Anyone know if Blizzard currenly has or will have a catch up mechanic for Renown? My girlfriend plays WoW for the story but Blizzard has locked parts of the story behind the Renown levels.
Grinding in the current expansion is awful and neither she or I have any desire to grind anymore. We both just login to check the trading post each month. After all the grinding in Shadowlands, we just dont have the interest in the same repetitive gameplay Blizzard has fallen into the last few expansions.
They currently have no catch up mechanics planned. Nor is there any word on account bound rep. So… if you got alts or you dislike grinding to the extremes we’re out of luck. Though I still hope for the best, no one should have to regrind reknown to cap on every class or for normal people the few classes they enjoy.
If i remember correctly, weekly and daily quests dungeon rewards. But not sure if you have to have a charactar at a certain renown level to get the catchup feature.
Actually, there are a lot of renown catch-up mechanics for alts. For new players, not so much.
I will say that there are more ways to get renown (aka rep) now than in any previous expansion. Most factions have multiple ways to get renown and you can progress passively or actively farm them.
I’m only aware of the buff “Word of a Worthy Ally” which… is still quite a lot of grinding per alt… so if you have 24 characters would you want to grind every reputation in the game or those you would like on alts 24 different times? I know 24 is insane but on a casual level of just getting them to max level, doing some heroic dungeons / LFR or even low mythic plus it would be nice if grinds outside gear progression was shared on the account.
To clarify my insanity, i have 1 class for each faction excluding demon hunters and evokers (i dislike these two classes heavily and can’t bring myself to roll a second one). And each one uses different specializations so i can gear them based on their stat priority. Now a lot of them go untouched for a long time but the option of playing that class / spec combo will always be there and its a nice feeling. But in a game like this comes with many downsides.
Yeah, I could see how trying to cap rep on 24 toons doesn’t work well with the current system…
But, for people with 2 or 3 alts it works great. Once your main caps out their renown, they start receiving BoA rep tokens that they can share with your alts and multiply with the Word of a Worthy Ally buff…
So for example, the Valdraken weekly reward 500 rep tokens for every faction that will be increased by 200% for toons under renown 10. Also, the WQ weeky rotational event gives a token for 2500 rep that also benefits from the buff.
But yeah, definitely not enough tokens to support 24 toons unless you have multiple characters capped.
Thats actually pretty nice and decent game design. I’m glad such a system is in place. Somewhere off topic though and I know it probably will never happen. But it would be nice if you could have every class on one character like FF14. That way I would only need 2 characters in this game. One for Horde and one for Alliance. But I can dream.
They definitely need renown catch up in Shadowlands. New players still have the same flight restrictions that were current during that expansion.
Which would be great if it was shared across the account even if it was just for older content. I don’t mind to put in the grind initially for once character as it is rewarding. But for multiple characters and with multiple covenants and cosmetics tied to each armor type with each covenant, its very uh…overwhelming.
There’s no reason to do it on that many characters. You’d need like four characters max to get every obtainable, and can likely do it with less if you don’t care about ID collection.
4 characters of each armor type. And only characters that have gotten that covenant up to whatever required level is can use a covenant armor piece earned by another character.
This is also true, i don’t need to do it on 24 characters, just 4, 1for each armor type. But why would anyone want to grind reps 4 different times? In my personal opinion grinding reps just once is painful, slow, grindy, and annoying. Its more chore than it is fun gameplay. Its only tolerable for the first time for all the rewards.
No, just four characters to cover the armor types. Not four each.
For the rewards you stated/implied you wanted. This isn’t any different from other reps when you want something they offer for another one of your characters.
But the first time you get all the rewards from mounts, to tabards, recipes, weapons that can be shared among many classes / specs and your armor specific type, doing it again 3 more times is just unlocking the other armor types, and what weapons you couldn’t pick up the first time around which is a lot less rewarding for a similar amount of grinding. Which in itself is not rewarding.
You can’t see armor on the covenant vendors except for your own armor type. And even if you could buy it, it’s not BoA.
There’s no player power tied to renown this time. It’s basically just fancy rep. So the only catchup mechanism they added is for alts.
Do you mean for alts or for people just starting right now? If you’re just starting then there are fewer options for boosting renown but there are a few ways to earn backwards faction rep from the newer zones. Definitely buy those inscription contracts, the price is very reasonable now.
Isn’t there something you buy that instantly gets you 60 renown?
Renown isent really that bad , and blizz already gave people 1/2 week intervals to grind it so you dont have to do it in one day