Attack of the Gamer » grind http://www.attackofthegamer.com When a gamer attacks Wed, 05 May 2010 13:16:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Becoming Exalted With The Defilers http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2010/04/28/becoming-exalted-with-the-defilers/ http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2010/04/28/becoming-exalted-with-the-defilers/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:55:40 +0000 jason http://www.attackofthegamer.com/?p=181 The Defilers is the faction you gain reputation with when you compete in the battleground Arathi Basin. The only way to get reputation with this faction is to compete in Arathi Basin battles, and by completing the couple quests that become available to you as you move from Neutral through to Exalted.

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

]]> http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2010/04/28/becoming-exalted-with-the-defilers/feed/ 0 Getting Exalted with 40 Factions – Week 2 – The Sons of Hodir http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/09/22/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-%e2%80%93-week-2-the-sons-of-hodir/ http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/09/22/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-%e2%80%93-week-2-the-sons-of-hodir/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:46 +0000 jason http://www.attackofthegamer.com/?p=141 The Sons of Hodir are an important faction to become exalted with for any level 80 toon. This faction sells the best shoulder enchants available once you become exalted with them. There are a couple of ways to become exalted, one involving buying Relic of Ulduar off of the auction house and turning them in. This is the lazy way and is going to cost thousands of gold to complete. The other is completing the daily quests, handing in Relic of Ulduar as you collect them, and Everfrost Chips if you can find them. This way will also make you gold during the whole ordeal. Either way, you are going to have to complete a long questline to actually start working on the Sons of Hodir rep.

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

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:

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:

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:

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!

]]> http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/09/22/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-%e2%80%93-week-2-the-sons-of-hodir/feed/ 0 Getting Exalted with 40 Factions – Week 1 http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/08/25/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-week-1/ http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/08/25/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-week-1/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:31:16 +0000 jason http://www.attackofthegamer.com/?p=137 Lastnight I finally hit exalted with 20 different factions on my mage. So I decided to start writing articles on how to become exalted with the different factions.

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.

]]> http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/08/25/getting-exalted-with-40-factions-week-1/feed/ 0 Becoming exalted with Kurenai http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/06/25/becoming-exalted-with-kurenai/ http://www.attackofthegamer.com/2009/06/25/becoming-exalted-with-kurenai/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:37:55 +0000 jason http://www.attackofthegamer.com/?p=118 The Kurenai are an alliance only faction in the Outland. This guide will explain how to become exalted with the Kurenai faction. The main reasons someone would now want to become exalted with Kurenai would be for:

The achievements:

The Diplomat
Oh My, Kurenai

The talbuk mounts, and the tabard.

You will start out your journey as unfriendly and will begin your questing in Zangarmarsh.

To complete the following quests you will need at least neutral reputation.

Once you have completed Zangarmarsh, you will be moving onto Nagrand. At this point, you should have collected about 4500 rep. Once you are in Nagrand you will be completing the following quests:

Once you have completed all of these quests you should have picked up another 10570 rep, and you should probably be somewhere around Revered depending on how many ogre’s you had to kill to complete some of these quests.

Now comes the long part. You will have to do a repeatable quest [67] More Warbeads [Repeatable] over and over again. You get 500 rep per 10 beads that drop. You also get 10 rep per ogre you kill. It’s not that bad of a grind, I found the best place to grind for the Obsidian Warbeads was at the Burning Blade Ruins. What I did was I started at the bottom, cleared out all the ogres, looted and made my way to the top. Once I was at the top, I went in the cave, cleared it out, and then cleared my way back to the bottom. I did this over and over until I had enough beads.

A couple good things about this grind. First, the ogres drop Runecloth and Netherweave, which depending on your server can be worth a fair bit of gold. If you are a miner, lots of Fel Iron deposits, and Adamantite deposits are littered around the area. I got at least 2 veins each time I either ran from the top or from the bottom.

It shouldn’t take too long to get all the rep. I didn’t keep track of my grind, so I couldnt tell you how long it took, however, it took about 4 hours to go from 20% revered to exalted with just beads. Enjoy.

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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.

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