Well I was enjoying playing zereth mortis although I was sceptical at first as it is totally removed from killing the demons etc. that we had all got used to. That was until I started farming for rep. I know everyone has to do it for various achievements, but having just killed a rare I received 10 enlightened rep. It’s bad enough having to wait about for hours for a spawn but to be insulted by awarding only 10 rep. is somewhat of a joke. The rep. for revered is 12000 at 10 a time there will be a new patch out before I finish and rep for exalted is 21000. Adding constraints like this has previously ruined WOW and it seems like Blizzard are determined to do it again. Ok you get rep for doing daily quest etc. but there are usually only 4 or 5 of those. No wonder players numbers saw a dramatic decrease and I am seriously considering quitting the game myself. It’s like working an 8 hour shift and getting paid a pound. The game now seems like it’s nothing but grind, grind, grind with no fun anymore. Very disheartened.
It would be great if we could grind that reputation, but I believe the idea is to timegate it behind a weekly quest u get in ZM that gives 1500 rep? (correct me if I am wrong), and you also have soem daily world quest that give you reputation. So you should get most of your reputation by doing WQ and that weekly quest and not by killing rares.
The reason Rares give such little rep is to discourage people spending 8 hours killing them.
The way to get this rep is to:
Do the Campaign story quests, several thousand for that.
Kill the World Boss once a week, 500 rep.
Do the Patterns within Patterns weekly quest, 1250.
Do some Rares and WQs daily as part of Patterns and earn bits and bobs.
There may be some for grouped contend (I don’t know, don’t do that).
Over the week you’ll earn 2000+, so for your 12k revered that’s 6 weeks.
Slowish but not a lot of work.
It really isn’t and I’m lazy (only managed rank 4 for Korthia Codex).
World Boss, a few minutes and even if you die you get the credit, that’s 20% for Patterns weekly.
Do a Puzzle WQ every day, that’s a minute and quite easy. If you’re really lazy get Poco to solve it for you.
Do one or two other WQs a day is another 15 minutes and when doing those you’ll see a rare or a treasure and they’re another few minutes.
Depending on how much of this you do a day likely means you don’t even nned the full seven days for your Patterns weekly, when it’s done you can ignore ZM til the following week.
None of it is hard, none of it takes very long. Not exactly work.
One of the main reasons i liked old expansions and especially MoP was because if i wanted i could just roll up my sleeves and go ham on killing spree when i wanted to level my reps.
Personally i prefer choices if i want i can just farm mobs for XX amount of hours and i absolutely hate doing daily quests that give me F all reputation that i would be required to do from weeks to months.
500 Rep from WB
1250 - 1350 (Human) for Weekly Quest (+2250 gold for completing it)
1500 from Raid (estimate) LFR counts
= 3250 per week without doing WQ, Without hunting elites (they are not rare), without contract of the enlightened.
This all without Darkmoon Buff, or the week where you earn double rep.
I don’t mind it either. It’s the idea of having to grind it again for alts that terrifies me. Why rep is not account wide yet is completely ridiculous to me.
The new area started with the Sepulcher reputation added to the Enlightened.(50 for each boss?)
So Contract from Inscription (Callings and any world quest) ,the weekly quest and 3 world quests per day is probably 4 or 5 weeks for Exalted?(Cant bother to do the math right now).
Still hoping for that. Got allot of rep exalted on a char i don’t play anymore. Nice for the 100 rep mount but other then that it does nothing for me now.
Same with ShaoHao and Black prince rep there was options to either do the quests or mindless spree which is something i like and i think why i liked catalysm was because there was this same option plus the tabard dungeon way.