I love doing achievements and I am surely insane by enjoying it.
The thing is, I play a DK main, who never had access to the easy reputation grind for warsong gulch and arathi basin in classic.
I’m currently working towards 99% of all achievements (I’ll never get gladiator, that’s for sure) and I have a little spreadsheet of how many wins I need in all of the BGs to complete my goal.
Well, I need about 300 wins across all battlegrounds to finish my battlemaster, which already sounds overwhelming, but it’s the battlemaster. That’s totally fine.
Here it comes: to get exalted with silverwing sentinels and league of arathor, I’d need about 350 wins each (700 wins * 15 minutes = 175 hours of pure bg time while WINNING, not counting any losses).
In my opinion that’s completely ridiculous. I don’t think I know any DKs who have done this, nor will do it in the near future. The only Justicars/Conquerors I know have done it in classic via the token quest turn ins, which gave 250 rep for 1 win ON TOP of the 100 rep for winning.
My sugggestion is to re-add this system or boost the rep gain for those BGs by 100%, maybe even 200% to make it more attainable for people who did not play classic.
This issue might seem irrelevant for most who read this, but if that’s the case, boosting the rep will be irrelevant for you as well.
Please blizzard, it would be really great if you’d make a change along those lines for Cataclysm Classic.
As someone who farmed Battlemaster, The justicar, and Bloodthirster. The one i found the absolute worst to farm, was the Justicar.
Even after getting AB master achievement, i was MILES off the rep needed for justicar.
I got the achievements years ago, on my retail character (back in MoP, except bloodthirster that was in WoD i think). And to this day i HATE(!) AB, purely beacause of the pain The justicar gave me:P
That being said, i wouldnt want them to lighten the requirements for the achievements. I understand your frustration, ooh how i do, but i still think they hold value when they are that painful to get.
Ill never go for those achievements ever again, so it wont affect me if they lower the requirements or not though, just my view on the titles themselves i guess.
Yeah, the Justicar really is very time consuming, but for no apparent reason.
In retail they did nerf the rep grind back in 2015 according to the wowhead page:
It got boosted by 500% (from 10 Rep/160 Res to 50 Rep/160 Res).
So why keep the bad game design in classic wow for longer than really necessary?
Cata would be a perfect opportunity to lighten the rep grind to a managable amount.
To my utmost dismay I found out that Blizzard changed the Arathi Basin reputation in Cataclysm to the worse.
Back in 2010 they changed the gain from 10rep/160res to 10rep/260res, nerfing it by 40%!
BLIZZARD PLEASE, DO NOT DO THIS!
Please lighten the rep grind, don’t make it harder… people in classic got it basically for free while the WotLK/Cataclysm chads need to live in WSG and AB.
Just to quote the article:
Is this a good game design? Is it good to have a goal like this, one that is so far out there that you really have to focus on a single character for years to get it?
Yes, for years. Let’s say you are a relatively casual player and can play 3-4 AB battles a night (2 hours with queue times). You better keep up that pace for 286 days.
Nothing but Arathi Basin. No Arena. No PvE.
Just AB. BS, LM, ST. No, go GM. LM inc 3. Go Farm. GO FARM. BS going. BS gone.
To emphasize: it IS already bad. Make it better, not worse, please!
