The Battle for Arathi Basin! (Alliance, 25) is the first quest you have access to and is availble at the Neutral level. For this quest you will have to assault each of the Mine, Lumber Mill, Blacksmith and Stables. This quest will carry over to other Arathi Basin battles, so you don’t have to worry about assaulting all 4 bases in 1 battle.

The second quest available is Control Four Bases which you gain access to once you reach the Friendly level. For this quest, your team will have to assault and defend 4 bases until the end of the battle.

The third and final quest is titled Control Five Bases and becomes available at the Exalted level. If you guessed you have to assault and capture 5 bases to complete this quest, you are absolutely correct. Once this quest has been completed you will have access to the Arathor Battle Tabard.

Other than completing those 3 quests you get 10 reputation points per 200 resources collected, except on Arathi Basin weekends, when you get 10 reputation points per 150 resources collected. To win a battle your team needs to collect 1600 resources, which means you get 80 reputation per win on a regular day, and roughly 106 rep per win on an Arathi Basin weekend.

Some Math:

Assumptions: Only battling, not completing any quests. Only competing on regular days, not including Arathi Basin weekends. No loses only wins.

Neutral -> Friendly = 3000 Rep = 38 Wins
Friendly -> Honored = 6000 Rep = 75 Wins
Honored -> Revered = 12000 Rep = 150 Wins
Revered -> Exalted = 21000 Rep = 263 Wins

38 + 75 + 150 + 263 = 526 Winning Arathi Basin Battlegrounds to go from Neutral to Exalted.

You will earn the achievement:

Knight of Arathor

You will be on your way to earning the following achievements:

Master of Arathi Basin
The Justicar
Battlemaster
100000 Honorable Kills

The Battle for Arathi Basin! (Horde, 25) is the first quest you have access to and is availble at the Neutral level. For this quest you will have to assault each of the Mine, Lumber Mill, Blacksmith and Stables. This quest will carry over to other Arathi Basin battles, so you don’t have to worry about assaulting all 4 bases in 1 battle.

The second quest available is Take Four Bases which you gain access to once you reach the Friendly level. For this quest, your team will have to assault and defend 4 bases until the end of the battle.

The third and final quest is titled Take Five Bases and becomes available at the Exalted level. If you guessed you have to assault and capture 5 bases to complete this quest, you are absolutely correct. Once this quest has been completed you will have access to the Battle Tabard of the Defilers.

Other than completing those 3 quests you get 10 reputation points per 200 resources collected, except on Arathi Basin weekends, when you get 10 reputation points per 150 resources collected. To win a battle your team needs to collect 1600 resources, which means you get 80 reputation per win on a regular day, and roughly 106 rep per win on an Arathi Basin weekend.

Some Math:

Assumptions: Only battling, not completing any quests. Only competing on regular days, not including Arathi Basin weekends. No loses only wins.

Neutral -> Friendly = 3000 Rep = 38 Wins
Friendly -> Honored = 6000 Rep = 75 Wins
Honored -> Revered = 12000 Rep = 150 Wins
Revered -> Exalted = 21000 Rep = 263 Wins

38 + 75 + 150 + 263 = 526 Winning Arathi Basin Battlegrounds to go from Neutral to Exalted.

You will earn the achievement:

The Defiler

You will be on your way to earning the following achievements:

Master of Arathi Basin
The Conqueror
Battlemaster
100000 Honorable Kills

The following quests will take you to friendly with the Sons of Hodir, and must be completed before moving on:

• They Took Our Men!
• Equipment Recovery
• The Crone’s Bargain
• Mildred The Cruel
• Discipline
• Examples to be Made
• A Certain Prisoner
• A Change of Scenery
• Is That Your Goblin?
• The Hyldsmeet
• Taking on All Challengers
• Defending Your Title
• You’ll Need a Bear
• Going Bearback
• Cold Hearted
• Deemed Worthy
• Making a Harness
• The Last of Her Kind
• The Slithering Darkness
• The Warm-Up
• Into the Pit
• Back to the Pit
• Prepare for Glory
• Lok’lira’s Parting Gift
• The Drakkensryd
• Sibling Rivalry
• Mending Fences
• The Refiner’s Fire
• A Spark of Hope
• Forging an Alliance
• You Can’t Miss Him
• Battling the Elements
• Hot and Cold
• A New Beginning
• Veranus
• Territorial Trespass
• Krolmir, Hammer of Storms
• Jormuttar is Soo Fat…
• In Memoriam
• A Monument to the Fallen
• Blowing Hodir’s Horn
• The Terrace of the Makers
• The Earthen Oath
• Loken’s Lackeys
• The Reckoning
• Whatever it Takes!
• Diametriacally Opposed

You will now be Friendly with the Sons of Hodir. At this point you will have 3 daily quests and it will take 8 days to reach honored if you dont hand in any Relic of Ulduar or Everfrost Chips.

The 3 daily quests are:

• Hot and Cold
• Blowing Hodir’s Horn
• Polishing the Helm

Once you reach Honored you will unlock 2 more daily quests, to make a total of 5 dailies, and it will take another 8 days to reach Revered just doing the daily quests. The 2 new dailies are titled:

• Spy Hunter
• Thrusting Hodir’s Spear

Once at Revered 1 more daily quest will be added into your quest line-up bringing the total amount of quests up to 6. It will take 11 days to go from Revered to Exalted. The final quest is titled:

• Feeding Arngrim

Grats! You are now exalted with the Sons of Hodir, go and visit Lillehoff and get your shoulder enchant! Also there are 2 Mammoth mounts available here: Reins of the Ice Mammoth and Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth.

*EDIT* Recently blizzard made it possible to get 500 Sons of Hodir rep from the Daily Regular Dungeon turn-in. Hope this information helps!

I am going to try and release something new every week. This first week I am going to link you to my Kurenai, Wintersaber Trainers, and Sporeggar tutorials.

These factions do require a considerable amount of grinding to become exalted, so you may want to work out a schedule and work on these over a couple of weeks, or a month.

You start out at Neutral with this faction, and you will only be able to complete one quest at 250 rep per turn-in. That is, until you are 1500/3000 Neutral at which point you will be granted another quest which is worth another 250 rep. The first quest available is called [60] Frostsaber Provisions and will have to be repeated 6 times to get 1500/3000 rep. Its not a bad quest, the NPC’s aren’t all that far away, but the drop rate can suck. The drop rate also varies, some nights it will be good and you will do the quest in 10 minutes, some nights it will be bad and the quest will take 45 minutes. It all depends.

Once you are at 1500/3000 rep you get a second quest available to you titled [58] Winterfall Activity which like I said before gives another 250 rep per turn-in. This quest will also help you out if you are working on the Timbermaw Hold rep because you have to kill Furlbogs, and they drop the [Winterfall Spirit Beads] aswell as Runecloth. Obviously you can sell the Runecloth or use it as donations to build up rep with your main factions. While collecting the [Winterfall Spirit Beads] it has been recommended to me to wait until you are revered with the Timbermaw Hold faction until you start handing these in.

These are the ONLY 2 quests that will be available until you are Honored with this faction. So doing the math … you will have to complete both quests 15 times until you are Honored. Once you are honored another quest becomes available titled [60] Rampaging Giants which provides 350 rep per turn-in. This quest requires you to drop 8 elites, so if you are low level you might want to skip this one and just do the other 2.

So again, lets do the math, if you are going to do these 3 quests from Honored you will have to repeat them 39 times to become exalted. Now if you just want to go all the way to Exalted doing just the first 2 quests you are looking at 66 turn-ins for both quests.

Like I said this isn’t going to be easy, but it can be profitable, especially if you are a leatherworker.

There are a couple reasons you would want to be working towards exalted with Sporeggar:

1. You may want one of the pieces of gear (weapon or armor) that faction provides.
2. You may want the cool [Tiny Sporebat] pet for your pet achievement.
3. You may want the [Sporeggar Tabard] for your tabard achievement.
4. You are trying to become exalted with whoever you can

You start out with an Unfriendly reputation with Sporeggar but thats not a problem, you have 2 quests to help you get from Unfriendly to Neutral.

[63] The Sporelings’ Plight
[64] Natural Enemies

These quests have to be completed 4 times in total to get the a Neutral rating. You can complete these quests all the way up to Friendly however while you are doing these you should be collecting [Glowcap] for the quest [64] Glowcap Mushrooms. This is another repeatable quest and only has to be completed 4 times, meaning you will need to collect 40 mushrooms to get to Friendly once you have become Neutral.

Once you are friendly there are 2 ways you can go about this, if you run through The Underbog you can collect [Sanguine Hibiscus] and turn in 5 for the quest [65] Bring Me A Shrubbery!. This quest gives you 750 rep per turn-in so you can realistically do this quest 52 times (260 [Sanguine Hibiscus]) to become exalted. You can also buy these on the auction house because they are not Bind on Pickup

Or you can complete the quest [64] Now That We’re Friends… 52 times, which involves flying across the little lake (or walking around it) and killing 6x Bloodscale Enchantress and 12x Bloodscale Slavedriver.

This is the quickest way I have found to become exalted with Sporeggar, it only requires a couple hours of work, or some gold if you are purchasing items from the auction house. I hope this article was informative.

Until next time, keep fit and have fun!