Reputation ranks
Ranks only ever go up; points can drop but your rank stays.
About reputation ranksJust like the first MC Eternal, this pack is big and has a good amount of everything.
The quest book is quite nice when it comes to both introducing players to certain mods and setting larger goals for completionists. Things like entering the nether or the end require a bit more work, but due to the increased difficulty that comes with completing those milestones, the prerequisites make sense. Otherwise, following the quests is not required if you do not want to.
There are different modes that players enter when progressing through certain points like entering the nether or defeating the ender dragon. The main effect this has is causing more dangerous mobs to spawn around players who have entered more difficult modes, which keeps combat interesting where it would otherwise be either too difficult when starting out or too easy once you have geared up. Beware of dragons.
Some mods have had recipe tweaks for balancing, such as mechanism only being possible after defeating the wither, but all changes I have seen make sense and have encouraged me to try out some other things instead of just jumping to the most powerful options. Its quite nice when it comes to using a combination of the big, popular mods alongside many smaller mods that I had not seen before.
There are a lot of mods, you need a pretty beefy computer.