WoW: Dragonflight Won't Have Reputations, Will Feature Renown Instead
World of Warcraft upcoming expansion, Dragonflight, won't feature the reputation system players of Blizzard's MMORPG have long been accustomed to. Instead, it will use an improved system from the game's Shadowlands expansion, renown.
Reputations have been a part of WoW from the game's launch way back in 2004. Each new expansion would go on to introduce various new factions players could earn reputation with. Players would start at neutral standing with each faction, and over time progress to friendly, revered, and then finally exalted by completing quests, farming dungeons, or killing specific types of enemies. Each new level of reputation standing would unlock additional rewards from that faction, with things like exclusive mounts and best-in-slot items often requiring exalted status.
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That won't be the case in Dragonflight, as highlighted in a new build of the Dragonflight alpha. There are still factions to curry favor with--the Dragonscale Expedition, the Maruuk Centaur, the Iskaara Tuskarr, and the Valdrakken Accord--but instead of farming reputation levels, players will be earning renown.
It's a system that was used, and widely disliked, in Shadowlands, but in Dragonflight it seems to have been improved for the better. Instead of having to wait long periods of time to reach new reward tiers via the reputation system, the renown system dishes out rewards far more often in an almost battle-pass-like way, with factions
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