Quick & Dirty Guide To Sons of Hodir Exalted Status
iTZKooPA on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 19 Comments Tags: daily, gold, lore, norse mythology, quest chain, reputation grind, shoulder enchant, sons of hodir, thorim  Solidsamm Working On His Sons of Hodir Rep |
The Sons of Hodir is one of those factions that almost all end game players are in the process of grinding or have already tackled. If your goal in Wrath of the Lich King is to melt faces in end game raids, dominate heroics, or PvP your heart out at level 80, then your only option for a shoulder enchant is this faction of frost giants. Shoulder enchants are not the only reason to get moving on your Sons reputation though. Like other Wrath factions the group offers a wide range of purchasable items, including the multi-person Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth. Oh, and for those of you struggling with your gold income, the daily quests offered by the Sons of Hodir will fill your coffers quickly and easily.
The faction has money, loot, lore and needed end game enchantments (the Honored version of the enchants are as good as the Exalted Aldor/Scryer enchants), so you may be wondering how to go about the task of grinding to exalted. First things first, you need to get to neutral with them before you can begin any dailies. To do this you must run a series of quest chains, a total of 26 quests, that ends with your character becoming neutral. The first chain starts at K3 in Storm Peaks with the quest They Took Our Men. If you are still leveling fear not, for the initial 16 quest chain is accessible to level 77 and higher.
After becoming fast friends with Lok'lira the Crone and her sisters at Brunnhildar Village, you will be tasked with finding yourself a mount to continue in the Hyldsmeet event. With harness in hand your are set to begin your second quest line. This series is half as long, only comprising of eight rather quick and easy goals and leads you to the mightily depressed Thorim. While performing your last task in the line for Thorim, Mending Fences, you will receive Slag Covered Metal. The shiny blue object will start your third and final chain, comprising of a pair of easy quests that will get you to Neutral with the Sons of Hodir (for all non-Humans).
Now you can begin your long, hard grind to Exalted. The rest of the way will mainly be completed through various daily quests that open up depending on your reputation level. Friendly offers us a total of five quests (although Wrath launched with four):
- Hodir's Tribute (recently added) – Something to do with all those Relics.
- Everfrost/Remember Everfrost! - These chips are hard to spot on the snowy grounds of Storm Peaks.
- Polishing the Helm – An easy collection quest.
- Blowing Hodir's Horn – An easy kill quest (party to make it even faster).
- Hot and Cold – Annoying collection quest due to the spawn rate of the hot metal and ability for other players to ninja loot it from you.
All of the above quests, with the exception of Everfrost turn-ins, net you 250 rep per completion. You need to first locate an Everfrost Chip before you can begin the quest, then the repeatable version opens up. Both quests reward you with some gold and 350 rep. Neither of the turn-ins are marked as daily, so you can turn them in as often as you please. After you work your way to Honored, two new dailies reveal themselves.
- Spy Hunter – A very easy kill quest.
- Thrusting Hodir's Spear – Vehicle-based quest that is quite awesome. Worth getting to Honored to partake in this daily.
Lucky for us, the reputation gains are bumped up on the Honored quests. You now receive 350 and 500 reputation respectively. We have one final quest added upon becoming Revered, Feeding Arngrim. Another collection quest, kinda, but a bit more interesting than Polishing the Helm. However, no rep bump here as it only rewards 350 rep. The good thing is that all of the quests are completable till Exalted, meaning by the time you hit Revered you can earn 2550 rep a day. That calculation assumes you only do the turn-ins once per day. Removing them from the equation, you can go from Revered to Exalted in 11 days.
This guide originally closed with a recap on the lore surrounding the Sons of Hodir and how you become friendly with them. I decided to remove it so I don't spoil anyone's fun. I will just say that the chains introduce you to a lot of Norse mythology, and that the plot continues after you open up the Sons of Hodir faction.
Personally, I think that Blizzard gave the Sons of Hodir the only shoulder enchants in the game for a reason. The designers probably felt that a quest chain lasting some 40 quests (if you continue the story line) warrants a good amount of attention. By giving the sought after enchants to them, they ensure that many players will go through more than half of the quests. At that point I was very interested in where the plot was taking me lorewise and will continue on to its culmination.
How many of you have already completed the rep grind? Did you do it before or after the Relic quest was added. If before, how pissed were you over the extra time spent? Hopefully you didn't vendor all your Relics and made a killing by selling them off!
Reader Comments (19)
i have started with the rep grind for sons a while back and im now revered, and halfway to exalted. the sons of hodir quests are pretty fun to do and dont take to long!
ohh and first!
I must say, I'm barely into honored, but it's been a great quest line. Not only that, Thrusting Hodir's Spear is one of the coolest dailies ever (And one of the dirtier hodir quest names :P).
For the record inscriptions gives you the best shoulder enchants in the game, I think the stats were almost twice as good as what they offered. I will probably still grind out the rep eventually but it won't be nearly as fast as I finished the oracles quests.
i really didn't know about the items they sold. Just started my quest grinding in SP and once I was sent to the east for there quest have done it every day. Almost exalted and have the SP quest achievement to boot.
Great lore in SP, not sure what Bliz did, but what they have done for LK is mind boggling. I will be starting my quest grind and rep in Ice Crown next. Hell, i made 80 back in Zul Durak. and after some excellent gear pickup and buys i am nearly back up to getting epic flying which will make life oh so much easier.
Thanks for the post.
I have done the quest line and have gotten to Honored on my two 80's. That was about a week ago. Needed a bit of a break as doing those quests twice a day was getting a bit old. I'm sure I'll pick up up again soon, plus I need to start on the Ebon Blade dailies as well. At least they have the tabard grind option which is nice.
I managed to get to exalted with the sons of hodir about 2 weeks before the patch was a little annoyed to find that it became easier to grind, although I think there should be an achievement for getting to exalted before the patch.
Oh and the relics, I sold about 300 of them to a vendor a week before the patch, teaches me to read patch notes from now on.
Not bad
I hit Exalted with the only hours before the servers went down for that patch. I gave all my Relics of Ulduar to a guildie because I am nice like that.
I reached exalted with the Sons of Hodir back in late December, so the relics are no good for me. At least I was smart (or oblivious) enough to keep the 300+ relics. :lol:
i reached exalted 3 hours ago. so glad im not "committed" to do the dailys everyday. now i can work on my death knight in peace.
Yup yup, already exalted.
I managed to do it before the Relics Daily, but I wasn't angry at all, I consider the ones who reached Exalted before the Relic Daily are uber pwnage.
I got Exalted a long time ago. Took awhile, but I wasn't pissed about the whole Relic thing being added later on. It's kinda like na achivment in itself to do that Really Fun Daily Grind.
Heck, I still do it just for the Spear quest. Fun, Fun, Fun!
Atm i cba to do the dailys.. im doing okay with the wintersgrasp enchants
But i will start on doing them soon i suppose
I got exalted before the patch. I wasn't to mad because I sold my 200+ relics for over 500g So all in all It was alright :)
I am still grinding. I have not been vendoring my relics because there is another vendore in Storm peaks that allows you to trade them in for drink and food buffs which I found helpful while questing.
Now that I have found a better use for them I shall be handing them in there.
Thats right, its brag time!!! lol
I was one of the first people on my server to reach Storm Peaks and found this quest chain right away. I go so wrapped up in it that I played almost till the sun came up that night/morning.
As soon as I got neutral with the Sons I immediately found one of the Everfrost chips by accident, my mouse just happened to cross paths with a chip and there it was. Only one other horde player to my knowledge was in the area at the time and I didn't see any alliance. I found 13 of the chips in my first hour of searching in between questing. I was revered with them within 2 days of starting the initial quests. I was exalted before I hit 79.
I have a bit of a mount addiction and went after the rep so hard because of the Ice Mammoth, and I kept finding so many everfrost chips that it made no sense to back off until I was exalted.
i am at war in the suns of hodir.
i am dont know how to do rip with them.
I've actually avoided the Sons of Hodir because now i have two Level 80 characters and the reputation grind is just so damn boring. I'm over 500 IMBA, in full epic gear on both my toons and I'm using the shoulder enchant you get from Stone Keeper's Shards.
Maybe if they made it easier or cheaper I'd go for the "real" shoulder enchant, but otherwise screw this fraction.