Cataclysm Guide to Achievement - Insane in the Membrane

[impulse102]

**Guide Introduction**

First and foremost, I'm well aware there are several guides out there for this achievement, but I have yet
to see a comprehensive one that accommodates the changes included in Cataclysm.

To be perfectly honest, you've probably seen the same, if not similar information here or somewhere else, the only truly unique thing
I bring to this guide is the excel spreadsheet towards the end of the post, which factors in all reputation gains via guild/racials, but please feel free to read through it as I think I covered the guide rather well

Now since cataclysm has come out, this achievement has become a little easier.
Don't get me wrong, it's still very hard, but there have been improvements.

**Changes**

The *OLD* requirements needed:
Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers
Exalted with Booty Bay
Exalted with Rachet
Exalted with Everlook
Exalted with Gadgetzan
Exalted with Darkmoon Faire
Exalted with Shen’dralar
Exalted with Ravenholdt

The *NEW* requirements do not need Shen’dralar, as the faction has been removed from the game since the shattering.

**TLDR Version**

So let's just give you a quick rundown of what is required for a TLDR version. (Quoted from Merowlin - Wowhead)

Kill Booty Bay Bruisers to honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers.
Kill Tanaris Pirates until Exalted with Everlook, Booty Bay and Ratchet.
Kill Barrens Pirates until Exalted with Gadgetzan.
Kill Syndicates in Hillsbrad Foothills, Alterac Mountain or Arathi Highlands until Revered with Ravenholdt.
Turn in 1405 Heavy Junkboxes to Fahrad (Ravenholdt), can only be acquired via pickpocket from 50-60 mobs.
Turn in 160 Rugged Armor Kits until 2000/6000 Friendly with Darkmoon Faire, then turn in 1480 Rogues Deck (or 106 epic decks).

**WALL OF TEXT VERSION**

Ok so here comes the fun, below you'll find the detailed guides for each faction. All number indicated are raw,
it does not factor in human diplomacy, guild bonuses, or holiday buffs. This will be outlined further down in the guide


**Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers**

**TIPS**
This can be done in a group, you get you and some friends that want this achievement,
whether it be The Insane or Avast Ye, Admiral! - Avast Ye, Admiral! - Achievement - World of Warcraft - it will go faster in a group.

**STRATEGY**
Each time you kill a Booty Bay guard, you will gain Bloodsail Reputation.
Fairly straight forward, go down to Booty Bay, kill a bunch of guards....profit.

Hated       0-36000       1,440
Hostile     0-3000        120
Unfriendly  0-3000        120
Neutral     0-3000	 120
Friendly    0-6000	 240
Honored     0-12000	 480

Total: 2520 Kills assuming you get 25 rep per kill (as most mobs in Booty Bay will give you)

in doing so, you will be become hated with the Steamwheedle Cartel, leading me to our next grind.


**Exalted with Booty Bay / Ratchet / Everlook / Gadgetzan**

**TIPS**
You do -not- have to maintain your honored reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers in order to complete the insane achievement.
Since the shattering, all quests have been reset, so you can now redo all low level quests in winterspring, STV, etc to
help gain reputation with these guys.

**STRATEGY**
Now there's a couple avenues we can go down, and I will list as many as I know of.

As a side note, alot of people used to use Dire Maul, but that is now retired since the Shattering.

_-Cloth hand-ins - Credit due to slicerace (Wowhead)-_

For those willing to spend gold instead of time, here's a way you can speed up your rep.

To go from Hated - Neutral, you can hand in cloth to repair your reputation, but in doing so, you will damage your bloodsail rep.

If you're ok with that, you will need:

For: Mending Old Wounds - Quest - World of Warcraft
168 stacks of linen (3360 linen cloth)
336 Empty Vials

For: Traitor to the Bloodsail - Quest - World of Warcraft
84 stacks of silk (1680 silk cloth)
168 Red Dye

For: War at Sea - Quest - World of Warcraft
42 stacks of mageweave (840 mageweave cloth)
84 Strong Flux

For: Making Amends - Quest - World of Warcraft
21 stacks of runecloth (420 runecloth)
42 Coal

IN THAT ORDER

I give it to you in that order because I believe you to general economy / farming conditions, that will be the
most effective way of earning your reputation back as every hand in gives 500 rep for the faction town faction you're handing in
and 250 for all others.


_-Killing Pirates-_

You can start this at any reputation level (whether you've hated or neutral with Steamwheedle).

In Ratchet, you kill Southsea pirates which grant:
+2.5 Rep Gadgetzan
+2.5 Rep Everlook
+2.5 Rep Booty Bay
+5 Rep Ratchet (Maxes out at 11,999/12,000)

In Gadgetzan, you earn the following rep for the pirates there:

Kills grant:
+2.5 Rep Everlook
+2.5 Rep Booty Bay
+2.5 Rep Ratchet
+5 Rep Gadgetzan (Maxes out at 11,999/12,000)

Now you can either stay in Ratchet will you get full exalted with everything besides Ratchet, then move to Tanarais to continue past Honored,
or vice versa.

In any case, I strongly suggest against looting anything as it will just slow you down.

All of which are easily one-shottable for any class with a one hit kill ability :P

This will take you all the way to exalted.


**Exalted with Ravenholdt**

**TIPS**
The plan and simple fact is you either need alot of money to buy lock boxes, or your own rogue to farm a bunch.

You're going to need nearly ~1400 lock boxes to hand in, obviously you cannot carry that many, so you can use items such as
MOLL-E - Portable Mailbox - MOLL-E - Item - World of Warcraft (Engineers only)
Jeeves - Portable Bank access - Jeeves - Item - World of Warcraft (Engineers only)
Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth - Vendor for quest rewards - Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth - Item - World of Warcraft
Argent Pony Bridle - Argent Pony Bridle - Item - World of Warcraft - Vendor / Bank (Argent Tournament Pet Required)
Mobile Banking - Guild chest if you have the ability to store you lockboxes in a guild bank - Mobile Banking - Spell - World of Warcraft
Repair Bot - Vendor - Field Repair Bot 110G - Item - World of Warcraft (Engineering)

As you're going to be repeating a lot of quests hand ins, here's a few macros you might

Macro for delete any Dusksteel Throwing Knife in your inventory and then, if you have right clicked the NPC, complete the quest.
(Credit marshen - wowhead)

/run for b=0,4,1 do for s=1,32,1 do local n=GetContainerItemLink(b,s);if n and string.find(n,"Dusksteel Throwing Knife") then PickupContainerItem(b,s);DeleteCursorItem();end;end;end;SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1);CompleteQuest();GetQuestReward();

Perhaps not best to be used it you want to vendor the Dusksteel Throwing Knife you revieve, which vendors for 1g 32s 53c - so we'll seperate the macros
(Credit Kibazu - wowhead)

/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1); CompleteQuest(); GetQuestReward();

This macro is for turning in the quests automatically. Basically all you have to do is right-click the quest giver and press the macro three times.

And to delete the items with no confirmation box:
(Credit Kibazu - wowhead)

/run for bag = 0,4,1 do for slot = 1, 32, 1 do local name = GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot); if name and string.find(name,"Dusksteel Throwing Knife") then PickupContainerItem(bag,slot); DeleteCursorItem(); end; end; end

**STRATEGY**
There are only two ways to gain reputation with Ravenholdt.

Until revered, you need to kill Syndicate NPC's.
Past revered, you hand in lock boxes. (See Junkboxes Needed - Quest - World of Warcraft)

Obtaining Revered is done by going to Stormgarde Keep in Arathi Highlands and killing mobs. (5 rep per kill)
Next you need to farm lock boxes, from lvl 50-60 mobs, of which you will require 1405. (or 1470 for 999/1000)

Now you cannot buy/sell these items on the AH, so you will either need a 65+ rogue (for speed and convenience) to farm the boxes with
or
Alot of gold, as, on my server atleast, if you find someone that sells them, they cost 20g per box, equating to roughly 25,000g

**Note - after the Shattering, Tyr's hand can no longer be used to farm boxes as the mobs are lower level.**


Locations to farm boxes include:
Lower Blackrock Spire: Numerous humanoid mobs very close together. Due to it being a dungeon, you cannot face any competition from other rogues.
Blackrock Depths: particularly the Ring of the Law spectators, once the circle of law event has been completed.


**Exalted with Darkmoon Faire**

**TIPS**

Have alot of gold, or an inscriptionist character.
All decks on AH are more than likely overpriced, and the cost of buying cards invidiually, though it may be time consuming to get them cheap
will save you several hundred gold per deck.

You can offer people x amount of gold to hand in their decks for them, as all cards are BoE, this may assist you in gaining rep faster.

**STRATEGY**

You can gain 2000/6000 Friends by turning in various items, the top tier of items, that you can hand in no matter what are:

10 x [Evil Bat Eye]
10 x [Glowing Scorpid Blood]
08 x [Dense Grinding Stone]
06 x [Thorium Widget]
08 x [Rugged Armor Kit]

of which you need 20 quest hand ins.

You then move to Darkmoon Card & Inscription Decks, of which you need 106 darkmoon decks. You need 14 inscription decks to give the
same amount of reputation as one Darkmoon Deck.

On my server, you can buy darkmoon cards, on average, for 20-25g, and inscription cards for 1-3 gold.

This will add up to alot of money, so be prepared to spend it, or spend alot of time farming herbs to create cards with inscription.


**Theorycraft Corner**

Now I don't have alot of information here, perhaps it can be expanded upon in the future, but the most important tool I can think to give you is a spreadsheet to help calculate reputation, as well as a list you can utilize to record your darkmoon cards.

Office 2003 Version
Office 2003 Version - Second upload


**FAQS**

Only one thing I can think of that I've already encountered, and that is the Guild Reputation Banner does not effect quest hand ins.

The rest TBA

[Flarian]

very thorough guide... will be a tough grind no matter what but everyones gotta start somewhere... i might start next weekend if i have nothing to do.... +rep

[Anonie]

Would also be nice to at least include the rep required from having 10% rep from the guild bonus seeing that a lot of people will wait to use it before doing this achievement, and maybe factor in human's bonus as well since it may be worth it to do a faction change if you're already alliance.

The pirates near ratchet are now only found on Fray Island (Southsea Privateer - NPC - World of Warcraft) so it will be alot slower than pre-breaking to farm them. Before, you can make a huge loop spamming aoes to kill them really fast. The pirates off near gadget are still easy to kill quickly.

However, if you're trying to get max reps to exalted, it is best to get the Bloodsails to exalted THEN farm pirates. This would probably be beneficial as well to help achieve the guild achievement for 55 reputations at exalted.

Edit: it is also a very short flight from Tarren Mill/Aerie Peak to Ravenholdt. So can clear out 60 bag spots for 12 turn ins and 5 mails full of boxes. If you don't mind running a little between turn ins and do not have a portable vendor, you can also go downstairs to vendor the thrown to Smudge Thunderwood - NPC - World of Warcraft.

Also, I am offering my services on Kil'Jaeden horde side farming these boxes. I have my own little spot in a pretty remote location farming these. PM me for more information.

[impulse102]

Would also be nice to at least include the rep required from having 10% rep from the guild bonus seeing that a lot of people will wait to use it before doing this achievement, and maybe factor in human's bonus as well since it may be worth it to do a faction change if you're already alliance.

The pirates near ratchet are now only found on Fray Island (Southsea Privateer - NPC - World of Warcraft) so it will be alot slower than pre-breaking to farm them. Before, you can make a huge loop spamming aoes to kill them really fast. The pirates off near gadget are still easy to kill quickly.

However, if you're trying to get max reps to exalted, it is best to get the Bloodsails to exalted THEN farm pirates. This would probably be beneficial as well to help achieve the guild achievement for 55 reputations at exalted.

Good advice.

If you take a look at the spreadsheet, it factors in racial/guild reputations

[Anonie]

Whoops, missed the spreadsheet part, and the download site kinda slow for me right now. Might want to mention that the sheet lets you take into bonus rep to figure out what to turn in.

Also, a good alternative up to 2000/6000 friendly for darkmoon is More Thorium Widgets - Quest - World of Warcraft and More Dense Grinding Stones - Quest - World of Warcraft. I find that leather is sometimes more expensive than dense stone or thorium.

[DaNewb]

When I open the spreadsheet, it just shows up blank, except the Sheet is named "Insane"

[impulse102]

I've added a new download link if you can try that

[bluesius]

I'll give you the benefit of my doubt. I've seen "insane in the membrane" guides more frequently than iv had home-cooked meals lately, but the spreadsheets shows you at least added your own touch to this.
rep++;

[Lemour]

3+ rep from me... This guide helped me alot. Thanks

[Fanowson]

Guards in Booty Bay now have 450k health, is there an easier way to get the Rep for Bloodsail?

[Noobalator]

Since this is nearly a copy/paste of another guide with a spreadsheet slapped on it, you 'forgot' to mention the pirates in Faldir cove are 1-shotable and give Bloodsail rep.

[terinbune]

As far as getting rep with BLoodsail Buccaneers/steamweedle cartel goes, it's WAAAAY easier than this guide proposes, given certain circumstances. There is a Booty Bay quest chain that leads to the quest "Doublerum". (this quest chain was added in 4.03.) During this quest Booty Bay is phased and under attack by the bloodsail buccaneers. The cool part is the bruisers are level 35 while BB is phased, making it crazy easy to run all over BB killing citizens and grinding Bloodsail Buccaneer rep. After you've gotten to Honored, grinding on pirates is easy too. You'll notice that in the middle of Booty Bay there is a pirate ship docked. The respawn rate of the pirates on this ship is crazy fast, and I never have downtime while searching the ship for pirates to kill. My plan is to grind on this ship til exalted, and not worry about spending stupid amounts of money on silk cloth/wasting time farming silk in SM. The queest chain starts with "The Bloodsail Buccaneers" (Added 4.03) and requires you to have completed Sea Dog McKinley's 2 quests before it becomes available from First Mate Krazz (spelling might be wrong.) The first mate is located just outside of the building that the Sea Dog is in. Enjoy an easier grind for the bloodsail/steamweedle portion of this achievement!