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.