WoW Forever Argent Dawn Reputation Guide
The Argent Dawn is the reputation of the Plaguelands, and it is the easiest of the classic level 60 reputations to earn, because you earn it in the same two dungeons you run for gear. Every undead you kill in Stratholme and Scholomance counts, the Scourgestones they drop count again, and the quartermasters sell recipes, resistance enchants for your shoulders and some of the best food and drink in the game.
The system came over from Classic almost unchanged. WoW Forever lowered the skill for most of the recipes, changed a few of the crafted items and added a short quest line for low-level Horde characters. Below, we cover how the reputation is earned, what each rank unlocks and the fastest way to Exalted. Naxxramas is not in the game, so everything that belonged to it in Classic is left out.
Argent Dawn at a Glance
| Detail | Argent Dawn |
|---|---|
| Where | Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands, Chillwind Camp in the Western Plaguelands, the Bulwark in Tirisfal Glades |
| You start at | Neutral |
| What you need first | The Argent Dawn Commission, a trinket you must wear for Scourgestones to drop |
| Kills | 5 reputation for most undead, 25 to 50 for bosses in Stratholme and Scholomance |
| Repeatable | Scourgestone turn-ins: 25 reputation and a Valor Token worth 25 more |
| Main rewards | Recipes at Honored and Revered, shoulder enchants from Revered, food and drink |
How to Earn Argent Dawn Reputation
The Argent Dawn Commission
Before anything else, pick up the Argent Dawn Commission. The quest of the same name is given by Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff at Light's Hope Chapel and by the Argent officers at Chillwind Camp and the Bulwark. It needs level 50. The Commission is a trinket without stats, and while you wear it, the undead of the Plaguelands and of the two dungeons drop Scourgestones for you.
Later, the quest The Active Agent, the end of a chain from Light's Hope Chapel, rewards the Seal of the Dawn or the Rune of the Dawn, trinkets with real stats. A hotfix on November 11 made both of them collect Scourgestones as well, so from then on you no longer give up a trinket slot.
Scourgestones
There are three kinds of stone, and Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff at Light's Hope Chapel takes them all. Each turn-in gives 25 reputation and one Argent Dawn Valor Token. Using the token gives another 25, so a turn-in is worth 50 in total.
| Stone | Drops from | Stones per turn-in | Reputation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minion's Scourgestone | Weak undead in both Plaguelands, some trash in Stratholme and Scholomance | 20 | 25, plus 25 from the token |
| Invader's Scourgestone | Stronger undead in the Eastern Plaguelands and in the dungeons | 10 | 25, plus 25 from the token |
| Corruptor's Scourgestone | Bosses of Stratholme and Scholomance and a few named undead outside | 1 | 25, plus 25 from the token |
Hand in Corruptor's Scourgestones as you get them: one stone is worth as much as 20 Minion's. The tokens can be saved. From Revered you need 10 of them, and at Exalted 25, to unlock the shoulder enchants, and a token spent on reputation is gone.
Kills
Killing undead gives reputation directly. How far it takes you depends on the enemy. The limits below are the ones on the Wowhead pages for WoW Forever, which match Classic. Players in Classic reported that open-world kills kept counting longer than that, so check your combat log before you rely on it.
| Enemy | Reputation | Counts until |
|---|---|---|
| Open-world undead in the Plaguelands, for example Crypt Fiends and Scourge Champions | 5 | Friendly on most Wowhead pages, Honored on some |
| Trash in Stratholme and Scholomance | 5 | Honored on most Wowhead pages |
| Cauldron Lords in the Western Plaguelands | 15 | Honored |
| Bosses in Stratholme: Skul, Magistrate Barthilas, Ramstein the Gorger and others | 25 | Exalted |
| Baron Rivendare in Stratholme, Ras Frostwhisper in Scholomance | 50 | Exalted |
| Bosses in Scholomance: Kirtonos the Herald, Darkmaster Gandling and others | 25 | Exalted |
Added up, the bosses of one full Stratholme run are worth about 475 reputation and those of a Scholomance run about 450, before trash and stones. The dungeons are in our Stratholme guide and Scholomance guide.
Cauldrons and Other Quests
- The cauldrons of the Western Plaguelands. Four fields each have a quest to poison the Scourge cauldron, worth 100 reputation, and a repeatable quest afterwards that gives 25 for a few materials. The first is Felstone Field Cauldron, which takes an Arcane Quickener, 6 Osseous Agitators and 4 Runecloth.
- One-time quests. Many quests at Light's Hope Chapel and Chillwind Camp give 100 to 200 reputation each, among them the Darrowshire chain, The Archivist in Stratholme and Menethil's Gift, the end of the Ras Frostwhisper chain.
- New Horde quests in Tirisfal Glades. WoW Forever added six quests for level 10 characters, starting with The Argent Emissary. Most of them give 150 reputation each, long before the Plaguelands. Wowhead lists no Alliance version.
Chillwind Camp (1): Argent Quartermaster Lightspark and the Alliance cauldron quests
The Bulwark (1): Argent Quartermaster Hasana and the Horde cauldron quests
Argent Dawn Rewards by Rank
Three quartermasters sell the same goods: Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock at Light's Hope Chapel in the east of the Eastern Plaguelands, Argent Quartermaster Lightspark at Chillwind Camp (42.8, 83.8) and Argent Quartermaster Hasana at the Bulwark (83.2, 68.2). WoW Forever lowered the skill needed for most recipes.
| Rank | Item | Profession | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendly | Enriched Manna Biscuit | Food and drink | Restores 2,065 health and 4,240 mana over 30 seconds |
| Honored | Recipe: Transmute Air to Fire | Alchemy 275 | Essence of Air into Essence of Fire |
| Honored | Plans: Girdle of the Dawn | Blacksmithing 265, was 290 | Plate belt |
| Honored | Pattern: Argent Boots | Tailoring 255, was 290 | Cloth boots |
| Honored | Pattern: Dawn Treaders | Leatherworking 265, was 290 | Leather boots |
| Honored | Formula: Powerful Anti-Venom | First Aid 300 | Cures poisons up to level 65 |
| Honored | Formula: Enchant Bracer - Mana Regeneration | Enchanting 290 | 4 mana every 5 seconds on bracers |
| Revered | Plans: Dawnbringer Shoulders | Blacksmithing 265, was 290, Armorsmith | Plate shoulders with 44 healing and 15 spell damage |
| Revered | Plans: Gloves of the Dawn | Blacksmithing 300 | Plate gloves |
| Revered | Pattern: Argent Shoulders | Tailoring 290, was 300 | Cloth shoulders |
| Revered | Pattern: Golden Mantle of the Dawn | Leatherworking 295, was 300 | Leather shoulders |
| Revered | Formula: Enchant Bracer - Healing | Enchanting 300 | 24 healing and, new in WoW Forever, 8 spell damage on bracers |
| Revered | Blessed Sunfruit | Food | Restores 1,859 health and gives 10 Strength |
| Revered | Blessed Sunfruit Juice | Drink | Restores 4,240 mana and gives 10 Spirit |
The recipes cost between 1 gold 50 silver and 10 gold. Wowhead shows slightly different prices at the three quartermasters, so the numbers at your vendor can differ by a few silver.
Shoulder Enchants: Mantles of the Dawn
The Argent Dawn sells the only shoulder enchants you can get before the raids. At Revered, the quest Mantles of the Dawn takes 10 Argent Dawn Valor Tokens and unlocks five mantles, one for each school, that add 5 resistance to Fire, Frost, Arcane, Nature or Shadow. Each costs 11 gold 25 silver. At Exalted, Chromatic Mantle of the Dawn takes 25 tokens and unlocks the Chromatic Mantle with 5 to all resistances, for 45 gold. The Flame Mantle is the one to buy first: Blizzard's raid overview tells players to bring fire resistance to Onyxia.
Fastest Way to Exalted
From Neutral you need 3,000 reputation to Friendly, 9,000 to Honored, 21,000 to Revered and 42,000 to Exalted.
- Get the Commission at 50 and wear it in every dungeon and on every trip through the Plaguelands.
- Do the quests first. The one-time quests in the Plaguelands and the cauldrons take you well into Friendly, and they pay experience on the way to 60.
- Run Stratholme and Scholomance. You need them for gear anyway. Each full run gives 450 to 500 reputation from bosses alone, plus the trash while it still counts and a handful of Corruptor's and Invader's Scourgestones.
- Hand in stones after every run and use the tokens you do not need for the mantles.
- Do not farm open-world undead for reputation past Friendly. They are worth it only for the stones.
With stones alone, Exalted takes 840 turn-ins, so nobody does it that way. In practice, Revered comes with the dungeon runs you do for your pre-raid gear, and Exalted is a longer project that only the Chromatic Mantle asks for. The Legacy perk Diplomat speeds everything up by 2% per rank, up to 10%. Humans no longer have a reputation racial in WoW Forever.
If you would rather have the dungeons cleared for you, our WoW Forever reputation services cover the Argent Dawn.
Tips for the Argent Dawn
- No Commission, no stones. Check that the trinket, or later the Seal or Rune of the Dawn, is equipped before the first pull.
- Stones bind when picked up. You cannot buy them, and each character collects its own.
- Keep 10 tokens for Revered. It is easy to use them all for reputation and then have to farm ten more turn-ins for the mantle quest.
- Scholomance has more bosses that count, and Ras Frostwhisper is worth 50.
- Carry an Arcane Quickener if you do the cauldrons. It lasts 30 minutes, so do several fields in one trip.
- Level 10 Horde characters can start with several hundred reputation from the new quests in Tirisfal Glades. Do them before they turn grey.
For the other reputations of the endgame, see our Timbermaw Hold reputation guide and the Guardians of Hyjal and Barkskin Burrow guides.
Argent Dawn FAQ
These are the questions players ask most often about the Argent Dawn.
How do you start Argent Dawn reputation?
Take the quest for the Argent Dawn Commission at Light's Hope Chapel, Chillwind Camp or the Bulwark at level 50 and wear the trinket. From then on undead drop Scourgestones for you.
Where do you turn in Scourgestones?
Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff at Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands takes all three kinds.
How much reputation is a Scourgestone turn-in?
25 for the turn-in and 25 more when you use the Argent Dawn Valor Token it gives. A turn-in is 20 Minion's, 10 Invader's or 1 Corruptor's Scourgestone.
Do the Seal of the Dawn and Rune of the Dawn work like the Commission?
Yes. Since the hotfix of November 11, 2026, both collect Scourgestones, so you can replace the Commission with them.
What does Argent Dawn reputation unlock?
Recipes for Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Enchanting and First Aid at Honored and Revered, food and drink, and the resistance enchants for shoulders from Revered.
Do you need Argent Dawn reputation for a raid?
No. In Classic it lowered the cost of the Naxxramas attunement, but Naxxramas is not in WoW Forever.
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