Steamwheedle Preservation Society Reputation Guide

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Aogexon's Fang: Aogexon is one of the most feared beasts in Nagrand, and one of the largest and most dangerous forest stalkers ever seen! I've already been approached by a number of a collectors interested in obtaining one of Aogexon's deadly fangs. If you are up for the challenge, Aogexon can sometimes be found lurking in the swamp not far from here.

Bergruu's Horn: An anonymous collector of valuable fossils and antiques has offered the preservation society a huge cash reward for Bergruu's horn. A huge reward, <name>... HUGE!

Dekorhan's Tusk: Few elekk have lived as long as Dekorhan. Elekk tusks continue to grow throughout the elekk's lifetime. This makes Dekorhan's tusks some of the largest and oldest on Draenor. Do you hear what I hear, <name>? That's the sound of all the gold jingling in our pockets after you bring me Dekorhan's tusk!

Direhoof's Hide: Most talbuk are peaceful creatures that will only attack when they are defending their herd. Not Direhoof though, that talbuk is one of the most aggresively dangerous beasts I've ever encountered... and one of the most magnificent talbuk I've ever seen! If you encounter Direhoof while adventuring and live to tell the tale, return to me with the beast's hide and I'll see that you're rewarded!

Gagrog's Skull: Deep in the forest of northern Nagrand is a giant Gronn known as Gagrog the Brutal. In case you're wondering, he didn't get his name by giving out free hugs... this Gronn is as savage and murderous as they come! Now look, I'm not telling you to go try and hunt this thing down... that would be suicide... but if by some miracle you fight Gagrog and live, make sure you bring back his skull!

Mu'gra's Head: Not far from here is a hippo of unusual size and ferocity known as Mu'gra. I've been contacted by a private collector that would like to acquire Mu'gra's teeth for a special exhibit. Hippo teeth are extremely difficult to extract, and we can't be selling damaged goods so just bring back the entire head, got it?

Thek'talon's Talon: Windrocs can be found all over Nagrand, from the highest peaks to the lowest valleys. However, one windroc in particular is extremely elusive and is rarely sighted, it is known to the orcs as Thek'talon. If I know anything, it's that people will pay a lot of money for anything that is rare or elusive!

Xelganak's Stinger: Xelganak is as deadly as they come, <name>! I don't recommend going after Xelganak unless you love money, adventure, and glory. Xelganak's poison stinger would be an easy sell to the right collector, so if you're up for the challenge I'll make sure you get handsomely rewarded. Just don't go getting your face melted off like Bozzil, ok?

Vileclaw's Claw: Vileclaw is feared throughout Nagrand as a vicious predator. While it is true that Vileclaw is one of the most dangerous raptors you'll ever encounter, she is also a savagely beautiful creature. Vileclaw must be preserved for future generations to behold! If you can bring me back one of her vicious claws, I'll make sure you get a cut of the profit!

Aogexon

Bergruu
Bergruu
Bergruu
Bergruu
Bergruu
Bergruu

Dekorhan

Direhoof

Gagrog the Brutal

Mu'gra

Thek'talon
Thek'talon
Thek'talon
Thek'talon
Thek'talon
Thek'talon
Thek'talon

Xelganak

Vileclaw

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Tell me, what do you see when you stare into an ancient artifact?

History? Culture? Mystery?

That's because you have an untrained eye! Do you know what I see?

Money! Lots of it!

Stick around with me long enough and if you're smart you'll learn a thing or two about real archaeology!

The Steamwheedle Preservation Society was created to help ensure the safety of valuable artifacts and antiquities across Azeroth and Draenor.

We travel far and wide to obtain the most precious relics and artifacts ever seen!

Our mission is to put all of these priceless artifacts exactly where they belong…in the hands of the highest bidder!

Comments

Comment by Calesta

Some updates will be need to made to reflect changes in beta builds.

Bergruu's Horn is implemented and can be turned in for reputation.
A ninth elite, Vileclaw(?), drops Vileclaw's Claw for Vileclaw's Claw.
Your map shows the old location of Xelganak and doesn't have the location for Vileclaw. Feel free to steal the coordinates from my map. :)
Both Bergruu and Thek'talon have paths they follow rather than a single spawn point. Feel free to steal the coordinates from my map. :)

Comment by Bulo

The goblins of the Steamwheedle Preservation Society seek to liberate relics from the ogres of Nagrand (Warlords of Draenor) with the noble intention of selling them to the highest bidder.

Vendor items:
Steamwheedle Elixir
Portable Goon Squad
Goblin Hot Potato
Captured Forest Sproutling
Indentured Albino River Calf
Steamwheedle "Preservation" Society Tabard
Domesticated Razorback

Comment by ladydanielle

The Steamwheedle Preservation Society in Nagrand is located in the Ruins of Na'gwa. As the guide suggests it is indeed west of Lok-rath; only a tiny bit west, not far at all. It is almost dead center in the map of Nagrand. I actually found it because it was one of my Archaeology dig sites.

Comment by Rotorua

Nice

Comment by dinaautumn

Here I have put together a video which shows spawn location of the chests for steamwheedle faction rep.

Happy hunting :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuG-Rz7Yt1I&feature=youtu.be

Comment by 1251621

No one seems to have posted this yet. But spread around Ring of blood inside and outside in forest area can loot chest that have the rep tokens inside them Looted 2x atm in past 3 minutes!

First one walking up to entrance of Ring of blood on path with groups of 2 orges. Big rock in circle was siting next to it.
2nd as u walk in 2 little dummies getting beat on. Was in behind dummy to right.

Found another otw to Krud just left of his tower behind where orge is hitting dummy

Comment by kilorat

Has anyone done the math to figure out what the most effecient way to grind this rep is? I'm trying to decide between running around looking for boss spawns and looting chests as I pass, or just stay in one of the camps and just grind mobs. If I get bored enough I'll do an hour of each and compare, then post the results. But someone else must have done this already?

Comment by 357881

All Nagrand NPC's that drop special items for Gazmolf Futzwangler (Steamwheedle Preservation Society) are listed here:

51.6 16.2 Aogexon - Aogexon's Fang
65 21.2 Bergruu (Pats north and south) - Bergruu's Horn
50.2 41.2 Dekorhan - Dekorhan's Tusk
60.4 38.6 Direhoof - Direhoof's Hide
48.2 22.2 Gagrog the Brutal - Gagrog's Skull
34.2 51.4 Mu'gra's - Mu'gra's Head
59.6 32.6 Thek'talon (Pats SW, NE) - Thek'talon's Talon
41.6 45 Xelganak - Xelganak's Stinger
37.4 39 Vileclaw - Vileclaw's Claw

Waypoints listed below (macro ready!)
/way 51.6 16.2 Aogexon
/way 65 21.2 Bergruu (Pats north and south)
/way 50.2 41.2 Dekorhan
/way 60.4 38.6 Direhoof
/way 48.2 22.2 Gagrog
/way 34.2 51.4 Mu'gra's
/way 59.6 32.6 Thek'talon (Pats SW, NE)
/way 41.6 45 Xelganak
/way 37.4 39 Vileclaw

Comment by Berl

The most comprehensive way to farm reputation for the SPS is to farm the normal and elite mobs in western Nagrand roughly based on the spawns between Mu'gra and Vileclaw. What I did was farm the elite and normal raptors and wasps and killed Mu'gra Vileclaw and Xelganak when they were up. I also killed the riverbeasts by Mu'gra which are also good for trapping for the barn for savage bloods and feasts.

All of the mobs hit fairly hard and have specific abilities that should be countered: Elite Wasps apply a poison that should be dispelled and the eliteraptors do a frontal channeled attack that can be mitigated by stunning or by moving to the side or back of it. I did not kill elite riverbeasts or snakes.

Additionally there was a chest containing reputation fragments on the western side of a tree by Highmaul.

These mobs drop between 1-14 Gorian Artifact Fragments and they tend to stack up rather fast and are augmented nicely by the occasional Relic or animal part. I would put an average around 6-8 being a healthy number.

It should be noted that the fragments stack to 200 and are turned in stacks of 20 while the non fragments are turned in solo.

I did this as a 640 retribution paladin but it should be noted I did this with a fair amount of epics but lousy trinkets using health potions and prudent cooldown cycling. Also remember to get a garrison follower or forge guardian if you have the Blacksmithing building and any other consumables to make this go quicker. I used the frostwolf war wolf and not the siege engine so I cannot testify as to how advantageous using it would be.

I used this method to get me from 3k honored into 5k revered in the span of 6 hours and I will update when I finish.

*Edited for more info

Comment by 1297967

Items from elites now give 550 reputation.

Comment by kattykeran15

i know this is a weird question but does the goblin's racial best deals anywhere lower the price of all the items you get there at exalted it was said to be like that one time i still don't really get it help please

Comment by Salewow

If you have the trading post and turn in a Highmaul Relic you will get 420 reputation.

Comment by Locantos

Seems that you cannot turn in the Gorian Artifact Fragment and Highmaul Relic if your under Level 100. With my level 95 alt while my main farmed the Highmaul Relic I have no quest in the Ruins of Na'gwa .

Comment by 1443565

If you want to get Exalted really fast it is very simple. Go to Northern Nagrand near the Mage Portal, kill Mu'gra, then Vileclaw, then Xelganak. Now realm hop and do it again. Rinse repeat for as long as you can take it. With Trading Post lvl 3 I farmed around 20k rep in about 30 minutes doing this... disgustingly fast.

Comment by Orkinman

I have a lot of Highmaul Relics, but I am unable to turn them in. Do you need to have the quest ? Where do you pick up the quest?

Comment by 1133080

EDITED

Alright, I have found my fastest way to grind rep with this faction, which I am doing currently on a 638 BM hunter in all pvp gear with a tank pet. My DPS is bad, but I'm going at this alone except for the rare occasion where I find a rare and a person killing it at the same time.

First thing is first; don't bother trying to hunt all the rares or dig through the region for reliquaries. You'll spend a lot of time running in circles and fighting other players hunting the same things as you. What you're going to want to do is go in between Ruins of Na'gwa and Dekorhan's spawn at 50.2 41.2 and kill every last non-elite talbuk, wolf, elekk, clefthoof, and windroc you find along the way. Every. Last. One. These tend to hang out in large, quickly spawning groups and drop between 1 and 4 Gorian Artifact Fragments each, which is what you're hunting for. From ruins to Dekorhan and back should net around 200 fragments, give or take depending on how lucky you ended up, which equates to about 2500 rep just in artifact fragments (without any rep bonuses). Only killing non elites, this run takes between 15 and 20 minutes for me with my crappy dps. Be sure you check around the roots of all the trees you pass, as reliquaries spawn in this area as well! Additionally, there are loads of elite windrocs, clefthooves, and wolves along the way that, if you were up to tackling them, have about a 10% chance to drop highmaul relics for additional rep. Lastly, because this route takes you along the routes of Direhoof, Dekorhan, Thek'talon, and sometimes Bergruu, feel free to stop and kill these spawns any time you see them for bonus rep.

Overall I found it was easiest to go for the guaranteed drops of the gorian artifact fragments and the much easier to farm mobs than to hunt and focus on all 9 rares or try and only find the reliquaries (of which I can find only around 4 in an entire circuit of the area...).

Hope this helps some people! Happy hunting!

Comment by Buffeninc

I've made a quick video showing you how to get exalted (in my opinion) as fast as possible.
It explains the two methods described above, as well as giving you tips as to which route to take if you want to farm the 9 elites and a map with their location.

If you prefer grinding the lvl 100 mobs for Gorian Artifact Fragments, I have showed which mobs I find to be fastest to kill, as well as tips for optimizing your grinding time.

It took me around 6-8 hours to go from neutral to exalted - so it really can be done in one day, and is one of the easier draenic factions to earn exalted with.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igKNfKvv6-g

Comment by swisher1g

Ok, so I really wanted this title and I decided to do it. I did it in 2.5 hours and I found the easiest way to do this.

I went to Xelganak -- I killed him on my server, and all you do is stay put and server swap constantly, and just kill him over and over and you'll never have to move or get aggroo from any other mobs, you just server swap constantly and kill him and that's it. he has 1.5 mil hp compared to the others with a lot more HP.

I was on a 707 feral druid and use the agility flask & agility augment rune -- I think this is truly the easiest way to do this. You get Xelganak's Stingers which reward 500 rep and then you get the lost artifacts roughly 3-5 per kill and you need 20 to hand in to get 250 rep

It took me 2.5 hours of server swapping and killing this guy and i think this is personally the best way, no moving, you literally stay put and server swap -- He doesn't do to much damage, you shouldn't die unless you're severely undergeared and don't have any sustain whatsoever, i never really had to use defensive cooldowns or heal myself.

You can try this out for yourself, I believe this is a relatively good method if you're looking to do it quick without having to contiously look for rares, all you do is find him, stay in the middle whre he spawns and just sever swap as much as possible.

I really hope this helps at least one of you, or at least try it and come back and comment.
I also earned roughly 1.5k gold, every hand in awards 30 gold and i accumlated a lot of stingers xd

Comment by triface

There are two main ways to farm these: going in circles, following waypoints to farm for Highmaul Relic found in Highmaul Reliquaries specifically, or manually farming for the items by fighting the mobs in Western Nagrand, between the spawn points of Vileclaw and Mu'gra.

I have found that both ways are equally effective in farming up the items for rep. Each Highmaul Relic is worth exactly 30.8 Gorian Artifact Fragment. It takes approximately 5-15 minutes to find a Highmaul Relic. Depending on the following factors, you may find it more efficient to farm the mobs separately instead:

Class
Spec
How populated your server is

Each pull of 4-5 mobs (consisting of an elite and a few other adds) in Western Nagrand will net you around 10-20 Gorian Artifact Fragment. If you can kill fast enough and consistently kill the mobs without problems, this may be the way to go.

Highmaul Reliquaries
The most efficient way to farm this is on a Druid. It doesn't matter what spec you are, or the level of gear you have. The most important thing is you chose the Corral as your outpost for Nagrand. Doing so will grant you Endurance Runner, allowing you to stealth at 200% (?) speed. This will allow you to skip MANY mobs that you would otherwise have to fight. Combined with strategic use of Dash, you can boost your run speed to above epic mount speed for 15 seconds to cover long distances, or to drop aggro after opening a cache.

Gorian Artifact Fragment
A variety of level 100 mobs in Nagrand will drop these. The highest concentration of these mobs are found in Western Nagrand, between the spawn points of Vileclaw and Mu'gra. Here, your main targets will be the following mobs:

Prime targets are the wasps, raptors and the Wetland Riverbeast. You can also find the wolves and the wolf trainer in the northern section of the region, but I've found that they hit a bit harder, so I avoided them. Your mileage may vary. Wasps are great because there are usually 7-8 of them with an elite. Pull them one by one by dotting them up, then let them die on their own.

The elites here hit hard. I found an Affliction Warlock to be the best class here. My Warlock is iLvl 647, so it doesn't require fantastic gear to farm with him. I used this spec, which balanced the AoE needed for the adds, and single-target for the elites.

Absolute Corruption grants permanent Corruption. At my iLvl, I found it very often that the adds would be left with only a little health (but not die) after all 3 of my DOTs expired. This ensures they die eventually without further intervention by me.

Grimoire of Supremacy lets you control an Infernal permanently. He puts out fantastic AoE damage, which helps with all the adds.

Soul Effigy is used over Soul Conduit because it provides higher DPS on a single-target. The bulk of your fight is fighting the elite you pulled, so it is important to maximize your DPS. Even with the mechanic of spamming Unstable Affliction, Soul Conduit does not pull ahead, and fights are considerably slower.

Farming this spot means you're always in the proximity of Xelganak and Vileclaw. As you have your pet tanking for you, these are tank and spank fights, but you may need to use Health Funnel to heal him from time to time.

If ever you feel the need to change up your talents for experimentation, Riverside Post is located very near to the area, so you can use the inn to change your talents.

Comment by glycereth

This reputation is now a very easy grind. Just did this in an hour or 2, from 0/3000 neutral to exalted. My advice is to use druid alts on different realms to farm Highmaul Relics from chests, and kill the rares on the way, that way you don't have to worry about respawn timers.

On each alt I get around 10 Highmaul Relics and 3-4 rare hand in drops for the round trip finding chests, together with Darkmoon Faire buff and Draught of Ten Lands(use only when you hand in not during farm/grind) you only need 100 Highmaul relics for 42000 reputation points. Because you will get the rare spawns drops and the Gorian Artifact Fragment while farming chests(these are BoP), you won't even need that many. I used a total of 60+ Highmaul Relics plus rare spawns drops and Gorian Artifact Fragments that I found on my main together from looting chests for Highmaul Relics in Nagrand.

Comment by Arkamedix

Now, in BFA, patch 8.1.5 , you can farm this reputation very easy. I did from 0 to exalted in around 30 min by farming only Highmaul Raid area mobs.
I farmed:
Highmaul Sorcerer -theese guys have a very high chance to drop Highmaul Relic
And theese:
Highmaul Enforcer and Highmaul Guard drop Gorian Artifact Fragment.
Dont bother farming thoose elites, they spawn rarely, other players hunt them, waste of time.

Comment by Plom10

BFA, patch 8.1.5. Very easy rep grind that takes no time at all.

I farmed the rares 1 time over and then settled for the Wetlands Tramplers and Wetlands Riverbeasts at 36.3 / 48.1 In Nagrand for 1 whole hour, rotated clockwise around the little island with the tree in the middle on my Telaari Talbuk the spawns are almost instant you wont have any loot downtime I farmed for an Hour from 1.1k into honored to exalted and i overstayed Majorly, I had 1713 Gorian Artifact Fragments left over and traded in 41 Highmaul Relics. There is also a rare (Mu'gra) Witch spawns where you are farming witch you can trade in his item for 500 Steamwheedle Preservation Reputation every spawn.

Very fast way to get exalted if you are level 110 - 120 if you was honored like me you would be exalted in 30 min maybe less. If your starting from Neutral then probaly 1 hour no problem, no time at all really.

Hope this helps others, Have a good day!

Comment by Wyldclaw

In Shadowlands, patch 9.0.5, this reputation is very easy. It almost took me longer to write this comment than it did to get to Exalted. Don't bother farming the elites listed on this page as it is a waste of time. Instead, head over to the outside version of Highmaul Raid in Nagrand at /way 31.52, 34.15.

The goal is to farm Highmaul Relic and Gorian Artifact Fragment from the Highmaul Sorcerer and Highmaul Enforcer around Highmaul.

Farming Path

Start at the front gate and go right into The Underbelly.
Go left through the gladiator pit area. Be sure to tag the ogre overlooking on the upper left.
Continume up the stairs and past the pond with the Fungal Destroyer.
Turn left and up into the Path of Victors.
Go up to the forkin the path. Be sure to tag the orge to the right.
Turn left into The Market District and clear the entire thing out moving counterclockwise.
Go left into The Imperator's Favor, continue following the path and clear it all.
To Left again, down the path, and back into The Path of Victors.
Mount up and fly up, over, and into The Colosseum. Don't try to use the front door, it's locked.
Fly out to the right and back to the front gate.

One single run takes just under 4 minutes and by the time you're back at the front gate everything will have already respawned.

I used this macro to keep track of the progress I was making.
It will count the Highmaul Relic and Gorian Artifact Frament in your bag and count down to 0 rep needed.

/script print(42000 - select(6, GetFactionInfoByID(1711)) - ((GetItemCount(118100) * 420) + (math.floor(GetItemCount(118099) / 20) * 300)))

You will turn your items into Sallee Silverclamp at The Ruins of Na'gwa. /way 50.3 41.3

You can use the following macros to quickly turn in your items.

A Rare Find

/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(1);
/script CompleteQuest();
/script GetQuestReward();

Fragments Of The Past

/script C_GossipInfo.SelectAvailableQuest(2);
/script CompleteQuest();
/script GetQuestReward();

Congratulations on earning your Steamwheedle Preservation Society achievement and new title!

Comment by nyazz

rep gain has increased! as of writing this, turn-ins for fragments are now worth 375, and turn-ins for relics are now worth 525!

Comment by DavidDJPearl

After farming the rares, relics, and fragments alike, I suggest that unless you're dead set on instantly grinding the rep out, simply park/bind your toon at the Steamwheedle Preservation Society ruins and routinely log in to fly the loop and harvest the rares. I feel it's the most efficient option unless you're in a hurry.

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