Yeah, blame the player for a bad system. Logical, what?
Pathfinder is a pimple on the face of WoW. Is, always has been. There is no game logic for it, it is purely there to increase player activity, which is a time-played metric they can flash at their investors.
And to introduce it to make the (arguably) lesser form of flight available later in the expansion is utterly stupid. They could turn it on now, with a flip of a proverbial switch. Again, logical, yes? No.
I took a break myself after Dragonflight released. When I came back a couple of months later, it didn’t take me more than a couple of weeks for me to reach rank 10 or higher with all of these factions, and I hadn’t really done anything with them before my break.
I don’t know what you are doing exactly, but…it’s clearly not rep grinding.
The only one I could see being an issue would be the Iskaar. It was much faster before the revamp since more people participated in the soup event.
With renown in DF, you kinda get out of it whatever you put into it. If you actually focused on it to any sort of degree and participated in what is available, you would be a lot farther along.
It took me some time to find my groove and figure out what was what, so maybe you just need to figure it all out first, and that’s okay.
Whether the renown grind is necessary or not for regular flying is a whole other topic entirely though, but I do agree it’s not really necessary for what is, in my opinion, a lesser form of flight.
Yeah totally not necessary to have pathfinder when we can already fly.
But with the requirements being so low that even the most casual of players will achieve it within a few weeks, its hard to take issue with it.
If 10.2 is indeed the last major patch, it’s not really much of a surprise that they’d want to keep players busy as long as humanly possible. But we don’t have any sort of confirmation for that yet.
Exactly. Why force people to play it in a certain way? Why can’t PvP’ers earn it doing what they like to do, or why can’t people who spend a lot of time raiding earn it from their preferred way of playing the game? Same with the gatherer/crafter.
Not everyone fits into the same mould. The beauty of an open world MMO is being able to carve your own niche out and enjoy the game on your own terms. Pathfinder’s narrow focus takes that choice away from many players for no good reason, other than trying to force engagement on things that don’t always appeal to many players.