Knights of the Ebon Blade Reputation Guide

How do I gain reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade?

There are several ways you will be able to gain reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade.

1. If you’re a Death Knight you’ll have the option of doing four quests which give you Knights of Ebon Blade reputation. These include: Taking Back Acherus, The Battle For The Ebon Hold, The Ebon Watch, and The Light of Dawn. Note: only Death Knights can complete these quests.
2. For everyone else, you can complete the normal mode daily dungeon quests. These quests reward 1 of 4 reputation tokens, one of which is Ebon Blade Commendation Badge. This badge awards +250 Knights of the Ebon Blade reputation when used.
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   Finally, you’ll have the option of championing the Knights of the Ebon. To champion this faction you must wear your Tabard of the Ebon Blade while you completing other level 80 5 man dungeons. This will award you reputation with the Knights of the Ebon Blade for any mobs or bosses you kill.

   • Non-Elite Mobs Normal - 0
   • Non-Elite Mobs Heroic - 1-2
   • Elite Trash Normal - 5
   • Elite Trash Heroic - 15
   • Super Trash Normal - 10
   • Super Trash Heroic - 30
   • Boss Normal - 50
   • Boss Heroic - 250

Knights of the Ebon Blade Rewards

Friendly

• Design: Deadly Huge Citrine (Jewelcrafting Design)
• Tabard of the Ebon Blade (Tabard)

Honored

• Arcanum of Toxic Warding (Head Slot Enhancement)
• Dark Soldier Cape (Caster Cloak)
• Pattern: Nerubian Reinforced Quiver (Leatherworking Pattern)
• Toxin-Tempered Sabatons (Plate Foot Armor)
• Unholy Persuader (Slow Off Hand Fist Weapon)

Revered

• Arcanum of Torment (Head Slot Enhancement)
• Design: Wicked Monarch Topaz (Jewelcrafting Design)
• Reaper of Dark Souls (Slow One-Handed Melee Sword)
• Runeblade of Demonstrable Power (Two-Handed Melee Sword)
• Spaulders of the Black Arrow (Mail Shoulder Armor)
• Sterile Flesh-Handling Gloves (Cloth Hand Armor)
• Wound-Binder’s Wristguards (Leather Wrist Armor)
• Pattern: Abyssal Bag (Tailoring Pattern)

Exalted

• Belt of Dark Mending (Cloth Waist Armor)
• Darkheart Chestguard (Leather Chest Armor)
• Death-Inured Sabatons (Plate Foot Armor)
• Kilt of Dark Mercy (Mail Leg Armor)
• Design: Glowing Twilight Opal (Jewelcrafting Design)

Reputation Power Grinding in WotLK - Faction Championing

If there’s one thing World of Warcraft has no shortage of it’s reputation grinds. Reputation grinds and other similar grinds are in essence what keeps people playing the game. Whether your grinding honor, rep, arena points, boss loot…one way or another you’ll be grinding something.

In an interesting twist Blizzard has decided to make grinding reputation a little bit easier in the expansion with the introduction of faction championing. When you champion a faction you are essentially telling the “world” (or at least the NPCs you are killing) that you are fighting on behalf of what ever faction.

So far you can champion 4 factions in the expansion.

1. Argent Crusade
2. Ebon Blade (check out the new ebon blade tabard!)
3. Kirin Tor
4. Wyrmrest Accord

Championing these factions is a breeze, all you have to do is simply wear the that faction’s tabard while you doing various level 80 dungeons. In addition to gaining what ever reputation that dungeon normally gives, you’ll also get bonus reputation from the faction whose tabard you are wearing.

• Argent Champion — You champion the cause of the Argent Crusade. All reputation gains while in level 80 dungeons will be applied to your standing with them.
• Ebon Champion — You champion the cause of the Knights of the Ebon Blade. All reputation gains while in level 80 dungeons will be applied to your standing with them.
• Champion of the Kirin Tor — You champion the cause of the Kirin Tor. All reputation gains while in level 80 dungeons will be applied to your standing with them.
• Wyrmrest Champion — You champion the cause of the Wyrmrest Accord. All reputation gains while in level 80 dungeons will be applied to your standing with them.

Personally I think this is a great change, as it will allow you to still gain reputation with the factions you need to without requiring you to complete the same sort of mundane reputation quest tasks again and again. Hopefully we’ll see many more factions added to the short list before the expansion goes live.