I’ve run through Zephras 6 times now during beta, and I was really looking forward to grinding out Nightclaw Exalted before leaving the zone.
Dropping the repeatable from 1000 rep to 200 for 5 ears seems pretty excessive. What was going to be around an 8 hour grind is now looking more like 3500+ kills, all for a title, cosmetic shoulders, and some low level crafting recipes.
I’d love to see something like 250 rep per turn-in, 5 rep per cultist kill, and a higher ear drop rate (maybe double what it is now). It would still be a decent grind, but something you could realistically finish while the zone is still relevant.
I was genuinely excited to do this grind at launch, but after this change I’m not even sure it’s worth bothering with anymore. Was the nerf intentional?
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Damn same boat here and didn’t realise it had changed. I was definitely going to go for at least revered with the pet. I did it in the beta and it wasn’t too bad. Seems like a pretty niche grind to bother changing!
This should absolutely be pushed back against. For some cosmetics and low level crafts, who is going to burn the time to grind ears that drop 15% of the time.
200 is overkill to the extreme for minimal rewards. If they update the rewards to be endgame and something else other than just mindlessly grinding ears sure.
Fix this blizzard.
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they did WHAT?
I did that grind i dunno, last week maybe, and it required about 400 kills THEN. Granted that was for exalted. But even then, the new math would probably be over 200 kills just for honored, to get some level 10 crafting patterns with 1 stat point on them?
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Funnily enough that actually seems more in line with the ludicrous logistics crates grinds to even have a vague chance of getting patterns when they’re level appropriate. Not a good thing…
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I only did it when it was 1000 per turn in. Damn that is steep now. Definitely waiting to get the rep buff before I do it now. There also wasn’t a title when I did it!
the crafting patterns are so, so bad. I don’t understand why they are so poor.
hoping they actually didn’t just mess up something to forget about it.
Yeah, hoping it was a blanket change to something that affected a starter zone rep grind and this wasn’t intentional lol
I did the grind for them to Exalted the first few days of Beta before the vendor even had anything to sell. It sucked then while being at 1000 rep/5 ears.
Why the hell does a rep grind that has zero high-end crafting recipes need an 80% nerf? Are we really already trying to take things from “could be done in a day with a bit of dedication for funsies” to “we’re trying to skewer the time-played metrics a tad”?
Pre nerf it was roughly 195 ears, now its roughly 900 for 36k rep, I only kept track for about 300 kills but I observed a 20% drop rate..so 3500 kills if rng is nice to me! (Which it never is)
Big sad
Either up the droprate to 100% or increase the rep back up. Currently it’s a rep grind with no real payoff.
I did another bigger test today, with 160 kills, and ended up with 52 ears. Works out to 32.5% drop rate, rng mileage will vary