An epic quest line for an epic battle -- Mount Hyjal

[Righ]

I'm aware that they have their own factions once inside, but Brood is currently required to get there.

[Phred]

I'm aware that they have their own factions once inside, but Brood is currently required to get there.

Why?

[LK]

Apparently, it's not really faction grinding; you can get revered just by doing all the quests in an area.. supposedly they've done away with cenarion circle / furblog stuff.

Not entirely accurate, but Cenarion Circle / Furbolg *is* not the norm.  A significant chunk of reputation will come from non-repeatable quests, but all of the reputations you need for this can be earned through dungeon and killings mob.  It may not be as difficult as you think to get up to Revered.  Exalted is another can of worms though, but if you like running Heroic Mode dungeons, then you should eventually reach that milestone.

[LK]

First Glance, this does in fact look lame as all hell.

Well, when you take a look at it as a 60 just walking into Outland, that's a lot of shit, but it really isn't.

The easiest analogy is say... you need to kill Rag to get your BWL attunement.

• Step 1: Get the Rep required for Heroic Mode 5-mans (you'll do this anyway).
• Step 2: Lotta Quests.
  
• Step 3a: Clear the 5-mans on Heroic to get keyed for one of the 25-man raids (if you're a raider, you'll do this anyway).
• Step 3b: Clear two Caverns of Time instances (again, you'll do this anyway :P).
• Step 3c: *insert Lady Vashj attunement here*
• Step 4: Clear two of the 25-mans to get access to CoT: Hyjal.

EDIT: Forgot the quests before you need to worry about the Heroic 5-mans.

Think about what you're doing along the way as well.  Step 1 and 2, you're already doing that for most areas while trying to level to 70 through natural character progression.  Step 3? You're gearing up your character (Mmmmm ... Tier 4.)

[LK]

Rerail:

I think it's kinda stupid.  Rep is alot easier to obtain, no doubt, but you still won't hit revered just from doing a quest here or there while you level up.  You're going to have to spend a few days working on it, longer if you're on a pvp server, and the areas are probably going to be heavily contested for a few months.

Losing a person attuned is going to be a bitch.  Just about the worst thing ever in WoW was getting someone Ony attuned for Horde, and this looks like it's actually worse.

Nope. You'll get Revered from quests. In fact, my experience in beta was that there was pretty much EXACTLY enough rep to get revered in any given faction from just quests. Then you go to exalted with dungeon runs.

It's going to be a combination of both that you'll need to reach Revered.  You'll have to run some dungeons, but you can also do quests (regardless of level too, so you can go back to Hellfire Peninsula at 70 and pound out some quests if you need to).  But I think you'll get far more reputation faster through quests, which is a finite resource, than dungeon runs, which provide infinite gains.

[LK]

I'm aware that they have their own factions once inside, but Brood is currently required to get there.

Why?

Brood of Nozdormu is not tied into Caverns of Time in any fashion.  They even moved Anachronos off to the side (since he's hostile to most) so you could have unfettered access to CoT.

[Righ]

O RLY? I'll have to go look-see.

[Phred]

O RLY? I'll have to go look-see.

Ya that's why I asked why. Make sure to stock up on the water at the vendor while you're there.

[SurfD]

Yeah, brood rep is only needed for AQ 40 set turnins.