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On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:07:09 GMT, Matt Frisch
<matuse73@yahoo.spam.me.not.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:08:38 +0100, "Bob" <vvxc@zsdfd.com> scribed into the
>ether:
>
>>How do I go about getting a mount from a race other than my own? I'm an orc
>>but would like to have a raptor instead of a wolf. Has anyone managed it?
>
>Likely impossible. It used to actually be impossible, but it may be doable
>now, only with HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amounts of faction work.
If you trust
http://www.wowwiki.com/Reputation then getting exalted
with Darkspear Trolls is impossible - there simply isn't any
repeatable reputation quests for them.
>You need Exalted faction with the trolls. Exalted is 2 steps beyond
>Honored. Duplicate all of the faction work it took you to get through
>Honored, and you might...maybe...get 10-15% of the way through Revered with
>it.
If you start from friendly you need 6000 reputation points to get to
honored, and to get to exhalted from there you need an extra 33000
points. You can see the different reputation levels in this chart
(snipped from the link above).
Level Points
Exalted 1000
Revered 21000
Honored 12000
Friendly 6000
Neutral 3000
Unfriendly 3000
Hostile 3000
Hated 36000
>There is
>the Un'Goro Soil quest in Thunder Bluff which is repeatable, and can raise
>faction there, which by extension might raise other horde factions, but it
>would take thousands of repetitions of this quest to achieve it.
That quest only gives Thunder Bluff reputation. 100 points as far as I
remember - though I only did it once, so perhaps the repetitions give
less? Plus, according to the page you get 100% reputation from quests
if they are green or better, but only 20% if they have become grey.
Pointless math excercise just for the heck of it:
Say that you are half way through honored (6000/12000), at that point
you need an additional 27000 points to make it to exhalted - that
means 270 repetitions of the quest if it is still above grey (1350 if
it has become grey). Each repetition requires 10 Morrowgrain, and when
I did it I got about 1 grain per 2 tries with the pouch (this is from
memory, and could be off, if you are herbalist you should get better
results too). The pouch is on a 10 minutes cooldown, and you need to
activate it about 270*10*2 = 3400 times, which amounts to 34000
minutes of cooldown. 34000 minutes = 23 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes.
Fortunately you can do anything while waiting for the cooldown to
finish, but you still won't be a kodo riding non-tauron anytime soon
unless you buy your Morrowgrain at the AH, or has some friends help
you with the grain growing. :|
>HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amounts of faction work.
Quoted for truth
Ps. If you install Reputation Mod
<http://www.wowwiki.com/Reputation_Mod> you will get much more
detailed info whenever you gain reputation, such as the exact amount
of points you get and with exactly which factions.
Pps. The repeatable reputation quest for Orgrimmar is Chen’s Empty Keg
which becomes grey at about level 45. I only tried to repeat it once -
it was grey at the time and I got 8 (eight!) faction points with
Orgrimmar... That amounts to 3375 repetitions to go from half-way
through honored to exhalted, 675 if you are below level 45.
Ppps. The Orgrimmar "escort a child round during orphans week"-quest
resulted in 500 points of faction with all four horde factions - I
really wished that that one had been repeatable
I have high hopes for that "hand in cloth"-quest they are
implementing, though - I want my undead priest on an epic wolf or
raptor after she hits 60 (skeletal horses are just too ugly
--
Regards
Simon Nejmann
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