I know it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest a few 'quality of life' tweaks to
the best guild in the game, but I'll do it anyway.

Currently barb rep is completely worthless past the 'barb elder' stage.
There's literally nothing to look forward to after that magical 100k mark.
I'm wondering if we could add a few more 'rewards' for longtime barbs.

Looting and burning is great, and the ability to toggle looting off/on is
nice, but how about making that looting a bit customizable? It's kind of
annoying picking up 180gp 20kg iron pikes automatically. How about the ability
to set a customizable minimum value for stuff you want to pick up?
Highbie snobs could set it a bit higher and not get bogged down with a bunch
of junk. I know barbs are dumb, but I'd like to think they're selective enough
not to
carry around 200kg of iron mauls. Maybe make this 'ability' active once one
enters the barb eldership.

I'd also like to think that after looting and burning hundreds of thousands of
monsters, barbarians would probably get pretty good at it. Like it would
become second nature. I propose after a hefty amount of rep (200k? 300k?) that
the dumb barbarian has become proficient enough in burning that he could
perform this activity without breaking his concentration. Nothing worse than
fighting multiple enemies and having to stop your current skill to burn a
corpse, and
having to restart it again and again after each mighty pigeon dies.

Again, these are just ideas to justify the rep grind. Something to look
forward to. My last idea could be handled as 'barb quests', but would be
strictly reputation
landmark related. Like at 100k rep your necklace grants 1 +dam, like a barb
quest. At 200k it gives +3 dam or hit, at 300k +5dam. Or whatever. You get the
idea. These are all
pretty difficult landmarks, but at least it's something to work towards.

I'm sure these ideas are worthless and will totally destroy game balance, but
maybe one or two are not complete shit.

xoxoxo,

Stylus
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