Ravenholdt rep & Heavy Lockboxes

[Shangrilaa]

I've started grinding Ravenholdt rep, and once I get to honored, the only way to proceed is to turn in Heavy Lockboxes x5 for 75 rep. I'll need around 1300 to get to revered. Ah well.

As such, if anyone is "broke", I'll gladly give a donation per heavy lockbox you mail. 5g each. Just mail them COD, and I'll be quite glad to give you the gold!

Take care!

[Shangrilaa]

Here's what I've found so far (as a human, which does give a 10% rep bonus):

Arathi Highlands, there are two areas for grinding. Strongarde Keep and Northfold Manor.

In 15 minutes, here is what I managed:
12:45p 209/6000
12:48p 491/6000 Northfold Manor
12:52p 785/6000 Stromgarde Keep
12:56p 1067/6000 Northfold Manor
12:59p 1319/6000 Stromgarde Keep

That makes 1210 rep in 15 minutes. Doing the math forward, it's 4840 rep/hour using this method.
Neutral 0 - 3000 About 45 minutes
Friendly 0 - 6000 About 1.5 hours
Honored 0 - 11999 About 3 hours

To get 1 point until revered, it's about 5 hours of concentrated effort. From this point, the Heavy Lockboxes come into play, and this is the ONLY quest that will now provide rep.

For anyone else who wants the title "Insane" (which is probably the most accurate title I can attain, since a claim of sanity would mean that I understand the world and that it makes sense (I don't and it doesn't)), this is the best methodology for grinding rep I've found. So far.



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[Shangrilaa]

I've now done a run while looting every corpse. While it may seem inconcequential (L25 mobs), the cloth sales makes up for it in the AH. In one run, I made a little over 55g. Simplifying the math:

Neutral 0 - 3000, 6 runs, 300g
Friendly 0 - 6000, 12 runs, 600g
Honored 0 - 11999, 24 runs, 1200g

Not too shabby!

The second (and actually the more important) is that it slows down your grinding a little. This gives ALL the mobs time to respawn (5 - 8 min, and with a 5 min loop, mobs are starting to respawn when you return).