Was Ravenholdt/Syndicate content scrapped or what?

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Like, I’m looking at those factions…

  1. Except insane title (added way later afaik) there is nothing from this one. No title, reward, mog, no tabard, anything? Just grind pointlessly and the final grind is extra “annoying”.
  2. Syndicate can’t be levelled above neutral.

So - what was the point of those?

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To get insane I suppose (game was also new so it was either scrapped content or they just added it for the sake of it. Same with getting exalted with the cartels being kinda pointless).

Other than that Ravenholdt is part of the story until legion. Ravenholdt also got kinda “lit” by a certain black dragon and the rogue player.

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Yeah, I decided to do the legendary questline on my rogue alt I never play just for the sake of it and I’m just wondering now why this faction is a faction at all.

And yeah, goblin cartels are also pointless, they could add like 1 tabard/mog/tilte per those old factions tbh.
like everlook - tabard, gadgetzan - title, etc. idk.

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I don’t think its scrapped. There is a guide on wowheads how to do it. For Raveholdt you will need to hand in a bunch of boxes that you can farm in BRD or Arathi Highlands. You need a lot of them to get to exalted. I would suggest doing this on a rouge and then send the lockboxes to which ever character is busy with the achievement. Note this now a FoS.

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It’s classic content; much of the stuff from back them wasn’t really “fleshed out” in game, but just hinted at and the RPG part of the game made players fill in the gaps / play around with the foundations. It serves no purpose other than offering some additional world building.

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Somebody wrote this week that WoW just hides / obfuscates the old computer RPG stuff of “just grind” by adding (low drop rate) quests on top of it. Reputation and faction rewards are quests, just like achievements later.

Quest: Clear Deadmines 1000 times solo.
Reward: Title: Miner
Most people would complain right away about insanity but there is a percentage who does sit down and do it.

I also assume that these factions are just there for decoration and the lack of rewards is actually helpful to avoid Timeless Isle vibes. Or the goblin grind for that matter. Or Timbermaw Hold. Or…
“Only 250000 more ants to squash!”

Botting is just a phenomenon of the core issue: for the vast majority (99%), the game was too grindy and boring already. And these factions are just icing on the cake.

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Yeah but they deleted Shendralar, right? Like it was in game and had “purpose” and then it was completely removed.

As for Syndicate - that can’t be grinded in any way lol

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Proberbly some RP stuff and questline which never made it and git scraped since wow was for 2004 standarts, not a finisehd game, rather unfinisched, many content got scraped (Hyal for example or some BG in ashzara)

I guess they had an intended use but it got srapped to bring WoW on the amrket in time.

both still exast as minor faction but you have absolutly no benefit by imrpoving it, people sasume both shoud had an role in classic but afterall the idead got scraped and its just for meme reason toimrpve them as possible

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It’s a pity that these old factions were abandoned. I think both a Shendralar and a Ravenholdt storyline could be very popular among players. At least I would enjoy them for sure.

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I also get the “insane” achievement part but I don’t get why exalted Ravenholdt doesn’t give any real rewards. Like we are showered with mogs/tabards for pennies (like fun stuff for 350 iron on siren isle that take no time to collect), yet the most arduous grind doesn’t even give a silly title (without other rep grinds which might be more mundane) or a tabard? or a fun weapon mog? I don’t get it.