"Grinding for Rep" - a statement guaranteed to drive fear into the heart of most WoW players. For the first 50 levels you play as you like, take a quest don't take a quest, learn a proffesion, sit down for an hour fishing. Then life takes a dramatic twist for the worse.
My first experience of Reputation was for the Timbermaws. I was running a quest series for the Linken Sword, and suddenly discovered the need to spend many hours killing the same beasties for 5 or 15 rep each. Every session would result in a calculation of how many Deadwoods it would take to get from Unfriendly to Neutral with the Timbermaws. As part of the original endgame it was designed to draw out the game interest for a bit longer. The result was parties of people camped out in certain areas killing anything that spawned immediately. After the release of The Burning Crusade, these areas became ghost towns.
The Timbermaws took 2 nights play and then after the jolly trip through Timbermaw Hold to discover that the process starts again in Winterspring there are more Repeatable quests and lots of slaying. I managed to get to 1502/3000 Neutral, and then drifted over to the Outlands.
So it was with a sense of dread that I discovered that I needed to get Reputation everywhere in the Outlands. However, I have started on the road down to getting friendly with the Sporeggor. This proved to be a cakewalk, a few collections, a bit of killing and there was a happy race, willing to talk to me and offer more crazy quests for more reputation. The main driving force was for the Survivalist's Pike http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=27751&locale=enUS;source=live .
Bring on the rep, because this time I am ready for it.
My first experience of Reputation was for the Timbermaws. I was running a quest series for the Linken Sword, and suddenly discovered the need to spend many hours killing the same beasties for 5 or 15 rep each. Every session would result in a calculation of how many Deadwoods it would take to get from Unfriendly to Neutral with the Timbermaws. As part of the original endgame it was designed to draw out the game interest for a bit longer. The result was parties of people camped out in certain areas killing anything that spawned immediately. After the release of The Burning Crusade, these areas became ghost towns.
The Timbermaws took 2 nights play and then after the jolly trip through Timbermaw Hold to discover that the process starts again in Winterspring there are more Repeatable quests and lots of slaying. I managed to get to 1502/3000 Neutral, and then drifted over to the Outlands.
So it was with a sense of dread that I discovered that I needed to get Reputation everywhere in the Outlands. However, I have started on the road down to getting friendly with the Sporeggor. This proved to be a cakewalk, a few collections, a bit of killing and there was a happy race, willing to talk to me and offer more crazy quests for more reputation. The main driving force was for the Survivalist's Pike http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=27751&locale=enUS;source=live .
Bring on the rep, because this time I am ready for it.
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