I started my Human Paladin today. I rolled Alliance because I plan on faction changing my toons over 1 by 1 back. I’ve never really played with a Paladin beyond level 10 so I figured I would try one out and see where it goes.
I am running with BoA Head, Shoulders, Chest, Back, 1H or 2H weapon, depending on spec. I started out with my dps gear, but switched over to my tanking set once I was able to enter into a random instance. I’ve never queued as a tank so that was an interesting experience. I was excited to get instant queues all the time, instead of once in a while when hell freezes over and dps gets in instantly.
I’ve joined a level 25 guild, so I have 35% extra experience increase while wearing all of my gear.
Hopefully this weekend is a battleground I can participate in, however I know the real XP comes from AV or EoTS.
During my first day I have accumulated 23 levels, 13 pets, 4 mounts, and 110 achievement points.
I have the next 2 weeks off on vacation so this toon should make it to level 85 in no time.
The title of this section isn’t totally true, you can actually only go to 11999/12000 into honored by doing the repeatable quests and/or killing NPCs affiliated with the Syndicate. If you are a rogue there is a quest titled [24] Syndicate Emblems (R) which provides 250 rep per turn-in all the way up to Friendly. This quest will no longer provide any reputation increase once you become Friendly with Ravenholdt.
You can also choose to do the quest [50] Junkboxes Needed (R) which gives 75 rep per 5 Heavy Junkboxes that you hand in. Personally, I would save your Heavy Junkboxes until you are 11999/12000 and then start handing them in to get to exalted. This will require a lot less Junkboxes in the end.
The third way to grind this rep is to run around and kill all the NPCs in the area. The only members that do not provide a rep increase are the Footpads. If you watch the video below you will see I show 2 different locations where these mobs actually exist inside of Arathi Highlands. The 2 locations are Stromgarde Keep and Northfolde Manor. When you are killing the mobs at the manor, don’t forget to run around the outside of the crater and kill all of the stealthed mobs. At Stromgarde, you will want to make sure that you don’t forget to clear inside of the buildings.
All of the areas of Stromgarde do not need to be cleared out, only the area closest to the castle, inside the castle, and the first tier below the castle. All together there is around 90 total mobs that spawn. You will gain 5 rep per kill meaning you will gain around 450 rep each time you clear out both areas. Literally the max it could take someone at level 85 would be 10 minutes to clear out both locations on the map so you aren’t looking at all that big of a rep grind so far.
Part 2: Revered to Exalted
You will either need to be a rogue, or have a rogue at around level 66, or have a friend do this portion for you. You could always purchase the Heavy Junkboxes, however on my server they sell for 15g each. This isn’t that bad of a grind, it is actually kinda fun, very rarely do you have to fight, and most of it is done running around stealthed. However the only downside, the Heavy Junkboxes are not stackable, so the most you can hold is probably around 100 or so. That being said, you will probably only get 2-3 runs in before you have to return to a town and offload your bags. This can be avoided if your rogue is an engineer and has a portable mailbox.
My run takes 15 minutes, I know I am not completing the whole instance because one of the rooms at the beginning only unlocks after killing all of the mobs in the area. Of course at my level this is going to be very time consuming to try and clear that room out. So I skipped that part of the instance. During my run I average about 20-30 Heavy Junkboxes and average about 5 gold.
Lets do some math:
Assuming we are not a human class, or in a guild with Mr. Popularity Rank 1 or 2.
You need 5 Heavy Junkboxes to gain 75 rep
You need 21000 rep to reach exalted from revered
21000 / 75 = 280 turn-ins
280 * 5 = 1400 Heavy Junkboxes needed
Assuming we are gathering 20 junkboxes per run we will need to complete 70 runs to accumulate enough junkboxes. Using these numbers you are going to also gain around 350 gold for your time, aswell as some green level gems which depending on your server go anywhere from 3-10 gold a piece. Those have not been factored in, neither has the junk level items.
Now, lets use these numbers and figure out how many boxes / runs you will need to complete as a human. As we all know humans get a 10% bonus to their reputation gain.
75 * 1.10 = 82.5 rep per turn-in
21000 / 82.5 = 255 turn-ins (254.5 but we cant turn in half a quest)
255 * 5 = 1275 Heavy Junkboxes needed
1275 / 20 = 64 runs (I am using the same averages as before)
The previous figures will remain true if you are a non-human race, but you are in a guild with Mr. Popularity (Rank 2). From what I have been reading it appears that the human racial Diplomacy will stack with both levels of Mr. Popularity. I am going to do the math assuming you have both Diplomacy and Mr. Popularity (Rank 2)
75 * 1.20 = 90 rep per turn-in
21000 / 90 = 234 turn-ins to hit exalted
234 * 5 = 1170 Heavy Junkboxes needed
1170 / 20 = 59 runs
Once you have collected up all of your Heavy Junkboxes you will need to head over to the Hillsbrad Foothills and talk to Fahrad. He will be giving you the quest titled which you will complete over and over again.
I have this macro bound to my middle mouse button. Using this macro I just have to run up to a mob and press my middle mouse button. You can use whichever key you find comfortable. I found using this macro sped up the run times for each run through the instance.
/run f=string.find;for b=0,4 do for s=1,32 do n=GetContainerItemLink(b,s);if n and(f(n,"25878")) then PickupContainerItem(b,s);DeleteCursorItem();end;end;end
/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest(1)
/script GetQuestReward(1)
Note: You should only use this macro if you do not plan on selling the knife quest reward. To use this macro right click the npc, use the macro.
Useful Tips:
You can unlock and loot the junkboxes, there is a random epic sword that looks pretty sweet that drops from them. Also there is some money. You will have to leave something in the junkbox otherwise it will disappear from your inventory, so you will HAVE to turn OFF auto loot otherwise you are going to just waste your boxes.
It is helpful to either be an engineer or bring an engineer friend or 2 along when you are handing in your junkboxes. Obviously you cannot hold 1400+ in your bag, so it would be nice to have a mailbox on site to make the process go quicker. The dagger you get as a quest reward is worth 1 gold and some change, this could be another opportunity to gather up some money. The dagger is a unique equipped item so you will need to vendor it every time you turn in a quest. This is the route I took and it paid off, of course I am an engineer.
Below is a video of the path that I took when farming Junkboxes.
Sorry for the lack of sound in the videos, these were my first 2 videos created and I hadn’t put sound into them.
Welcome fellow anglers. The Limnologist was an achievement that was introduced with Cataclysm, the objective of this achievement is to catch 43 different species of freshwater fish. This is a fairly easy achievement to accomplish it just takes some time.
Below is a list of fish needed to complete the achievement and their location. Unlike The Oceanographer achievement, none of these fish are seasonal. Two particular species have a really low droprate from Highland Mix School pools and two other species have higher drop rates at different times throughout the day. All of this information is noted below.
Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor:
Albino Cavefish – Deepholm Blackbelly Mudfish – Uldum Bloodfin Catfish – Deadwind Pass Brilliant Smallfish – Elwynn Forest Bristle Whisker Catfish – Redridge Mountains Crescent-Tail Skullfish – Deadwind Pass Deviate Fish – Northern Barrens Greater Sagefish – Western Plaguelands Highland Guppy – Twilight Highlands Lavascale Catfish – Deepholm Loch Frenzy – Loch Modan Longjaw Mudsnapper - Stormwind City Mithril Head Trout - Western Plaguelands Mountain Trout - Mount Hyjal Nightfin Snapper - Blasted Lands – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Plated Armorfish - Blasted Lands – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Sagefish - Loch Modan Sharptooth - Deepholm Sickly Looking Fish - Tirisfal Glades Striped Lurker - Mount Hyjal
Outland:
Barbed Gill Trout - Zangarmarsh Felblood Snapper - Shadowmoon Valley Figluster’s Mudfish - Nagrand Furious Crawdad - Terokkar Forest – This species is actually fished from Highland Mixed School nodes around Terokkar Forest. The largest grouping of these nodes is around Skettis. Golden Darter - Terokkar Forest Goldenscale Vendorfish - Terokkar Forest – This species is actually fished from Highland Mixed School nodes around Terokkar Forest. The largest grouping of these nodes is around Skettis. This species also has a 1% droprate so be prepared to fish these pools for a while. Huge Spotted Feltail - Terokkar Forest – This species is actually fished from Highland Mixed School nodes around Terokkar Forest. The largest grouping of these nodes is around Skettis. This species also has a 2% droprate so be prepared to fish these pools for a while. Icefin Bluefish - Nagrand Spotted Feltail - Zangarmarsh Zangarian Sporefish - Zangarmarsh
This another one of the easier fishing achievements to get. It won’t take nearly as long as The Oceanographer because none of these fish are seasonal. Most people I talk to do this achievement in one sitting, I personally worked on it here and there as I was working on other this at the same time.
I hope you enjoyed this article, enjoy your new fishing achievement!
Welcome fellow anglers. The Oceanographer was an achievement that was introduced with Cataclysm, the objective of this achievement is to catch 31 different species of saltwater fish. This is a fairly easy achievement to accomplish it just takes some time.
Some of the fish are seasonal, some of the fish can only be caught at certain times of the day, and some of the fish are just plain hard to catch. Below is a list of all the fish needed aswell as where each fish is located. If there is any special information pertaining to that particular species of fish it is also noted below aswell.
Because some of the fish are seasonal, it could possibly take some people upwards of a year to complete this achievement depending on when they start catching fish.
Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor:
Algaefin Rockfish – Twilight Highlands Big-Mouth Clam – Swamp of Sorrows – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Darkclaw Lobster – Swamp of Sorrows Darkshore Grouper – Darkshore Deepsea Sagefish – Uldum Fathom Eel – Vashj’ir Firefin Snapper – Wetlands Giant Sunfish – Isle of Quel’Danas Glossy Mightfish - Eastern Plaguelands – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Jaggal Clam - Isle of Quel’Danas Large Raw Mightfish – Swamp of Sorrows – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Murglesnout – Vashj’ir Oily Blackmouth - Wetlands Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore - Wetlands Raw Redgill - Eastern Plaguelands Raw Rockscale Cod - The Hinterlands Raw Slitherskin Mackerel - Tirisfal Glades Stonescale Eel - Swamp of Sorrows – The best time to catch this fish is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Raw Spotted Yellowtail - Eastern Plaguelands Raw Summer Bass - Swamp of Sorrows – This is a seasonal fish and can only be caught from March 20th to September 22nd, best time to catch is between Noon and 6:00pm. Cannot be caught between Midnight and 6:00 am unless fished in the Blasted Lands or Swamp of Sorrows. Raw Sunscale Salmon - Blasted Lands – The best time to catch this fish is between Noon and 6:00 pm. Cannot be caught between Midnight and 6:00 am. Raw Whitescale Salmon - Blasted Lands Winter Squid - Swamp of Sorrows -This is a seasonal fish and can only be caught from September 22nd to March 20th, best time to catch is between Midnight and 6:00 am. Cannot be caught between Noon and 6:00pm unless fished in the Blasted Lands or Swamp of Sorrows.
The Maelstrom:
Abyssal Clam - Kill the Zin’jatar Raiders at the starting area in Kelp’thar Forest.
Northrend:
Borean Man O’ War - Borean Tundra Darkwater Clam - Borean Tundra Deep Sea Monsterbelly - The Frozen Sea Imperial Manta Ray - Borean Tundra Moonglow Cuttlefish – The Frozen Sea Pygmy Suckerfish – Howling Fjord – This fish is usually caught while fishing pools for other fish. You most likely will not have to fish for this one. Another great place to catch these guys is in Sholazar Basin at the River’s Heart, located mid map. Rockfin Grouper – The Frozen Sea
As I stated earlier this is one of the easier achievements to accomplish, it will take most people between 6 months to 1 year to fully complete. I personally completed the achievement working on a little bit here and there, however some people will want to fish all of these fish almost all at once.
A word of warning if you are taking this approach, don’t wait till the last day to try and catch the seasonal fish, you will want to give youself a couple of extra days just incase your droprate happens to be uberlow and you don’t end up fishing one. I’ve seen people have to wait 6 whole months just to fish one fish because they waited until the last minute.
The League of Arathor 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! (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.
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.
The Venomhide Ravasaur is the Horde equivalent to the Wintersaber mount the the Alliance faction gets. The main difference is its ease to get the mount. It only takes 20 days of doing 1 of 6 very simple dailies. If you read here you will see how much work it takes to become Exalted with the Wintersaber Trainers to be able to purchase that mount. I think this is one of the more superior raptor mounts because it doesn’t have a little ball on its tusk.
The daily will provide you with a Venomhide Baby Tooth which you will need 20 of, aswell as 20 Runecloth, 20 Rugged Leather, and 80 Gold.
The first thing you are going to want to do is fly over to Marshall’s Refuge in Un’Goro Crater. Once you are here, run to the south of the crater, and look for Mor’Vek. He is going to give you the quest [53] Toxic Tolerance, which you will complete by being infected by Venomhide Ravasaur blood. The trick to this quest is to not kill the mob before it infects you, I just used auto-attack and a cheap melee weapon that does no damage. Once this quest has been completed turn it in and move onto [53] Venomhide Eggs, which are picked up right off the ground in the same area where you completed the previous quest. Once you have your eggs, go turn them in, and complete the first day of your 20 day journey.
This portion of the journey is broken into 4 different dailies:
[53 Daily] Gorishi Grub
In this quest you will have to collect 10 Silithid Meat and feed it to your Venomhide Hatchling. The mobs that drops the silithid meat is in Un’Goro Crater, right near the initial quest giver.
[53 Daily] Hungry, Hungry Hatchling
In this quest you will have to collect 15 Fresh Dinosaur Meat and feed it to your Venomhide Hatchling. The meat drops off the diemetradons, stegodons, and pterrordaxes in Un’Goro Crater, just south of Marshall’s Refuge.
[53 Daily] Poached, Scrambled, Or Raw?
In this quest you are going to have to collect 12 Silithid Eggs and feed them to your Venomhide Hatchling. These are in the eastern portion of Tanaris, and are orange eggs just laying on the ground. They are in the area with all of the bugs. You shouldn’t have to kill anything for this daily, just collect the eggs, and feed them to your Venomhide Hatchling.
[53 Daily] Searing Roc Feathers
In this daily, you will have to collect 5 Searing Roc Plumage. These mobs are also in Tanaris, right near where you collect the eggs. You won’t feed these to your Venomhide Hatchling, they are just a needed quest item.
After 20 days, go back to Mor’Vek turn everything in, and enjoy your new Venomhide Ravasaur Mount and Feat of Strength!
Recently Blizzard had announced the ability to change factions. So if you’re Alliance and you want to be Horde or Horde wanting to be Alliance, for $30.00 USD you can now change. The process is easy, sign into you’re battle.net account and there is a link to do a Faction Change right on the main page of your profile. Right now you can only pay by credit card, but it looks like you will be able to buy some kind of redemption code to complete the faction change. Currently paypal, and the other options are un-available. If you don’t have a credit card, you can always go and get a pre-paid one.
Blizzard says the process should take up to an hour, but makes mention of instances where it may take a couple of days. Personally, my account was active rather quickly. Thing’s to note before you make the change, you have to finish all of your auctions, and your mailbox has to be empty. Anything you have done with the Argent Tournament will be lost, unless you decide to change back, then you are back where you started. I don’t find this to be a problem, each daily is worth around 13g and there are 25 days worth of dailies I believe.
You do get to keep your Argent Tournament pets, they aren’t converted. The mount’s are converted but the pets are not. You also lose your Argent Tournament titles. Something you may want to do before going through with the faction change is completing as many raids as possible, and then doing the change. Raid lockouts (as of right now) are being reset.
Overall the process was simple, and I am very pleased to now be Horde. The $30.00 was a little steep and it only covers one toon, however I think the change was worth it.
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.
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:
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.
