With theShadowlandsrelease date just announced,World of Warcraftplayers are scrambling to finish up their goals duringBattle for Azeroth. At the same time, a100 percent EXP buffhas been present the last few months to help level up alts before the new expansion arrives in October, but now a bonus reputation buff is returning to help the final push.
The Impressive Influence buff was previously available from April 20th to May 18th and doubled reputation gains from all sources forLegionandBattle for Azerothfactions. While players enjoyed being able to max out reputations and earn paragon caches more easily, they were disappointed to learn the buff wouldn’t be extended like its EXP counterpart. However, Blizzard has decided to bring it back for entire month of September.
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Just like before, the 100 percent bonus still applies to the sameWorld of Warcraftfactions withinLegionandBfA. However, the buff now also applies to both factions introduced in 8.3: the Uldum Accord and Rajani. Since the only way to farm reputation with either group is to do weekly assaults, this ends up saving players a lot of time and effort. On the other hand, this will be the best chance for anyone who still hasn’t completed the reputation requirements of ‘Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’ to do so because flying inBfAzones will remain locked behind both achievements unlikeWarlords of DraenorandLegionflying.
In the end, this bonus reputation couldn’t have come at a better time as the majority of players who have nothing to do can take advantage to unlock allied races now or earn more cosmetics and gold before stepping intoShadowlands. But the buff lasting just over 4 weeks also means thepre-patch invasionwith no current release date may be coming right afterwards.
World of Warcraftis available on PC.World of Warcraft: Shadowlandswill release on October 26th/27th worldwide.
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