Please make Warbands optional or something similar

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A lot of the warband features sound great like the transmogging and item rewards and some other stuff. However, I do not want to lose the ability to know exactly what my main character has and has completed, compared to my other characters.

If a character has not step foot in Pandaria, they should not have reputation progress for MoP factions. Same goes for achievements they never earned and currencies they never collected.

I know you guys are pushing everyone to create tons of alts to rush to max level with, but MANY of us do not want this change. What would be nice to to see it as an option to choose which characters get the warband overhaul and which do not.

I am keeping track of the quests my character has completed on my way to having every single normal quest completed. If I log in and all of a sudden that # of quests completed changes, it will destroy all the progress I’ve made across almost two decades.

So please let there be the ability to view the different achievements, for the character we are playing and all characters total through warband system.

For reputations, we should be able to turn on/off which reputations we want shared and which we don’t.

For currencies, they can be shared as I just won’t use currencies from other characters. But I do want to be able to see the currencies the character I am on has collected and not just the total amount of currency. What if I use currency that my character didn’t earn and then I log on the character that did earn that currency and there is no more. That would be horrible.

Please allow us the option for these three things. Everything else seems to be a benefit and doesn’t ruin character progression.

Also, it is a lot harder to complete everything on just one character than it is to just rush through one expansion from 1-70, especially nowadays. So the priority should go to the main character and not the alt characters.

WHAT DOES EVERYONE ELSE THINK? Any ideas on how to make things separate?

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I am not sure how hard it would be to have it be an opt out thing. I personally would never opt out but it seems like there is a small number of people who would like it, so if Blizz could find a way to implement it without causing too much trouble, why not.

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Uhh… You want account wide to be able to be disabled? That’s… Not a thing you can do, and I don’t know why you would want to.

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Sorry to say OP… Warbands are being made mandatory. No off switch for them… not all achievements are shared cross characters though and I’d imagine it tells you who all achieved each of them so you’re not going to lose that what…bragging rights for your achievements

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The tl;dr

Yea I don’t why you would want this.

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Go play Classic if you don’t want warbands. They are going to be there regardless of how you feel about it, and there is no opt out.

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You’ll probably need an addon to try and keep things separate. For quest tracking, I use an addon called BTWQuests. For achievements, I can tell if a character has finished it by hovering over the date.

I doubt Blizzard will make them optional because it probably involved significant technology changes on the backend.

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The Warbound system will still allow you to track progress on your main character.

The only difference is that the main character is you.

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Attention.

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Arrested Development David Cross GIF

You’re the only person in this entire game I’ve ever heard actually asking to redo a reputation grind.

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Newsflash OP…you don’t speak for everyone and you’re alone in this believe it or not. I for one am super excited at the account wide stuff as it means less tedious grind for me and I can have fun with the game again

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When people say many like this… I stop thinking you are being serious.

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This obvious bait isn’t worth the time of a good response.

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even ion when asked if warbands could be opted out of he was like “what? why would you be against something so good? and so beneficial in every single way??”

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damn, I have to agree with ion here

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OP talks like it’s some sort of feature that hinders your capacity to check individual character progression.

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Unfortunately, the majority of players play the game differently from you. I’m tired of redoing the same garbage over and over again because I want to enjoy different classes, it’s simply annoying.

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I have no idea why you’d ever want Warbands to be optional when they objectively improve the game.

This is such a weird request.

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Stop it. Just stop it. No. The rep was earned. It should be account wide. I dont care if it’s furlbog rep in Aszhara or Dragon rep.

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I wasn’t snippy.

I don’t base this opinion from the forums, but from everyone I’ve interacted with over the years.

There are websites that tracks that. simplearmory iirc does that.