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Upcoming Reputation Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Earning reputation with various factions has long been an important part to World of Warcraft and as time has gone on, we've made tweaks and changes to the system to make it more interesting and to give players access to unique items. For example, we recently hotfixed the game to apply a change to some reputation items which you can read about in our recently updated blog that allows players to purchase certain items much sooner. And we're not done!

Coming in a future patch, earning reputation is going to become much more fluid. Basically, once one of your characters has reached at least Revered reputation with a faction, all other characters on the same Battle.net account will then earn reputation with the same faction at twice the rate. Going one step further, and as an added bonus, your main character who reached Revered will also begin to earn double the reputation as he or she climbs to Exalted.

Here's a simplified break down:
  • Any single character earns Revered reputation with a faction
  • All other characters on the Battle.net account begin to earn double reputation for that one same faction
  • The Revered character earns double reputation as he or she works toward Exalted
  • ???
  • Profit

We’ll keep you posted as this change is closer to being implemented. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback!
This article was originally published in forum thread: Upcoming Reputation Changes started by chaud View original post
Comments 239 Comments
  1. Blockygame's Avatar
    Here's a question for whinnie whiners, how does this adversely affect you in any way, shape or form? Good change. If you're bitching about this then you're doing it wrong, heaven forbid you get a little more time in the day to be productive irl.
  1. Typhod's Avatar
    I love MoP as it is now, don't nerf it even further!!
  1. Articuno's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DisposableHero View Post
    I'm still waiting on a logical case that says making that means more efficient somehow diminishes the enjoyment of someone else.
    Because accomplishing something difficult makes you happy, and it can also make you stand out more which also makes you happy. Have you never done something impressive in your entire life or something?
  1. Neonic's Avatar
    soo once you hit rev 12000/12000, the amount of of rep to exalted goes down from 0/21000 to 0/10500. makes sense... Would have been helpful when I was farming hydraxian rep..........
  1. Vongimi's Avatar
    Brilliant solution, though I could have done without the double XP for the main from revered - exalted.
  1. Farabee's Avatar
    This change can't come soon enough. I feel like I'm going to delay doing anything with my alts until it comes about.
  1. slime's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by endersblade View Post
    All of you silly little whiners complaining about Blizzard catering to casuals, actually saying you LIKE the rep grind, etc, obviously do not play many alts. I have 12 characters to not only get to 90, but grind out rep once they get there. I'm sorry, I'd like to get out and actually ENJOY the fucking game, not spend 8+ hours a day just grinding out rep so I can get mounts and patterns. That is not fun in the least, I don't care how mentally fucked up you are.

    I forgot where they mention that mounts and pets are requirements in this game... oh yea, that's a choice you make - to do what you WANT to do to get what you WANT. Personally I think if the first thing you gravitate towards after finally getting a character to 90, is the thing you hate most.. you are the one with a problem.
  1. lolo855's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by NecroFrYeR View Post
    Keep catering to the damn whiners. Rep was fine the way it was. Too many lazy ass people looking for instant gratification.
    I do understand needing exalted for mounts, but the rep required for gear is completely retarded, like shadopan, by the time i ll have that rep to exalted i ll be decked in raid hc gear, what's the point of even trying to farm it ? If there was always an option to keep getting rep all day long ( mob killing like the black prince rep, or turn ins, or challenge mode rare drops that boost your rep ) it would be fine because I could actually have a use for these items, now there rep's are completely retarded and these items are useless except for those who don't raid or barely want to do dungeons.
  1. subanark's Avatar
    Sweet! It will be a while before I can spend time leveling my tailor/enchanter, and being able to grind up rep faster to revered for the patterns will make it much less painful.

    Although I do see some potential problems if applied to all factions. E.g. Have 1 toon with scryers rep another with aldor rep. Then a 3rd toon can do the repeatable turnins for both sides and get exalted with both (I mean they could double the faction loss too to avoid this).

    We will also see if effects that increase your faction to a set amount will be affected, like when you switch between oracle and frenzy heart (or that quest that bumps you up to revered with argent dawn).
  1. Peacemoon's Avatar
    Wow, Blizzard are just all over the place on this topic. Whether they are right or wrong the main impression I get is a design team who aren't in control of this situation and some ideas that clearly weren't thought through.
  1. Motocarota's Avatar
    I think I'll wait some more time to have the grinding totally removed... LOL
  1. Seref's Avatar
    Forget that, Reputations should be account-wide just like Achievements. If I get an Achieve for being Exalted, it's account-wide. But the actual Faction remains char-bound...

    The whole concept of account-wide Achievements/Mounts was to discourage the lack of people switching mains, since they didn't want to lose all of their acclompishments.

    I want to quit my DK and make my Druid my main, but my main goal has always been to get the Exalted/Beloved titles. My Druid has nothing exalted... -.-
    Not to mention some retired facions exalted on my DK, or ones that'd hard to get. Zandalar, Brood of Nozdormu, Wintersaber, etc...
    I don't wanna be forced to level/grind on a char I don't want to, just to get one measely Achievement/Title for my whole account >_<

    PS. Why does Blizzard have to specifically also state that the main char to reach Revered ALSO gets 2x till Exalted? Wouldn't that be included in the explanation: "All characters on the account gain double the rep"? o_0
  1. Cakka's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Seref View Post
    I want to quit my DK and make my Druid my main, but my main goal has always been to get the Exalted/Beloved titles. My Druid has nothing exalted... -.-
    Not to mention some retired facions exalted on my DK, or ones that'd hard to get. Zandalar, Brood of Nozdormu, Wintersaber, etc...
    I don't wanna be forced to level/grind on a char I don't want to, just to get one measely Achievement/Title for my whole account >_<
    Eh? You do realize that any exalted reps on that DK would count towards the achi even if you got the rest on your druid?
  1. Peacemoon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cakka View Post
    Eh? You do realize that any exalted reps on that DK would count towards the achi even if you got the rest on your druid?
    This is incorrect, you need all the reps on one character for those achievements.
  1. zrankfappa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jerakal View Post
    ALT Reputation Easy mode activated.

    Fixed that for you ...

    I for one am fine with grinding this on my main ... my other 7 toons and soon to be monk ... not so much. I approve of these changes.
  1. Destruktion's Avatar
    I have a better idea Blizzard: why don't you just give all characters all Exalted reps right off the bat?

    The 2x rate for mains from Revered to Exalted doesn't even make sense!!!
  1. Arkenaw's Avatar
    The double rep for revered to exalted is really weird, but I approve of the faster rep for alts.
  1. WingsofLiberty's Avatar
    Bring back tabards or make reputation attainable via specific dungeons. This new rep system(completely changed from as back as TBC)is UTTER SHIT.

    Farming 1,2,3 specific reps via dailies is one thing,doing it for ALL the reputations in an expansion is a timesink, wasting your time doing the same thing OVER and OVER again.

    That said, it's a good change but the reps from dungeons were better. And you know why? Because even after you were decked in epics/blues you still had a very good reason to farm them again and again..
  1. crazyterran's Avatar
    Ya'll can get your jimmies unrustled, they are implementing it in the future, by the time most of us are Exalted already.
  1. Oneirophobia's Avatar
    Why do people mistake convenience with "easy and hard?"

    Was rep grinding hard and took a great deal of skill and only the BESTEST HARDCORIEST PLAYARS EVAR got anything to exalted?

    No. The only thing required for any rep was time. Rep grinding is just one big massive time sink. Doing the same 5 or so dailies every day does not take

    any kind of skill. All it takes is boredom. On top of that, doing the same rep grinding across 3 or more alts does not take any skill, either. It takes

    excessive boredom and possible addiction to WoW to want to do.


    To anyone upset by this change, tell me, what exactly are you going to miss about the older rep system? That it won't take you a month to grind a faction,

    it'll only take 3 weeks? Lawd have murseh.

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