There are men in Naldir's Cove (southeast Bay in Arathi Highlands Jump from Thandol Span and Jump to it) that are from Booty Bay which give 5 rep. They are lvl 38-39 "Blackwater Deckhands"

After getting the pirate hat, go to https://classicdb.ch/npc=1016318 for a quest to rapidly restore your Goblin rep.

That, or kill Venture Company goblins and be on good terms with both BB and Bloodsail, but that takes far, far longer :)

the bruisers on lvl 67 still give 25 rep

Should be noted that anyone considering alliance to the bloodsail forfeits his/her possibility of attaining the t0,5-set.

The glove/belt-part starts at Mux Manascrambler, a Booty Bay-Goblin in Gadgetzan. You won't be able to talk to him once you are hostile with the goblin factions.

The "Level" of the quest is 60, but it does not list any actual level requirement. There may be no level requirement at all, also remember that rep is shared with the party so if you can get a big group to ransack BB, you can get way more rep way faster.

Blizz raised the Bruisers levels to 67 so people at 70 couldn't just go around and own every bruiser in sight for fast rep..

You need to be friendly to pick up this quest.

And btw, grinding rep with the Bloodsail was one of the things ive enjoyed most with World of Warcraft. Many lowbie allies had to give their lives though...

It was easy&nbsp as a warrior before some patch came out. I got 5 of them on me and hit with normal blows only. When my hp started to drop below 1000 i spammed CMD shout. Piece of Cake.

Started killing bruisers yesterday, too bad I was down to the last 1000 in hated with bloodsail, but I got 16000 rep i nthe first day, killed liek 500 bruisers, so prolly in a couple days I'll have my hat, first ali side on my server

is there anything else that gives faction besides the guards at booty bay? the faction hit ratio is pretty harsh (+28 bloodsail, -375 BB for a human... or something like that)

reply, ye scurrvy landlubbbers

Kill Booty Bay Bruisers in bb or Cape of Stranglethorn right with the exit of bb. It is easier to kill them there.

could anyone give a link to a pic of the hat or parrot cause i dont want to kill my booty bay rep if im not sure i can get something

I've got my gloves and belt...time to go pwn some goblins.

My lvl 19 would love this hat but before I go and ruin my rep on my main can anyone confirm if u can get the quest at any lvl or do you HAVE to be 60?

With the goblins now at lvl 67 does anyone know if they give any more rep? Because if I'm not mistaken alot of larger rep gains such as this one with TBC were made easier.
Oh, and there's an easy solution to the whole "Booty bay/steamwheedle rep" problem...I had gotten from 30-40 on quests in STV and did every single BB quest and it seems like from what I see my BB rep isn't in danger whatsoever - I might get unfriendly if I'm unlucky.

the hat looks awesome though have a long time to go before i get. i agree with landlover but the conseqeunces are something to think about i mean you could %^&* it up with the goblins and you have to give loads off silk to booty bay

This has been mentioned on another thread but killing Booty Bay guards only loses you rep with Booty Bay, not the entire Steamwheedle Cartel.

If your looking for information on the Bloodsail and how to increase your reputation with them.

I've made a guide on the site below
http://www.wowwiki.com/Bloodsail_Buccaneers

Still some what incomplete, but should be done in June 2006.

cloth

armor 63
stamina 25
use: right click to summon and dismiss your bird

Montavious 60 warrior on Hyjal... i got it... hat rocks

got the hat in a day....
now getting the rep back at 1 point a mob will be tough since im @ 0/36000 in hated for BB... or i could just kill Bloodsail Bucs captain about 1500 times...

Does anyone have stats of this hat?

I started at 0/36000 hated with the bloodsail buccaneers. So in 4.5 days total, I killed over 1800 booty bay guards. It didnt take as long as I thought it would because I also had help on my 2nd day of farming. I met a random level 60 tauren druid which later became a friend. It took me about 4.5 days to farm enough faction to get the quest.
If you have a job and not very much time then its probably gonna take you at least 2 weeks if you start at my level. Due to me currently being without a job, hehe it didnt take me nearly that long. I spent about 3 days just to farm enough cloth to get my faction back. I am now Honored with Ratchet, friendly with Gadgetzan, Neutral with Everlook, and Almost honored with booty bay.
I highly recommend farming for or buying linen from the Auction House and then doing the linen turn in quest at ratchet until you are no longer allowed to do the quest, then Silk with booty bay, Mageweave with gadgetzan and Runecloth with Everlook. Doing it in this order is cheaper and less time consuming on farming for the materials.
Not many people have this hat, so its worth it just to be unique or if you just want to be a true pirate.

Ragefire Chasm / The Deadmines = Linen
Scarlet Monastery = Silk
Netherguarde mines = Mageweave
Runecloth = Deadwind pass

Edited, Dec 3rd 2006 7:10am by Noyjitat

Would a level 19 be able to get this hat? Difficulty of farming kills from level 55 mobs aside, would a level 19 be able to take the quest?

So can you really take as a lvl 19?
im already neutral with bloodsails @lvl 18, so we'll know soon :x

please answer

Not sure if anyone has noticed but the little goblin in Feralas, Zorbin Fandazzle,

NPC #14637]

gives quests that give global Steamwheedle Cartel reputation. They're not too bad, the only real problem is the drop rate on the items needed for the repeatable zapper quest of his is just a pain. But I believe the reputation for initial completion is 150 reputation (I believe I did this first at level 49 when the quest was yellow to me) and any subsequent turn-ins will get you 75 reputation(also at lv 49 and yellow).

Dunno if it's a viable solution to fixing Steamwheedle reputation but I'll be out there soon trying to fix mine.

._. ... o_o ... O_O ... WTF?

It's crazy enough anyone took the time to test out what happens, if you're go and kill armies of Goblins just to get on with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. (Thank you)

But: It's nothing less than insane to do so, knowing that all you will get from hours and hours farming and getting ganked by players of the other fraction, wasting a lot of quests and destroying your hardly obtained Steamweedle-fraction just to get a fancy looking Hat with a bird.

Guildmember: "Hey, let's do some Quests at <fill Goblin-Town here>."
Man with the hat: "Sorry, I'm with the Bloodsail Buccaneers..."

I thought I was far from normal, but this is... I think the word Insane is just not fitting. It's even more...
(I post again, when I found a word to describe such nonsense.)

I mean I know the hat you get from this quest is cool and everything... but that's a lot of reputation to lose.

You have to bored silly, addicted to rare clothing that has chump stats, or a really serious silk farmer if you are willing to wreck your faction in BB, Gadget, Everlook and Ratchet. The upshot is, if you got this hat, then killed the 30,000+ mobs it would take to increase your Steamwheedle Cartel back to Neutral, even at 1 sp per mob, you would make back 300g raw before any loot drops.

But again, a helluva waste of a few months if you ask me.

I started off by killing a few Booty Bay bruisers. Then out of bordom, I'd kill all the zepplin masters in Org, STV, and UC. Then I went to Gadgetzan and had a blast getting Hated by all the goblin towns.

For some reason I was a little off, because I wasn't really paying attention.. my goal was just to be hated by goblins! Rather, I should have been at BB the whole time, where you actually get + faction with the Bloodsail pirates.

*sigh* that's ok though, it's fun

Only reccomendation before attempting this: don't do any Booty Bay quests before you're 60 if you can avoid it. The Bloodsail faction hits you take HURT when you're farming for this hat. That said, with a good 5 people or so, the farming doesn't take more than an hour or 3. Ideally, get two AOErs (at least 1 mage unless you're masochistic) and 2-3 good healers, and just go to town. Horde have an easy way to get the Baron and Fleet Master: fly in from Grom'Gol when you want to do them. If you're not too picky about survival/maxing your WIN, just DPSing down those two is a breeze, they're flimsy.

My group wanted to go out with a bang, so we went from the cave, past the blacksmith, through the upper bar for our assassination. All of this while dressed as pirates. Masochistic? Maybe! Fun? Ohhhhhh yes.

You can get Avast Ye, Scallywag(prerequisite for this quest) as low as level 55. I started trying to get this quest since I was level 41 and since checked back at "Pretty Boy" Duncan to see if I could get this quest.

You can farm Bloodsail rep at Faldir's Cove in Arathi Highlands if you want to finish this rep gain as early as lv 40. I started farming Bloodsail rep in Faldir's Cove at level 37.

I'm frinedly with them now as a 52 shaman, is the absolute lowest level I can get the hat at 60? Or is there anything before then? I'd love to have this at like 55, i've enjoyed screwing around at 52 so much :(