Fastest Route To Shado-Pan Assault Exalted

The Shado-Pan Assault is a faction added to the World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria expansion. There are three ways to earn reputation with the Shado-Pan Assault: completing a limited number of quests, entering the Throne of Thunder raid, or turning in Shado-Pan Assault Insignia's. The Insignia's grant 100 reputation each and can be found in daily reward caches. Players can also earn 300 reputation by killing bosses in the Throne of Thunder Raid. Additionally, players can gain reputation by completing daily quests at the Shado-Pan Garrison in Townlong Steppes, which involves attacking nearby Yaungol, Mantid, and Mogu outposts.

Kill enemies in the Throne of Thunder Raid

Killing enemies in the Throne of Thunder raid is one of the main ways to gain reputation with the Shado-Pan Assault faction in World of Warcraft. This raid was introduced in Patch 5.2 and features encounters with 12 bosses (13 if you count the heroic-only boss, Ra-den).

The Throne of Thunder raid can be accessed through the Mists of Pandaria expansion and has a minimum level requirement of 90+. The entrance to the raid is located on the Isle of Thunder, with TomTom coordinates of 65.54, 30.00.

Each boss killed in the Throne of Thunder raid rewards players with 300 reputation, with the heroic-only boss, Ra-den, granting 500 reputation. The bosses can be defeated in any order, and players can gain reputation from each boss once a week.

• Jin'rokh the Breaker
• Horridon and his master, War-God Jalak
• The Council of Elders (four Troll bosses fought simultaneously)
• Tortos the giant turtle
• Megaera, a multi-headed hydra
• Ji-Kun
• Durumu the Forgotten
• Primordius, one of Lei Shen's failed experiments
• Dark Animus, a mechanical construct
• Iron Qon, a powerful mogu
• Twin Consorts, Lu'lin and Suen
• Emperor Lei Shen

In addition to the reputation gains, players can also obtain loot and gear from defeating these bosses. It is worth noting that the heroic version of the raid has higher item levels for loot, with 502 for Looking For Raid, 522 for Normal, and 535 for Heroic.

Collect Shado-Pan Assault Insignia's

Shado-Pan Assault Insignia's can be collected in a few ways. Firstly, they can be found in the daily reward caches granted at the end of all the dailies. These are the Arcane Trove (Alliance Dailies) or the Sunreaver Bounty (Horde Dailies). They can also occasionally drop from the gold chests at the end of the Treasure Trove solo scenario. Each insignia grants 100 reputation when turned in.

You can also gain reputation by completing a limited number of quests. If you save at least one of them, you can get to friendly without killing any raid bosses. You can also enter the Throne of Thunder raid to earn reputation by killing enemies. Trash mobs will grant reputation until you reach 1 point shy of friendly, and boss kills will grant reputation all the way to exalted. They will only grant reputation once per week, regardless of the difficulty level.

Do Shado-Pan daily quests

Once you reach level 90, you can increase your reputation with the Shado-Pan by doing daily quests at the Shado-Pan Garrison in the Townlong Steppes. Here, you will attack nearby Yaungol, Mantid, and Mogu outposts.

Every day, you will be able to do the daily quests proposed at the Shado-Pan Garrison in the Townlong Steppes. These daily quests will send you questing at one of three questing locations, where you will do four warm-up quests before doing a final quest, which involves killing an elite mob.

Each day, you will be able to choose a Shado-Pan NPC to accompany you through the quests, helping you fight your foes. You will also sometimes be offered a challenge quest at the Shado-Pan Garrison, where you will need to defeat a Shado-Pan champion. If you succeed, you will unlock the help of this NPC for your daily quests.

From a reputation-grinding perspective, you will earn 250 reputation from each of the daily quests, meaning you will earn 1,250 reputation per day. If you get a challenge quest, then you will earn an additional 350 reputation.

You can also earn another 400 reputation per day by doing the Shado Pan Work Order at your farm.

Note that you can easily reach (almost) Honoured reputation by simply doing all the Shado-Pan quests in Townlong Steppes.

Buy rep tokens during Timewalking for Pandaria

If you want to get exalted with Shado-Pan Assault, one of the best ways is to wait for Timewalking for Pandaria and buy the rep tokens. This is a bonus event for players level 35 and above, where you can queue for Mists of Pandaria timewalking dungeons using the LFG tool. Completing these dungeons rewards Timewarped Badges, a currency that can be exchanged for goods from Timewalking Vendors in capital cities.

The vendor for this event is Mistweaver Xia, who can be found on the Timeless Isle. She sells Commendation of the Shado-Pan Assault for 300 reputation with the Shado-Pan Assault faction. You can also purchase the Commendation of the Shado-Pan, which awards 500 reputation with the Shado-Pan faction.

By taking advantage of the Timewalking event and buying these reputation tokens, you can quickly gain exalted status with the Shado-Pan Assault faction. This method is especially useful if you are looking to collect the exclusive rewards that come with being exalted, such as the Shado-Pan helmet, tiger mounts, and the onyx cloud serpent.

It is worth noting that you can also gain reputation with the Shado-Pan Assault faction by killing bosses in the Throne of Thunder raid. However, this method may take longer and does not have the added benefit of the Timewalking event's 50% bonus reputation buff.

Kill Zandalari Warbreakers and Warscouts

To get started with killing Zandalari Warbreakers and Warscouts, you'll need to find them first. They can be found in Townlong Steppes, The Jade Forest, Kun-Lai Summit, Dread Wastes, and Krasarang Wilds.

To speed up the process, you can create a macro with the /tar command to help you locate them. They have large patrol areas, so keep looking if you don't see them right away. You can fly in Pandaria clockwise and by the time you get back to the zone after killing the others, they will have spawned again.

Killing Zandalari Warscouts is a great way to gain reputation tokens. They have a 100% drop chance for one of the four rep tokens, which give 1000 to their respective reputations. With the guild perk, this increases to 1200, and if you have the grand commendation for the rep in question, it doubles to 2400.

You can also get other rewards from killing Zandalari Warscouts, such as Big Bags of Zandalari Supplies and Stolen Insignia from various factions. This method is also useful if you are looking to build more reps and collect mounts, as you can get other rep tokens and chances at mount drops at the same time.

If you are only interested in the Shado-Pan helmet, this may not be the fastest method, but it requires the least effort. All you need is the addon NPCScan, and you can effectively AFK camp them.

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