Reputation

[Bolty]

Now, can anyone with more insight tell me that what I wrote above is rubish and all lies and that it is not that bad? Should I keep my scourge stones by the way or just turn them in right now and as I get them or keep them for a year when I might no longer get rep for killing undead? Any advice?[right][snapback]106924[/snapback][/right]

Other people have already commented on all of this pretty well, but I'll chime in anyway.

At level 60, experience ends. Reputation begins. Rep = exp at level 60. This is why Blizzard eventually had the rep system interface upgrades in 1.10, where your exp bar is replaced by a rep bar of your choosing.

Just like you could score exp by doing quests, you can also score rep. A lot of your quests that you can now do at 60 will score you rep. This is the new "grind." Remember that quests were an illusion in order to make the exp grind not seem so bad. If you think of rep as your new exp, maybe it won't hurt so much.

As you noted, some factions are less important than others, repwise. Timbermaw is pretty much a crafter-only rep grind; don't bother with it unless you want those recipes. And as has been noted already, you REALLY want to hit them with a group. I thought the grind to Friendly was impossible until one morning when I started up a PuG raid group grinding Deadwoods; in 2.5 hours, I scored something like 5000 rep total just killing furbolgs. Ok, pretty monotonous, yes, but timewise, not much different from a large instance run. It's not as bad as it seems if you do it in a group.

Argent Dawn, Cenarian Circle, and Zandalar rep is much nicer. You'll score very nice enchants and items from these factions. Also, none of those are that hard to build up.

Argent Dawn: you'll get to Revered just by killing elites in the Scholomance/Stratholme instances - which you'll be doing anyway to gear up and quest. No need to do Cauldrons or hand in scourgestones until then.

Cenarian Circle: run AQ20 or do Field Duty quests if you're bored.

Zandalar: run Zul'Gurub a lot and the faction will roll in as you do quests and score loot.

Look how long it took you to get to level 60. That was the exp grind. Now you have a new grind. You can either ignore it or go for it with gusto. Timbermaw's a timesink, but give the other ones a shot.

-Bolty