Monday, October 8, 2012

Less Painful for Alts

With the ennui of daily questing quickly setting in, the thought of doing them for twelve different characters was extremely off-putting. Reputation is a major gating mechanism so there's really no way of avoiding them. Thankfully there's been enough grousing or something since Crithto announced this a few days ago:

Earning reputation with various factions has long been an important part to World of Warcraft and as time has gone on, we've made tweaks and changes to the system to make it more interesting and to give players access to unique items. For example, we recently hotfixed the game to apply a change to some reputation items which you can read about in our recently updated blog that allows players to purchase certain items much sooner. And we're not done!

Coming in a future patch, earning reputation is going to become much more fluid. Basically, once one of your characters has reached at least Revered reputation with a faction, all other characters on the same Battle.net account will then earn reputation with the same faction at twice the rate. Going one step further, and as an added bonus, your main character who reached Revered will also begin to earn double the reputation as he or she climbs to Exalted.


Here's a simplified break down:

  • Any single character earns Revered reputation with a faction
  • All other characters on the Battle.net account begin to earn double reputation for that one same faction
  • The Revered character earns double reputation as he or she works toward Exalted
  • ???
  • Profit
We’ll keep you posted as this change is closer to being implemented. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback!

This will seriously ease the pain though I won't know if it's enough until it's actually in-game and I'm working on a fourth or fifth alt. Going to add a comment myself.

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