Timbermaw Hold Reputation Grind
No more Stratholme runs for me, unless I feel a desperate urge to take a shot at the Baron’s mount. The reason is that I finally made Ambassador. WoW’s fun factor dipped a little after that, and I wandered around wondering what I should aim for now. The answer became apparent when I browsed through the Achievements. The Diplomat!
I was already Exalted with Sporeggar from TBC. I recently got Exalted with Mag’har to obtain my Albino drake. That left me with only one faction to become Diplomat; Timbermaw Hold. A quick Wowhead check revealed that going from Unfriendly to Exalted would take about 4 hours. I couldn’t believe my eyes! That sounded way too easy, so I decided to give it a go.
The prequests for being able to hand in feathers and beads to the Furbolgs had been done in my lowbie days, so I just had to start killing stuff. The genocide began in northern Felwood because… well, I felt like it. After clearing the Furbolgs’ camps, I went through the Furbolg tunnel to arrive in Winterspring. There are three camps there, and you can see how I traveled between them on the map below.
After having gone from west to east and then back to the westernmost camp, I went back through the tunnel to slaughter the northern camp in Felwood again. It may not have been the fastest way, but I found that the change of scenery made the grind a little less tedious. You stop getting rep from killing mobs after you become Revered. You need 350 feathers/beads to get from Revered->Exalted. I didn’t turn in any feathers or beads until Revered, and honestly, I didn’t have 350 feathers/beads until the end of Honored so it was just as well.
There are 3 quests to make the grind easier. One is a random drop from a Furbolg mob in Felwood and there’s a similar one for the Furbolgs in Winterspring. These quests can only be turned in after you’re Neutral with Timbermaw Hold, but you can and probably will loot the items before that. They yield 1400 rep each. The third quest requires you to hand in 30 runecloth. You get 1000 rep for this, only obtainable after you hit Friendly. It’s unfortunately not repeatable.
When I was Exalted, I had spent about 5 hours on this. A good advice is to not do this during a weekend, like I did (doh!), because there will be less competition during weekdays.
