I was talking with guildmates about renown/reputation. I realized that I was stuck on renown 5, but I had done all the quests while they had done nothing or very little.
I was on my last quest to finish Sojourner of Azj-Kahet, but before turning in the quest I double checked my reputation. After finishing the quest I was rewarded with 500 Rep with “The General”, was even announced in the chat. But my reputation was still stuck on the same 2/9 2350 reputation I’ve had for a while.
I tried to reload, turn off all addons, relog. Nothing worked.
Tested kill a rare, that worked and I gained 50 rep with all three sub-rep under Severed Threads.
This issue seem to only be in Azj-Kahet. I read in US forum some people complained about the same thing.
TLDR;
Don’t gain reputation with The Severed Thread and The General, unsure if The Vizier and The Weaver has any quest that gains rep.
Only rares seems to work.
It’s not a bug, it simply works differently. You don’t gain reputation for the faction itself until you advance one of the sub-factions to rank up. The Weaver, General and Vizier all contribute to it.
So each time you rank up with one of them, you get a new rank in the Severed Threads. I do think the game should explain this better.