Hydraxian Waterlords

At 85, this rep grind isn't anywhere near as painful as it used to be.

First step is to get to max friendly - you can get up to 5999/6000 friendly from the elementals in Silithus and Burning Steppes elementals. The best place for this is the North-West of Silithus killing [npc=11746] and [npc=11744] for 5 rep each - 11 for two with +10% rep guild perk ([spell=78635], guild level 12). Running a loop around where the elementals spawn should allow you to kill all of them and get back to the start just about when they respawn. A couple of hours here can get you the 8999 rep you need - 1800 kills at base value, 1637 with 10% bonus. [npc=14478] spawns around here too, worth 25 rep at base value.

Once you're 5999/6000 friendly, head on over to [zone=2717] - you'll be here for a while. Trash mobs will give you between 15 and 20 rep per kill EXCEPT [npc=11673]. All sources seem to suggest these give 20 rep per kill, but not one since I started this rep grind has given up rep. A full clear will get you about 2400 rep, or about 2600 with the aforementioned perk. This means you'll need to do this at least 5 times to get from 5999/60000 friendly to 11999/12000 honored, when these mobs stop giving rep. For the sake of efficiency, avoid all bosses - you can kill every trash mob in the raid without pulling a boss, the only tricky part being [npc=12056], who roams around a patrol route. Watch where he moves - you can actually stand in the middle of his loop, just North of [npc=12264], and have him roam around you without getting aggro. Pick off the groups around the room and drag them back to the centre to down them. Once you're moving on, stay on the right hand side while he moves up the narrow slope and move to the left when he passes and comes back the other way. Pull groups from one side to the other as you make your way up and dash past the narrowest part when he's on the way down.

As a ret paladin, I'm running a full trash clear in a little over half an hour (ilvl 359). Giving time for faffing, it should take you about 3 hours to make your way through Honored. On your final run, once you hit 11999/12000 honored, you can head back to the start and down the bosses - only they will give you rep now, and you can kill each one once per week. Killing all 9 bosses in Molten Core will get you 1050 rep, or 1155 with [spell=78635], meaning it'll take 21 weeks at base level or 19 weeks with the perk. Annoyingly, The final trash mob will leave you at 11999/12000 honored, so clearing all bosses 20 times (20 weeks) should leave you at exactly 20999/21000 revered. I'm not sure if you need to kill [npc=11988] or Ragnaros for that final point or if the regular bosses are enough to hit Exalted.

After that, it's another 3 weeks killing those two to get the pointless but pretty 999/1000 Exalted status. Congratulations!

This will probably be the hardest reputation achievement to get since you only get rep in MC, you need someone with the essence already, and rep is not fun to get.

Neutral to the end of Friendly you can do repeatable quests that bring you from Azshara to EPL / Silithus (edit: linked the quests) and back again, as well as get 1-5 rep per nonelite elemental you kill in Silithus or Burning Steppes.

From Honored to the end of Honored, only the elemental bosses in UBRS/BRD, a rare spawn in silithus, and MC trash mobs give rep. This will take a while since you only get 15-40 rep per mob.

After Honored going into Revered, you only get rep from bosses. 100 each, 200 for Rag, and 150 for Golemagg. That's about ~205-208.5 boss kills from Revered to beginning Exalted, which is about 19 runs, and since MC resets only once a week, that's about 15-19 weeks for Revered to Exalted ALONE.

Now when you get to maxed Revered, the only bosses that can get you 0-999 Exalted are Rag and Golemagg, which means about 4-5 MORE runs just to max it out, which in turn means another 4-5 weeks.

There are a couple other quests than the repeatable one, though as far as I can tell they do not give HW rep, except for http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=7486 which gives 500.

All in all you're looking at a good solid 24-30+ weeks MINIMUM to get from neutral-max exalted.

PLEASE NOTE:: this is the ONLY way to get rep as of 9/09/2008, and reputation numbers are from level 60, these could have gone down from 70 and 80, making the achievement even MORE difficult to achieve.

The Hydraxian Waterlords is the faction for reputation from the 40-man Azerothian raid Molten Core.