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World of Warcraftis changing the iconic Diplomacy racial trait for Humans to no longer increase faction reputation earnings inThe War Within. With many reputations becoming account-wide inThe War Within,World of Warcraftis making this change to verify players don’t feel required to play Humans in order to get an edge for their account.
Humans are one of themost popular races inWorld of Warcrafthistory. Beyond the fact that they are ingrained in the original conflict of theWarcraftfranchise, their broad class availability and useful racial abilities were big factors in their popularity. Diplomacy, one of their passive racial traits, is especially helpful, as it increases all reputation gains by 10%, making one of the longest grinds in the game much easier.
However, after nearly 20 years, this Human racial ability is being changed to no longer interact with reputation.WoW: The War Withinis overhauling reputation with the Warbands system, which makes most factions fromDragonflightonward shared across an entire account. In an effort not to force players to play Human characters to boost their Warband reputation gains, it is changing this racial trait to provide a different bonus.
Human Reputation Boost is Being Removed in WoW: The War Within
That said, this change isn’t being implemented until the Warbands system is implemented, meaning players have until theWar Withinpre-patch, or possibly even the expansion’s launch, to use the old Diplomacy.
Almost everyDragonflightreputation, including the six Renown factions, are being made account-wide inThe War Within, so fans that haven’t maxed out these factions yet can do so 10% faster on a Human.OlderWorld of Warcraftfactions will also be retroactively made account-widein future updates, so players should cash in on this bonus while they still can.
While Human fans are sad to see this classic racial bonus go away, the account-wide reputation change is exciting enough that it’s hard to be too upset about it.Warbands inWoW: The War Withininclude many alt-friendly featuresthatWorld of Warcraftplayers have been requesting for years. This change may be a tough pill to swallow for fans who rolled Human specifically for Diplomacy, but the tradeoff of not having to grind up many reputations on multiple characters more than makes up for it.
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.Dragonflight features an overhauled user interface, raises the level cap to 70, and introduces a new race and class.
