Val's TBC launch guide

Val's TBC launch guide

As a general rule, we want to do dungeons until 5999/6000 honored and only then quest once those dungeons stop giving rep, using higher level dungeons for the final stretch into revered as needed.

This guide achieves:
5/5 heroic keys
Karazhan attunement*
Revered Thrallmar/Honor Hold*
Revered Cenarion Expedition
Revered Consortium
Revered Lower City
Revered Keepers of Time
Revered Aldor/Scryers
Revered Sha'tar*

* after running the level 70 dungeons once

60:
1.  Go through the Dark Portal, fly to Honor Hold (A) or Thrallmar (H). Set hs, get the flightpath, don't do ANY quests.
2.  Run Blood Furnace till 5999/6000 honored HH/Thrallmar (around 12 runs)
    > It's both better exp and rep, but a bit harder. Do Ramparts to 61 if you struggle with BF.
3.  Do the first outland quest and get the quest for Ramparts.
4.  Run Ramparts and BF once for their quests and turn those in.
5.  Do HH/Thrallmar quests in Hellfire, skip Cenarion Expedition quests for now
6.  Go Shattrath, get fp, get tour and choose Aldor/Scryer, set hs.
    > Can't set hs without tour

61/62
3.  Go to Zangarmarsh, get Telredor (A) or  Zabra'jin (H) flightpath.
2.  Run Slave Pens (better exp) or Underbog (more rep) until 5999/6000 Cenarion Expedition (around 9-10 runs)
    > Kill the slaves before the masters.
3.  Turn in the CE quests from SP/Underbog and do the CE quests in HFP, Zangarmarsh, and Terrokar Forest

63
1.  Grab Stonebreaker Hold (H) or Allerian Stronghold (A) flightpath.
2a. Farm 220 (100 if matching, 340 if not) Firewing Signets (Scryer) at Firewing Point or Marks of Kil'jaeden (aldor) at the cabal mobs around Auchindoun. Turn these in for 5999/6000 honored
    > Aldor can also farm kil'sorrow fortress at 64 to get marks. no such farm for scryers, sorry!
2b. Farm Arakkoa Feathers in Terrokar for Lower City.
2c. Buy either or both of the above if already 64 or if you start Mana-Tombs early.

64
1.  Mana-Tombs until 5999/6000 consortium (around 9 runs).
2.  Turn in the MT quests.
3.  Auchenai Crypts until 5999/6000 Lower City or level 66 (around 14 runs)
> If you don't get to honored, you can do Sethekk Halls later.
    > Don't turn in the quests until 5999/6000 Sha'tar.
4.  Do LC quests in Shattrath and Terokkar if already 5999/6000
    > That should get you about 8k rep.
    > Alchemy and tailoring mastery quests also give some lower city rep.
5.  Go to Nagrand, grab the FP at Telaar (A) or Garadar (H) and do the Consortium quests at Aeris Landing.
    > Note that some of them aren't available anymore since we're already honored, but that's fine.
6.  Do the Ring of Blood if you need the weapons, but otherwise skip it on launch.

Iif not 66 yet:
1a. Do Kurenai (A) or Maghar (H) quests
1b. If Aldor: farm Kil'sorrow Fortress for marks until 5999/6000 aldor (25 rep per mark)
    > There's also one stray Aldor quest in Terrokar you can do for rep into Revered after getting 5999/6000.
1c. Grind any of the ogres in Nagrand for Obsidian Warbeads. Save them for Consortium rep later.

66
1.  Do Sethekk Halls once. If not 5999/6000 LC yet, run SH until you are.
     > Don't forget to grab the Shadow Labs key at the end of SH.
     > Despite some people saying to farm here until revered, SH doesn't actually give rep beyond honored.
2.  Turn in SH quests and do the LC quests in Terrokar if you hadn't yet
3.  Go to the Caverns of Time in Tanaris and do the quests there, clear Old Hillsbrad once
4.  Either do Black Morass for Keepers of Time revered now or skip till 68 if it's hard (around 4 runs). Do the quests, they alone will get you to 10/12k.

67
1.  Do the Cenarion Expedition quests in Blade's Edge
     > You should hit revered either here or in step 2.
2. CE quests in Netherstorm.
3.  First half of the Consortium quests in Netherstorm (Area 52, Midrealm, Stormspire)
4a. If Scryer: farm Sunfury Signets at Manaforge B'naar in Netherstorm. If you get any Arcane Tomes, save them until honored.
4b. If Aldor: farm Marks of Sargeras at Death's Door or Doomforge in Blade's Edge. If you get any Fel Armaments, save them until honored.

68
1.  Start the Karazhan attunement in Deadwind Pass.
2.  Do Aldor/Scryer quests in Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley if already 5999/6000, otherwise do them later at 70.
    > This gets you to about 7k/11k assuming non-draenei/belf.
    > While at Manaforge Ara, do the two Consortium quests there.
3.  Kill Smith Gorlunk in SMV -> 4 Fel Iron Bar, 2 Arcane Dust, 4 Mote of Fire for the key to the Shattered Halls.
4.  68+ Consortium quests in Netherstorm (Mid-Realm, Stormspire, Protectorate Watch Post)
    > You should be close to revered now. Turn in some obsidian warbeads (25 rep per mark) to get there if needed.
5.  If not yet revered with Keepers of Time, run Black Morass (around 4 runs, do the quests)
    > If less than 1k away from revered, you can skip the last run. You'll be back once for the Kara attune.
6.  Shadow Labs for the first Karazhan key fragment, Lower City revered, and Aldor turnins (around 3 runs)
7.  Steam Vaults for the second Karazhan key fragment. You should already be revered with CE, so just one run is enough.
8a. If Aldor: same as 67, but you can also go Netherstorm (Forge Base: Oblivion or Gehenna) or Shadowmoon (Legion Hold or Deathforge) and kill demons/cultists there.
8b. If Scryer: same as 67 but at Manaforge Duro.
8c. Once 5999/6000 Sha'tar from Aldor/Scryer quests, do Sha'tar quests in Terrokar (+ Auchindoun), Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon.
    > This will get you to around 7/11k Sha'tar
8d. Do any undone quests that reward good items for your class/spec. Refer to your class guides for those.
8e. Run any normal dungeons that reward good items for your class/spec. Refer to your class guides for those.
8f. If you can get in somehow, just spam tempest keep 5mans for Aldor/Scryer marks  and Sha'tar rep.
	> Note that warlocks cant summon to Netherstorm or dungeons in classic tbc for some reason.
    > 355 engineering rocket boots xtreme + noggenfogger/slow fall gets you to Botanica
    > Druids can fly at 68.

70
1. Run Shattered Halls once for HH/Thralllmar revered.
2. Complete the Arcatraz Key quest that you got as part of the Consortium quests by running Botanica and then Mechanar.
3. Arcatraz for the third Karazhan key fragment.
4. Finish the Karazhan attunement by running Black Morass one more time.
   > This will also get you revered with Sha'tar if the quests were done correctly. If not, just run Botanica a few more times.
5. You're done! Spam some heroics for badge gear or get into Karazhan.


Sources used:
Nodoze's Classic TBC Planning Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-zafhouxb9op8srzepa-wh7ejb-e-p_1mo6ftbpceoq/edit#gid=1210038085
Wowhead Rep Guides: https://tbc.wowhead.com/guides/the-burning-crusade-reputation-rewards-overview
Icosiol's Reputation Video Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrOsqjOq4VYScU2g56c-2hMyT-R1Z7zp
Biospark's Ultimate Launch Day Levelling Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrB1gUhPM4