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[Kevin]

Furthermore, faction grinding is not for the soloist.  I'm not sure if this still works, but when I farmed Timbermaw faction, you could have a raid group doing the killing, and the entire raid would still get credit as long as you were healing teammates or damaging the mob.  Imagine 5 mages, 3 priests and 2 druids as an example group.  Or 8 mages and 2 priests, or 38 mages and 2 priests.  Point is that most of my farming was done 10 man and we were clearing faster than respawn on the northern felwood furbolg camp.
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They've decreased the range of how close to the mob you have to be to get rep for it so it doesn't always help to have a lot more people as while the spawn rates of mobs will go up a little you are still limited by the spawn rate of the mobs on incoming rep and a raid of 40 doesn't up the spawn rate that much. Most duo's will be able to kill plenty fast enough to be limited by the spawn rate as well. It's still mroe efficient for the guild/group, yes, because you have 5 people getting rep and night fighting for rep, but honestly if I've got 4 other people that have the time I'd rather be in an instance than farming rep with them. Not all the time. It can be fun to just get on TS and chat while repping up, but I have more fun with 5 mans than just about anything else in the game. :)

Edit: I wasn't clear with the changes to how the raid rep works you have to be pretty close to the mob that is dying to get rep. Somone killing High Chief winterfall and someone outside the walls killing a shaman I think are too far apart now to share rep. For a short time people in felwood could get rep from people killing stuff in winterspring if in the same raid because the range was so huge. So you would have raids with people in all the furbie camps destroying things and getting insanely fast rep (10 people to each camp, the 3 in WS and the 1 in felwood) meant insane kill speeds and tons of rep. Now however since the raid has to stay pretty bunched you won't get nearly the benefit.