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Outland reputation set- Rogue: Opportunist's Battlegear
This is the PvP set for any Rogue spec. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Opportunist's Battlegear Slot Rep Opportunist's Leather Gloves Hands Thrallmar/Honor Hold Opportunist's Leather Helm Head Cenarion Expedition Opportunist's Leather Legguards Legs The Sha'tar Opportunist's Leather Tunic Chest Lower City Opportunist's Leather Spaulders Shoulders Keepers of Time Opportunist's Battlegear Armor Agi Sta Crit Opportunist's Leather Gloves 183 21 21 11 Opportunist's Leather Helm 237 20 36 10 Opportunist's Leather Legguards 258 28 42 10 Opportunist's Leather Tunic 292 30 42 10 Opportunist's Leather Spaulders 219 13 31 11 Total 1187 112 182 56 Opportunist's Battlegear Resil Atk Pwr Dur Gems Opportunist's Leather Gloves 16 22 35 Opportunist's Leather Helm 24 20 60 M, R Opportunist's Leather Legguards 28 28 75 Opportunist's Leather Tunic 24 12 100 R, R, Y Opportunist's Leather Spaulders 13 22 60 R, Y Total 105 104 330 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the cooldown of your Gouge ability by 1 seconds. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
Outland reputation set - Paladin (Holy): Crusader's Ornamented Battlegear
This is the PvP set for Holy specced Paladina. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Crusader's Ornamented Battlegear Slot Rep Crusader's Ornamented Gloves Hands Cenarion Expitition Crusader's Ornamented Headguard Head The Sha'tar Crusader's Ornamented Legguards Legs Lower City Crusader's Ornamented Chestplate Chest Keepers of Time Crusader's Ornamented Spaulders Shoulders Thrallmar/Honor Hold Crusader's Ornamented Battlegear Armor Sta Int Spell Crit Resil Crusader's Ornamented Gloves 728 30 20 19 12 Crusader's Ornamented Headguard 946 34 22 20 20 Crusader's Ornamented Leggings 1019 39 26 24 24 Crusader's Ornamented Chestplate 1164 37 24 21 22 Crusader's Ornamented Spaulders 873 30 19 15 14 Total 4730 170 111 99 92 Crusader's Ornamented Battlegear Dur Healing Spell Gems Crusader's Ornamented Gloves 45 40 35 Crusader's Ornamented Headguard 80 35 12 M, R Crusader's Ornamented Leggings 100 22 8 Crusader's Ornamented Chestplate 135 18 6 R, R, Y Crusader's Ornamented Spaulders 80 22 8 R, Y Total 440 107 48 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice by 10 seconds. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
Outland reputation set- Shaman (Enhancement): Seer's Linked Battlegear
This is the PvP set for Enhancement Shaman. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Seer's Linked Battlegear Slot Rep Seer's Linked Gauntlets Hands Lower City Seer's Linked Helm Head Thrallmar/Honor Hold Seer's Linked Leggings Legs Keepers of Time Seer's Linked Armor Chest The Sha'tar Seer's Linked Spaulders Shoulders Cenarion Expedition Seer's Linked Battlegear Armor Str Sta Int Seer's Linked Gauntlets 407 21 33 Seer's Linked Helm 530 20 30 Seer's Linked Leggings 570 22 42 22 Seer's Linked Armor 652 12 42 Seer's Linked Spaulders 489 13 42 Total 2648 88 180 22 Seer's Linked Battlegear Resil Dur Mp5 Gems Seer's Linked Gauntlets 29 28 40 Seer's Linked Helm 24 24 70 M, R Seer's Linked Leggings 28 22 90 Seer's Linked Armor 14 22 120 R, R, Y Seer's Linked Spaulders 17 13 70 R, Y Total 112 109 390 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the cooldown of your Stormstrike ability by 1 second. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
Outland reputation set- Paladin (DPS): Crusader's Scaled Battlegear
This is the PvP set for DPS Paladins. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Crusader's Scaled Battlegear Slot Rep Crusader's Scaled Gauntlets Hands Thrallmar/Honor Hold Crusader's Scaled Helm Head Keepers of Time Crusader's Scaled Legguards Legs Cenarion Expedition Crusader's Scaled Chestpiece Chest The Sha'tar Crusader's Scaled Shoulders Shoulders Lower City Crusader's Scaled Battlegear Armor Str Sta Int Crusader's Scaled Gauntlets 728 28 25 12 Crusader's Scaled Helm 946 28 60 16 Crusader's Scaled Legguards 1019 36 42 16 Crusader's Scaled Chestpiece 1164 27 42 12 Crusader's Scaled Shoulders 873 25 33 8 Total 4730 144 172 64 Crusader's Scaled Battlegear Crit Resil Dur Gems Crusader's Scaled Gauntlets 12 12 45 Crusader's Scaled Helm 13 15 80 M, R Crusader's Scaled Legguards 16 16 100 Crusader's Scaled Chestpiece 13 14 135 R, R, Y Crusader's Scaled Shoulders 9 10 80 R, Y Total 63 67 440 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice by 10 seconds. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
Outland reputation set- Priest (DPS): Satin Battlegear
This is the PvP set for DPS-Specced Priests. The Battlegear sets are of a superior quality and are equal to the Level 70 High Warlord gear that can be purchased with honor points. The pieces can be purchased by becoming honored with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold/Thrallmar, Keepers of Time, Lower City, and the Sha'tar. Complete sets require honored with all five factions as listed below: Satin Battlegear Slot Rep Satin Gloves Hands Keepers of Time Satin Hood Head Thrallmar/Honor Hold Satin Leggings Legs Lower City Satin Robe Chest Thrallmar/Honor Hold Satin Mantle Shoulders The Sha'tar Satin Battlegear Armor Sta Int Resil Satin Gloves 97 33 15 14 Satin Hood 127 46 19 19 Satin Leggings 136 46 23 23 Satin Robe 156 46 15 15 Satin Mantle 117 33 17 17 Total 117 204 89 88 Satin Battlegear Dur Spell Gems Satin Gloves 30 25 Satin Hood 50 18 M, R Satin Leggings 65 36 Satin Robe 80 27 R, Y, Y Satin Mantle 50 15 R, Y Total 275 121 Set Bonus 2: 35 Resilience Set Bonus 4: Reduces the duration of the Weakened Soul effect caused by your Power Word: Shield by 2 seconds. Return to the complete Outland Battlegear list
WoW Rookie: Introduction to Reputation
WoW Rookie is brought to our readers to help our newest players get acclimated to the game. Make sure you send a note to WoW Insider if you have suggestions for what new players need to know. As a social game, it's fun to make friends in an MMORPG environment. In World of Warcraft, you must also make friends (and sometimes enemies) with members of various faction groups. Reputation (rep) is gained through killing a faction's enemies and completing quests to assist a particular group. Obviously, killing member's of a particular faction reduces rep. For example, killing Bloodsail Pirates increases rep with Booty Bay (Steamwheedle Cartel), while decreasing rep with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. There are many reasons why we may increase or decrease reputations. You may be asked to do so to as a quest objective or to gain particular rewards. By gaining exalted reputation with the major cities you have access to purchase their racial mounts (provided your they may be scaled to your racial model) and their guild tabards. Higher levels of rep also allow discounts on goods and repair services from vendors, and higher prices for selling useless items. For the next couple of weeks, we'll be taking a look at the ins and outs of reputation on WoW Rookie.
The Daily Grind: Should reputation matter?
If you have the money, you should be able to buy anything that's for sale, right? Yet sometimes vendors will refuse to sell you that one sweet halberd or armor set that you've been dying to have, simply because you haven't built up enough reputation with their faction/guild/association. Has any such item been worth grinding rep for? What exactly does this reputation system prove, other than that your service can be purchased by the promise of leet loot?This system only really seems to matter for games in which there is a definitive ending, where moral choices do, in fact, have consequences. In an MMO, even such a moral system can be made obsolete; because the game can continue indefinitely, a player can go from total evil to complete good and back again, given enough game hours. Perhaps we're missing a critical element, but do we really need the reputation element in MMOs?
Singing the praises of Heroic Countenance
Lariana on Skywall has words of praise for "Heroic Countenance," a new NPC spell in patch 2.4 that unlocks you to the Heroic mode of MrT -- to get it cast on you, you have to complete the instance on Normal mode first by doing a quest to kill of Kael'thas once and for all. Basically, it replaces the Heroic reputation keys, which Lariana says were a much less interesting system than Heroic Countenance.And Bornakk basically confirms that Blizzard agrees (well, all he says is that they'll talk about it on the next Blizzcast, but he adds a smiley, so odds are that Blizzard is down with the Heroic Countenance). They've been talking for a while, too, about making the reputation grind easier for alts and guilds, so maybe this type of spell is how they'll deal with that -- get it cast on one of your characters, and it will be cast on all of them.The only question, then, is what to do with all those Heroic keys that we've picked up. The answer is probably nothing -- Blizzard doesn't really care, it seems, about updating old content, and my guess is that the instances in Outland won't be changing much from their current form. But in Wrath, it might be fun if the keys stayed, but opened up other, less consequential content. Instead of Heroic mode, what if a Revered rep key opened up the way to an additional optional boss, or an additional loot area per run? Not enough to make it necessary, but enough to reward those who went all the way with the reputation factions in the game.
Phase 4 Dailies: A Charitable Donation
Acquired from Anchorite Ayuri just outside of Sun's Reach Sanctum, A Charitable Donation marks the final step on the reclaiming of Quel'Danas and the construction of the Shattered Sun Stronghold. It isn't a daily quest so much as it is a daily reputation vendor.It's easy to look at the quest and get angry, because it's a fairly obvious money sink. Give 10 gold, get 150 reputation. Keep in mind that it's completely optional, and the only thing it unlocks is a little flavor for the world. If you don't want to do it, don't do it, don't feel bad avoiding it. It won't hurt anybody.If you do want to contribute, though, donating that 10 gold moves the server toward earning a pretty neat thing. After enough donations, a statue will be built commemorating those that died in the battle for the Sunwell Plateau, and the friends and family they left behind. It is also a sign of unity between the Aldor and the Scryers; the monument has two sides, one with a Draenei and one with a Blood Elf. It has no real effect on the world, but it's pretty cool to look at.As I mentioned, this quest is basically a reputation vendor. You buy reputation, and this can only be done once a day. You pay 10 gold and get 150 SSO rep, so if you run one of the easy dailies(such as Distraction at the Dead Scar) for roughly 10 gold and 250 rep, you can turn that into a total of 400 rep. That sure beats buying Coilfang Armaments for 25 gold each, to turn in for 75 reputation. If you do this quest regularly, you can shave a few Magisters' Terrace runs off of your grind to Exalted.As always, if you need to know more about this quest, take a look at Wowwiki or Wowhead!
LotRO Book 13: Doom of the Last-King
Following the recent release of The Ashen Wastes, we now have LotRO's Book 13 to look forward to very soon. In a recent dev diary, not only has the name of the new book been revealed, but also much more. We learn about some unique creatures in Forochel, including moose, winter-worms, and Gauredain war-mammoths, just to name a few. These new creatures in Doom of the Last-King will also have their own brand of monster skills introduced specifically for them.In Book 13: Doom of the Last-King, the content team introduces something they've been waiting a long time to do: implement a new region with its own reputation. This means that your character will start out as "Unfriendly" to the Lossoth who inhabit the region. In order to improve reputation, players will need to complete quests and collect item drops for the Lossoth. This is actually the first time a region was created with reputation built-in. Lossoth reputation rewards include unique armor sets, weapons, a new mount, housing decorations, and even a few class specific items! Be sure to check out a recent dev interview for more information on Book 13, and remember, there is only one more content patch after this before the Mines of Moria expansion!%Gallery-18168%
Dirt Dog Gaming's Sunwell daily chart
So, by now I'm sure many of you have made your way to the Sunwell and started figuring out the daily quests. You've probably checked out our walkthroughs of the new dailies for Shattrath and the 1st phase of the offensive, and gotten your bearings pretty well. Still, there's a lot of quests to deal with, and it can understandably get a bit boggling sorting through them all. That's where Infamy of Dirt Dog Gaming steps in, with a very handy chart that breaks down all the various phases of the offensive with handy color coding indicating which quests are progressive towards unlocking content. It's definitely a very nicely done resource, and one which should help you plan out your daily runs as you work towards exalted SSO reputation, epic flying mount money, or just unlocking the island completely. Check it out!
Devs answer questions on Book 13's Forochel
Over at the Lord of the Rings Online European forums, the developers gave players a chance to ask any questions they had about the new Forochel region that will be introduced with Book 13. All sorts of things were asked over a number of days, and the question time is now over. We've had a read through the thread, and compiled the answers that the developers gave in bullet-point format, so check after the break to see what the players managed to find out -- short answer, a lot!
Rally against the Dourhands of Sarnr
The Lord of the Rings Online site has been updated with a new area, the Dourhand dwelling of Sarnúr. After the Dourhands were driven from Thorin's Hall by the Longbeards, they came across the ruins of one of their ancestor's cities, gave it a new name and settled in there. Here they dwell, preparing for assaults on the Dwarves to the north and the Elves to the south.Sarnúr is a popular area to earn reputation with Thorin's Hall, with the Dourhands there commonly dropping reputation hand-in items. It is a higher level area, intended for mid to upper 40's, and there are some good grinding deeds there not only for the Dourhands, but also the beasts and Trolls that inhabit the ruined city. It's an easy dungeon to reach, just east of Noglond, with almost no high level mobs to run through to reach the entrance. Check out the new lorebook entry to find out more and use the interactive map that plots the area's location.
2.4 PvP sets: Gold and rep requirements
There's a lot to get excited about in patch 2.4, without a doubt. A lot of raiders will be looking to the Sunwell to provide new content and those addicted to daily quests will certainly find a lot to do as well. I'll certainly appreciate these things, but there was one new item that piqued my interest as an altaholic: the new blue PvP sets available from reputation vendors. While a lot of players will likely overlook or outright dismiss these new sets, they are a godsend to someone, like me, that has a ton of high-level alts. While these sets are clearly geared towards PvP, they'll definitely help fill out some of my alts' PvE sets. Additionally, they'll make good starting sets for anyone that wants to get more involved in the arena or battlegrounds.
Incoming dragonhawk mounts?
I love new mounts. When the Shattered Sun Offensive rewards from patch 2.4 were first posted, I combed through the listing searching for some sort of new faction mount reward, and was disappointed not to find any. There ought to be a new mount in this patch somewhere, right? So imagine my surprise when opened up Mania's Arcania and saw a picture of some elf riding a dragonhawk!Apparently, there is no dragonhawk mount available for players to purchase just yet, but when you take the flight from Quel'Danas island back to the mainland, you fly on the back of a dragonhawk. Also, there is a dragonhawk-riding bombing quest you can run (which Mania says is kind of annoying). Finally, there are new enemy elves who ride dragonhawks, and new silvery-grey ones at that!If you ask me, it's just a matter of time until Blizzard puts dragonhawks into the game as the latest and greatest flying mount you can get. They'll probably make it an exalted Shattered Sun Offensive reward which is unlocked as that faction's presence on the island grows stronger, or else make it a rare drop from one of the bosses, like the bear mount from Zul'Aman. It would be a true shame indeed to taunt us with all this other dragonhawk riding if we couldn't also get one of our own, after all, and Blizzard isn't that mean... are they?
The Lunar Festival's greatest prize: Rep!
If you're a human after a saber, troll after a kodo, or any other combination like that, don't let this opportunity pass you by!As most of you know, during the Lunar Festival there are 50 Elders scattered across Azeroth that hand out Coins of Ancestry which you can turn in for prizes in Moonglade. There is another prize, however: Reputation! For every elder you speak to, you earn 75 reputation toward your entire faction. Yes, all five races.If you put the time in to talk to every single elder, some of which might be a pain to reach, you'll net just shy of 4,000 reputation. 3,750 to be exact. For humans, this will come out to about 4,125 rep, give or take a bit. Nerf Diplomacy!This won't drastically lessen a rep grind, especially after the reputation gain changes they put in awhile back, but its certainly more interesting than tearing apart low level quests or farming endless amounts of Runecloth.
Kazzak and Doomwalker go BoE, 25man raids get more set pieces per drop
The European forums see some 2.4 news dropping, as we find out that Doom Lord Kazzak and Doomwalker will see their drops go from BoP to BoE, 25 man raid content will see their token drops increase by one to three tokens per token dropping boss, gems from Heroics will no longer be unique, and reputation with the Scale of the Sands will now be greatly increased.Meanwhile, Drysc returns again with news that the looting UI system is undergoing some changes, especially involving BoP items. If only you can loot it, you won't be asked if you want to anymore, and you'll see the name of the item in the confirmation window from now on.In addition to news about enchanting, PvP honor and spell haste dropping today, it looks very likely that patch 2.4 is due sooner rather than later. Of course, it's also possible that they're doing all this to confuse and bewilder us.
Violet Eye ring exchanges at exalted only
I have good news and bad news, good readers. The good news is that if you are at exalted level with the Violet Eye, you can, in fact, exchange your reputation reward ring from Karazhan for a ring of a different type (if you are DPS, you can get a healing ring, and vice versa)-- all you have to do is destroy your ring, and then you'll be able to redo the quest to get a different ring, according to Hortus on the forums.However, I thought that the other question in the thread, the one about whether it works for people who are not exalted, was an excellent one. And since my Shaman is not actually exalted yet, I figured I'd get some hands-on experience and find out for you, dear readers, whether the Violet Eye would exchange your ring at a level below exalted. So, as you can see in the shot above, I destroyed my revered ring (I am not kidding-- I really did), and asked the quest giver for another one.Unfortunately, the bad news is that it does not work. I didn't actually get another ring. And apparently I'll have to work up to exalted to get my ring back. The things I do for you, my readers. The things I do.
'What If' Mechanics: Notoriety
I got to thinking about the nature of quests in most MMOs, and how they're as generic as possible, to appeal to a specific class, or race, or faction. And then I was reading Kevin's Pirates of the Burning Sea post, and got to musing how cool it would be if there were a worldwide system in place to accumulate notoriety.By that I mean, what if your in-game exploits actually affected the way you're perceived? What if you were such a notorious ganker, for example, that the game suddenly put a reward on your head? What if you logged in one day and found that you were on the Public Enemies list, and other players could receive substantial coin for taking you out? Or the opposite: what if you were widely known for your altruism, and that affected other players' perception of you, to the point where they would see actual physical changes in your avatar, such as a halo of light around your head?MMOs are great for the shared social experience, but I'd like to see one's actions having a lasting effect in-game, where reputation affects more than your status among NPCs. Is this something that's already in place somewhere?
Remember your gems
Once again, it's the first of the month, and that means it's your gem payday from the Consortium! Get your butt out to Aeris Landing and click on Gezhe for your Membership Benefits, which means a package of free gems to help you pimp your new season 3 gear or Zul'Aman epics. Depending on your Consortium reputation level, you get one of the following: Friendly: Gem Stuffed Envelope Honored: Unmarked Bag of Gems Revered: Bulging Sack of Gems Exalted: Bag of Premium Gems I meant to get my rogue up at least to Revered since last month, but alas, real life stepped in, so it's another Unmarked Bag for me. What's your haul for December?
