Saw MrGM video on youtube (pretty much an official Blizzard chanel at this point) listing Reknown rewards, and…
There’s… there’s hardly anything in there. A few cloaks transmog? Is it worth even doing rep at this point?
Remember when reps actually had good Rewards and there were reasons to do it, back in Shadowlands, BfA and earlier expansions? Sure, it was a grind, but having those rewards was actually fun… now… feels like they’ve pretty much stopped trying at this point.
Worst thing is… there’s still enough time to fix and change this! It’s just up to Blizzard.
I nearly always outgear the rewards before I get reach the renown, but that has been a standing issue for me in WoW. I end up buying them for transmog these days.
I’ve not seen the vid myself, I’m not one for youtube much, prefer the written format.
I’m sure MrGM would be flattered to be called
He’s clearly doing a good job at keeping you (and others) informed about the game.
I prefer that reputation rewards are easily outgeared, that means that they won’t be mandatory and considering that the reputations will be warbound they are still a decent source for alts.
I’m sure there is a happy medium between rewarding and not mandatory. Appearances and normal/heroic level gear after a month or so is an excellent compromise. I haven’t checked the new rewards, but the ones in DF I thought were perfectly fine.
The reason it was a problem, and the reason the original game didn’t have it, is that it may end up compelling players to grind a certain amount every day, and there’s no flexibility.
You set the timer, you log in, you play your 1 hour, then you log off.
If you fail to do this, you fall behind and you can’t catch up.
If you play too long, the game tells you there’s nothing left to do.
It distracts you from what you really want to be doing. In particular, it distracts you from adventures and challenges.
World of Warcraft was deliberately designed not to have this because this design destroyed an Ultima Online server that one of the lead designers played on called Siege Perilous.
It has no place in WoW. It never did. And I’m glad it’s gone.