This is a pretty unusual bug (or I just didn’t notice it until I started grinding out some old TBC reps tonight), but if you kill an entire pack with a single AoE ability it only calculates the reputation gained by killing them once, as if only a single mob was killed.
As in, if I were to pull a pack in Magisters’ Terrace with 6 mobs that each give 15 Shattered Sun Offensive reputation, and one-shot all of them with an ability like Howling Blast, Blood Boil, Holy Nova, etc. I only get 15 Shattered Sun Offensive reputation, but if I use single-target abilities and kill them one by one each of them gives me 15 Shattered Sun Offensive reputation, for a total of 90 Shattered Sun Offensive reputation. This is consistent across multiple reputations, in multiple dungeons, for multiple expansions, caused by multiple different AoE abilities.
This makes old rep farming, particularly in TBC, Wrath, and Cataclysm 5-mans, extremely frustrating because any incidental AoE can waste a ton of reputation. I think I more than tripled my time farming Sha’tar reputation because of this unfortunate bug.
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Had the same thing happening. Kill one and one and get 15 rep per mob or kill a pack and get 15 rep for all of them. Now farming the tournament one for rep and tokens in Northrend and sometimes gets 30 for 2 and sometimes get 15 for 2. Farming with frost mage and kill 2 mobs at the same time.
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Bumping this again to confirm that this isn’t a TBC dungeon only issue: this affects basically any rep, including some reps I’ve been working on for Insane in the Membrane, and makes these rep grinds take many, many times longer than they should.
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Yep same thing is happening to me as well. Some other odd behavior I’ve noticed is when killing multiple mobs and registering the lowest rep mob, it will initially grant say 20 rep, but registering the lowest mob of 3 rep, subtracting 17 rep. So it will show as Rep gained 20, Rep decreased 17 in the chat log. Very odd.
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I came back to grind some reps and I found this bug weeks ago. It’s insane how they just leave the game bugged for so long. Total rip off.
Yeh, i ended up just single killing as fast as I could as it still is not registering correctly.
would be nice if it was addressed.
I am having the same issue, and the rep I am getting is coupled with increases and decreases so I am not farming any rep at all since it all cancels out. Do I need to make my own bug report for the team to fix my issue, since this seems to be a known issue?
I have unsubbed from the game, but I am curious if this is still bugged, months later.