I feel if a player wants to go to that level, they absolutely deserve to get the rep a little faster. I don’t mind if it takes a bit longer for little ol’ me, long as I feel like I have some kind of choice as to how to spend my time.
I was going to say something a little more snarky at first, but I feel like this warrants actual discussion:
Something that in every past expansion has merely been something you get for buying it, I don’t like that it now has to be ‘earned’*, and neither do quite a few other people.
What we’d like is the ability to perform engaging content (WQs are very passive) to earn them, such as a questline, or a slow trickle from dungeons - or even just to augment them, make it go a little faster by doing favored activities.
I think WQs giving the rep and the gear they have is incentive enough, we really don’t need to lock an entire set of races behind them. I do them for the rep even without the promise of races behind them, actually (see: pathfinder).
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- I put this in quotes because I really don’t think WQs are meaningful content. I do them, yes, even enjoy the mindlessness of them when I’m playing with a friend or two, but I would absolutely not call the completion of world quests ‘earning’ a race. Maybe something like the Mage Tower, sure, but not WQs.
The rep grind is really easy on the first toon a little bit worse on the 2nd toon pretty painful on my 3rd toon an now on my 4th I’m ready to shoot myself. Honestly blizzard put some rares in that drop rep tokens like we had in mop it was so much better. Or better yet let rep be account wide it wouldn’t hurt anyone
So with all this back and forth about the definition of “reward,” nobody stopped to remind OP about the fact that contracts exist? 10 free rep per world quest regardless of original faction adds up when you’re looking to grind reps.
Ok I do concede to the point once one of our mains become exalted with one of the factions that with any of are alt’s we should get a rep bonus like they did in MoP.
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I keep hearing this “grind” term. There is no “grinding” of rep anymore. You get it by playing the game. What was the last real rep grind you could actually do, MoP? You get rep in more ways than ever now, WQ, table, questing, rep quests, profession quests, incursions, Wanted Poster quests.
The only thing people seem to want back is like rep tabards, which would be nice for CoA and Tortollan but it’s not really necessary. I think for a second character our alts should get double rep though, by default. It’s a drag doing it all again.
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See, someone knows what grinding actually means.
In WoD you could grind out the Laughing Skulls and those Cat people in Tanaan; I think that’s the last time I saw a bonafide grind in there for a rep.
lol, as someone who has done The Insane twice (once when it first came out), I do know what grinding is haha. This ain’t it.
Just wait til Classic comes out and you need to “Grind” out to learn how to use your weapons…lol
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What “time gates” have we had? So far only 3. The two raid ones (which is standard since MoP) and the one for the 8.1 War Campaign continuation.
Ha, jokes on you. I’ll probably never not have swords equipped on my rogue. I don’t plan to take it to serious, so Thrash Blade may end up being the pinnacle of my gearing…lol
Fun story: Unstoppable Force from AV was the best weapon I’d been able to get for my warrior for months. My guild then stunned me by giving me a Zin’rokh from our first Hakkar kill. I’d used 2H maces and 2H axes up to that point…had no 2H sword skill. I think I got like an hour of sleep that night because I ran around Durotar and Barrens leveling that damned weapon skill.
I’d prefer a grind where you choose to start and stop, rather than do a set amount of tasks and have to wait. I recently got Draenor Pathfinder and the Saberstalkers rep was probably the least tedious because you could grind the rep at will with no restrictions by killing mobs in one area. Granted, I’m on a max level toon and the mobs are elites, so at a content-appropriate level it’d be much slower, but IMO it feels better to have a say in your progress rather than have weeks of “you got your rep for the day, come back tomorrow”
I remember in MoP having to grind so that i could fly the celestial dragons, first you had to get an egg then you had to train your dragon then go look for eggs and do dailies every day oh and the race.
Yeaaaa, see, people hate that too if it’s forced because people will form groups and race to get all the rep in 22 hours without sleeping. Then everyone else complains that they are forced to grind rep like crazy because they need X or Y for their guild’s raid on Thursday night.
Honestly this is a no-win situation. Unless they just open up every single avenue for every faction.
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Rep’s been in the game for nearly six months and they’ve added numerous catchup mechanics with massive 1500 rep boosts such as incursions, emissaries etc. on top of the normal leveling zone rep from quests.
Cmon man.
Really not that hard, if you played from the story and did some invasions, you all act like its hardship …there were tougher reps to gain in BC than these…
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Not talking about difficulty; however, 2 weeks from start to finish rep wise, complete Bullsh.
It’s can be done…if you hit the right invasions, and right world quests, and do all the quests in the proud area…
No it can’t and I’d love to see a statistics for that. Exalted requires a total of 39,000 points. I don’t know and I’m confident no one knows how much rep you get from doing the story line alone but the rep from story line stops after finishing A Divided Nation.
You’d need to get 15,000 rep 2 weeks in a row to get exalted. That’s complete bullsh.