WoW TBC Classic: Phase 4 facilitates access to "Hero" dungeons

We already introduced you to the upcoming phase 4 of WoW: Burning Crusade Classic in a big preview. The big highlight of the content update is of course the troll raid Zul'Aman. But there's a lot more coming with Phase 4. Blizzard designers want to introduce the Great Drums of Leatherworkers recipes with Zul'Aman. G'eras will have an expanded Badge of Justice offering for you in Shattrath, and you'll be able to farm Badges in Karazhan and Zul'Aman in the future.

What about the Hero Dungeons?

Badge of Justice from Karazhan and Zul'Aman? This also inevitably means that the heroic dungeons are less interesting for many characters. Or to put it another way: You will have a harder time finding teammates who can still use something from the heroic dungeons and meet the current reputation requirements (Respectable with the respective faction).

In the official WoW forum it was therefore asked whether Blizzard would like to lower the reputation requirements for heroic dungeons slowly, in order to lure at least one or two more twinks into the "Heros" with the coming phase. After all, this change came in the original Burning Crusade with the Zul'Aman patch 2.3 as well.

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The answer from Blizzard developer Aggrend: Yup, we'll do it. The reputation requirement for Hero dungeons will be lowered from Respectful to Benevolent with the upcoming phase. Some players like, "Cool! I'm excited." Other players like, "This is a slap in the face to all the players who have brought reputation to Respectful on umpteen characters. Blizzard has listened to casuals way too many times. Leave it like this!"

Yup, there really were comments like that. What do you guys think about this? Are you looking forward to the upcoming phase and the lowered dungeon requirements? Or will you only farm the small and large raid instances after the Zul'Aman patch anyway if you need badges? Tell us in the comments!