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Kommentar von Jevawty

Übersicht über die Ruf-Punkte :

■ Es gibt diverse Quests in Nagrand und Nethersturm

■ Am "Aeris Steg" in Nagrand gibt es 2 bis "freundlich" wiederholbare Quests
Man kann "Elfenbeinstoßzähne" von den Wilden Elekks aus Nagrand besorgen
(250 Ruf für 3 Stoßzähne)
und man kann die Kristallfragmente um Oshugun herum sammeln
(250 Ruf für 10 Fragmente)

■ Die Oger in Nagrand gewähren zwar 10 Ruf für "Mag'har"
aber sie lassen "Obsidian Kriegsperlen" fallen,
die man bis "wohlwollend" am "Aeris Steg" abgeben kann.
(250 Ruf für 10 Perlen)

■ Die instanz Mana-Gruft gewährt ca. 1200 Ruf ... bis "wohlwollend" erreicht ist.
und auf heroisch ca. 2400 Ruf bis "ehrfürchtig"

■ Im Nethersturm in "Area 52" kann man bei "Netherpirscher Khay'ji"
bis "ehrfürchtig" wiederholt Zaxxis Insignien abgeben,
nachdem man die Quest "Kristallsammlung des Konsortiums" gemacht hat
(250 für 10 Insignien)
Die Insignien droppen bei den Mobs direkt südlich von "Area 52"

Kommentar von athika

Anführer des Das Konsortium ist Nexusprinz Haramad. Es handelt sich um ein frei gebundenes Kartell von astralen Schmugglern, Händlern und Dieben, die in die Scherbenwelt kamen, um von ihren Schätzen zu profitieren.

Das Konsortium war auf der Suche nach dem größten Diamanten des Universums. Dieser sollte in Oshu'gun ausgegraben werden. Kurz vor Beginn der Ausgrabungen hat Nexusprinz Haramad die Anweisung gegeben die Arbeiten einzustellen. Grund dafür sind politische Angelegenheiten. Aus diesem Grund hat Gezhe diese Operation als eine Art Sammelstelle für geschmuggelte Edelsteine umgewandelt. Diese Operation frisst aber so langsam alle Profite auf.

Die Hauptbasis des Konsortiums, wo auch Nexusprinz Haramad zu finden ist, ist im Nethersturm auf der Sturmsäule zu finden. Einige Händler und ein Verzauberkunstmeister sind dort anwesend.

Zu finden in: Nagrand, Nethersturm, Eingang zur Managruft

RUF

Neutral

Es gibt eine einmalige und zwei wiederholbare Quests, die man in Nagrand erfüllen kann um seinen Ruf zu steigern.

Ein ganzer Kopf voll Elfenbein und Noch mehr Elfenbein
Von Dieben stehlen und Noch mehr Kristallfragmente
Eine Frage der Sicherheit

Managruft auf normalem Modus.

Freundlich

Mit freundlichem Ruf wird man Mitglied des Konsortiums und kann jeden Monat bei Gezhe einen Beutel mit Edelsteinen abholen. Die Edelsteine variieren je nach Rufstufe. Ausserdem erhält man eine weitere wiederholbare Quest.

Obsidiankriegsperlen und Noch mehr Obsidiankriegsperlen kann man bis ehrfürchtig machen.
Ein Hügel voll Astraler und Noch ein Hügel voller Astraler kann man bis ehrfürchtig machen.

Managruft auf normalem Modus.

Wohlwollend

Geheimnisse des Astraleums kann man bis ehrfürchtig machen.

Managruft gibt nur noch Ruf auf heroischem Modus.

Respektvoll

Tausend Welten kann man bis ehrfürchtig machen.

Kommentar von Arhaya

Tipp zum schnellen Farmen von Ruf von Neutral auf Respektvoll:

Neutral

Schließt Von Dieben stehlen ab und farmt weiter Kristallfragmente um mehrfach Noch mehr Kristallfragmente beenden zu können.
Pro 10 Kristallfragmente erhaltet ihr 250 Ruf.
Solltet ihr nebenbei wilde Elekks sehen, könnt ihr diese auch mitnehmen. Für das Elfenbein von 3 Elekks erhaltet ihr 250 zusätzlichen Ruf über die Quest Ein ganzer Kopf voll Elfenbein.
Nebenbei schließt ihr Eine Frage der Sicherheit ab, indem ihr 8 Ausgeburt der Leere beim Farmen mit tötet.
Ohne die Elfenbeinquest benötigt ihr 110 Kristalle und ca 15-30 Minuten.

Freundlich

Schließt Obsidiankriegsperlen ab, indem ihr 10 Obsidianperlen lootet. Bleibt aber auf eurem Farmspot, denn mit jeweils 10 weiteren Perlen erhaltet ihr weitere 250 Ruf.
Ich habe dazu den Spot bei /way 49.22, 55.99; gewählt. Pro getötetem Mob erhaltet ihr dort zusätzlich 10 Ruf bei den Mag'har.
Bis zum Rang Wohlwollend benötigt ihr 240 Perlen. Dies dauert je nach Dropglück und eurer Schnelligkeit ca 2-5 Stunden.

Wohlwollend

Lauft den Dungeon Managruft auf dem Schwierigkeitsgrad heroisch. Tötet ihr alle Monster, erhaltet ihr pro Durchgang 2472 Ruf. Die Quests des Dungeons geben euch einmalig zusätzliche 650 Ruf. Spielt ihr also nur den Dungeon, seid ihr nach 5 Tagen Respektvoll.
Sollte euch das zu lange dauern, schließt die Quest Geheimnisse des Astraleums ab, um pro Abschluss 250 Ruf zu erhalten.
Bei sechsmaligem Abschluss der Quest spart ihr euch den 5. Tag, danach müsst ihr zum Sparen eines weiteren Tages weitere 10 Mal die Quest abschließen.

Kommentare

Kommentar von 7780

The Mana-Tombs is the first dungeon in Auchindoun and you gain Consortium Rep for doing it. There are quest givers outside the instance and also an escort quest inside to complete when you clear everything.

Kommentar von Apocalipsus

Theres a repeateble turn in quest in nagrand, south of halaa

Kommentar von kreghx

Led by Nexus-Prince Haramad, the Consortium are ethereal smugglers, traders and thieves that have come to Outland. Their main base of operations and biggest settlement is the Stormspire, but they can be found at Midrealm Post, the Aeris Landing, within the Mana Tombs of Auchindoun and various other places.

Neutral to Friendly
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More Crystal Fragments a repeatable quest from Gezhe at Aeris Landing - 10x Oshu'gun Crystal Fragment - 250 rep points, no XP (Neutral, lvl 65)
More Heads Full of Ivory a repeatable quest from Shadrek at Aeris Landing - 3x Pair of Ivory Tusks
Most enemies in the Mana Tombs wing of Auchindoun will give 5-20 rep. Bosses give considerably more.

Friendly to Honored
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More Obsidian Warbeads a repeatable quest from Gehze at Aeris Landing - 10x Obsidian Warbead - 250 rep points. At first delivery 8150XP, 3G70s (lvl 66), repeating yields 38s but no XP

Kommentar von exah

For Honored -> Revered -> Exalted, you can farm Zaxxis Insignia's off Zaxxis Raiders and Stalkers at the Heap south of Area 52 in the Netherstorm.

10 Insignias nets you 250 rep when turned in to the Ethereal in front of the inn in Area 52.

There are quite a few Consortium quests available in Netherstorm: in Stormspire (44, 35), at a camp before the bridge to Manaforge Ara (35, 37), and a larger camp north of Manaforge Ultris (59, 31). Most quests grant 250 rep when completed, some grant more.

Kommentar von 8533

The rewards for higher forms of reputations with the Consortium are gems sent to you in the mail on a monthly basis.

* At Friendly you'll recieve a few green gems.
* At Honored there isn't much change from friendly - I have heard one case of receiving a rare gem however.
* At Revered you get a much better chance to receive the rare gems (Talasite, Nightseye, Dawnstone, Star of Elune, Living Ruby, Noble Topaz).
* At Exalted you have the chance to receive metagems and epic gems.

Kommentar von 16584

You can still turn in warbeads at honored as well :)

Kommentar von 18903

The gems can be picked up from Gezhe, at the Aeris Landing in Nagrand.

At honored I recieved couple of green gems aswell as an http://www.wowhead.com/?search=Dawnstone

Kommentar von Alaha

Once you turn friendly with the consortium, one of the quest givers in Aeris Landing in Nagrand has a quest for you - he tells you that they send their allies gems and that your standing with them portrais the quality of these gems.

He also sais that he will send you new gems each month - they probably dont come around midnight, but more like 4 am or such, to releave the stress on the servers.

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9886

Kommentar von 24119

The Consortium is well known for taking good care of its friends. At the beginning of each month I'll have some gems ready for you as payment for your services.

The quality of the gems you get will depend on how loyal you've been to us. Here's to hoping you do the smart thing and stay with us.

Thats what the Gezhe tells you when you get your first gems..

Kommentar von 3316

Reputation with The Consortium

1. Creatures in Mana Tombs (http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3792) up to HONORED only
Ethereal Crypt Raider/ Darkcaster/Sorcerer/Spellbinder/Theurgist = 7 REP
Nexus Stalker/Terror = 7/11 REP
Nexus-Prince Shaffar/ Pandemonius/Tavarok = 70 REP

2. Various quests that give Consortium Reputation
Nagrand:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9913 The Consortium Needs You = 10 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9893 Obsidian Warbeads (works up to Exalted but you have to be at least Friendly with them to get it) = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9882 Stealing From Thieves, ONLY available at Neutral = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9900 Gava'xi = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9925 Matters of Security = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9914 A Head Full of Ivory (repeatable, Elekk Tusks) = 250 REP

Netherstorm:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10264 Assisting The Consortium is a LONG quest line involving the Key to The Arcatraz. Completing all the quests means 2110 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10311 Drijya Needs Your Help is a 2-quest chain, gives 360 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10417 Run a Diagnostic! starts a chain:
1.Run a Diagnostic! = 150 REP
2.Deal With the Saboteurs = 250 REP
3.To the Stormspire
4.Diagnosis: Critical
5.Testing the Prototype
6.All Clear! = 250 REP
Total of 650 REP after this
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10348 New Opportunities = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10855 Fel Reavers, No Thanks! is another chain
1.Fel Reavers, No Thanks! = 250 REP
2.The Best Defense = 250 REP
3.Teleport This! = 350 REP
= 1050 REP after it
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10336 The Minions of Culuthas = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10315 Neutralizing the Nethermancers = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10270 A Not-So-Modest Proposal (chain quest)
1.A Not-So-Modest Proposal = 250 REP
2.Getting Down to Business
3.Formal Introductions
4.A Promising Start
5.Troublesome Distractions
6.Securing the Celestial Ridge
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10317 Dealing with the Foreman, 2 quests
1.Dealing with the Foreman
2.Dealing with the Overmaster = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10335 Surverying the Ruins = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10290 In Search of Farahlite, 2 quests
1.In Search of Farahlite + More Power! = 500 REP
2.Hitting the Motherlode = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10422 Captain Tyralius = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10345 The Flesh Lies... = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10353 Arconus The Insatiable = 250 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10437 Recipe For Destruction
1.Recipe for Destruction = 250 REP
2.On Nethery Wings = 250 REP
3.Dimensius the All-Devouring = 500 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10339 The Ethereum
1.The Ethereum = 250 REP
2.Ethereum Data = 75 REP
3.Potential for Brain Damage = High = 250 REP
4.S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E = 250 REP
5.Delivering the Message = 250 REP
6.Nexus-King Salhadaar = 500 REP

Mana Tombs
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10216 Safety is Job One = 350 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10165 Undercutting the Competition = 500 REP
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10218 Someone Else's Hard Work Pays Off = 500 REP

Hope this helped, I might have missed some of them but I tried and don't think there's enough space to list them all anyway.

Kommentar von 17707

Here's some advice for those grinding consortium rep at 70:

Don't bother with Mana Tombs or the quests. There are some easy quests in Netherstorm, but later on they involve flying back and forth all over the zone.

I can reliably farm 50+ Obsidian War Beads per hour, which is 1250+ rep/hour... getting that much on a consistent basis from quests or Mana Tombs runs(until honored) didn't happen for me.

Kommentar von 21515

Regarding monthly payment of gems as of 3-01-07

"Folks, I regret to say there is an issue with the Gems being acquired by players that have completed the proper quests of the Consortium faction. The developers are aware of this and it will be resolved in a future patch. " Berghe

Source:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79820522&sid=1&pageNo=2#24

Kommentar von Cormagnis

At friendly I got a Talasite, guess I was lucky. :D

Kommentar von willemse

Just like the posters above said, there are ( except leftover quests) 2 repeatable quests. The Ogre Warbeads and the Zaxxis Insignas.

But there is also another way, you can go Mana Tombs heroic too. You will get about 2500 rep per run. You can do such run in about 2 hours, but you need a decent party for it, especially the last boss can be a pain.

I like this alot cause it's a welcome interruption while grinding the repeatable quest items. Also your effeciency on grinding rep can be better when doing instances for non dps classes

Kommentar von seidule

I found that I could easily farm Consortium rep while grinding Kurenai rep. Just collect Kurenai off of Ogre kill exp and save the beads for Consortium. Grinding the requisite mob rep for Kurenai will generate enough beads to get way into Revered for Consortium.

Kommentar von 33243

Someone mentioned it just above, but Mana Tombs on heroic is excellent for rep. As well as the last boss being a pain, you might want to get a tank with good shadow res gear for the first boss, he can be very tricky without it.

Kommentar von PGU5802

I will farming ogres for my rep. Not only do they drop the war beads, but you also get 10 Mag'har rep per kill and the turn in for Haala Research Tokens.

Kommentar von decker12

I will also be doing Ogres for rep. +10 to Nagrand faction, plus the Research Token drops, plus there's a tremendous amount of Ogres with a fast respawn. I usually start at the base of the Warmaul camp and work my way up to the Chief. I then jump down, go outside, and fly back to the base and start it all over again. Easily 80+ warbeads an hour, not to mention TONS of Netherweave and greens.

You'll have less downtime since they're very easy level 66 mobs, and for the most part come one at a time each pull, unlike the mobs at The Heap in Netherstorm.

Kommentar von 91

New area/quests/items coming for Consortium rep in 2.1.0. Should make rep farming a bit easier.

Ethereum Prison

Players in good standing with the Consortium will be tasked to deal with the most recent activities of the nefarious Ethereum. With new quests, items, and content for the solo and small-group level 70 player, the Ethereum Prison will be the proving grounds for many aspiring to greatness.

Kommentar von 21515

As of 2.1 PTR the Monthly gems you get from them *is* working again. You have to go to Nagrand and speak with Gezhe (31,57) to get them. At exalted rep i got 2 blue gems and 3 green gems.

Kommentar von 33464

Since the "Black Temple" patch 2.1, there are now two more repeatable quests, in the Ethereum Prison quest chain. Start with Protectorate Advisor Raheem http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22899 (optional) in the Stormspire, or at Commander Ameer http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=20448 at Protectorate Watch.

Quest 3, "Ethereum Prison ID" (not found on Wowhead 2007 May 27) is repeatable for 250 rep, plus the above-average drops from the killed mob.

Quest 6, "Purging the Chambers of Bash'ir" is repeatable for 500 rep.

Both of these require considerable farming of Ethereum Prison Keys http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29460, which have a low drop rate (especially in Netherstorm - drop rate seems better in Bash'ir Landing) (btw, I think these are dropped by ALL ethereals in the Ethereum Staging Grounds and Bash'ir Landing)

Kommentar von 18312

Once you reach the repeatable quest in the ethereum staging grounds to collect prisoner tags, the mobs that drop zaxxis insignias in the heap, south of area 52, can also drop ethereum prison keys. Grinding here is the fastest way of gaining consortium rep.

Kommentar von 58632

From what I have seen the Ogre's are much easier. Yes the drop rate is like 31%. I have killed a ridiculous amount of them and have mob info 2 mod. So I can scroll over them easily and found out. I have never done Mana Tombs and barely have done any consortium Quests. Grinding is much more rewarding. I have grinded all the Ogres in Negrand for about a total of 8 days /played. Longest time I grinded straight through including... Having to repair, Having to sell grey/white Items, Buying Ammo, Mailing out Netherweave (40% drop rate or so usually more than 1 at a time),Trading in Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Samples x20 for like 3 gold 30 silver and a Halaa Research Token (Horrible drop rate on the powders and they need to add some gear higher than LVL 66 that you don't need to do PvP to get), Mailing out Greens (About 1 drop an hour minimum shows as 3-5% depending on what I scroll over) or Disenchanted Mats, Mailing out Blues (like 1% drop Have had like 6 drops 1 card, 5 gear items = LVL 66) was 15 hours. Most of my grind sessions are for like 6 hours average. I have had over 1800 drop. As well as making between 8 and 9 gold an hour from drops as well.

If you goto the cave just north of Halaa just below one of the graveyards and farm there for a while their re-spawn rate improves after a few clears and the pace picks up and you can farm much faster and more efficiently. I do a figure 8 between inside and outside the cave no matter if there is a spawn or not to keep them from spawning onto me.

My issue is I am maxed out (999/1000 Exalted) with Kurenei and I am in revered 4000/21000 (After another turn in) with Consortium do to all the grinding and beads. I plan on maxing Consortium out by grinding. After it is all 999/1000 Exalted what do I get for the beads I get from helping others grind or are they totally worthless? I haven't tried to turn in any to Kurenei yet because I don't want to wast good Consortium rep on that. Can anyone tell me an answer. I'm sure someone has maxed both by now.

Me grinding Ogres a week or so ago at the place I mentioned. (Having some texture issues as well. Waiting on mods to get updated) http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s86/tweak2k7/WoW/Night_Bead_Grind_Done_5-15AM_ST.jpg

Thank you so much
Bighunter

Kommentar von 13065

If you are a well geared mage, it is possible to aoe 7-9 zaxxis raiders at a time. Mobs are in clusters and it's easy to pull a few different clusters to you, especially running past them on your mount. At this rate you can farm around 2 Zaxxis insignia's per minute.

To make it easy, we'll say: 50 minutes aoe farming = 100 Insignias = 2500 rep.

I did revered to exalt in 2 days like this. If you can manage this, this is definately the fastest way to earn rep. I kept thinking if i had a healer with me we could probably clear near the whole Zaxxis camp=D Cause it would have been easy to pull more, just around 9-10 I take too much dmg. However, i am a deep fire mage. A deep ice mage could probably solo this spot even more effectively, since they can pretty much avoid taking any dmg. 10 was highest number of mobs for me.

Kommentar von 46113

im a mage arcane frost and i take about 5-6 at a time more with a healer i get more i got maybe5 per minute i say fire is better for aoe grinding but im 280 marks away from exalted

Kommentar von gaze

Personally i agree with the Zaxxis insignia method of getting rep. even from early on, its more efficient than mana-tombs, as they yield 7 rep per mob not including boss, whereas the insignias are equivalent of 25 each insignia, and they have a very high drop rate. i found the raiders to drop more insignias, but thats just me.

Kommentar von 53090

I would like to confirm that I have received a blue gem at even friendly, so it is possible.

Kommentar von 10891

My friends and I were making about 7,000 rep an hour using this method.

When exalted you can go grab a bag of gem each month at the Nagrand outpost (31,52). Our first bag had 4 blue and 2 green gems.

You need the following group:

1 tank with 200+ arcane resist
1 healer
2-3 dps (works better if melee or hunter)

Here's how:

Go to mana-tombs heroic with your group.
You have to clear your way to the first room where the boss is standing.
Kill everything except for 2 of the Ethereal Sorcerer.

Now, when you enter that room, on your left there is a big chunk of floor that is going up, like a ramp. Get your tank to grab the 2 sorcerers and tank the behind that big ramp, so that their spells won't affect the rest of the party.
But the tank needs to be in LoS from the healer standing on the other side.
Once the tank has enough initial aggro, he has to un-equip his weapon and spam Demo shout.

What happens is that the sorcerers will summon 2 small adds about every 10-15 seconds. The healer will get aggro from theses adds and they will come toward him, thats where the dps takes them down, they have very little hp, something like 4k. Be careful as they AoE explode for quite a bit and the bad part.. they aoe silence.. Thats why dps has to intercept them before they get to the healer.

You can all exit the instance if the hp of the sorcerers gets too low in order to reset them to 100%

Each add gives 15 consortium rep. 4 of them spawn each 10-15 seconds.

Enjoy!!

Kommentar von Xumbik

As of 2.3, new quests will be availible yielding Consortium Reputation. These are daily quest targeting random instances. Rewards different things depending on whether you do it on Heroic or Normal. You can get 2 Consortium Daily Quests per day, one for Heroic and one for Normal.

Reward (Normal): Ethereum Prison Key, Gold and Consortium Reputation.
Reward (Heroic): 2x Badge of Justice, Gold and Consortium Reputation.
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Source;

New daily quests are available in the Lower City for 5 man heroic and non-heroic dungeons
(Once at a time, a bit like battlegroundw weekends, each day you will get quests for a different
dungeons). The following non-heroic dungeons are concerned : Shattered Halls, Steamvault,
Shadow Labyrinth, Black Morass, Botanica, Mechanar, and Arcatraz. All dungeons will get
quests in Heroic mode. If you're getting the non-heroic and the heroic quest on the same day
for the same dungeon, you can complete both by running it in heroic mode once.

Non heroic quests will reward you with a Ethereum Prison Key (various reputation), gold,
and reputation with the Consortium.

Heroic quests will give you 2 Badges of Justice, gold, and reputation with the Consortium.
_________________________________________________________________________

Sounds like it's going to be awesome! I'm sure it'll motivate players to run instances more often.

Best Regards,
Nelaniu

Kommentar von 67699

Just to futher confirm - The zaxxis insignia's that can easily be farmed off the mobs south of area 52 is MUCH MUCH better reputation/hr than anything else.

As a warlock I am able to clear an entire camp (20+ mobs) in one pull, making this absolutely insane farming. I reached exalted in 4 days, going from mid friendly, and not farmning that hard.

Have fun :)

Kommentar von 92946

engineers, you have to get revered with these guys so you can buy the charge recipe, which is used in the engineering flying mounts in 2.3

Kommentar von 78077

Just a quick note - this faction is terrible for warriors and alchemists and i'm both. Even for most other classes/professions, these suck. The only reason to get exalted is to get the better gems from the monthly gift bag. The weapons are terrible, the recipes/schematics are so-so and the "epic" trinkets are little more than blues in disguise.

I wouldn't bother farming the rep - just do it passively by running instances or doing the new dungeon dailies.

Kommentar von termight

Cant forget turning in I.D. Badges when using the Ethereal Prison Keys. 250 rep each.

Kommentar von Ssateneth

You need a total of 1560 beads or insignias to go from 0/6000 friendly to 0/1000 exalted for those purely grinding.

Kommentar von 101346

Well, i just did the ENTIRE honored to revered by grinding Zaxxis Raiders and Stalkers.. I did do two quests for 750 rep total

over 520 total kills, a good 3/4 to 4/5 of them Raiders.
300 Insignias turned in.
7 keys dropped, 7 I.D.s turned in

Done in a few hours of playing on a 70 Enh Sham

Definately the best way to gain rep, but now i never wanna see another insignia... EVER

Kommentar von 117914

My rep with the consortium is stuck at 5999, one away from honored. What do I need to do?

Kommentar von 160817

Consortium is a great faction for jewelcrafter, as it has a lot of recipes but its a pain to gain level.

The best way i found was to do the ivory quest (repeatable) to gain friendly, sometimes you find those tusks in AH fairly cheap.

Mana tombs about 4 times will get you to honored, so its important if u levelling to get a grp u will get xp and consortium rep as possibly some gear.

At honored u should be up to netherstorm where there's an easy 12000 rep worth of quests. And you should be able to do this as you level up to 70. i was able to get to honored at 70 with all the netherstorm quests to do.

As far as MT it mean you have to be in queue all the time once you reach 63/64.

My style of levelling is to do alot of instances so if you rather quest it might want to adjust to your play style.

Kommentar von 126992

I must be unlucky or something, but still Zaxxis insignias drop rate for me is like 1 out of 4-5 mobs, so I prefered doing ogres in Nagrand, at least there the drop rate is 33% for sure. BTW, you can turn in Warbeads up to Exalted and if you want even afterwards.

Kommentar von 78700

U can make this q Ethereum Prisoner I.D. Catalogue its 250 rep. per run and its very easy but u must first make this q Ethereum Secrets its very easy to make rep. with this q.
HF

Kommentar von 64664

What you need to do is read what is said at the Consortium reputation info:

Honored to Exalted

Run Mana-Tombs in heroic mode
Complete all available quests.
Turn in Obsidian Warbeads at Gezhe.
Turn in Zaxxis Insignia at Nether-Stalker Khay'ji.

The reason you won't get 6000 is that Mana Tombs Normal mobs don't give 1 reputation, but a lot more.
So you would pass the Honored mark while it is stated that between Honored and Exalted Mana Tombs Normal won't give reputation.

Kommentar von 64664

It must have been removed what I answered, but:

Honored to Exalted

*
Run Mana-Tombs in heroic mode, ~2400 reputation per run.
*
Complete all available quests.
*
Turn in Obsidian Warbeads at Gezhe.
*
Turn in Zaxxis Insignia at Nether-Stalker Khay'ji.

The reason why you're 'stuck' at 5999 is probably because you're trying to do Mana Tombs on normal mode. In Mana Tombs there isn't a mob that only yields 1 reputation. So killing a mob would get you further in Honored. Which can not be done untill Heroic mode, quests, turn ins.

Kommentar von hellsslayer

for those who r not yet friendly i suggest getting the crystal fragments
go to the medium crystal that is located on the circle coming off the large crystal on the map
run around this crystal continuasly
i was able to do a never ending farm around this crystal for the fragments
i got about 110 in an hour and 20 minutes

-hellsslayer

Kommentar von Nanolucas

Just wanted to let people know that as of Wrath this faction is EXTREMELY easy to level to exalted and you don't have to farm a single thing.

The thing is the Keyring doesn't ever delete things inside it and people don't look at their keyring either. What this means is anyone who played during BC should have at least a couple just sitting there.

Ask your guildmates for their Ethereum Prison Keys or go to Dalaran and yell something like 'WTB Ethereum Prison Keys - 5g each - Check your keyring slot and make some quick gold.'

Then just go open the prisons, kill the 7k health bosses and receive your exalted status.

Kommentar von 259570

Dont bother with Mana-Tombs if your just getting rep for the Consortium its not worth the time. go get the Insignias

Kommentar von apwbd

i think there is a big problem ,
after honored the mana-tomb's creeps don't give me any reputation ! but it is right just about me ! i mean my other group mates even with higher reputation level(revered) are grinding reputation ... i think it might have been a personal problem ! :D
i'm waiting if you can help ! :X

Kommentar von cataclizmik

If you're already Revered and just want to polish off the reputation straight to Exalted, just grind Zaxxis Insignias south of Area 52. After testing all the other strategies here, I found it to definatly the easiest and most straight forward way to accomplish this goal.

*Couldn't find anyone to sell keys.
*Hunting down the guys with keys was too much work for too little profit.
*Why farm an instance if you don't have to?

Kommentar von 491037

I've been grinding outlands rep as an 80 spreist and here's what I've found

In 1 hour I can grind 160 Zaxxis Insignia and about 10 prison keys.
That works out to roughly 4k Rep from insignia and 2.5k from keys (assuming each gives 250 which they don't always) - so call it 6K per hour from the area just south of Area 52 (i'm ignoring the random 500 rep you can get from some prisoners)

if I grind warbeads from Laughing skull ruins and the cave just north of Halaa then in 1 hour I can grind about 70 beads from 200 ogre kills.
Remember that beads are worth 500 Maghar Rep or 250 Consortium so this hour would get 2K from kills and 3.5k from beads on Maghar/1.75k on Consortium

Insignia = 6k/hr
Maghar beads = 5.5k/hr
Consortium beads = 3.75k/hr (2k mag 1.75k consort)

Bottom line? So if you are grinding BOTH reputations then save the beads for Maghar don't hand them in for Consortium and grind insignia in Netherstorm, it'll save you about 1/3 of your time.
If you're grinding Maghar then don't bother with insignia (duh), if you're grinding Consortium then go straight to Netherstorm

DrKazza

Kommentar von 23693

From Honored to Exalted you will need 1320 Insignias, assuming the rep is 250 per turn in the entire time, and assuming you aren't doing any quests/dungeons for added rep.

I just switched my 80 to JC and am trying to get all the Designs, which means going back and getting my factions up. So far I've spent 25 mins or so killing the Zaxxis Raiders and whatnot and have gotten 47 Insignias. I wish they dropped in multiples.

Kommentar von Lourss

Yesterday I got bored, and so I decided to grind some Consortium reputation, with some help from my friend.
I was the lvl80 Protection Warrior and he the lvl80 Balance Druid.

I tried both The Heap and the etheral spot beside Manaforge Ultris.
And I can say that The Heap is by far the best spot to grind reputation.
The etherals at The Heap do have a chance to drop the Ethereum Prison Keys too.

Here is our results after 1 hour of pure farming, remeber we were 2 people:

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RESULTS:

303 x Zaxxis Insignia

15 x Ethereum Prison Key (Only 12 gave Consortium rep)

30 stacks x Netherweave Cloth

2 x blue drops (Schematic: Power Amplification Goggles and Tome of Conjure Water IX)

12 - 15 x green drops

90 gold from looting, selling greens and grays.

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Turning in I got 10,500 reputation after 1 hour of farming!

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Here is some tips if you decide to farm them:

Grab a friend! It makes it much faster and more fun.
Clear your bags! It takes up a lot of bag space. 40 empty spaces or more is great.
Use Argent Slave or Moll-E as your personal mailbox.
Get some Personal Vendors for quick selling.
Having a rotation for when to move, loot and kill can help, it did to us.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Kommentar von chaosbringer127

Curious thing I noticed. Most of the member's names are Arabic names transliterated into English.

Zuben Elgenubi=Southern Claw
Dealer Sadaqat= Dealer "Good Will"
Dealer Hazzin= Dealer "sad"

And so on. So if you have an arabic friend it would be funny to show them this faction.

Kommentar von 270296

I've been running Mana Tombs on heroic to work my way through revered - these are my findings:

- solo running as an 80 pally, prot specced in a mix of ICC10/25 gear
- I make around 70-80g per run off of vendor trash and money looted. Blues/greens I disenchant, if you add that in you're probably looking at double.
- full clear takes around a half an hour
- full clear nets 2856 rep as a human (~2596 non-human)
- I usually loot 1-4 Ethereum Prison Keys

Kommentar von 639987

Ok so just a little heads up for ppl trying to get to exalted with the consortium.
This works for me just fine as a prot/ret pally doing it solo but if u group up it will make it even faster.
Go to heroic mana tombs (you will need to be honored with lower city and buy the key from them) and clear all the trash up to the second boss.
DO NOT KILL THE FIRST BOSS just skip around him.
When that is done run out and reset.
As a human I'm grinding about 1100 rep every 12 mins !
ENJOY

Kommentar von polarwind

I found a fairly easy way to grind rep for this faction, but you need to be at least honored with Lower City to do Heroic Mana-Tombs.
It's basically a grind, most of the other ways are grinds for drops, this is an actual grind for rep.

Now in one day alone I did a grind on the trash of Heroic Mana-Tombs and got about 10k rep, before I got tired of it lol.

Basically you go through heroic MT you kill everything including the bosses, but you can reset, the bosses will no longer be there,
however the trash will be there. Each Ethereal mob will net you 15 rep, each Nexus Terror/Stalker will net you 22-23 rep, the Mana Leeches are 3 rep,
you can even kill the Ethereal Beacons at the end for about 7-8 rep a piece(if wait long enough the Beacon's spawn into Ethereal Apprentices which are worth 21 rep).

There are 95 Ethereal mobs at 15 rep a piece nets you 1,425 rep

There are 7 Nexus Terrors at 22 - 23 rep a piece nets you 154 to 161 rep

There are 24 Mana Leeches at 3 rep a piece nets you 72 rep

Totaling at ~ 1,651 to 1,658 rep for the trash alone, I did not include the Ethereal Beacons/Apprentices in this calculation.

With the 3 bosses at 750 rep will bring 2,408 rep for the first run of the day.

If you've done the quests in Netherstrom that have allowed you to obtain Ethereum Prison Key's,
this is also a great place to get them for additional rep.

Now with those keys you have two choices:

You can turn in 5 of them for 500 rep at Purging the Chambers of Bash'ir.

Or

You can gamble with Ethereum Prisoner I.D. Tag at 250 rep per ID tag,
by using 1 key to open a prison and kill the mob, which usually drop the ID tag, but sometimes they do not, if you get a 100% successful drop rate,
5 will net you 1,250 rep as opposed to the above option.

I will revise this post after I've done more calculating on trash only rep per run.

Kommentar von 707074

After initially reading through the faqs on this rep, I was expecting to do a lot of farming spread out over a lot of time; with a decent amount of competition vying for the same mobs.

However, after actually starting the grind, I've gone from low honored to mid revered very easily and all in a few hours. I started by following the strats here. Push out the quests, grind zaxxis insignias, etc...and quckly got annoyed by the competition.

When I decided I was done farming for the day, I ran into heroic Mana Tombs. Level 80 prot paladin, I can solo this easily, and the rep is good. I was expecting 2400 for the run. Only I noticed a few things that i haven't seen mentioned anywhere else for some reason.

1) Lots and lots of key drops. 4-10 a run.

2) The last boss summons beacons that turn into acolytes. The beacons are worth 8 rep if you kill them at that stage. The acolytes worth 22. My pally can kill the acolytes without concern, so I let them transform from beacon to acolyte for the extra rep. Same could be said for any tank/dps + healer combo though.

3) The boss will continue to spawn beacons throughout the fight. If you don't DPS the boss, you will soon be surrounded by beacons/acolytes. Keeping the boss alive gives you more rep from adds. Let him summon them!

4) I eventually overwhelmed myself with the adds and they killed me. Oops. I decided to go turn in the keys that I had and come back to take down the boss before heading to bed. About 30 minutes later, I came back and trash had repopped. So I had an extra full clear of trash (15-23 rep per kill) with additional key drops as I made my way back to the boss.

In short, a 'full' clear may net you about 2400 rep, but if you don't kill the final boss, you could easily grind heroic mana tombs trash all day. The ease of this rep gain now without having to compete for zaxxis insignias, etc... means I can leisurely get it done in a few hours tonight or tomorrow, with plenty of breaks in between.

Kommentar von 775894

In Cataclism, killing mobs at Mana-Tombs stop giving me reputation when I reach 5999 (yet friendly).

I put a ticket and a GM tell me it's correct, I wouldn't be able to get honored rushing that dungeon, only with quests.

But... I don't remember that time ago it works this way...

(Same post in Mana-Tombs zone comments)

Kommentar von dlbert2000

Fastest way to hit exalted with Consortium

*Make sure you've gone to Netherstorm and completed Seek Out Ameer, this will allow you to collect Ethereum Prison Keys

1. Clear all trash in Heroic Mana Tombs without killing any bosses *Every mob gives rep, even the mana wyrmlings
2. Loot ALL corpses for Ethereum Prison Keys; These stack up quickly and will contribute a huge portion of your reputation gain.
3. Leave instance, reset, repeat.

Each prison you unlock has a chance to spawn a hostile NPC or a friendly NPC.
- Hostile NPC's will give Ethereum Prisoner I.D. Tag, which are turned into Commander Ameer for 275 Consortium rep apiece
- Friendly NPC's will give you 550~ rep with that NPC's faction.

Ethereum prisons are located HERE

Notes:
*Done with the 10% rep guild perk
*Always recommended to do large pulls and use your Battle Standard of Coordination
*Ethereum Prison Keys are not BOP so you can sell them or give them to a friend if you end up with extras

Kommentar von Vlad

Farming Managruft yields:
Rep | Heroic (Revered->Exalted) | Re->Ex (number of clears)
0% | 2400 | 8.75
5% | 2520 | 8.34
1 0% | 2772 | 7.58
1 5% | 2898 | 7.25
2 0% | 3024 | 6.95
One interesting remark is that when fighting Nexusprinz Shaffar he will continue to spawn Astrales Leuchtfeuer and these will after 10 seconds convert to Astraler Lehrling. The Beacons are worth 8 rep but the Apprentices are worth 20 so it's worth mentioning that you should simply off-tank the boss and keep waiting for his spawned Beaconds to turn into Apprentices, then kill those!

I was a Druid so I fought with the boss for a while and calculated that at average you gain 0.93 reputation per second. This gives us the following table:
Rep | Avg. rep. per second | Time needed to earn 21000 rep (Re->Ex)
0% | 0.9300 | 6h 16m 20s
5% | 0.9765 | 5h 58m 25s
1 0% | 1.0230 | 5h 42m 07s
1 5% | 1.0695 | 5h 27m 15s
2 0% | 1.1160 | 5h 13m 37s

I suggest you skip this unless you only need a little reputation, and instead do the Shattrath dungeon dailies as they both give Das Konsortium reputation! (~600 per day.)

Kommentar von Thyra

If you are a tank, you can farm mana tombs. Very quick run, no "dangerous" mobs (no stuns, fears).Just pull a whole room and aoe them. With guild bonuses one run gave me 2.9k reputation.

Kommentar von 840546

I just LoL'd my way to exalted by sending my pet on the last boss in mana tombs then setting him passive, boss stayed agro'd on him for the whole time, I let the sparks shift into assistants and killed them for 25 rep every 10 seconds.

healed my pet every now and then, never pulled agro.

Kommentar von Declaron

Lot's of confusion and contradictory statements regarding this item/quest/rep (i have posted this same post in relevant locations). I have just done Consortium to exalted and here is precisely what occurred.

1) I ran mana-tombs heroic skipping all bosses and resetting the instance, after a few runs i decided to check wowhead for alternate ways of getting Consortium rep and discovered these keys. At this point in time i had never looted a key.

2) I traveled to Netherstorm and proceeded to look for a Ethereum Jailor for 30 minutes, I didn't find one.

3) I read that you had to kill other mobs to allow the Ethereum Jailors to spawn, i did this for 30 minutes, I didn't find one.

4) I took the quest Geheimnisse des Astraleums and looted 7 keys in roughly 50 kills, all drops from Nullifiers, to the South and to the East of the quest giver. I figured that the drop-rate might be higher if your on a quest that requires that item, it appears this is the case.

5) I completed the quest and then spent 45 minutes killing Nullifiers, I looted 1 key, and still did not find an Ethereum Jailor.

6) I returned to mana-tombs heroic, skipping all bosses as i did before, and looted 42 keys in 6 runs getting my exalted reputation.

For the duration of this i had Ethereum Jailor on my _npcscan and spammed a /tar ethereum jailor macro, I did not, and still haven't seen an Ethereum Jailor. Outside of mana-tombs all my keys were looted off Ethereum Nullifiers. I found mana-tombs heroic to be by far the best way of farming reputation with the Consortium and believe Ethereum Jailors may have been removed from the game.

+Rep if this has helped :) GL Everyone!

Kommentar von Kapott

Finished the grind to exalted on my warrior today. Just to clarify : In this patch you can grind reputation in Heroic Mana Tombs for as long as you like.

Just pull Nexusprinz Shaffar back to balcony located in the corridor behind him, and wait for him to spawn Astrales Leuchtfeuers which will in turn spawn the apprentices.

The beacons spawn about once every 10 seconds, and after about 5 seconds they turn into Astraler Lehrlings. The apprentices give 23 rep without any perks or racials. This means you can grind approximately 138 rep per minute, or 8280 rep per hour without perks. If you find you're having problems staying alive, just drop down from the balcony, run out and reset the boss.

I much prefer this to killing zaxxis mobs in Netherstorm. Partially because you can do this while semi afk. I don't know if this is faster though.

Kommentar von Darkicon

Quickest way to exalted is just buy out lots of Ethereum Prison Keys and turn them in 5 at a time for Purging the Chambers of Bash'ir. They were going for only 1g/key on my server.

Turning in the 5 will net you 500 rep but you also get an Ethereum Stasis Chamber Key which you can use to open the Stasis Chambers in Bash'ir for a chance to spawn a mob that will drop a Mark of the Nexus-King which can be turned in for Nexus-Prince Shaffar's Personal Chamber for an additional 500 rep.

In order to unlock those repeatable quests, you must do the quest line in Netherstorm, including A Thousand Worlds.

Kommentar von Specula

I've found an unusual way for a Warlock or potentially a Hunter to achieve exalted fairly easily once they've hit revered, have completed all quests and are sick of doing the turn ins.

Go into a Heroic Mana Tombs run, clear your way to Nexusprinz Shaffar and ensure your pet gets aggro. Have your pet put on passive, tell him/her to go stand to the side and have them heal up when they get low on health.

The boss will spawn an Astrales Leuchtfeuer every 10 or so seconds, which about 5 seconds later summons a Astraler Lehrling and then vanishes. The Ethereal Apprentices give 23 rep, 24 if you have the second Mr. Popularity guild perk, and 25 - 26 if you're Human on top of that.

Stand a little bit away from your pet and let the beacons come to you (they seem to go for targets other than the highest on Nexus-Prince's aggro list) and teleport an apprentice in and kill the apprentice.

Heal up every now and again, drain life, etc whatever you have to do to stay topped up in health and mana.

The number of adds he spawns is endless, so you can go as long as you want to. I'm not saying this is the best way to do it, but if you want a bit more rep from those Mana Tombs runs, or you're just sick of farming war beads or insignias and you're out of dailies from the Molten Front/Tol Barad dailies.

I'm getting about 9,000 rep per hour with the 20% combined boost. So I hate to say it, but Rinor's maths is WAY off. Going from 0/21000 to 21000/21000 would take just over 2 hours, not well over 5...

Kommentar von Sugu

The easiest way to do this (as an 80+ character) in my opinion is by soloing Mana-Tombs heroic on a daily basis (this is ofcourse if you aren't in a hurry). You will get around 2.8k rep from killing every mob and boss. On top of that i've got 5 Ethereum Prison Keys every run I've done so far. I flew to Netherstorm to free the prisoners. Every single prisoner I killed dropped an ethereum ID tag. Handing these in gives you another 1375 rep. So you'd be getting a bit over 4k rep on a daily base. The good thing is that all these reputation ways i mentioned above, last till exalted.

I am in a 25guild so keep in mind that I get the increased reputation from 10%.

Hope this helped a bit and good luck getting there ;)

Kommentar von Cronien

I'm pretty sure the Another Heap of Ethereals quest got buffed this hotfix (17.08.2011).
Been farming this week and earlier the 10 zaxxis insignias gave 70ish rep, now they give 250. Woop :)

Kommentar von athenerus

if you are human and have 25 level guild, every heroic mana tombs run gives 3033 reputation for Concortium.

Patch 4.2. 26-08-2011

Kommentar von cutelilrikki

Currently grinding this reputation in 4.2.2 in Cataclysm and I just hit Revered. I get 275 reputation per turn-in because I have Allseits beliebt, and I am not a Human. The best place I found to grind these marks is in The Heap. I gathered approximately 75-80 marks in about a half hour, and I'm a Boomkin. So... here's my math:

Friendly to Honored = 6000 reputation.
Mana-Tombs (N) = ~1200 rep.
This leaves us with 4800 rep.

(4800/275)*10
= 174.54 (repeating)
Round that to the nearest ten and you need 180 Insigne der Zaxxis to hit Honored.

Honored to Revered = 12000 rep.
Mana-Tombs (N) = ~1200 rep.
This leaves us with 10800 rep.

(10800/275)*10
= 394.72 (repeating)
Round that to the nearest ten and you need 400 Insigne der Zaxxis to hit Revered.

Revered to Exalted = 21000 rep.
Mana-Tombs (H) = ~2400 rep.
This leaves us with 18600 rep.

(18600/275)*10
= 676.36 (repeating)
Round that to the nearest ten and you need 680 Insigne der Zaxxis to hit Exalted.

Total Marks of Zaxxis: 1260

NOTE: This is NOT taking into account Quests or Human racial ability of Diplomatie!

(Edited for wrong patch number. Oops.)

Kommentar von 866741

I wish this would become a playable race in a future expansion, I've always loved the Etherals, especially how they move!

Kommentar von Mydge

Just wanted to comment, as I've only found this out at 20000/21000 rep *sigh*

Heroic Mana Tombs will do a soft reset after about half an hour, and you can kill all the mobs again (except the bosses, obviously).

Which basically means you could clear a run, do a random heroic, and clear another mob-only run. Gets you a bit more than the once a day I thought I could do.

Kommentar von Manny

With the guild perk I got 2678 rep for a full clear. I also looted every mob and got almost 10 Ethereal Prison Keys from each clear as well.

Kommentar von motafina

After doing all of the Consortium quests, the best way to farm rep at 85 is to run Heroic Mana-Tombs about every hour (after mobs respawn), and turning in the repeatable quest Ethereum Prisoner I.D. Catalogue with the 5-8 Ethereum Prison Keys that can drop when you farm the trash mobs.

I found that it yields more rep and is much faster than the other repeatable quests, collecting the Zaxxis Insignias or Obsidian Warbeads and Purging the Chambers of Bash'ir.

Kommentar von 962554

Rep farm last Boss only Dont kill him only kill the spawns and you got easy rep =) Gl hf

Kommentar von 963907

There's 2 Good ways of farming this rep
1. this way if you're not a tank or a healer , all you have to do is Clear mana Tombs, WITHOUT killing the bosses, Run out , Reset , do it again
2. one of the best ways for plate users , All you have to do is , clear up to prine Shaffar , taunt him , go Afk for a while, he will start Spawning some mobs,wait for them to evolve, and kill them , Do it again, easy and simple
if you're a cloth user and you grind this rep, get a friend to help, Hope this will help you peeps

Kommentar von perrintub

I went threw mana tombs heroic all in one day to get to exalted. you do your first run threw killing everything and doing the quest if you haven't done them yet. 1st run of the day will get you 2726 rep. then go farm so beads or Zaxxis Insignia. if you get board with this you can always run mana tombs again. the trash will respawn but no bosses. so you only loose 600 to 700 rep in the runs after the 1st on. it goes alot quicker then farming the stupid beast and Zaxxis Insignia. also 5 or 6 ele prison keys drop so u can do that for rep also hope this help getting it done faster

perrin, 85 troll mage TUB

Kommentar von 967962

At level 85 the fastest way to grind this rep seems to be soloing heroic Mana Tombs. Not only you will get rep from regular mob kills but you will also find quite a lot of keys too. I find 7-8 on average, in 10 minute clear with a hunter. That's like 2,000 additional rep.

Kommentar von WhiteSharpie

My experience farming for Das Konsortium rep

Mobs killed
Sphärenräuber Nesaad Pirscher der Zaxxis Räuber der Zaxxis Kerkermeister des Astraleums
Time to complete - 4 hours
Total kills 1,348
Rep overall 26,535

Rep per item
Insigne der Zaxxis 17,185 rep 620 total (62 turn ins) 45.9% drop rate
Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums 8,800 rep (32 turn ins) 91.4% success rate *
Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums 33 Total 2.4% Drop Rate
Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums 2 Total from Kerkermeister des Astraleums 100% drop rate
Netherstoff 794 Total 58.9% Drop Rate
+550 rep for Unteres Viertel from Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums when opening a ethereum prison in Nethersturm at 59,66
+550 rep for Das Konsortium from Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums when opening a ethereum prison in Nethersturm at 59,66
+550 rep for Sporeggar from Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums when opening a ethereum prison in Nethersturm at 59,66

Insigne der Zaxxis x 10 = 275 rep per turn in
Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums x 1 = 275 rep per turn in

* Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums drops off the mob inside the ethereum prison bubbles at Manaforge Duro. You must tag these mobs to ensure a I.D. I had a 91.4% (32 out of 35) success rate of dropping the I.D. from the mobs.

Kommentar von 989785

Recently I was doing the Consortium grind and I found a very very easy way of farming the rep.

Step 1. Be eligible for Heroic Mana Tombs
Step 2. Be able to self heal for greater than a level 70 heroic mob :)
Step 3. Clear up to Nexus-Prince-Shaffar
Step 4. Engage him but do not damage or kill him.
Step 5. Wait until his ethereal assistants spawn (out of spark form) and kill them.
Result: 23rep/15seconds=5520rep/hour=6.52hours from neutral to exalted.

It was very easy for me being a Hunter. I had my pet tank Shaffar but on passive, so just holding threat, about 20 yards away. I let the adds come to me and stand where I am. When they built up or I needed to bandage or feign death to max my health out I'd drop an explosive trap which was far enough away from Shaffar and killed all of the built up adds in a few seconds. I didn't have it reset on me during my time in there and I happened to be at my computer to keep any log out problems or dc issues from happening.
If you have homework or a good movie to watch this is a much less strenuous way than the elementeum key farming, the zaxxis insignia farming, the obsidian warbeads farming, and daily Mana-Tombs Heroic dungeon.

Kommentar von Vision443

Just a tip when clearing mana tombs on heroic loot the mobs.They drop a prison key item from time to time.With them you unlock prison cells in Netherstorm close to Manaforge ultris .When you open a prison cell( pink balloons) kill the mob inside he will drop I.D. tag which you can turn for 275 rep (if you have the Guild perk) to the NPC called Commander Ameer (repeatable quest)The drop rate is questionable but the minimum i get is around 4-5 keys per run and maximum around 9-11 prison keys per run.

Kommentar von Heeris

As someone has mentioned, the BY FAR easiest way to do this is to simply engage Nexus-Prince Shaffar and wait for him to spawn his "Ethereal Beacons" which will soon turn into "Ethereal Apprentices".
Killing the beacons will net you 8 rep each while the apprentices will give you 23 rep each with Mr. Pop.
Keep in mind that you can AFK this completely and come back from time to time, kill off all the apprentices, heal up and repeat whatever you were doing.

I'm not sure about my exact Rep/h but i believe it was something like 2-3k - And that's being AFK!

Kommentar von 853072

you dont get rep from normal runs it has to be on hc :(

Kommentar von 997641

Is there anyway I can get back to neutral with this faction :/

Kommentar von Falynn

If you're grinding Consortium rep by farming heroic Mana Tombs, a full clear (without killing bosses) will net you approximately 1900 rep (with +10% rep guild perk). This does not count the 4+ Ethereum Prison Keys you'll get from looting.

It takes me (as a ~378 demo lock) about 10-15 minutes to do a clear without rushing. Assuming 4 clears/hour and 3/4 keys earning you 275 rep per turn-in, this averages out at a respectable 8375 rep/hour minimum.

Kommentar von 798862

Do all the quests for the Consortium that you can find on other comments here, aswell as making advantage of Heroic Mana Tombs once a day. Afterwards, you can use the following macro to help you with gaining reputation with The Consortium.

/run insignia_c=GetItemCount(29209); key_c=0+GetItemCount(29460); insignia_r=insignia_c*27.5; key_r=key_c*275;print("Consortium Rep:", insignia_r+key_r);

This is a macro that I adapted from a Scryers macro I found over there. You would use this macro by farming Zaxxis at The Heap in Netherstorm.

It tracks Zaxxis Insignia's at 27.5 per insignia, equalling 275 per 10 of them. And it tracks Ethereum Prisoner Keys at 275 per. This is important as the keys drop from the Zaxxis at The Heap, yet the I.D's come from the Ethereum Staging Grounds, so its easier to track the keys rather the I.D's whilst you're at The Heap. The macro is simple, it counts how many insignia and keys you have and tells you how much reputation you woud gain from handing them in. Please note that these reputation values assume you're in a Level 25 Guild!

The only problem comes in that if you're tracking The Consortium reputation exclusively like I am, being Exalted with most other TBC factions, that in the prisons you can sometimes find friendly NPC's that don't give reputation with The Consortium OR drop the I.D keys you need for the quest.. if this happens, simply go back to The Heap to make up the lost reputation.

Kommentar von Kittay

There's no problem still farming rep in the Mana-tombs. Just make sure to set your dungeon difficulty to Heroic, clear all mobs and skip all the bosses so you can reset and repeat the dungeon until you're Exalted.

It takes about 10 rounds from Revered to Exalted, which will go really fast when you're at maximum level. Gogo Rangers!

Kommentar von Zizera1

Wen i farmed this REP i did Mana-Tombs HC with out killing the bosses so i culd reset the dungeon took me like 3 days to get exalted :P

Kommentar von Pyrokaros

Tip for all mages- if you don't want to do Mana-Tombs over and over again, just kill everyting except last boss. Before puling him, make sure you have Glyph of Evocation, RoP, Ice Barrier and Greater Invisibility in talents. Pull him, put RoP, use IB and go afk for 3-4 minutes. Then just use Arcane Explosion few times to kill summoned mobs and repeat everything When boss is dangerously low, just Use Invi to reset the fight. Best choice is to go back every minute or two and refresh spells- this way he'll unable to kill you for a looong time. Dunno if it's faster than running instance w/o killing bosses (probably no), but in this way you can afk almost all the time and do something else.

Kommentar von Lozzo

I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. Maybe it's not really a viable way of grinding rep for this faction for other classes?

Anyway, as a lvl 90 warlock I've found that simply allowing Nexus-Prince Shaffar beat on me provides 23-24 rep every (on average) 10secs. How can this be? Killing off the Ethereal Apprentices during the fight. It literally is an infinite amount of rep as long as Nexus-Prince Shaffar is alive. He'll continually spawn them through out the fight and never seems to stop. I literally aggro'd him and simply walked away. (As a warlock he hardly did any damage that wasn't regened almost immediately and the Apprentices are laughable as well.)

This may seem slow, but when compared to the time take to look for the warbeads or the zaxxis, it's a lot faster and very helpful if you don't have the time to be always on the move farming.

Rev - Exhalted in just under 1hr 20mins.

GL all!

Kommentar von 1129794

Did the Nexus-Prince Shaffar Ethereal Apprentices Spawning trick on my level 90 Warrior, Using Second Wind.

Went to the Supermarket and did the shopping while the spawns kept building up. With second wind, spawns couldn't get me under 140k HP, got home popped Banner and Bladestorm, Too easy.

Rev - Exalted in 45 mins

Kommentar von Meinosroth

It seems there is a way to grind out consortium rep all the way to exalted in one heroic dungeon run. The last boss if you don't kill him he will spawn ethereal beacons, those beacons spawn ethereal apprentices and if you only kill the apprentices then it gives you rep for each kill. Its slow going but seems like you can actually grind out the consortium rep all the way to exalted this way. Much easier now that WoW's 9th anniversary is going on.

Kommentar von tpwehner

This is for those who are level 90 and want to go back and earn Consortium rep.

As a Blood DK I am able to solo this (and you can much sooner than 90) on Heroic. However, the once per day limit is only if you kill a boss. You can kill all the trash on heroic (most give you 18 rep) and skip all the bosses by walking behind them or around them. Just dont kill them. Walk out, and reset and keep this up and you can get the heroic rep amount and keep killing!

Hope this helps. I have not tried this on other classes other than my DK but wanted to share.

Kommentar von thebundok

The easiest method I found to farm this rep was as a lvl 90. Just run through Heroic Managruft, but being very cautious not to engage any of the bosses. This is important, because you can't reset the instance if you kill a boss.

As a lvl 90 Shadow Priest I had no problem rounding up every mob before each boss and then ae'ing them down. As your aggro radius is so small you can skirt around every boss, including Tavarok (go to his left side) and Nexusprinz Shaffar (also the left side). Once past the prince, it's a short walk to the entrance. Walk outside, reset and then repeat.

I found this process much quicker and a much smaller drain on the mana pool as there is no tether limit inside instances, whereas outside (collecting Insigne der Zaxxis for instance) there's only so many mobs you can round up before some start running back to their spawn locations.

You won't get *as much* rep not killing bosses, but not missing enough to make a significant difference.

Kommentar von Myxel

TAKE NOTE:

If you have not yet farmed this reputation and wish to do so, a very nifty way is to enter the Heroic version of Mana Tombs. Make your way towards Nexus-Prince Shaffar and pull him.

HOWEVER.

Do NOT damage him. Just hold aggro and go AFK for a few minutes, come back sometimes to refresh your shield or heal yourself up. During this time, the boss spawns several different adds that continue to spawn for an eternity. They award the same amount of reputation that normal trash mobs do. It takes a while of standing AFK, but doing this can award your Exalted in less than 5-6 hours.

Kommentar von patchkin

6.0.3, confirmed Zaxxis mobs next to area 52 drop the prison keys and Zaxxis Insignia

Kommentar von 553821

I guess summing up what others said in order to save ppl's time wasn't the right thing to do and it's shunned here. Oh well (maybe I didn't do it properly, but it's okay, especially now that I deleted everything :p).

Just do your research and follow every link, guys. I assure you that you'll find what you're looking for, considering you are on this page.

p.s. funny that the comment above mine listed more or less the same stuff and got only up-votes, though...

Kommentar von 1428060

Mana Tombs / Consortium Rep Farming:

As q.v. you get no rep from Normal runs of Mana Tombs after you hit Honored. But read on...

After achieving Honored, make sure you visit Netherstorm to pick up and complete a quest chain that begins with A Mission of Mercy http://www.wowhead.com/quest=10970. This leads to you being able to farm Ethereum Prison Keys from the Heroic Run of Mana Tombs. And that will also enable you to get Das Auge des Haramad once you hit Exalted. This allows you to permanently open the final Stasis Chamber for the bonus boss Yor.

Plus according to this comment, Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums#comments:id=1950078 Ethereum Prison Keys are also good for acquiring several other BC faction reps. Note you'll need about 15-20 Ethereum Prison Keys in order to get Abzeichen des Nexuskönigs and the MT Heroic Quest that follows. But save all your other Keys after that for normal prison openings if you want extra faction rep, like Keepers of Time, Lower City etc.

On Heroic MT you can get 1700 from trash - if you leave alone the bosses. Takes about 5 minutes for a run with a Warlock. And it has an easy exit so the repeat is quick.

The Nexus-Prince Shaffar trick seems to work (pull him, don't attack him, don't kill him) - endless spawns that grant 21 rep each - and you can allow them to build up to absurd numbers. You may take tiny damage over time - so adjust your class talents and equipment accordingly.

For Warlocks: I used Grimoire of Sacrifice for the 2% auto health regeneration, and stood there in my underwear to save on repair gold for equipment. Set a timer for 60 minutes - went to have lunch.

But note you only gain 6000 rep/hr using this method - so it is slower than the manual runs. This is due to the spawn timer of course - which must be around 12 secs. Also you will get kicked from the server after about 45 minutes of AFK. So you will need to monitor your progress. Also you get no drops from the spawns.

Kommentar von Kyroth

If youre doing the method of letting loads of adds spawn on last boss, simple get the forge buff from a garrison (if you dont have it just ask in trade for someone with a forge) this will save u a giant repair bill and also using an immuntiy potion stops u from getting cc'd when u wanna kill the adds, youre welcome :)

Kommentar von 1504990

Let the grinding begin...

Kommentar von Jesper94

The quickest way to earn reputation with this faction is to do all the quests that rewards The Consortium reputation. After that you can run Mana Tombs heroic until exalted. If you are high level (i was level 82), you can run past all 3 bosses. So clear all trash, reset and repeat until exalted.

Remember to equip a faction tabard, if you are going for The Ambassador aswell ;)

Happy grinding!

Kommentar von meletique

For Mana Tombs: If you only kill trash and skip the bosses for repeated rep farming runs on Heroic, you will receive 1704 rep per run (not including rep bonuses for human)

Kommentar von 1064378

I strongly prefer the strategy of running Mana-Tombs rather than turning in Ethereum Prisoner I.D Tag and Zaxxis Insignia.

1. Running Mana-Tombs nets about 1500 rep per heroic run if you don't kill any of the bosses and reset immediately after.
2. Running Mana-Tombs awards a whole bunch of Ethereum Prison Key.
3. Going to turn in the tags/open the prisons is a VERY long flight from Auchindoun. (and there's no guarantee you'll get a tag from whatever comes out, since it can be friendly, and other players can tag what comes out of the prisons!)
4. The mobs around Area 52 are spaced far apart, aren't easily one-shotted in packs, and are frequently killed for quests by lower-level players, not to mention their low drop rate of the keys.
5. Zaxxis Insignia has a relatively low drop rate and can only be turned in 10 at a time AND are soulbound.

My advice is to run Mana-Tombs a bunch of times in a row without killing the bosses and then sell the keys rather than turn them in or farm insignia. They are worth a LOT because they're such a rare drop. In five runs of Mana-Tombs I looted around 25 of them. It seems the drop rate is much higher in the dungeon than on the Zaxxis mobs near Area 52.

TL; DR run Mana-Tombs a bunch of times for rep, then auction the Ethereum Prison Keys.

Kommentar von Fidjt

Consortium Quartermaster: Paulsta'ats at 30.55 | 56.98

Kommentar von Hastyrain

What I did from Honored to Exalted was just run Mana Tombs on HC, going around the first boss up to the second one, then back and reset, killing just trash. But it is probably possible to go around the second and last boss until you get to the start again too.

Kommentar von Richmond79

Honestly this is so quick - just run heroic mana tombs and stealth/path around the three bosses. leave, reset, repeat. At exalted the quartermaster has recipes, tabard and some transmog items.

Kommentar von Bhakur

As human (10% rep bonus), I got 1869 rep in each heroic full trash run (kill all trash, leave the bosses).
The 3 bosses are easily skippable.
The good thing is that you can go really fast to the entrance after the last boss.

Kommentar von Ccurry1389

You can get Exalted with Consortium by running Mana-Tombs 25 Times, assuming you are starting out with no rep prior to this. Mana-Tombs Heroic, without boss kills and a full trash clear, will yield roughly 1700 reputation and can be cleared in roughly 3 minutes. It will take 3 hours with the 10 dungeon/hour limit imposed by Blizz

*Tested on 110 Balance druid (No cat form) 20May2018

Kommentar von pherkier

1. Go to mana-tombs (north entrance of the auchindoun in Terokkar Forest, Outland)
2. Kill everything until Next-Prince Shaffar (heroic mode by the way)
3. Agro him but dont kill it
4. A bunch of Ethereal-beacons will transform into Ethereal Apprentice
5. Go afk then aoe them down , without kill the boss or you can just simply kill them one by one , up to you :)

Kommentar von pherkier

Method 1: set it heroic, go to Mana Tombs (North entrance of the auchindoun), clear all the trash, took me 2 mins, then go out and repeat, if you kill a boss you are fcked. (u will make about 1700 rep per run)

Method 2: set it hc, mana-tombs again, kill everything until to reach the last boss. Agro him, dont kill him, and let those adds to transform into ethereal, they will spawn infinitely. Kill one by one without kill the boss.

Both methos have a problem, the first one is the "too many instances" message and the 2nd is boring as fck.

Kommentar von Rysdan316

I has done farm up Insigne der Zaxxis AND Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums from 2 Zaxxis Npcs at The Heap in the Netherstorm. It's is Räuber der Zaxxis and Pirscher der Zaxxis. It took me a week or more for grinding reputation to Exalted.

So for Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums, take it to open bubble at west of Manaforge: Ultris, their is some random npcs that reward you 500 rep of random outland's reputations and also some hostile npcs drop Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums.

Turn in Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums at north from the bubble area and npc is Kommandant Ameer then reward 250 rep for Consortium.

10x Insigne der Zaxxis = 250 rep
1x Identifikationsmarke eines Gefangenen des Astraleums = 250 rep
1x Gefängnisschlüssel des Astraleums = random outland 500 rep

Kommentar von Candilla

If you are doing this just for rep, it takes about 4 minutes per run if you:

- skip the bosses allowing you to reset the instance after every run
- use Bear Tartare to increase run speed after a kill
- have any sort of aoe you can spam
- and don't stop to loot.

Swiftness potions will speed things even more as will whatever speed boosts you have such as stealth, sprint, etc.

If you are going for both Aldor and Scryer reps, go farm spiders or basilisks when you hit the instance limit for the hour. I prefer to take Scryer first and then farm spiders for Aldor rep. The netherweave silk dropped by the spiders sells for 50g each in the AH.

Kommentar von Strath

If you do the afk at end boss method, here's some extra info for you:

As a human, I get 23 rep per kill on the ads. An ad spawns every 15 seconds. Using a guild battle standard will speed up the process.

Honored to Revered with this method will take me approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes of afking. If the guild standard works it will only take 1 hour 53 minutes.

Kommentar von Naflie

Hello there!
Since there are 2 methods that are effective at this very moment I would love to share how I did it.

1)Set difficulty to Heroic, write down the time you completed the mana tombs for the very first time and run it 9 times. Skip bosses, kill all trash, I recommend feral druid or arcane for running.(I recommend arcane for every single type of content :) )
2)Run it one more time, but aggro the last boss and go afk untill you know your "maximum instance enterered" will not pop up and just kill the adds he spawns. If you feel unsafe about killing them and scared of killing the boss, you can make simple macro. :)

Macro:
/target Ethereal Apprentice
/use (insert any insta spell here)

Kommentar von Tomash1986

if you wanna just farm it in one day (about 3 hours from 0/3000 neutral to full exalted w/o rep buffs) and not wait for the daily lockout of heroic Mana-Tombs, clear the first room, skip Pandemonius and clear the whole second room, stop in the short tunnel before the third room, run out, reset and do it again :) on my max lvl Shaman that takes like 3 minutes and gives about 1k rep, so its a fast easy farm

Kommentar von Jikai

Using the methods listed above, I decided to test how much rep one could gain by letting Nexusprinz Shaffar spawn Astraler Lehrlings for exactly one hour and killing them all at once with both Zeichen des Wirbelnden Nethers (BC Timewalking event; grants +50% reputation gains) and Schlachtstandarte der Zusammenarbeit (grants +15% reputation gains) active.

Result: 9,341 reputation in total.

Astraler Lehrlings gave 36.5 reputation per kill and Nexusprinz Shaffar gave 431 upon death. To clarify, this was *not* done on a Mensch character, thus Diplomatie is not factored in. Also worth mentioning is that Nexusprinz Shaffar survived Arkane Explosion, so further farming could be done. At only item level 165, the damage was fairly negligible with only about a third of health missing at the end of the hour.

Kommentar von Digenis80

On normal mode I got no rep, run out, switched to Heroic, got in,the first mobs gave 15 rep each!

Just did a full run. Killed every mob I could find, total count is 2463 rep. And there is the boss Yor that is locked in an orb, don't remember how to unlock it, he would give 250 rep more.

Kommentar von onefreakycoppa

A standard Boss skip run with absolutely no bonus rep gave me 1020.

Kommentar von Jengywick

With the TBC timewalking up (50% bonus), and Darkmoon Faire as well WHEE buff, I got to clear MT Heroic in 3 minutes ONLY adds and gained 3000 rep.

Kommentar von Thebeus

I haven't seen this tip anywhere in the comments and you can apply this to some other reputations as well.

You can farm HC Mana-Tombs over and over if you DO NOT kill any bosses. Just kill any trash mobs available without pulling the bosses. You can walk around every boss in the dungeon, I have done it as level 47 mage. Trash in this dungeons is level 31 and bosses level 32, so in case you are farming this rep on a lower level character, and the bosses are green to you, you might want to use stealth or any form of invis just in case you pull a boss.

This dungeon is great for farming since after skipping the last boss you easily walk to the entrance and you can go out and reset instances (right-click your portrait and click reset all instances). I'm not sure what happens if you accidentally kill a boss, but if you manage to pull a boss, you can just walk away from the dungeon and get back in. You can do this method until you get locked, then you just wait for the instances to reset (I think it is 1 hour).

I was doing this method during TBC timewalking (50% increased reputation gains) as a human (10% increased reputation gains) and I was getting 2720 reputation per run, which took around 3-4 minutes. You can farm this all the way to exalted.

Hope this helps some people trying to farm rep in SL expansion.

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