IME, it’s a healer friend who you drag along with you to keep you alive while you Kill Stuff.
All y’all are making me consider rolling an alt on Cairne. 
1.) Save Gnomer for last. Otherwise the bleedover rep from your other quests will just go to waste.
2.) Once you are down to just one faction left and you have run out of quests, go for the cloth rep turn-ins as **jayjay **suggested. The runecloth turn-in is, in fact, infinitely repeatable and will award the same amount of rep every time.
I actually had mentioned runecloth originally in that post, but ended up deleting it. (I’ve already done the non-repeat 350 rep quests.) Runecloth needs to wait until I’m almost to Exalted. I calculated how much runecloth I’d need to get from my current rep to Exalted, and I’d need about 72 turn-ins or 1440 cloth. That’s a lot of grinding. So it’ll have to wait.
Trust me, I’ve looked into it. Not easy. I think I will drop Gnomer for now and go to Darnassus, though, to take advantage of that bleedover.
Getting 72 stacks isn’t as bad as you might think, depending on your server’s economy and your character level.
1.) Check the AH. You may be able to find stacks of runecloth for relatively cheap.
2.) If you can solo Strat, do runs of that. Lots of runecloth drops off the mobs there.
3.) If you can’t, there’s an area in Hellfire Peninsula where the mobs have a good drop rate. It’s the something-or-nother Amory in the south of the zone, with all the Human ghosts.
Yah. I have a plan to get my level 80 toon to exalted with Cenarion Circle, but I reckon it will take somewhere north of 1,500 Nesingwary Lackey ears. Which seems like a lot.
Check the Cenarion Circle faction pages on WoWWiki and Wowhead. The former will often suggest rep grinding strategies, and the latter will have a tab with quests for the faction which you can then sort by the amount of rep that they grant.
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I was looking for a way to sort quests by rep on WoWhead! Thanks!
(Although WoWhead isn’t all that reliable. It still shows Gnome Engineering as giving 4200 Gnomer rep, and my Gnomer grinder being an Engineer, I can vouch first-hand that it does not any more.)
I imagine it’s the same way with the Darkspear Trolls on the Horde side?
I think the ears get you rep with Cenarion Expedition, rather than the Circle. Or is it both?
Darkspear rep isn’t too bad. Granted, the quests are more sparse than for the other races, and you’ll probably wind up doing cloth turn-ins to finish it off. But it could be worse. And with the new Argent Tournement stuff, getting exalted rep with all 5 city factions is trivially easy.
Correct. Lackey ears grant CE, not CC, rep. Cenarion Circle rep is almost entirely (except for a few quests in Hellfire Peninsula) obtained in the original Azerothian lands (and mostly in Silithus, at that).
So, has Trade chat become annoying and not-trade-related at all on everyone’s server, or is it just on mine? I thought that that’s what the General channel was for.
I have toons on four different servers. It seems to be pretty much the same on all of them. Any more, one of the first things I do when I create a new toon is open up the Chat panel and leave the Trade channel.
Same. When there is trade happening on the Trade channel, it’s either someone advertising that they’ve put something on the AH or someone trying to get a stupidly good deal, and I do mean stupidly. Other than possibly requesting the services of a crafter, there’s very little worthwhile on Trade.
Another reason I leave Trade is the fact that it takes up space in the Chat window. It’s annoying as hell when I’m trying to have a conversation with another player and their replies to me are disappearing faster than I can read them because of non-stop, six-line spam posts scrolling everything up.
The problem with trade is that it’s global and you join it automatically when you enter a city. So it became the “hey I can talk to everyone online!” channel. General is zone specific.
I don’t carry them, but they’re in my bank. The JC/tailor (previously JC/miner) has a gem bag and a mining bag (I use her to store stuff my high miner has mined and my blacksmith can’t use yet, also I make gems available to guildies and people in our coalition but I prefer to cut as needed than put them in the bank); my scribe has one for her own stuff (people ask for different levels of glyphs, so I like to keep a varied stock of inks). Now if I can bribe a dev into making soulstones stack, I’ll be a happy dwarf… ehr, wait, the warlock’s a gnome…
Trade is horrid in every server and faction.
Anybody who complains about the difficulty of getting rep NOW, my old chars /spit on you! grumble mumble My “new” chars were exalted with Alliance by level 40; some of the old ones still aren’t (“new”= created after rep rewards stopped being modified by char level); Cora handed in so much runecloth she should have a “Cloth Provider” title
I agree, Nava. I ground (grinded?) one of my ~3-year-old characters to the Ambassador title, and it was a real PITA. But it made the title that much more meaningful to me.
Invisible Wombat’s Trade Chat Tips:
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[li]Put your trade chat (and other generic stuff, like /say and /yell) in a different chat window from your whispers, guild chat, and party chat[/li][li]When the twits start in with their politics, religion, and Chuck Norris jokes, report them for spamming. This puts them on a special ignore list and they stop showing up. Give it a week, and trade chat will be much cleaner.[/li][li]Don’t bother telling the idiots to shut up. It only encourages them[/li][li]Sometimes this works: When the Chuck Norris jokes (for example) begin, create a global channel called Norris and make an announcement in Trade. Tell them to /join Norris and they can use it even outside of a capital city where trade chat doesn’t work. Sometimes the leaders will leave and the rest will follow them over there. Again, it doesn’t work often, but when it does it’s a breath of fresh air[/li][li]Make your trade chat a distinct color. That makes it easier to ignore when you don’t want to read it, and to find when you do.[/li][/ol]
How do I do that?
Well it’s official: The Order of The Rik is a reality! I sat in SW offering 10g for charter signatures, so that part didn’t take long. Then I recruited a friend from my first guild (Honorable Creed - we were both “unguilded” when that guild was mysteriously dissolved) who had an unguilded alt available to join and invite all my alts. In case anybody’s interested, here’s a “photo” gallery of everybody in their shiny new yellow tabards:
My pally had a stroke of luck yesterday: while questing in Zul’Drak some undead thing dropped the Book of Glyph Mastery, which I posted on the AH. It sold very quickly and I made 169g 72s 50c 
Doubleclick on your chat window to bring up the tabs (default is General and Combat Log). Right-click on a tab, choose Create New Window and name it Trade (or whatever). Then double-click to bring up the tabs again, right-click on Trade, and choose Settings under Filter. Then turn off all channels except Trade in that one, and turn off Trade in your General window.
Now, whenever you want to use Trade, double-click on the chat window and click over to the Trade tab.
Thanks 