we shouldnāt have to do.
I even just finished this grind today that serves zero purpose other than just to exist:
Honestly, Iād go one further and say if you get a faction to exalted and thereās an opposite-faction exclusive rep equivalent, that should also be unlocked. For example, the BFA reps. If you get exalted with Proudmoore, then your account should flag Zandalari Exalted as well.
As someone else has said - I feel stuck with Maizou as my main character because she has all of my reps. I canāt even consider switching mains because she has all of my reputations. Iād be throwing away over a decade of work if I did that.
Theyāve already pretty much given up on Paragon Reps, so thereās no reason to keep bothering with that system.
Why do those like you insist on making it needlessly complicated?
Hereās how it should work.
All characters share rep and all rep gain is shared.
The only restrictions are Alliance and Horde factions requiring you be their faction to get their faction rep.
Thatās it. Itās not complicated.
And fear of old, outdated legacy rep being maxed by alts? Why should you care? Accountwide rep isnāt being applied to current expansion so why should it matter?
Heck, my alt on the Dragon Isles is about to hit max renown on all 4 factions and they havenāt finished a single zone yet.
So that ship that youāre trying to keep at port has long since sailed.
Issues is some reps are at war like aldor/scryer and that some people are masochists and want to regrind reps.
Itās not complicated thoughā¦
If you hit exalted on a character you unlock a BoA token that makes alts exalted. Itās not complicated.
Yes it is. Thereās no need for any of that.
All rep gain should just be accountwide. No waiting til you exalt on one character. That takes away the option to raise it with any character players want. Your way forces them to grind it with only 1 character which is what players already do.
Itās old rep. It doesnāt need to be complicated.