Ravenholdt Reputation Guide (Classic - WoTLK)
Note: This guide was written from the perspective of a player in WoTLK who is farming for the Insane In The Membrane Achievement. Raising this faction during Classic would be significantly harder than what's mentioned here.
Players will be raising their Ravenholdt Reputation in Hillsbrad Foothills up until they reach Honored. You need to kill any Syndicate related mobs here for reputation points required to increase your reputation (I'm sure you know how rep works now...) I usually grind the mobs required at Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills. The location in that video has changed a bit from Cata but this location still remains. Should give you some nostalgia from watching it if nothing else.
Killing the Syndicate here will only get you to 11299/12000 Honored at which point you will need to start doing quests to increase your Ravenholdt Reputation. I'll get to the Ravenholdt quests in a second, first let's take a look at this first half of what you need to do in detail.
Reaching Honored will be no easy task and will take a very long time to do from just grinding these mobs. I'm not suggesting there is an alternative way to do this, I am just getting you ready for what is to come. Sure you could probably grind to Honored in a single day if you had the time to sit down and grind here but trust me when I say it gets quite boring fast... And I'm usually the type that likes grinding crazy stuff like this! Even bringing a friend to help you grind here won't speed it up that much because a single level 85 can clear the entire camp themselves.
As aforementioned this part just covers what it takes to get to Honored, the next part will cover Honored to Exalted. For anyone who wants that question answered "How long will it take to grind Ravenholdt Reputation?", I've created a small little chart for you below.
Neutral to 11299/12000 Honored
Reputation Per Kill: 5
Reputation Per Hour: 4500
Amount of Kills Required: 4400
Hours It Took: 4 hours and 45 minutes
That's pretty much the most basic breakdown I can give of how long it will take to grind out this Reputation. Depending on how many AFK breaks you take and if you loot or not this time will either go faster or slower, as you could probably have guessed.
Honored to Exalted
As for raising your reputation the final little bit (Honored to Exalted) you will need to farm up Heavy Junkboxes from any 55 - 60 mobs. These lockboxes can only be gathered by Rogues through Pickpocketing... So I bet you know what that means... Sometimes you can find a Rogue that is willing to do it for you but it's going to end up costing you an arm and a leg to buy enough lockboxes from another player to raise the Reputation yourself. Not only will it cost you a ton but it's going to take forever since the lockboxes aren't exactly common in the first place. Also finding a Rogue willing to do this boring mundane task will take some time as well.
With Cataclysm the locations of where you can farm the Heavy Junkboxes have changed a bit, I used to recommend Tyr's Hand but it has been revamped and no longer has appropriate level mobs for the Heavy Junkboxes. I recommend you use either UBRS/LBRS now for farming the Heavy Junkboxes. This location has tons of mobs for you to pickpocket and they're elites so the chances of them having the Junkboxes is much more than regular mobs. Also after you pick pocket the mobs here you can always kill them for their Runecloth and Green Drops which you can sell on the Auction House for tons of gold.
In order to max out your Ravenholdt Reputation you will need roughly 1400 Junkboxes and you will probably only get about 20 - 25 an hour. You don't even want to know the math of how long this could take you because the end number is depressing
Videos
Ravenholdt Farming Part 1
Ravenholdt Lockbox Farming