Why are reputations not account bound?

Okay, so…

This gets asked a lot.

And people give answers that are wrong.

Because nobody ever thinks this through.

So I’ll do it for everyone.

Here’s what would happen with account-wide rep. Let’s take ZM as an example.

  1. I take Brewa here to ZM and get 2100 rep from the intro questline.
  2. I get on my Druid and do the intro questline and he gets an additional 2100 rep, so both characters are now Friendly.
  3. I get on my Priest and do the intro questline and get another 2100 rep so all 3 characters are now 3300 into Friendly.
  4. I get on my Death Knight and do the intro questline and get 2100 rep and all of my guys now are 5400 friendly.
  5. I get on my Paladin and do the intro questline and get 2100 rep and all of my characters are now Honored.

Repeat with as many alts as I have.

That’s why there will never be account-wide rep.

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