Either or is fine by me, but yes, grinding a rep twice because I like a particular transmog in both Plate and Leather shouldn’t be a thing that still is required - don’t care how they solve it, be it through BoA or rep sharing.
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i feel like this is a lie they tell themselves when they see people doing old reps, due to lack of interesting current content to do.
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hahaha, no lol
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99% of the stuff should be account wide. I shouldn’t have to grind out 1650 sytgia on all 10 alts to unlock the portal to SOD when my main already did it and is sitting on 30000 of the stuff. I shouldn’t have to do the covenant campaign over and over to unlock the transmogs for cloth, leather, chain and plate when it is already done on one.
With few exceptions it should all be account wide. I wouldn’t really be against it maybe not being active right at the beginning of a patch or expansion but a month or two into each and for sure once it is no longer current content it absolutely should be account wide.
I like the story and side quests and don’t mind grinding out a rep once but only once. I want to do what is fun for me and that’s usually gearing up my main to a half decent level so I am decently competitive in the mid level content and spamming lfr on all the other classes with the odd organized raid or mythic plus.
I’m currently using the mission table for soul ash and soul cinders so I can upgrade my legendary a bit. Because I’m not farming Torgast 40 times or whatever it is across all the classes. I have plenty of cosmic because it drops in the raid.
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This also perfectly illustrates why the account wide rep systems that work all have some form of hard cap on rep earned per time.
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Think he meant that once you get exalted the vendor unlocks for the account
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It’s not hard to institute a weekly rep cap no different than the valor/conquest caps.
It’s almost like they’ve done it multiple times in the past.
Then doing it on alts as the weeks go by can serve as a catchup mechanism so they don’t have to add it later.
For instance, if we could get 2,000 rep a week.
Week 1 - You grind all 2,000 rep.
Week 2 - You grind only 1,000 rep, putting you at 3,000.
Week 3 - You grind the 2,000 rep that one character can obtain for the week, putting you at 5,000. However, you log on an alt and grind 1,000 rep - putting you at 6,000, equal to others who didn’t lax the previous week.
Built in catchup that doesn’t give an upperhand is the best kind of catchup. It also makes the game feel like less of a job and less punishing if yout ake time off - one of the complaints about 9.1 was Korthia was very punishing if you took even a day off - Blizzard even used this as the reasoning for buffing rep. This type of system would solve that.
This is coming from someone with every single rep in the game at exalted that I can currently raise - I’d have zero issues if the grind was less painful for others. (And tbh, even things like the Bloodsail Buccaneers would still just be as painful, just they could spread it out across different toons)
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Or just make it a crafting system you have to progress through.
Or even profession-specific questlines, like Legion coupled with crafting recipe experience like in Shadowlands.
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Some are. A lot aren’t.
you would be better off asking for those things to be account wide then and provide specifics.
Not with this company. Respecting players’ time and focusing on maximum fun is not profitable enough. Shareholders gunna eat cha soul!
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Very true!
there would be nothing for some people to do if everything was account wide - a lot of people don’t do the dungeon, raid, pvp bit so they do alts.
I hate rep grinding. I’ve always hated it from day one of me learning the concept of reputation in this game way back in early 2005.
But I agree with you I don’t think blizzard will make reputations account wide particularly ALL of them (which would make very happy if they did).
But at least in your example with the achievement , that’s a compromise I could more or less feel decent about.
Btw my disdain for rep grinds is the time investment and my take is folks that do NOT want account wide reps are more thinking about rpg elements of the game. My side is I’m thinking of IRL realities of the time impact on the player that plays many characters. The player is investing the time not the character.
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the point he is making is you could get exaulted just by doing the opening quest on multiple alts . This should not happen.
Nothing should be account wide , want something on a character , earn it on that character . Our characters dont even know each other , they are never " in game " at teh same time , it makes zero sense .
I think whether people want account-wide reps or not is irrelevant, it’s never going to happen, for the reason I explain in post 3.
But switching things to achievement-based (which is already account-wide) should still be on the table.
Could make those rep rewards account wide and therefore just do it once a day on alts.
It may nerf stuff like paragon cache farming on alts. But Id rather all my alts benefit from the vendors then worry about paragon caches.
Doing every thing 12 times vs doing it once is better qol.
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Feel free to keep talking about it, but Blizzard will never do it.
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They will do what they want.
I personally do most reps once unless the transmog is really worth repeating.
Right now the safe bet to do reps is on warriors for the transmog and them unlocking most cosmetics.
If they made rep account wide. They couod just boost the gold cost on items to get more of a gold sink out of stuff like boa gear. Maybe offer vouchers to redeem stuff on alts with stuff like paragon caches could work too.
Like in Legion I farmed the nightfallen rep 12 times on all the classes for the set mogs. Mostly by doing emmisaries 12 times a day.
I would have preferred doing it once on a character. And the rest being optional gold farms.
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I think there are a few things here and there that are dependent on reputation. There are some that are faction specific but they usually have a counterpart for the other faction. I think something like Horde Grunt/Alliance Squire might exist.
I could go for this provided that the required reputation to unlock things is achieved on one character. No cumulative between alts, I’m guessing the idea is if you grind the rep on a plate wearer you do not have to grind things out for the cloth, mail and leather appearances.
Side note: I would love to ditch all of the “You are not in the correct zone” stuff on the toys. There are too many good ones locked to areas we will never go back to again.
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