The Hytbold revamp is nice, doubling the amount of tokens each Aiding the Eastment quest gives 10 tokens instead of only 5. However, trading the tokens in requires you to hit Ally or Kindred with one of four possible factions and you still earn rep with these factions exactly the same as before, which means we have to do the same quests as before to get to those rep levels since there is no Rohan rep item that drops from mobs in each area.

Example: 1 sprocket and 1 widget together make a thingamabob (rather techincal terms, too long to explain here). If you have 6 sprockets and 5 widgets, you can make 5 thingamabobs. If you double the number of sprockets, so that you have 12 sprockets and 5 widgets, you can still only make 5 thingamabobs.

The Aiding the Eastment quest reward boost is nice, but it doesn't really help. Hytbold is enough of a grind that I'm not very likely to finish it before I level past it and it becomes absolutely useless and a pointless grind that I'll just ignore, just like finishing the meta deeds to complete "enough" quests in each section of Moria. Those deeds are likely to remain forever. And that's kind of too bad -- I wish the revamp had taken the full equation into account.