Nope that would be too fun. Blizzard hates fun.
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If I grind Valdrakken Accord on one character to 23, let’s say, can my hunter alt, get the book to tame lesser dragonkin?
No, your Hunter has to have the Renown at 23 also.
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KHHHHHAAAAANNNNN!
Thank you Foxalicious.
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Wouldn’t that be Ion?? 
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They have catch-up mechanics for Alts. But Blizzard is all about keeping you subscribed longer so take that with a grain of salt.
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/renown-reputation-guide-in-dragonflight
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Its account wide so you can buy mogs and stuff on other chars. But the char. specific one isn’t. So if you hit 10 Renown, you get 100% bonus on alts. to 10. If you hit 20, you get 200% bonus to 10 and 100% bonus to 20 on alts. Correct me if I am wrong but I read this earlier. Hope it helps!
We had renowned in SL and that wasn’t account wide either… In DF we actually have both reputation and renown.
That way they can make you grind both. So double the timegating.
Like when they brought back dailies in BfA, so you would have to do both dailies and world quests in Mechagon and Nazjatar.
From the looks of it, it also takes a LOT more reputation points to get max Renown than it did to get Exalted under the old system. To get to exalted was 42k, to get to 25 Renown is 62.5k, but it’s basically the same amount of rewards as in past xpacs, it’s just split up differently.
How’s that for extending necessary playtime to keep players paying longer?
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not account bound, but if you reach 20 renown on a character, the rest gets a 200% boost from 1 to 10 and 100% boost from 10 to 20
At this point I’m fairly convinced the only reason we do not have account wide reps is because often the profession recipes are bound to a particular rep breakpoint.
It could be the gear too - but often times, the gear becomes irrelevant way too fast for it to matter for the “average” player.
With this new more convoluted profession system, you think they could decouple the recipes from the reps.
Most of the items are account bound (mogs, mounts, tabards).
That or they just need to reassess what the point of the reps should actually be.
You have to have skipped every side quest to be that low
Just getting to 10 works for the first Buff.
It isn’t? Oh no…I just started to take my alts through DF to find a main and I was looking forward to improving my rep no matter what character I was playing. There is so many things locked behind renown ranks just like in SL. I thought this was the ‘alt friendly’ expansion.
It sucks so much leveling multiple characters to max to find a main for an xpac and fall so far behind with rep grinds in the meantime. Smartest things seems to be to buy an expansion a year in after they’ve added the catch-up mechanics.
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Reknown has never been accoutn wide. REWARDS from reknown are. And there are catch up mechanics for it.
atleast cobalt rep is extremely quick, just 1-2 days of casually farming and you get the ring.
I read somewhere if you get to renown 10 on your first toon, which enables the 100% rep increase on alts, log on a second toon (that will have the 100% bonus at that point), get that toon to renown 20 and all your toons will have the 200%.
They called it sling shotting. My question is, if you have your main going through the renown first, once you get to renown 10, does your main also get the 100% bonus or no?
The 100% boost to faction reps in MoP after reaching exalted with a faction was a fair compromise I appreciated.
Having skipped SL and played through it a week before DF hit, working on rep designed for players to work on over two years is something I’ll never obtain.
The actual rep is not account-wide, but almost all of the things the reps actually give you are. The only things that are character specific to my knowledge are gear and crafting recipes. Also, you get large account-wide reputation buffs for each of the major factions by hitting 10 and 20 Renown with those factions. So it’s not as simple as just not being account-wide. It’s a hybrid system where most things are account-wide, and a few things aren’t, and there’s an account-wide catchup mechanism for those things that aren’t.