No it wont take "years"
I ground rep for Scyrer doing nothing but hunting for signets in Netherstorm. Droprate was 25 percent, one stack of 10 was worth 250. In addition, there was an Arcane Tome with a drop rate of 2 percent that was worth 350 rep per drop. Calculated, that comes to 24h to get from revered to exalted including stopping to chat and whatnot.
I farmed all the way to exalted with scyrer doing this. THe last 21K rep took me about 18h of farming since I bought about 100g worth of signets and Tomes to finish it off (would have been 24h). (At the time I had about 750 shadow dmg -I'm a shadow priest). Pointless? No more so than anything else in the game, it's just pixels on your monitor, make them do whatever pleases you.
Personally, the "just run mana tombs over and over again" makes LESS sense to me. I gotta find a team, we gott wait for people, then someone has to leave... you get the picture. By pure farming, I turn on some music or watch TV and just keep one eye on repeatedly killing the same spawns over and over again. Phone rings? I jump on my flying mount and just go up. Gotta mow the lawn? Log out for a bit and get right back at it when I'm done Much simpler IMO than waiting around in shat for a group to form so you can run an instance.
I ground rep for Scyrer doing nothing but hunting for signets in Netherstorm. Droprate was 25 percent, one stack of 10 was worth 250. In addition, there was an Arcane Tome with a drop rate of 2 percent that was worth 350 rep per drop. Calculated, that comes to 24h to get from revered to exalted including stopping to chat and whatnot.
I farmed all the way to exalted with scyrer doing this. THe last 21K rep took me about 18h of farming since I bought about 100g worth of signets and Tomes to finish it off (would have been 24h). (At the time I had about 750 shadow dmg -I'm a shadow priest). Pointless? No more so than anything else in the game, it's just pixels on your monitor, make them do whatever pleases you.
Personally, the "just run mana tombs over and over again" makes LESS sense to me. I gotta find a team, we gott wait for people, then someone has to leave... you get the picture. By pure farming, I turn on some music or watch TV and just keep one eye on repeatedly killing the same spawns over and over again. Phone rings? I jump on my flying mount and just go up. Gotta mow the lawn? Log out for a bit and get right back at it when I'm done Much simpler IMO than waiting around in shat for a group to form so you can run an instance.