Quote:Isn't it much, much harder to get to exalted at 70 now anyway? The rep rewards for kills scale, I think, so you get like 1 rep per kill now.
-Bolty
Of my characters, Fafner got the trinket the first day that it was introduced. Baguette, my priest, who is now 65, got the trinket a week or so ago. In my opinion it is now much easier to get exalted than before they introduced the beads. Two additional factors, however: when Fafner was doing it, the furbolgs were heavily farmed, and it was hard to find a mob to kill. The area, at least on Stormrage, is still heavily farmed but not as bad as it used to be. Also at 64-65 Baguette was still getting exp and the full five rep points from the higher level mobs up until revered. My guess is that for a level 70 character to get exalted now would be no harder than it was originally for Fafner. Baguette would argue that Fafner is a noob.
As to the utility of the trinket, that is not the point. I have only seen someone use it once in pvp, and as I recall it didn't help them much. The peasant caller or even the battle chicken is much better. The Timbermaw ancestor might have a psychological effect however. In pve it does do something. Baguette and a rogue friend found themselves in a mildly sticky situation. The ancestor hit the mob with a couple of lightning bolts and kindly healed the rogue (something Baguette was not about to do). Neither Baguette nor the rogue died.
If I see the ancestor scaling in level I will report back.
What Blizzard changed that I don't like is that the torch for summoning Xandivious is no longer obtainable once you have turned in the quest. You used to be able to get replacements as many times as you liked. I'm thinking of getting Woad exalted just so she can get a torch to keep.
Edit: Zandivious is spelled with an "X".
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