Reputation

Template:Lang You can gain or lose favor, otherwise known as Reputation, with many of the several different factions in Azeroth by completing certain quests or killing certain creatures. Doing so will usually unlock special rewards or new quests to accomplish.

You can also increase your reputation by doing repeatable reputation quests.

Reputation Levels
Level	Points to levelup	Discount	Notes
Template:Exalted	999	20%	Access to racial and faction mounts, and tabards
Template:Revered	21,000	15%
Template:Honored	12,000	10%	Heroic mode keys for Outland dungeons
Template:Friendly	6,000	5%
	3,000
Template:Unfriendly	3,000		Cannot buy, sell or interact.
Template:Hostile	3,000		You will always be attacked on sight
Template:Hated	36,000

Reputation levels and points

It is possible to get exalted with nearly everyone.

Reputation is very similar to experience. Reputation is divided into a number of different levels for which players must earn reputation points to progress through. Higher reputation levels generally require more points than the previous level to progress. The exception is Template:Hated, which spans a very large number of reputation points. Reputation points, just like experience points, are gained through quests and killing various mobs. Unlike experience, it is possible to lose reputation points with some factions, either by killing members of the faction or by assisting "rival" factions. For rival factions, gaining reputation with them normally causes a loss of a slightly greater amount from the opposing side. Currently there are 4 of these rival faction pairs: Aldor (Draenei) vs. Scryers (Blood Elves), Gelkis vs. Magram (both Centaur), Steamwheedle Cartel (Goblins) vs. Bloodsail Buccaneers (pirates), and Ravenholdt (rogues) vs. Syndicate (Humans).

Various quests and faction-specific rewards are available across the levels, but the player must be able to interact with the faction NPCs to gain access to these rewards. This usually requires or better standing.

NOTE: All NPCs with whom you have Friendly, or higher, reputation will appear Template:Friendly in game, the level colors above are only used in WoWWiki and in the Armory.

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Gaining and losing reputation

Completing non-repeatable quests will usually increase your reputation with the quest giver's faction(s) by a fixed number of points. Most of the factions also have special repeatable quests that give reputation when completed, or special mobs that give reputation when killed.

Full reputation is still gained by questing at a higher level. For example, completing low level quests with a level 70 character now gives full reputation. This makes it easier to get to exalted and buy another faction's mount.

For mob kills, as long as the mob cons green or higher to you, then you will receive full reputation. Grey mobs give 20% of the normal reputation. See the mob difficulty colors chart for when mobs transition from green to grey.

Mobs and quests sometimes both increase your reputation with a faction but decrease it with another. For example, killing Gelkis centaurs will increase your reputation with the Magram, but it will also decrease your reputation with the Gelkis. Thus there is no way to be Friendly with the Gelkis and the Magram at the same time. It is possible to bypass this by grouping with someone and getting them to kill the relevant mobs, this will grant you the gained reputation, but you will not decrease with the faction you are killing.

For higher-end factions, a general strategy exists to make a reputation grind as painless as possible. Take the Argent Dawn for example. There are several ways in which to earn reputation for them: doing standard quests, killing mobs in and around Scholomance and Stratholme, killing bosses, and doing repeatable quests. The problem is that each of these methods will only work to a certain extent. Killing standard mobs will usually only get you to Revered or so. After that, only quests and bosses will give reputation and these are of course harder to do. Therefore, it is in a player's best interest to go as far as possible on mob kills alone and then use repeatable quests and standard quests to get through revered. Example: for Argent Dawn reputation, run Scholomance and Stratholme to get reputation from kills until you reach Revered status. At this point, reputation gained from killing mobs will stop, but you should have built up quite a collection of Scourgestones and such to turn in in rapid succession to further boost your reputation. Similar tactics can be applied to other factions, simply varying the instances you run.

Gaining reputation with the Horde or Alliance factions

Every playable race has a home faction, for example, Darnassus for Night Elves, Orgrimmar for Orcs, etc.

Excluding the increased discount, gaining reputation with the faction of your own race is useless. However, if you want a mount of a faction that is not your own, you must be Exalted with that faction. For example, if you are a Troll and you want to buy a Wolf mount, you must be Exalted with Orgrimmar.

One method of gaining reputation with your faction is by donating Wool, Silk, Mageweave, or Runecloth through repeatable quests to designated NPCs.

Most quests for an Alliance or Horde faction will give full reputation gain for that faction, and one quarter of that reputation gain for the other factions on that side. For example, a quest completed for a Stormwind NPC will give 250 Stormwind reputation and 62.5 reputation for the other Alliance factions. Once you have gained full exalted with a faction (999/1000 exalted) you no longer receive reputation when completing quests, including flow on reputation to linked factions.

There is no way to increase or even view your reputation with factions of the opposite team (ex: You cannot increase your Undercity reputation while playing an Alliance character).

Reputation sheet

You can check your reputation with all factions by pressing the "u" hotkey or by going to the Character window ("c" hotkey) and clicking on the Reputation tab along the bottom. You can also enable or disable various options:

• Show as experience bar: Allows you to display one reputation bar as a experience bar on your main display.
• At war: If checked, you can initiate combat with NPCs of that faction, and your AoE spells will affect the mobs of that faction. It's always checked if you are Hated or Hostile; it can't be checked for other races within the Alliance/Horde.
• Inactive: Moves the selected faction to the bottom of the reputation pane.

List of factions and rewards

For a list of recipes available grouped by tradeskill, see these pages:

Most factions listed below have itemized lists of reputation rewards at their respective entries.

Group	Faction	Gaining Rep	Rewards
Alliance	Darnassus Gnomeregan Exiles Ironforge Stormwind Exodar	Completing non-repeatable quests and donating wool, mageweave, silk or runecloth. Completing the many repeatable quests in Alterac Valley (see section on the Repeatable reputation quest).	Racial mounts at exalted. Discounts according to level of reputation (2.3).
Horde	Darkspear Trolls Orgrimmar Thunder Bluff Undercity Silvermoon	Completing non-repeatable quests and donating wool, mageweave, silk or runecloth. Completing the many repeatable quests in Alterac Valley (see section on the Repeatable reputation quest).	Racial mounts at exalted. Discounts according to level of reputation (2.3).
Alliance PvP	League of Arathor Silverwing Sentinels Stormpike Guard	Fighting in the battlegrounds; completing non-repeatable quests. Repeatable quests in Alterac Valley for Stormpike Guard.	'Justicar' title when exalted with all three.
Horde PvP	Defilers Frostwolf Clan Warsong Outriders	Fighting in the battlegrounds; completing non-repeatable quests. Repeatable quests in Alterac Valley for Frostwolf Clan.	'Conqueror' title when exalted with all three.
Steamwheedle Cartel	Booty Bay Everlook Gadgetzan Ratchet	Can be increased completing non-repeatable quests or killing certain mobs. Every time you gain or lose a certain amount of reputation with one of these factions, you will gain or lose 50% of that amount with all the others. Almost all quests for Booty Bay will lower your reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. Repeatable turn-in quests offered when below neutral standing.	Discounts according to level of reputation. (2.3) If you are at war with these factions you cannot use the neutral auctions or some ships without being attacked on sight by guards. The zeppelins are still usable as a recent patch aligned the zeppelin masters and their guards with Orgrimmar.
Outland	Cenarion Expedition	Doing quests at Evergrove or Cenarion Refuge, and running any of the Coilfang Reservoir instances and turning in Unidentified Plant Parts to honored.	Several rewards including  [Cenarion War Hippogryph] mount.
	Honor Hold	Doing quests at Honor Hold, and running any of the Hellfire Citadel instances.
	Kurenai	Doing quests at Telaar and Orebor Harborage, killing ogres and orcs around Nagrand.	Several rewards including epic ground Mounts.
	Mag'har	Doing quests at Garadar and Mag'har Post, killing ogres and orcs around Nagrand.	Several rewards including epic ground Mounts.
	Ogri'la	Doing quests at Ogri'la.	Items, armor and weapons.
	Netherwing	Doing quests at Netherwing Ledge.	Several rewards including Nether drake mount.
	Sporeggar	Doing quests at the Spawning Glen and Sporeggar, running the Underbog (for items).
	The Consortium	Doing quests around all of Outland, running Mana-Tombs.
	Thrallmar	Doing quests at Thrallmar, running any of the Hellfire Citadel instances.
Shattrath City	Lower City	Doing their quests around Terokkar Forest, running Auchenai Crypts, Sethekk Halls, or Shadow Labyrinth.
	Sha'tari Skyguard	Doing quests at Skettis and Ogri'la, killing mobs at Skettis.	Several rewards including Nether Ray mount.
	Shattered Sun Offensive	Doing quests in Shattrath. Doing quests and instances and on Isle of Quel'Danas.	Several rewards. See Shattered Sun Offensive
	The Aldor	[Mark of Kil'jaeden],  [Mark of Sargeras] and  [Fel Armament] turnins. The Aldor and The Scryers are at odds; you cannot gain faction for both simultaneously. To switch from Scryers to Aldor turn in [Dreadfang Venom Sac] at the Lower City quest giver.	Several rewards including Fire Resist recipes.
	The Scryers	[Firewing Signet],  [Sunfury Signet], and  [Arcane Tome] turnins. The Aldor and The Scryers are at odds; you cannot gain faction for both simultaneously. To switch from Aldor to Scryers turn in [Dampscale Basilisk Eye] at the Lower City quest giver.	Several rewards including Arcane Resist recipes.
	The Sha'tar	Running any Tempest Keep instance, doing their quests.	Several rewards, include epic healing mace and epic defense shield.
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	Ashtongue Deathsworn	Quests and killing mobs in the Black Temple.	Several crafting rewards and class trinkets.
	Brood of Nozdormu	Killing mobs during the Ahn'Qiraj gates opening event, and killing mobs in the Ruins and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.	Rewards include a special ring and epic class sets with token drops from AQ40.
	Cenarion Circle	Killing Twilight mobs in Silithus and turning in items dropped by them; completing non-repeatable druid quests; completing Lunar Festival quests.	Several rewards including class items from AQ20 token drops.
	Hydraxian Waterlords	Killing elementals in Silithus or mobs in Molten Core.	Items to summon Majordomo Executus in Molten Core.
	Scale of the Sands	Killing mobs in the Battle for Mount Hyjal.	Rings and gem cuts.
	Zandalar Tribe	Killing mobs in Zul'Gurub, doing the quests given at Yojamba Isle, and turning in coin sets or destroying Hakkari Bijoux.	Several rewards including class items from ZG token drops.
Other	Argent Dawn	Killing undead or turning in Scourgestones dropped by undead; completing non-repeatable quests. Also offered reputation for quests and killing some mobs during the Scourge Invasion.	There are several rewards.
	Bloodsail Buccaneers	Killing Booty Bay guards. It will decrease your reputation with Booty Bay, Everlook, Gadgetzan, and Ratchet. Also by completing non-repeatable quests only offered after attaining high enough reputation.	You can get a special quest chain at friendly, leading to [Bloodsail Admiral's Hat].
	Darkmoon Faire	Various item turn-ins, rare repeatable quests offered as fortunes, and two non-repeatable quests.	Discounted sale of various foods.
	Gelkis Clan Centaur	Killing Magram centaurs. Lowers your reputation with the Magram Clan Centaur.	Various non-repeatable quest rewards.
	Keepers of Time	Killing mobs in Old Hillsbrad and Black Morass instances.	There are several rewards.
	Magram Clan Centaur	Killing Gelkis centaurs. Lowers your reputation with the Gelkis Clan Centaur.	Various non-repeatable quest rewards.
	Ravenholdt	Turning in junkboxes pickpocket mobs by Rogues (lowers Syndicate reputation), or by turning in emblems pickpocketed from Syndicate mobs and some non-repeatable quests (both Rogue only). Repeatable	Offer a few quest rewards.
	Shen'dralar	Turning in Dire Maul books and librams.	No known rewards.
	Syndicate	Killing Ravenholdt mobs. Lowers your reputation with Ravenholdt.	No known rewards.
	Thorium Brotherhood	Various item turnins .	Several rewards including Fire Resist crafting recipes.
	Timbermaw Hold	Killing other Furbolgs in Winterspring and Felwood, and turning in items dropped by them.	Several rewards.
	The Violet Eye	[The Master's Key] quest chain, killing mobs in Karazhan.	Quest and reputation rewards.
	Wintersaber Trainers	Completing time-consuming repeatable quests.	Unique mount.
Removed	Revantusk Tribe	Doing quests at Revantusk Village. This faction was removed as of patch 1.11.	No known rewards.
	Wildhammer Clan	Turning in items dropped by trolls in The Hinterlands. This faction was removed as of patch 2.0.3.	No known rewards.
	Silvermoon Remnant	Unknown Mentioned in Patch 1.6.	No known rewards.
	Theramore	Unknown Mentioned in Patch 1.6.	No known rewards.

In Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content related to Wrath of the Lich King.

Some posts on the official forums hint that none of reputation build up in previously will carry over to the expansion, or simply that the Argent Dawn in Northrend won't be the same Argent Dawn we know and love (see Cenarion Circle and Cenarion Expedition).

Re: What is the rep in lich king? | 2007-12-05 20:05 by Bornakk:

While we haven't discussed reputation factions for Wrath of the Lich King, I can explain that from a design philosophy we prefer to NOT give players more experienced players a distinct advantage when it comes to new content. If you take The Burning Crusade as an example, there was no reputation that gave you an edge in Outland or would speed you further. Based on this example I wouldn't think the current Argent Dawn faction would be re-used for Northrend.

See also

• Faction

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