How’s your rep? Factions Raiding Restos Should Farm
One of the responsibilities that raiders take on is to raise their reputation with various factions in order to obtain items or enchants from them that will buff their performance. Some of them also offer just cool perks, like achievements and titles, that you might be interested in picking up. However, it is often hard to find out or remember what factions offer reputation rewards that are beneficial for you as you go through the game. I thought I’d give just a quick run through of the reputations that offer rewards worth farming in Wrath of the Lich King for Restos.
Cenarion Circle - This faction makes its home in the druid city of Moonglade, but most of the ways to gain reputation with them are in Silithus. The main reason to farm reputation with them at this point in the game is to get the title of Guardian of Cenarius, which is the coolest title ever for druids to have!
Cenarion Expedition is the other reputation you will need to grind to exalted in order to become Guardian of Cenarius. Rep is most easily obtained for this faction by running the instances in Zangarmarsh.
Argent Crusade rep can be gotten from doing a number of daily quests in Zul’Drak and Dragonblight, as well as from doing champion level quests in the Argent Tournament. You might consider raising rep with this faction if you are gearing up and needing a ring upgrade, as the the Signet of Hopeful Light becomes available once you reach exalted. you can equip a Argent Crusade Tabard while running level 80 instances to gain rep with this faction.
The Kirin Tor reputation can be gained by doing the cooking or jewelworking dailies in Dalaran, by doing quests in Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, and Coldarra, and by doing the heroic instance dailies. In addition, you can equip a Kirin Tor tabard while running level 80 instances to gain rep with this faction. For someone with revered reputation they offer the Arcanum of Burning Mysteries, a head slot enchant that serves up crit and spell power, two stats that benefit Restos. Also of possible interest is the Ghostflicker Waistband, available at exalted, which has Int, crit, spell power, and a blue socket, or the Robes of Crackling Flame, offering Int, haste, spell power, and a generous 26 mp5. Those last two items aren’t specifically tailored to resto, but might be good choices regardless if they offer stats that you are trying to build for one reason or another.
The Knights of the Ebon Blade don’t offer a lot for Restos, but you might be interested in the Belt of Dark Mending, which has Int, Haste, and Spell Power on it for the exalted with this faction. Reputation with them is gained largely through daily quests in Icecrown, and by wearing their tabard in level 80 dungeons.
The Sons of Hodir offer the best shoulder enchants in the game, so you really should focus on building rep with them. There is a long, epic quest chain to open up rep with them, starting with They Took Our Men in K3. Eventually you will open up 6 daily quests with this faction, and can also turn in Everfrost Chips or Relics of Ulduar for more reputation. The payoff is the Greater Inscription of the Crag, available at exalted, which adds spell power and mp5 to your shoulders.
The Wyrmrest Accord offers another head slot enchant at revered, the Arcanum of Blissful Mending, this time offering spell power and mp5. In addition, you can pick up the Sandals of Crimson Fury from them at exalted, which offer Int, haste, spell power, and a blue socket. There are a large number of quests in Borean Tundra and Dragonblight that will boost your reputation with Wyrmrest, and a tabard as well.
And that’s it for now. Unlike in the Burning Crusade, Blizzard has not tied reputation to specific instances or raid instances in Wrath of the Lich King, so all of the needed or enticing rep items in this expansion can actually be obtained before ever stepping foot in a raid. If you are a raider, you should absolutely work to gain the rep needed to obtain the head and shoulder enchants discussed above, if nothing else. Even prospective raiders should do so, as guilds will look over your reputation to ascertain how deep your commitment to raiding actually is based upon whether you’ve worked to get these enchants. So if you haven’t already, work these reputation quests/dailies/tabards into your routine and knock them out to be/become the strongest raider you can be.
There are 1 Comments to "How’s your rep? Factions Raiding Restos Should Farm"
Just came to this list today (Nov 2009). Thanks for doing this work!
The Helm of the Majestic Stag from Kirin Tor Revered (level 78) seems like another useful resto item. Granted, it has no spirit, but 26mp5 along with the stamina, int and spellpower seems good.