Seriously is it not enough to simply have to grind the research. This rep grind is the worst in the game. Why don’t you change this instead of hair color options.
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It was meant to be the solo gearing path for casuals. The problem is that people weren’t happy with the Covenant set in 9.0, because it was too quick to get and not high enough ilevel, being just under Normal raid. They asked for higher ilevel and said “make it take longer or be a challenge or something!”
So… Blizz did just that. Corrupt a wish. And here we have a solo gearing path that takes longer and is a higher ilevel… but it’s gated weirdly.
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its honestly not that bad you can max it out pretty fast to t6. Just do all the things and you get about 1200-1500 rep per day.
Oh, I can think of a few from Cataclysm which were worse, including one which was impossible without a rep tabard.
The critical flaw in the Korthia grind system is that they gated both rank 5 and rank 6 behind tier 6 rep. None of that makes any sense. It’s why me and likely many others simply bailed at 220 ilvl out of sheer frustration. I got so demotivated that I still haven’t unlocked tier 6 yet.
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Yeah, that part confuses me. Why isn’t rank 5 the unlock for the 226 upgrade and 6 just the 233. Do you even get anything at rank 5?
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Personally, I think that Korthia is the only thing that feels good in the game right now. I can work toward specific rewards if I want, and it’s a really good path of solo progression for gear.
My only gripe is that I feel like all I have to do in the game is Korthia, unless I can get my friends together outside of the allocated raid time, or spend a lot of time throwing pugs together (which is not something I’ll ever do).
I wish stuff like LFR/LFD and Torghast worked with the Archivist system. I feel like we have too many currencies and most of them don’t do anything for me.
That’s the thing. Rank 5 is exactly that. The problem is that it’s gated behind tier 6 rep. Whereas it should have been gated behind tier 5 rep since otherwise you get nothing from tier 5. My guess is one of the blizz devs stuffed up and they can’t be arsed fixing it.
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Once i realized this, i stopped going there on a daily basis.
I cant tell if blizz had a reason behind this, or it was truly an honest mistake that they wont admit to.
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Rep tabards were awesome! Throw that bad boy on and spam dungeons 
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You’re not getting 1200-1600 rep a day. You’re getting maybe if you’re lucky that many relics… but 1:0.5 means you get 600-800 rep
Again that’s with the rifts + zovaals vault + hunting rares, purple mobs, and every treasure you come across.
I stopped going on my alts when the korthite prices crashed. I’m about 2k rep away from t6 on my main once that’s over I won’t be doing any more dailies there ever.
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It’s horrid. Have to grind in possibly the worst “zone” of a patch I’ve seen added in the history of WoW. All the while, you’re still timegated by an arbitrary wall that’s much later than the fastest time to get Rank 6 is.
TLDR; Rep grind so long by the time you’re done you have well over 233 gear, your guild has all quit, and you can socket some stuff you probably have sockets on already. Just in time for the new patch to invalidate it all 
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I dunno I’m lazy and at lvl 2 at the moment but I did also just restore this character from deleting a while ago
Not really, no.
It’s also insane how the Rank 6 upgrades are gated by Rep AND Renown. They’re not even accessible yet. On top of all this, for folks with alts, these upgrades are character-bound only, unlocking them on one’s main doesn’t open them for alts.
You can usually get that much rep per day, easily. The upper limit is a tad overkill/sheer luck but 1200-1400 rep per day is very reasonable. I usually get like 2.6k+ relics on a day when I care or need to farm a socket quickly.
“BuT KoRtHiA isn’T a BaD ZoNe it’S MeAnT fOr ALt’s!” - Most everyone trying to defend this awful zone when I call it for what it really is…
It is not for alts. The gear you can possible get from it can be traded, but only at 200 ilvl, they need to upgrade it themselves, and is random loot box-esque item so you can’t even guarantee its not the same thing you spent 1000 stygia on last time 
. It is not alt friendly. It’s a nest looting sim that despite being a whole different “world” looks exactly like the maw.
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Don’t forget the renown needed at the end mostly 
It’s a rep that lets you chip away at things…
Busy work since 9.2 won’t be here for a long time.
Why isn’t it 1 for 1 is the real question.
That’s because the grind for 233 is for solo or casual players NOT doing group content to work on and improve their gear over time.
It’s weird that you think adding hair color options takes away the ability to change a couple numbers on a reputation.
It’s this way because they want it this way, and all the implications that has.
I don’t remember the part of the maw that had trees, grass, and animals.