tips for grinding consortium rep??? do heroic Manatombs every day! my Guild leader wanted exalted, and im a healer so i usually come with him, i got Revered just helping out guildies

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Most of my Consortium rep came from Bead farming there in Nagrand. Find yourself an ogre cave and grind till you're sick of it! Makes good money though, as the ogres drop good silver and plenty of netherweave, in addition to warbeads to turn in for Consortium rep, and Gun powder to turn in at Halaa.

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You can get to exalted from honored very easily, without grouping if you are a soloer; do the Consorium quest line in northern Netherstorm, and so that you can do ID tag turn-ins and prison keys. The prison keys yield level 70 greens and blues, sometimes even BOE blues, and a turn-in for Consortium rep, or randomly 500 rep to some (also random) outland faction. Very easy and lucrative, I have two toons at exalted and one on the way.

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Yeah but the I've never found a good place to Farm the keys, the drop rate is attrocious. Other than grinding warbeads you can also grind Zaxxis Insignia in Netherstorm, again good green drops and cash.

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Just did the grind to revered on my pally and my hunter this month. Took 6 hours(spaced out over 3 days) in the heap to raise it 10k rep. AOE Prot Pally love there...

Took me about 4 hours on my hunter to do 7k rep. Used an owl with screech on autocast to hold threat on multiple mobs.

Lots of cloth drops. Some greifing. Overall with other people farming, I was able to do it relative ease.

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As a jewelcrafter I usually find the market slightly flooded at the start of the month so just take a break from selling and build my stocks up. With two exalted characters and one honoured I usually get 3-4 blue gems and a ton of greens, which is very nice indeed, at least if they aren't all talasites!

Rep tips: If you want Kurenai/Mag'har rep as well, spend some time with the ogres in Nagrand - however you will get very very bored of ogres. Hand the beads in to the Consortium and the kill rep goes towards Kurenai/Mag'har; I found on both characters I farmed with that I got my talbuk shortly after Consortium revered.

If you don't want those reps though, best bet is get to honoured (do Netherstorm quests plus if you're only just starting out in Nagrand turn in a bunch of elekk horns to reach friendly), then begin the chain that lets Ethereum prison keys drop for you.

Once they'll drop, go and farm the Zaxxis ethereals south of Area 52 - they drop Zaxxis insignias at 50% droprate (250 rep per 10 insignias), and you get a decent number of keys too, which you can use to open prisons and hopefully get a bunch of prisoner id tags which are another 250 rep each. I used this method to get from revered to exalted with my priest, only took 2-3 days and it felt like it went really quickly.

Heroic Mana Tombs is another option but I rarely see anyone wanting to go there much, plus I'm not a great fan of the place anyway, at least when I'm playing a caster - they should rename it Mana Burn Tombs in my opinion...!

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For Alliance, the best place to grind the ogres is Southwind Cleft - it's about a 1 minute ride from the Kurenai town to the south. The ogres are easy warriors and mages, they only clump in a few places (a 70 can not draw more then 2 at a time). I can grind about 2000 Kurenai rep in 60 minutes, and about 9 turn ins for Concort. rep. I've been working on this for a long while now. LOL

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Drop rate for the keys is 4%, a long slow grind if you do it this way. The insignia or beads are a much faster choice.

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"The better your rep, the more (and better) gems you get..."

Please don't misinform your readers.
You won't *always* get better gems as you go up in reputation status. You'll only get *more*.

The table is random. 2 months ago, at Revered, I got 2 blues. Last month, at Revered, I got a back full of greens.

It's stupid, and Blizzard really should fix this.
They advertise it as a "monthly salary", and it should be.

Let me ask you this: Would anyone in their right mind work somewhere where their boss said, "Okay, well, you see, you *might* get paid $5,000 next month, but there's also a chance you'll get $100 instead."?

I don't think so. A salary is a salary. If you're supposed to get 1 blue and 3 greens at Revered, then that's what you should get.

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That should have read:

"Last month, at Revered, I got a sack full of greens."

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You're getting a cut of the profits, not a salary. Some months the Consortium makes more than it does other months, thus the increase in the quality of your gems for that month

If it was a salary I doubt they'd still be paying me since I haven't done any work for them since I got exalted four months ago. Yet, they still give me my cut every month.

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@11 Yeah, there are screencaps of people getting 5 rares and 1 green at Exalted, and other people getting 1 rare and 5 greens, and everything in-between.

@12 Then it shouldn't be called a salary then; it should be called a "profit-sharing program".


sal·a·ry /ˈsæləri/

–noun, plural

a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.

FIXED. That's the very definition of salary, as clearly stated in the quest text.

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So lets say I'm honored right now but only 2K away from revered. Later tonight I go on, grind out my rep, then go and receive my bag for the month. Will I get the honored or revered bag? Anyone know?

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I love the proposition of a bag of gems appearing in the mail on the first of every month. Talk about welfare epics.

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I farmed from revered to exalted just to get 1 jewelcrafting design (mostly on the Zaxxis in netherstorm). They seriously jipped me last month. Lets see what happen this month.

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While grinding Kurenai rep to exalted, I used all the beads for Consortium rep. When Kurenai rep was completed, I went to Netherstorm and farmed Zaxxis insignias until Exalted. The switch is needed because while farming Zaxxis Insignias, you can also get Ethereum Prison Keys which are worth even more Consortium rep.

Of course, I also did almost all of the Consortium quests and a few runs through their dungeons.

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@14 When I did it on my paladin, I was just into honored and did the grind up to revered in a weekend. I hadn't gotten my "cut" that month yet, so while I was down there getting the seaforium schematic, they gave me my revered level bag.

I am fairly sure the reward is based on what you level is when you accept the quest to get the gems.

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i got my last 5k rep from about 2 hours of farming at the heap south of netherstorm's area 52 i got about 4 etherium prison keys and just turn in the zaxxis insignias you find (250 for the insignias and the usual 250 consortium rep, but the occasional 500 of any reputation)

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