06-15-2006, 08:18 PM
Quote:But overall, I think rep grinding is just yet another reason I'm playing less and less WoW and have stopped even leveling most of my characters. When I read about Neriad's adventures in Yarrrrrrr II, I briefly considered following suit with my rogue. But then I remembered what rep grinding is like.:(
Get some friends who can aoe and some healers who can keep them healed and get your hat in one evening!
Cenarian Circle rep isn't too bad to grind up, because there are so many ways to get it and the rewards for the various quests are pretty good. If you want to avoid the combat quests or killing all those twilght bosses, though, you can do what a lot of people do and get Exalted simply by grinding and buying twilght texts off the auction house. It also helps to be raiding, of course, because you can get quite a lot of reputation from AQ20 and AQ40.
What's interesting to me is the Brood of Nozdormu rep. It's like the Hydraxian Waterlords reputation done better (not perfect but better). You get reputation up to the top end of neutral very quickly by killing trash mobs. Then, you turn in the markers you get off the boss mobs you kill for 500 rep each. At neutral, you get a fairly nice ring that improves with each reputation level. There's plenty of joking about "Oh wow! At Revered I get a whole +1 damage/healing!" but it only takes a couple of months of raiding AQ40 to get Exalted with the Brood and in the end you get a very nice ring out of it.
I don't think it'll take long to get to Exalted with the Argent Dawn next patch with all the Scourge Invasion quests that will become available. I was already about 12k into Revered because of how many times I ran the undead instances back in the day and because I did the cauldron quests for a few thousand rep. I'm still bitter about not knowing to save my Argent Dawn honor tokens until after I hit revered. I didn't know I'd stop getting rep from the mobs in the instances. If I had saved my tokens, I would've been a lot higher rep. So, when I found out about the expl... "creative use of game mechanics" involving the shades of Jandice Barov, I went ahead and joined some guildmates and used it to get Exalted. I'm not exactly proud of doing that, but the expl... "CUGM" was actually an interesting experiment in game mechanics itself. It was hotfixed the next day.