MMO Gaming

I don’t know many people that are fans of repeatedly killing the same thing over and over to increase a certain thing, in this case reputation with various factions in World of Warcraft. My main is a Skinner/Leatherworker and it seems that all the good leatherworking patterns are with the most annoying groups to get my reputation up with. Of course, I would probably be saying the opposite if I had to grind rep with others, but that’s a different matter.

My main problem is the entire idea of grinding reputation for a group, but especially when these rewards are mildly, if at all, better than what I can use. Some of the rewards at Exalted reputation are nice, but none that I think are worth the time it would take to grind that out.

Given, they did make reputation easier to get in the Burning Crusade expansion, so it isn’t nearly as much of a grind as the earlier reputations were (furbolg rep anyone?) but it is still an annoying time-sink. I know, this probably goes against the entire idea of MMOs in general. They are just one time-sink after another to get a reward, which isn’t necessarily bad, if the time sinks don’t feel like I am spending 4 hours at a time killing the same enemy. There needs to be some variation in what is being done, some way that is more fun to gain this reputation than a mindless grind for an item drop.

For instance, running instances is a grind, but it is one that is still fun (a little less so when wiping obviously) it doesn’t feel like I am wasting my play time when I run an instance. For players that enjoy PvP doing battlegrounds over and over is a grind, yes, but still fun because things can change. Who you are fighting, who you are working with, etc. and that is the way that reputation should work as well.

Repeatable quests, also, aren’t great ways of making it more fun to grind the reputation because there is no variation. It would be different, if what I was doing had some sort of effect on the world I was playing in, but that isn’t the case so it feels mindless and boring.

At any rate, going any further would probably be best left to a Repairing Gears topic, which I don’t want to get into that particular topic this week.

repeatable quests, reputation, grinding, farming, instances, battlegrounds, rewards, time-sink