Farm skyguard reputation items: for wow gold making in 5.

Farming reputation in order to get rare mounts or other goodies is always a pain. Sometimes there's gold to be made easing this pain by selling items that give reputation to the faction in question. Last method focused on selling items to get one exalted with Sporeggar, today we're focusing on Sha'tari Skyguard. At exalted people gain access to many flying mounts, such as  Purple Riding Nether Ray and  Nether Ray Fry companion pet. 

Your best income will come from  Shadow Dust, an item that is used in a repeatable quest. This is dropped by every arakkoa in Skettis, Terokkar Forest. It's roughly a 45% drop chance. Monsters in here are level 70 and you need to have a flying mount to reach this place.A good way to farm these is to land on the arakkoa platforms, do the small circle around them so you can gather all the nearby mobs and then aoe them to death. This takes a few seconds and then you can proceed to the next platform. Once the platforms are cleared, there's more arakkoa on the ground everywhere in Skettis. There is no point killing these individually. Do as big pulls as you can.It's up to you how much you charge per Shadow Dust. I usually sell them in stacks of 100-500, usually 10-20g per dust.

You can turn in 6 x  Shadow Dust to one of the Sha'tari Skyguard quest npcs in Skettis. This quest in turn gives you an  Elixir of Shadows, which when consumed, allows you to see even more mobs in Skettis.

You can see the undead arakkoa
when under the effects of the
Elixir of Shadows.

These new undead arakkoa have a 55% ish chance of dropping  Time-Lost Scrolls. These will be your second best source for gold. These sell for a little bit less than Shadow Dusts from my experience, but make a nice chunk of gold nonetheless, if sold in large stacks.
Using these Time-Lost Scrolls in the skull piles around Skettis summon up mobs that drop quest items that eventually give you a  Time-Lost Offering, which also can be sold. However, people prefer to buy Time-Lost Scrolls instead, as the quest npcs used to summon with these give a nice chunk of reputation too.


If you just dump your scrolls and dust into the auction house, they will most likely rot there for quite a while before a buyer is found. I've found out that selling these in the trade chat is an excellent way to give visibility to them, find a buyer fast and last but not least, it's also a decent leap towards the gold limit if your prices are high! People are paying 999k for mounts in the BMAH, so they are willing to spend gold to avoid long grinds