Oracles & Frenzyheart, or "Who Wants Green Slime? I'll Take a Proto-Drake"

I've been running around trying to figure out how to start with the Oracles or Frenzyheart.

This is what you do:

Kill Pitch.

Get the quest [Playing Along].

Do all the Frenzyheart quests. The chain will lead you to the Oracles. Do all their quests.

At the end of the chain, you get to kill this elite (need 2 or 3 people). Once he's dead, he releases an Oracle (Jaloot) and Frenzyheart (Zepik). Kill the one you don't want, keep alive the one you want to pledge your allegiance to. You'll get Honored with whomever you choose, and it's easy to change again later.

Oracle or Frenzyheart?

Most people already know this, but I'll go over it for people who don't ravage all the fresh news on Warcraftpets. :D

This is said with the understanding that you can change from one to the other pretty easily: go Oracle.

[Mysterious Egg] (buyable at Revered with Oracles) has a 7 day timer to turn into [Cracked Egg], which can hatch into one of 4 (tradable/sellable) pets or a super-rare BOP green proto drake flying mount. I also prefer the Oracles as people over the Frenzyheart. It's like the Frenzyheart are the cynical hardcore gamers and the Oracles are the casual carebears. ^_^ And you know which I'm partial to.

I'd keep doing that until you get all 5 items, then go Frenzyheart (unless you're wearing Oracle gear, which would become unusable) for their [Disgusting Jar] (buyable at Revered), which has a 7 day timer for [Ripe Disgusting Jar], which might drop [Frenzyheart Brew], which turns you into a Frenzyheart for 5 minutes (not a consumable, just an item).

I'd probably switch back after getting the Brew to keep farming pets for my friends, but any and all switching is up to you.

If you care about gear and stats more than pets and mounts (in which case, I'm confused why you find my blog interesting), feel free to check the Frenzyheart vs Oracle quartermasters for the gear they offer. I only care about cute things, so that's how I'm advising.


Oh, yeah, and I'm gonna ding 80 on Dustfire after finishing the elite off and pledging myself to the Oracles. Perfect timing. :) Just waiting on husband to wake up so he can help. I could ask someone else, but I'd really like him to be there.

Faction Exalted, or "You Better Represent"

Along with the pets and mounts coming in the Argent Tournament, you get titles dependent on which faction cities you're exalted with. Of course, you need to participate in the tournament too, but exalted is something you can work on now.

Titles:
of Orgrimmar/Undercity/Silvermoon/Thunder Bluff/Sen'jin*
of Darnassus/Gnomeregan/Ironforge/Exodar/Stormwind

*Sen'jin is Darkspear Trolls and is the name of the troll starting village in Durotar.

First: Quests

Do all the quests for that faction. Yes, all of them. You can see who has low level quests by clicking the tracker button on your minimap.

Go to the appropriate faction page on Wowhead (alliance/horde) and sort quests by ascending. You'll have to scroll past the holiday quests to get to the normal ones, but then you do them all in order of level.

Second: Cloth

The availability of these depend on your level.

Wool x60, Silk x60, Mageweave x60, Runecloth x60.

Repeat Runecloth turn in for 75 rep/stack.

If you don't want to do this rep grind or have already done it:

Farm Runecloth and sell it. You will make THOUSANDS, particularly right after the tournament event begins, when people are desperate to get their rep up.

If you refuse to take advantage of this opportunity, you don't get to complain about never having money. You just don't.



[edit] More details about the tournament. It will be a permanent event and part of it will come out later than 3.1. Not sure about what "permanent event" means, as Zarhym was pretty vague:

It's going to be a permanent event. You will be working to construct the coliseum, though the coliseum itself will officially be added in a future content patch.

You'll see more competitions and festivities coming down the road as well.

Cenarion Circle Rep, or "How to Become an Herb Bag Goddess"

The best herb bags (20-slot & 24-slot) before Mycah's Botanical Bag are gained from being Friendly and Revered with Cenarion Circle, an old world faction.

Since I started tailoring recently, I decided to grind for them, but it's actually harder once the mob is grey. If you can start the grind while it still gives you experience, such as at 59, you'll get a lot more bang for your buck.

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Raids to Run

Ahn'Qiraj ~ 2000 rep per run

Things to Kill

Twilight Prophet - 60 Elite. Has 2 regular mobs as guards. Gives the most rep: 30 if grey. ALSO drops 7-10 Encrypted Text pages, which is how many you need for a 500 rep turn in, so never EVER pass one of these up.

Twilight Cultists - All the non-elites walking around the circled camps on the map. Gives 10 rep if grey.

Anything wandering around Silithus with a Twilight name.

Things to Gather

Encrypted Text - Drop off all mobs. Turn in 10 for 500 rep. Can buy off AH.

Twilight Cultist Gear

• Cowl, Mantle, Robe - Drop off all mobs. Can buy off AH. Used (and destroyed) at all Wind Stones, so you need multiple sets.
• Twilight Medallion of Station - Repeatable quest Dukes of the Council. Bring her 3 Abyssal Crests (see Lesser Wind Stone below) and 1 Large Brilliant Shard. Repeat for more medallions.
  
• Twilight Ring of Lordship - Rare spawn (non-elite) has high drop rate. Repeatable quest Lords of the Council. Bring her 3 Abyssal Signets (requires Medallion to summon boss to drop 1, see below for boss strat) and 5 Large Brilliant Shards.

You can trade or buy these with friends or off AH, too.

Things to Summon

The bigger the Wind Stone, the more gear you need to summon its boss. Once you do, the gear you used is eaten up, it disappears from your inventory (if you have more than one set, the process will suck up a set from your bags, not the one you're wearing). You have a moment to change back into your regular gear (5-10 seconds) before the bad guy attacks.


Lesser Wind Stone

• Equip: Robe, Mantle, and Cowl (chest, shoulders, head).
• Summons level 60 non-elite elemental. Clear area around him first. Easily soloed.
  
• Receive 1 Abyssal Crest. Turn in 3 for 150 rep. Can sell on AH or give to a friend grinding rep.
  

Wind Stone

• Equip: Robe, Mantle, Cowl, Medallion (neck).
• Summons 62 elite elemental Duke. Completable solo at 70 with potions, bandages, and serious buffing. Might want a healer to help. Soloable at 80.
• Receive 1 Abyssal Signet. Turn in 3 for 500 rep. Can sell on AH or give to a friend grinding rep.

Greater Wind Stone

• Equip: Robe, Mantle, Cowl, Medallion, Ring (finger).
• Summons raid boss. These have been nerfed but still require a group. Minimum of five competent, well-geared 60s or three 70s. Soloable in 80 raid gear.
  
• Receive 1 Abyssal Septer. Turn in 3 for 1000 rep. Can sell on AH or give to a friend grinding rep.

Quests

Almost all of the quests in Silithus give Cenarion Circle rep.

Suggested Route

Head to the camp just west of Cenarion Circle town (see map up top). Grind mobs until you have a set of robe, shoulders, head. Summon an elemental boss at the Lesser Wind Stone. Get a feel for how that goes.

Start riding from camp to camp, looking for the rare named spawn (Twilight Lord Everun) AND the elite patrol that drops 7-10 rep pages (patrol spawns either in the north, walking from one western camp to the other, or in the south, heading up to the southern edge of the hive and back down to the camp).

After killing the patrol, stay and kill everything in the nearest camp for about twenty minutes, summoning and killing elementals at Lesser Wind Stones when you get the appropriate items to summon.

Then travel to the other camps to try and find respawns of rare guy and patrol. At least one should be back.

When your bags get full, go turn in your encrypted texts x10 and abyssal crests x3 (dropped from summoned elementals) for big chunks of rep.

OMG PINK!, or "Colorful New Flying Mounts"

Cenarion Expedition flying mounts are now available for people with enough reputation to get one. And while I generally leave all the general announcements like this to real Warcraft news blogs, like MMO-Champion, or WoW Insider, there's a detail about the new mounts that caught my attention.

One of the Cenarion Expedition flying mounts is pink. Not bright glaring pink, but soft, gentle, bow-in-a-little-girl's-blonde-curls sort of pink. With equally flattering purple trimming.

So, while Dustfire is getting a phoenix, all of my others are going to go pink. So. Incredibly. Pink.

(Ok, I'm going to break down and get one for Dusty, too. But phoenix will be her main. ... Seriously, how can you resist the pink? It's impossible. And, I mean, come on. You need a screenshot of it in action, and in proper lighting. And I hate stealing other people's screenshots... So I'm doing it for the blog. Totally. Just for the blog.)

(Temporary Image from MMO-Champion)

But, as these are rumored to be 2,000g and I don't even have enough for my epic flight skill yet (5,000g), it will be a while.

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Edit: This is all you get for now, but wonderful Manasseh has informed me that Blizzard will release other colors in the future. He quoted them, "Other colors to be introduced in the future, including... Lilac..." Yays! So it's not here yet, but I'll give you a snazzy snapshot when it is.

Heroics, or "Managing Your Reputation Pre-70"

Non-Gamer's Guide to This Post

Reputation is how the factions around you feel about you. When you do Stranglethorn Vale quests, for example, your rep with Booty Bay goes up and your reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers goes down. You can, of course, reverse this by killing lots of bruisers in Booty Bay (high rep with the Buccaneers and hated with Booty Bay is how you get an admiral's hat).

You get reputation with factions by doing quests, instances, and repeatable turn-ins.

The largest rep grind you'll see before Outlands will be around level 45-50, trying to get in good with the Timbermaw so you can pass unmolested through their home to get to Winterspring (and to get a few extra quests off them). You must be sure never to kill a Timbermaw, or your rep will plummet, and kill lots of their enemies, who drop feathers you can turn in for extra pops of reputation.

Reputation moves thusly: Hated, Hostile, Unfriendly, Neutral, Friendly, Honored, Revered, Exalted

Exalted with any same side (Alliance v. Horde) faction allows you to purchase that faction's mount (Alliance: Ironforge-Ram, Stormwind-Horse; Horde: Undercity-Skeletal Warhorse, Darkspear Trolls-Raptor).