Patch 10.0.7 PTR - Winterpelt Furbolg Reputation Grind Preview

[Stoy]

Patch 10.0.7 PTR - Winterpelt Furbolg Reputation Grind Preview
A new optional reputation grind is coming in Patch 10.0.7 with the Winterpelt Furbolg tribe. This is a reimagining of the Timbermaw Hold reputation grind from Classic World of Warcraft. Players will need to collect items from mobs to learn the language and earn rewards. Here is a brief preview of that to expect.

Winterpelt Furbolg Reputation Overview

• You can start the process to unlock the Winterpelt Furbolg Faction prior to Patch 10.0.7.
• Complete the Winterpelt Hollow Quest Chain starting with Hollow Up and Aggressive Self-Defence from the NPC Sonova Snowden in The Azure Span at coordinates 65.39, 15.96.
• Complete the Rustpine Den Quest Chain starting with Broken Traditions, Broken Bodies from the NPC Garz in Azure Span at coordinates 63.21, 58.61.

Winterpelt Furbolg Reputation Grind

• In Patch 10.0.7, start the Academic Assistance quest by accepting it in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J). This quest will become available after completing the Winterpelt Hollow and Rustpine Den quest chains in the Azure Span.
• You will return to Sonova Snowden in The Azure Span and complete two quests to unlock the ability to farm Liberated Furbolg Artifacts and Intact Scribe Stick from Primalist mobs in the Azure Span.
• It takes 5 Liberated Furbolg Artifacts or 1 Intact Scribe Stick to gain a level in Winterpelt Furbolg Language Knowledge.
• There are 100 levels of Winterpelt Furbolg Language Knowledge to max it out and reach exalted.
• Gaining a level doesn't grant you any reputation outright. Every 25 levels of knowledge will instead open up a quest chain that gives you the necessary reputation to increase your standing. There are a total of four quests during the grind, each having a unique reward to earn.
  
  • First quest raises your reputation to Friendly and grants the Winterpelt Totem Trinket.
  • Second quest raises your reputation to Honored and grants the Reading Glasses toy.
  • Third quest gets you to Revered and grants the Defender of the Winterpelt Trinket.
  • Last quest will get you to Exalted and grants the Primal Stave of Claw and Fur toy.

Winterpelt Furbolg Reputation Vendor
As you increase your reputation with the Winterpelt Furbolg, you will also gain access to unique rewards from Kazzi, the faction vendor.

Level	Type	Name	Req. Standing	Model Viewer
70	Food & Drink	Big Chunk o' Meat	Friendly
70	Food & Drink	Frozen Solid Tea	Friendly
60	Other	Highland Drake: Sleek Horns	Honored
60	Other	Windborne Velocidrake: Exposed Finned Back	Honored
60	Other	Cliffside Wylderdrake: Plated Nose	Honored
60	Other	Renewed Proto-Drake: Stubby Snout	Honored
1	Back	Winter Pelt Cloak	Honored	Modelviewer
1	Back	Hollowed Furbolg Food Pack	Honored	Modelviewer
392	One-handed Mace	Winterpelt Mending Totem	Honored	Modelviewer
60	Other	Cliffside Wylderdrake: Spiked Horns	Revered
1	Other	Snow Blanket	Revered
60	Other	Renewed Proto-Drake: Malevolent Horns	Revered
60	Other	Highland Drake: Horned Chin	Revered
60	Other	Windborne Velocidrake: Spiked Neck	Revered
1	Tailoring Pattern	Pattern: Paw-Made Winterpelt Reagent Bag	Revered
1	Cooking Recipe	Recipe: Firewater Sorbet	Revered
1	Back	Hollowed Winterpelt Food Pack	Revered	Modelviewer
70	Reagent Bag	Paw-Made Winterpelt Reagent Bag	Revered
1	Companion Pets	Driftling	Exalted

[Mic_128]

Is that toy the first non-sunglasses glasses?

[BasilTheRat]

So only worth doing as a tailor.
Drake cosmetics, boring.
A 392 mace, useless gear like with all the other rep vendors.
Zero thought put into rewards

[Ealyssa]

No thank you

[Alanar]

Ye seems pretty useless, the toy could be fun, but nah.

[sensei]

Is that toy the first non-sunglasses glasses?

Ca'nees in Orgrimmar and Finn in Stormwind both sell several cosmetic glasses that are not sunglasses and run between 5g and 500g

[thunderdragon2]

only worth doing for the toy and pet as a non tailor and collector shame

[BarosanuNr1]

Those furbolg models have a cool pose.

[AtomR]

For the second time since DF launched these guys launch a patch as soon as I'm ready to unsub. I like this cadence of content. Sure neither .5 or .7 have enough content to last months untill next patch but with some alts levling this might just be th elongest time i've ever been subbed after an xpac in a decade or so.

Too bad the rewards are so out of touch. But I love it that they modeled this furbolg content from vanilla furbolg grind to remind people that they are wrong when they say they miss when content wasn't grindy, like that's ever been a thing in wow.

[Laqweeta]

For the second time since DF launched these guys launch a patch as soon as I'm ready to unsub. I like this cadence of content. Sure neither .5 or .7 have enough content to last months untill next patch but with some alts levling this might just be th elongest time i've ever been subbed after an xpac in a decade or so.

Too bad the rewards are so out of touch. But I love it that they modeled this furbolg content from vanilla furbolg grind to remind people that they are wrong when they say they miss when content wasn't grindy, like that's ever been a thing in wow.

The problem is that it's just poorly thought out, per usual. Always MAUs and time played metrics in mind - evident by the major patch with Fryakk assaults. Just dumb

[cgilm2526]

How can i tell if I have already completed the required questlines before the patch hits?

[Stickiler]

How can i tell if I have already completed the required questlines before the patch hits?

Check the Sojourner of the Azure Span achievement, specifically the Winterpelt Hollow and Rustpine Den entries.

[ExtremelyCrusty]

"Grind". Hard pass

[VinceVega]

I will never understand what they try to achive with those VERY VERY useless reputation rewards in gear form.

If you are that far into the game... you get better stuff by accidantly killing a few rares here and there or do LFR.

I get that it is not for me as a raider or Mythic+ runner... but hell even my twinks i barely touch don't need shit from any of the reps.

Why is there no incentive to do these reputations? And i don't mean iLvl or power. A transmog? A mount... anything? Those dragon riding glyphs? Useless. Asside from color you barely see a difference when using the dragon riding mounts unless you look closer. Way too homogenous.


The Foodpack and the mace are... well mediocre. Like with every other rep this expansion.

[Soeroah]

I just hope the items aren't too rare, I hate grinds with no direction.. wowhead suggests they're a pretty high drop rate, though, so that's good

[stigz]

why would we grind a useless faction for useless items... some people have too much time

[enigma77]

Useless

/yawn

[Twdft]

why would we grind a useless faction for useless items... some people have too much time

Everyone playing WoW is wasting their time, no matter what content they do. How are you spending your time in WoW and why do you think whatever items you acquire are not useless?

Everyone is different and I know right away there's one in my guild who'll go in hard to grind out the rep just because they have fun with reps.

[Zoura]

For the second time since DF launched these guys launch a patch as soon as I'm ready to unsub. I like this cadence of content. Sure neither .5 or .7 have enough content to last months untill next patch but with some alts levling this might just be th elongest time i've ever been subbed after an xpac in a decade or so.

Too bad the rewards are so out of touch. But I love it that they modeled this furbolg content from vanilla furbolg grind to remind people that they are wrong when they say they miss when content wasn't grindy, like that's ever been a thing in wow.

The game has content to last a while compared to a decade back, why even bother to play the game if you only play it for 1-2 months.. Just curious. Mythic+ lasted a while for me, thats for sure. And the new professions made things somewhat fun for a bit.

[AtomR]

The game has content to last a while compared to a decade back, why even bother to play the game if you only play it for 1-2 months.. Just curious. Mythic+ lasted a while for me, thats for sure. And the new professions made things somewhat fun for a bit.

For starters, playing a game for 1-2 months is not a "why even bother" thing. There are so many amazing games being released at any given time, that it's surprising I even spend 2 month not playing anything else.

But regarding wow, I really don't have an answer for you that won't result in you telling me that the game does in fact have content I just choose not to engage in it. I guess that is true. All our definition of what counts as content is relative.

I did all the quest available in the world and the all campaign quests locked by renown.
I got to True Friend with Sabelian and Wrathion. #teamsabellian
I farmed world quests as long as it suited me. I didn't get all renown maxed, in fact only Dragonscale Expedition is maxed. But as I said earlier the rewards are very uninteresting. I figure I'll eventually go back especially if they add more renown locked quests later in other patches, if they are going to do renown like it used to be in SL.
I have never PVPed or care much for it.
I did the trial of the elements and water, comunity feats, grand hunts, dragon keep siege while the ilvl rewards were relevant. Same for some rare hunting.
I no longer have time to raid but I did some social raids until Razageth was killed in normal.
While I was engaged in world content (world quest, events, rares, etc) I levelled up my professions some, but not fully.
Did the primal storm thing some times but no rewards so no interest.
Currently I just "farm" m+ to get bigger ilvl to do higher m+.
And lately I've been spending time on one alt.

That's my playstyle. But eventually you get to a point "what the fuck am I doing with my life? So much stuff to do irl, so many other good games to play" and so the rewards become even less appealing and I just log off. And that's fine with me. I'm just surprised that this time they managed get new patches frequent enough that even if I don't play the game exclusively I keep my sub on and keep logging in sparsely. Which ultimately is the point of the patches.

I realise I'm no longer the audience for this game: I'm not a mount collector, an achievement collector, a pet collector, a transmog collector nor a drake glyph collector. And that summarizes the content available in wow right now, once you no longer have quests and instances you want to do. Last patch (10.0.5) had nothing other than collector stuff to do. Which is why I played an alt.