Cenarion Expedition and Sha'tar Rep Grinding - help plz!!!
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mrdoobry
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Ethereum Prison Key!
Cenarion Expedition - Grind Naga in Zanagarmarsh to Friendly I think it is. You can kill a named mob to Honored I believe, but respawn is slow and not worth it imo. Move on to Ethereum Key hand in.
Sha'tar - Hand in the keys in.
With the new(ish) Battle Standard of Coordination, it will reduce the amount of keys needed by a fair bit. When we did it, it took around 4100 keys to get all the reps to max. Although we seemed to get Cenarion Expedition substantially earlier (even though we only started Friendly). We did not use the Standard though as we did it back in early Cata. I imagine you could get them all maxxed with around 3500 keys with that.
Best way to get keys? Buy them if poss. It will almost certainly be beneficial (mainly to your sanity) if you group with other people to get the keys. You need to be in a group when handing them in (raid won't work), and will need a high level ofc (80+ ideally for speed). Bonus if you can get the keys between say two people, you can sell the other spots for decent gold.
Regards.
Cenarion Expedition - Grind Naga in Zanagarmarsh to Friendly I think it is. You can kill a named mob to Honored I believe, but respawn is slow and not worth it imo. Move on to Ethereum Key hand in.
Sha'tar - Hand in the keys in.
With the new(ish) Battle Standard of Coordination, it will reduce the amount of keys needed by a fair bit. When we did it, it took around 4100 keys to get all the reps to max. Although we seemed to get Cenarion Expedition substantially earlier (even though we only started Friendly). We did not use the Standard though as we did it back in early Cata. I imagine you could get them all maxxed with around 3500 keys with that.
Best way to get keys? Buy them if poss. It will almost certainly be beneficial (mainly to your sanity) if you group with other people to get the keys. You need to be in a group when handing them in (raid won't work), and will need a high level ofc (80+ ideally for speed). Bonus if you can get the keys between say two people, you can sell the other spots for decent gold.
Regards.
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Mrcer
OG
So after you've gathered the 4100 keys, then what?
And is it faster to try to grind your own keys? If so, how so?
mrdoobry
Legend
Sorry I thought you had read the comments page on Wowhead at least.
You open Ethereum Prisons in Netherstorm. Either a faction NPC will appear and you get rep or a hostile mob that drops a blue and a few silver will spawn (for which you gain no rep). Just use the keys to keep opening these prisons and you will eventually get the reps to exalted. Have the high level open and aggro/kill them whilst your low level twinks are nearby.
To grind the keys you can either kill the mobs around Netherstorm or you can run the Arcatraz/Mana-Tombs instances and they drop in those. Check the drop rates on wowhead for the keys. I liked to change up both grinding outside with doing some instance runs for them. I actually bought a lot of my ones and grouped with others who transfered and bought some with them.
Rate of grinding? Well I was seeing around 10-12 an hour on my then level 85. It is an inordinate grind, and like I posted earlier you are better off grouping and trying to buy the majority of them...
Regards.
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Mrcer
OG
Do you mean finding a couple of level 85+ and go around netherstorm farming the keys?
mrdoobry
Legend
Well the mobs are only about level 70 so you are limited to the rate of respawn tbh. Unless you just grind through the dungeons.
Also no, I mean't grouping as in getting a group together for the keys, i.e. not one person grinding 4000 keys, but 4 people bringing 1000 keys each "to the table". But with the Banner you are likely to only need around 3500.
mrdoobry
Legend
Well the mob will aggro you so you best be high enough to kill it or you will all die pretty quick, lol. Tbh I am not 100% sure as I had my 85 kill them but common sense says you will need a 70+ anyway, you certainly do not need higher as it was there during TBC!
BoudThe1Twink
Legend
It's indeed an AoE effect. You could farm Mana Tombs heroic(skip bosses). 3500-4100 isn't always required, It's very random, some people have done it with like 1,5k and less I believe. Good luck!
mrdoobry
Legend
Had a brain mash when writing yesterday (was tired).
We used the twinks to open the prisons and my 85 Priest went round aggroing the mobs and killing them, so low levels can open the prisons. Everyone nearby got rep in the group.
As Boud said it may take less than 3500 keys, but it is best to get at least these many to be sure. Cannot think of anything worse than grinding keys for weeks on end and having others transfer to you to find you are 500 keys short when you spend hours opening them...
I find it unlikely you will get ALL the rep Exalted in 1500 keys, maybe CE as you start off with that ahead and I think we got that exalted much faster than the others. But the RNG required to get ALL maxxed in 1500 keys would be astronomical?
We used the twinks to open the prisons and my 85 Priest went round aggroing the mobs and killing them, so low levels can open the prisons. Everyone nearby got rep in the group.
As Boud said it may take less than 3500 keys, but it is best to get at least these many to be sure. Cannot think of anything worse than grinding keys for weeks on end and having others transfer to you to find you are 500 keys short when you spend hours opening them...
I find it unlikely you will get ALL the rep Exalted in 1500 keys, maybe CE as you start off with that ahead and I think we got that exalted much faster than the others. But the RNG required to get ALL maxxed in 1500 keys would be astronomical?
BoudThe1Twink
Legend
Nothing I think. Round up all the mobs & clear the whole instance(skip bosses).
Oliks
Check it!
I think you need this quest: Ethereum Secrets - Quest - World of Warcraft
before you can pick up keys.. Not sure though, i just spend 5min wowheading it.
I will check it and post my finds.
mrdoobry
Legend
As previously stated there should be no level requirement to opening the prisons (we had level 19's opening some).
To get rep you only needed to be in group and nearby. I see no reason why it could not be done cross realm now, as you can group for quests and that is the only requirement for getting rep.