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Comment by 152565

This is great, especially if the normal dungeon daily is HoL because not only can you choose this as your quest reward, but you will also get some relics of ulduar in the process as well as your chance at gear.

Also i think that they put this at 500rep instead of 250 because you can wear a tabard for the other 4 factions while you do the normal daily and gain more rep so the 500 is most likely compensation for that.

Comment by aoeu

Having grind'd Sons of Hodir on 4 80s already mostly through dailies, this is a godsend. I will still do the dailies when I'm bored but this is definitely icing on the cake.

Comment by Selstad84

Lets count here, pre patch.

You could do 3 dailies with Sons of Hodir, meaning you got 750 rep in total. Not counting the relics, that would take you 52 days to get to exalted with them, that is from start of friendly to exalted (6000 + 12000 + 21000).

With this new reputation you get 1250 rep per day, not given that you deliver any relics. It would then take you around 32 days to get to exalted, 20 days saved. Now given that you're getting some relics as well which give 250 rep per 10 relics delivered it has now become a task well inside my range of doing.

I think it's wonderful that they make the game less about grinding and more about exploring the different aspects of the game. The main problem if the old world of warcraft was that you spent several days inside a secluded area doing one thing only just to get to do a raid. There's a reason they removed that. And I'm glad about it, the game is more fun now.

But of course, this has gone on the cost of the /flex status people got about having gear only they had the patience to nerd themselves to get so it might be the source of the main complains this days.

Comment by Gridinius

It takes a total of 27 days (without frost chips or relics) to go from Friendly to Exalted.

Friendly to Honored - 8 days - 6,000
Honored to Revered - 8 days - 12,000
Revered to Exalted - 11 days - 21,000

More details at http://www.wowwiki.com/Sons_of_Hodir#Reputation.

Comment by Typhon

Don't be an idiot like me and use one of these before making contact with them and doing the initial quest to get friendly. It will simply take you from 0/36000 hated to 500/36000 hated. What a waste.

Comment by 320002

Actually, I don't think it matters. The quests that get you to neutral, Mending Fences and A Spark of Hope, give a fixed amount of Sons of Hodir reputation (22,000 each). Normally, this 44,000 reputation takes you from 0/36000 hated to 2000/3000 neutral. But if you first turn in a commendation badge and start at 500/36000 hated, you will end up at 2500/3000 neutral after Mending Fences and A Spark of Hope, just the same as if you had waited to turn in your badge until after becoming neutral with Sons of Hodir.

In summary, I don't think it is a waste to turn in Sons of Hodir commendation badges before meeting them, because the reputation you gain by doing so will stay with you after you complete the initial faction quests.

Comment by 463061

i for one, agree to what everyone else says. its bad enough having to grind forever on heroics to get the gear you need for the serious ones like ulduar and the new 10-25 man ToC. the last thing i need is to have to waist time grinding on a rep just to get a good enchantment for my shoulders.
i think its nice they are trying to remove the grind on everything. so what if you get more noobs in heroics. so what if you cant */flex* your nerdism as much on how much you grinded more than others. if it takes literaly half your day doing the same thing to get anything done, then how does that make the game fun? that is what a game is about after all. having fun.

Comment by 226705

For those that aren't sure what to do with these pre-hodir "attunement":

You can use these badges before doing the questline with Sons of Hodir without losing the acquired reputation. You will build up rep starting at maximum hated for the time being, but when you finish the Hodir questline, a sum of 44000 rep will be added, to your existing reputation. You will not get reset at 0 rep neutral, in case you might think that.

Comment by 170395

Good to know these stack to 250.

Comment by 6939

If my math is right, it will take you 81 of these to get from Neutral to Exalted (non-human).

Comment by Kahdri

Nah mate, you're confused. I'll try a fancy diagram just because I'm bored:

Hated (0/36k) ---------------- neutral ---------------Exalted (21k/21k)
gain rep > gain rep > gain rep > gain rep > gain rep > gain rep

When you start out at hated 0/36k, you have to 'gain hated' until you reach max 35999/36k. Then you 'ding Hostile' and get to start on gaining Hostile rep until Unfriendly, etc.

Once you reach neutral, you continue to gain reputation - it always goes up up up.

More details on wowwiki's rep page.

Comment by d0zer1984

Heres my problem I did k3 quests ans quests for the people you have to get disguise for. When u go into hodir to get the frozen guys unstuck, and even w/ using badges i cant get their listing to stop hating me. I knock it down, then it goes back up.

How do I fix this?

Comment by d0zer1984

So do I keep killing them till they like me as a human?

Comment by Daystar

Warning: Check the price of Relic of Ulduar on your server before you buy these with Emblems of Triumph.

Each Emblem of Triumph is worth ~15 gold, as 10 of them are enough for an Ametrine or Dreadstone, which usually sells for about 150 gold.

The Relics of Ulduar now give 650 REP for 10 of them, and can sometimes be bought for 1 gold each. Even if you find them for 1.5g each, if you're lucky you can spend 15g for 600 Rep, versus 15g for 520.

Do some quick research on the price of both Ametrine/Dreadstone and Relics.

Comment by 111622

With the new Boost in Quest reputation from Mending Fences & A Spark of Hope you'll be brought to 6200 / 12000 Honored. Leaving you with 26,800 Reputation until Exalted.

You'll need 52 Badges, to get to Exalted (without quests, or relics).
Humans will only need 37 Badges to get Exalted

Comment by defektunge

This gives reputation equivalent to 8xRelic of Ulduar, so check the AH for relic prices before spending any emblems. It's quite likely that you'll get more reputation by spending your badges on something to sell, then using the money to buy relics. Note that you need ten relics to turn them in (for 650 rep gain).

Comment by Shoningun

How many of these here badges would it take to get from 0/36k hated to 1/21k revered?

Comment by 258919

As far as I know, this is the only commendation badge for a faction without a tabard. So, if you're done with triumph emblems you can buy enough of these with your remaining triumphs or triumphs you get from weeklies and daily randoms to easily boost your Sons of Hodir reputation, if you never levelled it beforehand.

Comment by 614802

Okay i use the badges and got the rep with hodir and im still not able to get the flight path or anything and then also i tryed to finish the quest line and theyre were only 2 quests left and they were aberrations and the other one was a daily and when i finished them no other quests apeared and Im really confused what to do can somone help?