Grinding with Gorn: Gorn One Eye here, for your weekly dose of reputation grinding. I'll be your guide as we travel through the World of Warcraft and learn about the various factions and how to best gain reputation with them.
Welcome to our new column, Grinding with Gorn. Here I'll be going over various factions across Azeroth and the surrounding lands each week and telling you a little bit about each one, why you might want to gain reputation with them and most importantly: how to go about doing that!'
We'll start this off with one which I know very well, my own faction, and the publishers of this fine piece of reading material: The friendly furblogs of the Timbermaw Hold.
The Timbermaw Furblogs live mainly in Azshara and Felwood, their base of operations is a series of tunnels connecting Felwood to Moonglade and Winterspring. They are one of very few races of uncorrupted furblogs in the world and if you help them fight off some of their enemies they will be glad to accept you and teach you their ways.
Why: The main reason that anyone would want to gain reputation with the furblogs of Timbermaw Hold is that the easiest way for most people to access Winterspring and Moonglade is through their tunnels and you must be at least unfriendly in order for them to allow you to pass unharmed. They also offer some nice recipes for a few of the crafting professions as well as a fun trinket and a very nice twink off-hand frill. Some of the most notable recipes include the enchanting formulas for Enchant 2H Weapon - Agility and Enchant Weapon - Agility which are highly sought after by most twinks as well as people looking to enchant their heirloom items. And what leatherworker wouldn't want the cute and bad-ass sounding Warbear Woolies pattern? At exalted you can purchase the Defender of the Timbermaw trinket which is mostly useless at higher levels, but who doesn't want a furblog friend to tag along with them on their adventures? The Timbermaw are also one of the factions required for the Diplomat achievement and title.
How: Most people who have quested through Felwood and the surrounding areas will likely already be at least unfriendly with the Timbermaw tribe, but if not it is very easy to get started. The only quests which will be required are Timbermaw Ally and/or Winterfall Activity. Completing one of these quests will boost you straight to unfriendly with the Timbermaw, as well as open up repeatable turn in quests which will be important later. At this point the best way to begin gaining reputation will be to start killing as many Deadwood or Winterfall furblogs as you can. Each mob you kill from these two tribes will all grant you reputation until you reach honored. There are also a few tribal leaders and rare spawns which will grant more reputation per kill and can be killed all the way to exalted. Also, members of the Deadwood and Winterfall tribes will drop Deadwood Headdress Feathers and Winterfall Spirit Beads, respectively. These can be turned in in stacks of 5 for 300 reputation at each turn in. Don't turn any of these in until you have reached honored! Since killing the unimportant members of the tribes will stop giving you reputation at honored it is best to save these turn-ins until then! As much as we loved it when Bury came and gave us loads of these before he was at honored status, he definitely regrets it now...so learn from his mistakes! There isn't necessarily a better choice as far as which tribe will be easiest to gain reputation from, however if you are part of the Alliance and working on reputation with our neighbors, the Wintersaber Trainers then killing members of the Winterfall Tribe can help them to gain reputation there too. If not, I would recommend the Deadwood Tribe as they can be found in rather large groups in the Southern and Northern parts of Felwood.
Summary: If you are an enchanter looking to appeal to the twink market, want some oddly named leatherworking or tailoring patterns, or just need another exalted reputation for some reason, then head over to Felwood and Winterspring and start facerolling some Deadwood or Winterfall furblogs!
Link: For all the information you need about the Timbermaw Furblogs, check out these links:
WoWHead
WoWWiki
This is Gorn One Eye saying, Good Luck with your Grind!
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