No, they shouldn't. It's perfectly fine for some things in the game to require effort and time.
Yes.
Actually those requirements to unlock the allied races should be the Heritage Armor requirements.
The races should be easily unlocked just like normal races.
For older ones, yes. It should only require you to do the insurrection questline (for example) or finish Argus, etc. Those questlines are time consuming enough without "lmao grind the same handful of worldquests for a month!"
Alternatively, add rep gains into the relevant raids or dungeons or outdoor mobs once the expac is finished so if people want to just hash out the stupid rep in a few hours, let them. Time gating is stupid.
Ok, let's add rep grind for Draenei and Blood Elves then. All characters of these races will be locked until player gets exalted with Aldor and Scryers.
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They aren't very low. It takes much, much time. For me it was two months of buying contracts and doing emissaries every week.
You can get more reputation than that. The WQ's give small amounts but those add up. Honorbound/7th Legion Rep has a lot more ways to earn it, to the point where doing all of the WQ's for it that I saw one day would have given me ~1000 rep. And you can get missions that award reputation.
The Emissary is not the only place to earn reputation, it just awards the most.
I do hate how tangible and obvious the time gate is though. Overall though it's not that big of a deal, since you earn it for playing. The challenge for me is playing the character to earn the rep, rather than one of my other characters. Earning that rep is just about the only reason for me to log into that character anymore.
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It makes sense though since they're an allied race and not a new race that you first have to gain them as allies. It would be nice if the rep grind wasn't atrocious though, I do agree with that. Maybe if it's start at revered to start the quests to obtain them and all those quests give more rep. That way when you're done, you only have to do a few other quests for them to get exalted.
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They just have done it already so they want all players to suffer the same pain. Not to mention that they want to feel better than people who have more demanding job that doesn't let them play 24/7.
Thanks God for incursion world quests. They made getting this rep immensely easier. Now I am waiting for naga invasion that would help aswell.Getting exalted with Honorbound to unlock the Mag'Har was pretty easy. That was done just through normal play.
No, because I like them being rewards for additional/optional play.
I do think after two expansions it'd be fine to lower the requirement to revered. There will likely be more core races in the future, so I'd rather ARs remain an unlockable and not treated as their replacement. I'm glad people like them, but there is more novelty in their scarcity.
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I would prefer it to have more engaging story. Most of them are whether "Prank these pesky druids to please Pa'ku because she had fun when you did it yesterday" or "This enemy is a threat to our plans. Kill it for the Banshee Queen." When I am asking for new content, I am asking for new zone with 10+ chapters, full voice acting and without being timegated by a new reputation or patch schedule.
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This is plausible explanation. Otherwise we would have "Horde bias" crowd.
20? Try 9ish if you do one set and maybe 12-13 if you wait for the small reset later in the day. Not including contracts, emissaries, or any other reputation boosts like WQ bonus, you still unlock them pretty fast.
Loremaster, Tides of Vengeance, Pride of Kul'Tiras/Zandalar Forever you did achieve stuff with those. Loremaster gives you the first steps of flying, Tides of Vengeance unlocks a new quest chain (Not sure if Alliance get one) and a check on one of the three steps of unlocking Zandalari/Kul'Tiran. Pride of Kul'Tiras/Zandalar Forever gave you a new dungeon and oh look, another check on the associated AR. To unlock the best what a faction has to offer, shouldn't you be at the highest reputation with them?
No AR is going to be locked behind a BG requirement. PvP is already seen as a secondary thing, I remember the shitstorm that happened when they tied the MoP cloak into PvP.
BC timewalking is only up once every three months for a week and I believe it's about to become longer with WoD Timewalking. Not to mention, holy hell that would be underwhelming.
Cool, if you wanted to take it slow, by all means.