It's also worth noting that you are only technically grinding 21 levels of Reknown from scratch. At Reknown 12 and 19, you are given questlines that end with an item that gives you 2500 rep each time, giving you two Reknown levels 'for free'.
Buffs
Always have your DMF buff on, if possible, when doing a turn-in. You'll be surprised how much of a difference that 10% reputation buff makes over time.
Contracts
When doing WQ's, make sure you have a Contract: Valdrakken Accord rolling. The gold tier gives 15 rep per WQ, the silver 12, the bronze 10.
Turn-ins
While oddly more difficult to get than the Centaur or Dragonscale turn-ins, Titan Relics will also give you 15 rep per turn-in.
Daily Quests
Most WQ's reset Tue/Fri, but there are 3 WQ's that reset daily that always give Valdrakken rep. They are two PVP WQ's only in War Mode (usually between 100-200 rep a pop) and the Battle Pet Daily WQ, that gives 25.
Daily Rares
The following Super Rares can be killed once per day for 50 Valdrakken rep each.
Rohzor Forgesmash
Turboris
Battlehorn Pyrhus
Cauldronbearer Blakor
Char
Captain Lancer
Death's Shadow
Shas'ith
One-time Valdrakken Reputation Rares
The following rares drop a 50 Valdrakken rep commendation, but will only drop it once, ever, on the first kill. Not every rare is up at the same time, so check on resets to see if ones you're missing have spawned.
Henlare
Lord Epochbrgl
Private Shikzar
Lookout Mordren
Liskron the Dazzling
Innumerable Ruination
Razk'vex the Untamed
Ripsaw the Stalker
Scaleseeker Mezeri
Shade of Grief
Territorial Coastling
Biryuk
Sparkspitter Vrak
Ty'foon the Ascended
Prozela Galeshot
Dragonhunter Gorund
Wilrive
Trilvarus Loreweaver
Arcane Devourer
Cascade
Groth
Snee
Voll
Lepidoralia the Resplendent
Gushgut the Beaksinker
Nulltheria the Void Gazer
Terillod the Devout
Non-repeatable Weekly Quests
Two questlines award Valdrakken rep that can only be advanced week by week. One involves finding a new duck each week and bringing it to safety, the other involves two Dragonmaw orcs repenting at the Ruby Life Pools. It's a good idea to do each quest once a week for a free rep bump until the questlines are finished.
Weekly Quests
1) Therazal will always give you some form of a weekly quest that gives you 500 reputation with the Valdrakken Accord every week.
2) Theldren and Kemora give one weekly dungeon quest each for 250 Valdrakken rep per if chosen as a commendation.
3) Completing the week's first To Dragonbane Keep! awards a Dragonbane Keep Strongbox that awards 250 Valdrakken rep from a guaranteed Valdrakken commendation found inside.
4) Malicia offers Weekly Quests that give 250 Valdrakken rep each if chosen as a commendation.
5) If Sparks of Life: Thaldraszus is active during the given week, it will also award 250 Valdrakken Rep.
6) During the WQ Bonus Week, Kazra will offer The World Awaits which gives 2500 rep, a full Reknown Level, with the DF faction of your choice (Valdrakken, in this case).
Obsidian Citadel (Wrathion and Sabellian)
1) Allegiance to One awards 40 Valdrakken Rep, and opens up the rest of the Weekly Quests for each respective leader.
2) You will receive a handful of quests per week; complete them to receive 150 Valdrakken Reputation per quest.
3) The first Keys of Loyalty quest completed per week will give you 100 Valdrakken Rep. All subsequent key turn-ins to Wrathion/Sabellian/Forgemaster Bazentus, while infinitely repeatable, will only award 50 reputation per key.
* DO NOT turn in your keys to Igys the Believer. She awards no reputation, and her Super Rare summon Morchok gives Dragonscale Expedition reputation for some reason.
4) Each completion of To Dragonbane Keep! as an event will award 50 reputation, and occurs every two hours, allowing you to farm this multiple times a day. The Super Rare Captain Lancer will spawn outside as soon as the Keep is completed, so you can combine this as a daily activity to get 100 reputation in total.
Non-Repeatable Valdrakken Reputation Quests
This is a list of every possible quest that gives Valdrakken Reputation. I recommend going through and seeing if there are any quest crumbs/chains you have missed, and running the flags in-game to see if you have completed a quest if you are not sure.
The 'Alt Cheese' Method
Something that many players (myself included) undervalued is the Word of a Worthy Ally 100/200% reputation gain buff applied to your alts upon reaching 10 and 20 Reknown level on any one character. If you have, say, your main as a Warrior at Reknown 20+ and a hunter that hasn't even touch DF content yet, you are effectively guaranteed to be pushed up to and past 23 Reknown, likely without even touching a single WQ. Allow me to explain in an example.
Say you need 1000 reputation, and there are 10 quests available. Each quest awards 100 reputation each. Your warrior would need to complete 10 quests, hitting that mark. But, he's out of quests. Now, to earn more reputation, he must grind keys and WQ's in order to advance.
Your alt also needs 1000 reputation, and there are 10 quests available. But, your alt has a 100% reputation gain buff. So, your alt only has to do FIVE quests, and is now at 1000 reputation. The buff stops working at the 1000 reputation point, BUT, your alt has FIVE QUESTS LEFT. This means your alt, when finished with those quests, is now sitting at 1500 rep, for the same amount of work that your Warrior put in.
The Word of a Worthy Ally buff allows you to accomplish more while 'using' less quests, giving you more reputation and leaving you with more quests still available after the reputation bonus stops working to push up your reputations. You will gain so much reputation, especially at 20+, that you will be hitting 23+ before you have exhausted all your non-repeatable Valdrakken questlines. Which is much, much, much preferable to grinding keys and timegated WQ's.
This method is best done with a Reknown 20+ main providing the Ally buff to your fresh 60 hunter that has yet to touch DF content. In some cases, if your hunter has already progressed into DF prior to your 'account' obtaining this buff for alts, it will be faster to powerlevel an Allied Race (starts at Level 10) hunter and progress into DF with a clean, 200% rep buff slate and all quests still available. The Dragonkin taming is an account-wide unlock, so it doesn't matter which of your hunters obtains the book.
The End
I'm more than happy to add to this if anyone comes up with other methods; anyone who can name and shame 'normal' rares that drop Valdrakken rep as well is appreciated, as the only one I've found is Henflare so far. Let me know what you think and happy hunting.
