You are one of the only people who says this is the better one. Time-gating something for the sake of time-gating it doesn’t make it better.
I get that multiple people are able to make the shadestone’s, but, there won’t be many who would do the reputation. There are a load of people who don’t even know that the rep exists.
As I said, you have your opinion, but your opinion is what’s causing Blizzard to add more and more time-gated rubbish into this game. I prefer the option of grinding as much as I want or as little as I want, I hate it when a game tells me how much I can grind something.
Yeah. god forbid there are some nice people like me who took it upon themselves to get the cauldrens for the raids. Nobody asked me. I just did this on my own as a way to help the guild progress. I had the time in BfA to play and gather reseourves so i did not mind.
Even after making the cauldren i had plenty, far more than enough, for myself to make flasks.
This xpac is a bit of a pita to gather herbs atm. Cant fly. Tons of bots.