Thanks for this post, doing it as we speak. Very easy + fast rep.
The summoners' Tomb rep grind seems to be fixed, the dwarfs aggro you as soon as they "spawn" so seems only those who can drop out of combat can now effectively farm this :P
Highly bannable..
I would be very disappointed if people got banned because of doing this.
They both give a headstart. And the severity doesnt change the fact if its an exploit or not. People got banned for using the exploit to get a brewfest mount, which is essentially the same: they both rewards a mount (Brewfest exploit and this one)
I never said resetting is an exploit. But the fact it keeps giving rep is a bug and thus bannable.Are you kidding me? Resetting mobs in low level dungeons isn't circumventing game mechanics. Did people who reset trash in ICC for rep get banned? No. Will people who use this method to farm city rep get banned? No.
Huh? Mobs give rep when they die, every time they die. I have never heard of a mob that only gave rep the first time you killed it and then stopped giving rep. This is not a bug.
And no, it's not a head start at all. Everyone can buy the tabard, everyone can farm rep, just because someone found a more efficient way doesn't make it a head start. A head start would be if the tabard vendor was in a cata-only zone and someone found a way in to buy the tabard when others couldn't.