It is also exactly the direction Blizzard promised when Warbands were introduced. As we explained in our complete guide to how WoW Warbands work, the long-term idea was always to make an account feel like one roster rather than twenty characters independently convincing the same faction that they are trustworthy. Dragonflight reputations were converted first, Shadowlands followed later, and Patch 12.1.5 is now moving the line backward through two more expansions.
Legion’s Major Reputations Are Going Warband-Wide
According to the current Patch 12.1.5 development notes, Legion reputations moving into the Warband system include the expansion’s nine main factions:
- The Nightfallen
- Valarjar
- The Wardens
- Dreamweavers
- Highmountain Tribe
- Court of Farondis
- Armies of Legionfall
- Army of the Light
- Argussian Reach
Talon’s Vengeance and Legion’s six fishing reputations are also currently flagged as part of the Warband conversion. That makes the change much broader than simply updating the factions attached to Legion’s original leveling zones.
Legion remains one of WoW’s strongest collector expansions nearly a decade later, something we touched on in our look back at every World of Warcraft expansion. Its reputation system is tied to vendors, Paragon caches, toys, pets and several mounts, which means players still have perfectly good reasons to return even if the Burning Legion itself has had enough defeats for one franchise.
Battle for Azeroth Reputations Are Included Too
Battle for Azeroth gets the same treatment. The currently listed neutral reputations include:
- Champions of Azeroth
- Tortollan Seekers
- Rustbolt Resistance
- Rajani
- Uldum Accord
Alliance factions such as Proudmoore Admiralty, Order of Embers, Storm’s Wake, 7th Legion and Waveblade Ankoan are included, alongside Horde equivalents including Zandalari Empire, Talanji’s Expedition, Voldunai, The Honorbound and The Unshackled.
There are still some PTR questions around exactly how faction-specific reputations interact across Alliance and Horde equivalents, so we would not assume that Exalted Waveblade Ankoan automatically means Exalted Unshackled until Blizzard clarifies the conversion. Patch 12.1.5 is still in development, after all. We have been following the patch since its client first appeared through the Battle.net launcher, and details can still change before release.
Your Reputation From Different Alts Will Not Be Added Together
There is one very important Warband rule to understand before opening the character screen and expecting mathematical miracles.
Existing reputation is normally converted using the highest progress reached by any character on your account. Blizzard does not add the reputation earned by all your alts together.
For example, imagine your main is Revered with the Army of the Light while an old alt is already Exalted. When that reputation becomes Warband-wide, the Warband should inherit the furthest progress: Exalted. You do not combine 18,000 reputation from one character, another 12,000 from somebody else and suddenly materialize three Paragon caches.
Blizzard specifically designed Warband reputation this way because adding every character’s one-time quest reputation together would heavily reward players with enormous alt armies. Once converted, however, future eligible reputation progression becomes shared across the Warband.
That distinction is worth remembering after situations such as Turbulent Timeways forcing alt players to discover that not every useful system is automatically account-wide. Patch 12.1.5 is doing the opposite here: these reputation bars genuinely are becoming shared progression.
This Is Excellent News for Old Reputation Farming
The practical advantage becomes obvious if your reputation progress is scattered across characters. Perhaps your Legion main has Exalted Nightfallen and Highmountain Tribe, while another character did Argus and reached Exalted with Army of the Light. Maybe your Alliance alt finished Rustbolt while your Horde character spent months in Nazjatar.
Instead of treating all those achievements as isolated character histories, Warbands can finally recognize the best progress across your account.
That makes older collector farming considerably cleaner. Timewalking already regularly sends players back into previous expansions for mounts, reputation bonuses and old vendor rewards. Being able to choose whichever character you actually want to play while continuing shared reputation progression is exactly the kind of modernization those older systems needed.
It also fits Blizzard’s broader move away from repeat alt chores. Earlier in Midnight, Legends of the Haranir became account-wide instead of being endlessly repeatable across characters. Modern WoW increasingly distinguishes between “I enjoy playing alts” and “therefore I would like to perform the identical bureaucracy fourteen times.”
Shadowlands Already Got This Treatment
Legion and Battle for Azeroth are not the first old expansions Blizzard has revisited. Most Shadowlands reputations became Warband-wide in Patch 11.1.5, although character-choice systems such as Covenant Renown remained separate.
Blizzard has always said some older reputations may remain character-specific when sharing them would break their underlying design. The classic Aldor and Scryer rivalry is the obvious example: being simultaneously devoted to two mutually opposed factions because your Warband accountant found a loophole would be thematically questionable even by WoW standards.
But the Legion/BFA conversion is another large step backward through the game’s history. If Blizzard continues at this pace, collectors can reasonably hope more older expansion reputations eventually receive the same treatment.
That would be particularly welcome as WoW continues adding more things to collect at an increasingly energetic pace. We recently argued that collectors may be the players most exposed to WoW’s relentless modern content cadence. Making old progression less repetitive is one of the easiest ways Blizzard can compensate.
Patch 12.1.5 Is Looking Bigger Than a Small Mid-Season Patch
The reputation conversion also adds another meaningful feature to an update that is rapidly becoming larger than its patch number suggests. We already knew Patch 12.1.5 would introduce Labyrinths and another one-boss raid. Now it is bringing major Warband improvements, new gearing systems, collector rewards and a considerable collection of quality-of-life changes as well.
For Legion and BFA veterans, though, this may be one of the simplest improvements in the entire patch.
You earned the reputation once.
Your account remembers it.
Your alts can finally stop introducing themselves.
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