World of Warcraft Dragonflight’s New Renown System Seems Like a Great Replacement for Reputation
Blizzard introduced a new form of endgame progression to World of Warcraft known as Renown with Shadowlands, and it looks like the studio is planning on expanding the system even more in Dragonflight.Previously, the Renown system was tied to the four Covenants of Shadowlands and would lead to cosmetic unlocks, player power upgrades, and new story chapters. This was alongside the classic reputation system that World of Warcraft has used since launch, but Dragonflight is changing the entire thing.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be removing the classic reputation system and will replace it with a new version of the Renown system. Each faction on the Dragon Isles will have their own Renown tab filled with rewards for players to collect. They will most likely spend a lot of time grinding out these new Renown levels as they adventure across the new zones, and it seems like it will be worth the time. While the feature still shares some similarities with the old reputation system, this new Renown system is a pretty nice replacement to a pretty dated system.
The Leveling Experience of World of Warcraft Needs Some Work
Before World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, players would spend a lot of time grinding out faction reputation to unlock new things to buy. Almost all the factions on Azeroth had their own reputation, and it could be a very tedious grind. Players would have to spend a lot of time doing short daily quests, collecting certain resources, killing the same enemies repeatedly, or running around with that faction's tabard equipped. It was the primary focus of max-level players in-between their dungeon or raid runs, and Blizzard has not done much to make it more engaging.
The reputation was presented as a green bar that would
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