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OMG, i did the exact same thing last year for my dri hunter, with my 70 friend's help(meaning ez mode questing but a bite to xp) and world events like lunar fest, winter fest, etc. i was able to hit exalted at around 30 too. too bad i had to wait another 10 lvls back then.

even tho i too was trying to maximize my rep earning i kept the rod too lol

Same here. I did the Teldrassil quests though. More running around for training than I would have liked but it ended up very worthwhile in the end.

I didn't realize having a mount from another race at 30 was unusual as I saw many right after that patch went into effect (I thought it had something to do with twinks and BG honor--I know nothing of these things). In fact, that's the reason I was tempted to go through the hassle with my shaman (that and avoid yet another elekk).

A few reasons.

a) Blood Elves/Forsaken start of Neutral with Orcs/Trolls/Tauren, and vice versa. That's 3000 Rep missing at the start.

b) As level 10-20 Zones go, Alliance have four zones whilst Horde have three - The Barrens doubles as the natural destination from both Mulgore and Durotar.

c) Pretty much all quests in Bloodmyst Isle give Exodar Rep, which means spillover to the other four. Ghostlands gives almost entirely Tranquillien Rep, so no spillover.

d) probably other things I can't think of.

Having levelled a number of Horde character's, doing most quests that I could find, I would stay that you could get:

Orgrimmar ~ 38-40
Undercity ~ 38-40
Thunder Bluff ~ 45-50
Darkspears ~ 55+
Silvermoon ~ 58+ (probably on Falcon Watch quests).

I'm not sure what's up with the darkspear trolls though. Just to see if I could I decided to see if I could get exalted with all factions, and spillover rep actually becomes the easiest way to gain rep anyway after a certain point.

But after I had done pretty much every faction quest I could find (some I skipped because they involved instances) the darkspear rep didn't add up and I was still very short. There are other trolls you can do quests for such as the ones in STV and the hinterlands, however they are not darkspear. When you think about that, you don't get any spillover from the missing rep either.

Interestingly there were some token blood elves added to many points, but there is almost no faction after the blood elf starting zones for silvermoon until you get to outland. However there is also some darkspear trolls conspicuously around outland that make me think that perhaps Blizzard realized some of their faction rep wasn't adding up.

I turned in runecloth and got the epic raptor, but it made me dizzy so I don't ride it anymore.

My Blood Elf is 70 and I'm not exalted with *any* horde factions, including Silvermoon.

I quested in the BE starting area until 25, then went to the barrens and basically stopped getting rep with UC/SM, but never made enough to hit exalted with the Kalimdor factions either.

16512/21000 Revered with Silvermoon is my highest rep.

All the others are revered as well, but lower.

The Darkspears and the Blood Elves are the most difficult on Horde side. Possibly Gnomes on Alliance side, though I can't say from experience.

Once you get out of the Barrens, you just have the odd quest here and there to do, for Troll rep, until you hit Outland.

The Blood Elves are even worse, as there is no consistent rep between Eversong Woods (1-10 area) and Falcon Watch (60-62 area). There are aan odd few about (ones in Kargath, Stonard and Grom'gol spring to mind) but those are just an odd few hundred rep.

You really have to rely on "spillover" for in order to get Exalted with them.

Once you're in your mid twenties, all the NE starting area quests as well as Darkshore don't reward much exp if any for completing quests, however they still payout 250 and sometimes 350 rep with Darnassus for the quests. Once you hit Ashenvale you'll start gaining exp again, but if done correctly you'll probably hit exalted before leaving Ashenvale.

Also, I leveled up two professions... so that is where a bit of the time went to.