For returning or new players, the rep-grinds for Allied Races are not appealing game design. They consist of weeks of monotonous, outdated gameplay with virtually no reward as you perform the daily chores for rep.
It’d be better to just lock Allied races behind achievements and quests.
The reward is the race.
Just. Do. The. Damn. Work. It. Only. Takes. Several. Weeks. At. Most. With. Minimal. Effort.
Heaven forbid the game actually rewards those of us WHO REMAIN HERE!
Here we go again. The exaggerations start every time we get a new allied race 
. The patch won’t drop until January (my guess.) There is plenty of time.
Technically that’s exactly what they’ve done. You get an achievement for reaching exalted with a faction. And you need exalted with these factions to get the AR quest.
Which is what they have done.
What? I just earned the crab mount, it’s a 90 day achievement. Are achievements not supposed to take time now?
I don’t mind the Vulpera rep requirement, but grinding that 1 Mechagon daily every day till’ I get exalted is going to be painful.
At least with other reps you have access to emissaries who gives 1500 rep in addition to the WQs themselves, Mechagon has 1 WQ for 800 rep and a bunch of annoying dailies that are not rewarding and get tedious very quickly.
Put time and dedication and work work you get paid for having the race. Its worth it TBH.
I really hope not! I admit I play a lot but doing keystones takes soooo much time. I’m afraid I won’t have enough time to reach my goal.
I always feel like I’m rushed with arena/m+ seasons. I hate it.
lol
To live in a world where doing one quest a day is a “grind.” Amazing.
Heaven forbid the “hard work” in the game is actually fun. The way allied races were handled sucks. We should be rewarded customization options for “hard work” like the Mage tower and titles etc… Why are we grinding rep for races? I wish this would stop already.
Fun is subjective.
These boards had tons of people asking for different alternatives for the MT appearances because to them it wasn’t fun.
With the AR grinds, it allows everyone to get them.
I got the Legion ones when it was still the current xpac (the rep part). I could care less about the races, but the mounts are awesome.
I don’t remember anyone ever saying that and I’ve been reading these forums for quite some time. People complained that the MT was difficult at first, but after Antorus came out it was trivial.
The OP specifically mentioned new/returning players wouldn’t have any appeal to allied races, and he’s right. People don’t want to farm hours and hours of time-gated content on a random character just so that they can play the character they want to play.
AR are glorified cosmetics.
Can’t put in the time? Tough luck. New players aren’t going to quit over an AR. People have come and made those claims, but I don’t buy it for a second.
And people have been complaining about MT all the way to the very end.
Some complain about it today.
I think unlocking allied races is fun.
Dude you can also catch fish!
I mention that because I helped someone get over the hump for flying with it. He needed like 20something rep and mentioned in chat he was out of quests for the day. I said, “do you fish? you can catch a couple rares for rep.” Took him about 15 minutes or so got his fish and was flying around.
So correct me if I am wrong but horde gets exalted with Vulpera for just playing the game, same with Mechagong … Alliance will literally have to play a horde character to get exalted with Vulpera but horde will not have to do anything ally side because we already have the Mechagong achievement for just playing…?? that doesn’t sound entirely fair… and i play horde lol
Go read the bee threads and you’ll feel better about this.
but we got a mount as well … child-of-torcali… so how does it help… besides theirs being unique lol