is the only way to get rep from 1-21000 by turning in Heavy Junkbox?
Since they only give you 75 rep per 5 boxes.
thats gonna take Years.
Since (correct me if im wrong) 21000 / 75 = 280 meaning i have to do the repeatable quest 280 times.
this means i need a total of 1400 heavy junkboxes.
and the pickpocket on those is about 40% or below depending on the mobs yoou pickpocket.
You can cut down the amount required by using reputation buffs such as seasonal events, anniversary bonus, human bonus and the darkmoon faire buff. With just the DMF buff you knock off ~140 lockboxes on its own.
When I did my grind I think I was averaging roughly 120-170 / hour.
Doing Ravenholdt for my 2nd Insane in the Membrane, i can certainly tell you that’s the case. Only Heavy Junkboxes will get you from revered to Exalted. 1400 for each race, and incrementally less for humans. I’d recommend you crunch the numbers amd get what you would need for a 20% rep increase, gather what it takes, then wait until DMF next month.
If you’re in no particular hurry to get it completed then I believe the Pilgrim’s Bounty event will cross over with Darkmoon Faire for double reputation buff, at the end of November/start of December.
You’re going to need to regrind to exalted either way, since the bloodsail grind will take you to fully hated with steamwheedle, so the only real decision maker there is how you would feel emotionally watching yourself drop from exalted vs. dropping from neutral, and also whether your character will need to use Steamwheedle towns for any reason before you grind back up.