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 Insane in the Membrane
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| Raise your reputation with the areas listed below. Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers | ||
| Reward: Title Reward: <the Insane> | ||
Insane in the Membrane is a Feat of Strength added in the patch 3.1.0.
Attention: It has been confirmed that you no longer need to have honored with the Pirates and exalted with the Cartel at the same time! See the #Steamwheedle/Bloodsail Requirement below.
The reward is the title: <The Insane>
Fannin of Crushridge has taken the time to write an extensive guide on how to do this achievement:
Insane in the Membrane FoS Guide - By Fannin of Crushridge-US
It is recommended that you read this guide (in addition to this page) if you are serious about attempting to get "the Insane" title.
Recommendations for Reputation Gains
Bloodsail Buccaneers
Reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers is gained by killing NPCs in Booty Bay. Killing Booty Bay Bruisers earns 25 reputation. Other named NPCs will give 1 or 5 reputation. When you reach hostile, guards will spawn at fixed points to attack you. Guards also spawn when you attack lower level NPCs, but not for attacking another guard.
A more detailed list of the NPCs that can be killed for reputation is available in the Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation guide.
When you reach friendly or higher with Bloodsail Buccaneers, visit Fleet Master Firallon in his ship off the south-east coast of Stranglethorn Vale and complete Avast Ye, Admiral! for the <Bloodsail Admiral> title.
Steamwheedle Cartel
There are two commonly accepted methods for getting exalted with Steamwheedle Cartel without losing your Bloodsail Buccaneer reputation.
First, you can kill non-Bloodsail pirates or Venture Co. NPCs throughout the world. Each pirate or Venture Co. NPC grants full reputation for the "local" Steamwheedle faction to the end of honored and 50% reputation to the other three factions through to exalted. For specific information, see the list of Mobs which affect reputation with Steamwheedle Cartel.
The Wastewander Bandits of Tanaris also have a chance to drop [Wastewander Water Pouch], which can be turned in, 5 at a time, for 10 reputation with Gadgetzan and 5 reputation with the three other cities.
Everlook has no local faction that grants reputation. To increase Everlook reputation to exalted, you must kill NPCs for the other three cities or turn in [Wastewander Water Pouch] to collect the 50% spillover reputation.
Alternatively, you can gain reputation in Dire Maul North. Any ogre in the instance has a ~3% chance and named guards have a ~15% chance to drop a [Gordok Shackle Key]. Take the key to Knot Thimblejack, who is chained up inside the instance. Tell him you found a key and turn in the quest Free Knot!. This quest grants 350 reputation with all four Steamwheedle cities. When you turn in the quest, Knot will run away and despawn, so you can only turn in one key per instance.
You can also turn in materials to Knot to complete The Gordok Ogre Suit. This quest gives 75 reputation with all four Steamwheedle cities and can be turned in an unlimited number of times per instance. It requires 4 x [Bolt of Runecloth], 8 x [Rugged Leather], 2 x [Rune Thread], and 1 x [Ogre Tannin]. [Runecloth] drops off all of the ogres in the instance, and you can loot one [Ogre Tannin] each run from a basket in the corner of the first balcony above Knot. You can also get up to two [Ogre Tannin] from a box Knot leaves behind when he is released from his chains.
The advantage to the first method is guaranteed reputation. The [Gordok Shackle Key] is not guaranteed to drop every run, but the pirates will always give rep when killed. Also, you have three zones to grind in, as opposed to a single instance. However, when killing ogres in Dire Maul, there is a chance that librams for your Shen'dralar grind will drop. Enchanters can also 
[Disenchant] any rare items for a [Large Brilliant Shard], which are also needed for Shen'dralar.
Ravenholdt
The Ravenholdt grind begins with killing Syndicate NPCs at Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills. Each Syndicate member gives 5 Ravenholdt reputation, to the end of honored.
Afterwards, you must to turn in 5 x [Heavy Junkbox] to Ravenholdt Manor, for 75 reputation. These junkboxes are attained by rogues via the 
[Pick Pocket] skill from level 52+ mobs. If you do not have or want to level a rogue, you may be able to buy the junkboxes or hire a rogue to farm them for you. Lootable containers cannot be auctioned, but the boxes can be traded and/or mailed.
If you do have a rogue, the most popular location for farming is Lower Blackrock Spire, as any of the orcs and ogres inside can carry the junkboxes. See Farming Heavy Junkboxes for more info.
If you find you're being caught too often, additional points in Subtlety may help, specifically 
[Master of Deception], 
[Camouflage] and 
[Preparation].
Shen'dralar
Shen'dralar reputation is primarily gained through the turn in of the following librams: [Libram of Focus], [Libram of Protection] and [Libram of Rapidity]. All three librams drop exclusively in Dire Maul and are turned in with a number of other items for 500 reputation each.
All three turn ins require 1x [Pristine Black Diamond] and either 2x or 4x [Large Brilliant Shard]. The diamond is a low drop item in instances such as Stratholme and Scholomance and the shards are disenchanted off rare items from those and similar-level instances.
The turn ins will also require one of the following BoP items: 2x [Skin of Shadow] drop from Scholomance, 2x [Blood of Heroes] are looted from objects on the ground in Eastern and Western Plaguelands, or 1x [Frayed Abomination Stitching] are dropped by abominations in Stratholme.
All three librams are Unique, so you can only carry one of each at a time. Generally, once all the materials are gathered, the librams are mailed to an alternate character, and mailed back. This will allow you to use an [Argent Squire] upgraded with an [Argent Pony Bridle] or bring an Engineer to use [MOLL-E] to access your mail at the NPC for the quest turn ins.
Darkmoon Faire
Darkmoon Faire reputation can be gained up to 2000/6000 friendly using the repeatable quests available involving item turn ins. There are many possible turn ins, which have various cutoffs based on your current reputation. The top tier of turn ins that will always be available are as follows:
- 10 x [Evil Bat Eye]
- 10 x [Glowing Scorpid Blood]
- 8 x [Dense Grinding Stone]
- 6 x [Thorium Widget]
- 8 x [Rugged Armor Kit]
After 2000/6000 friendly, a different turn in for the same items will become available. This is so you can gain [Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets], which are not needed for this achievement. Continuing to turn in items will NOT give further reputation.
To reach exalted, you must turn in Darkmoon Cards. By collecting full decks of cards, you can turn in the high level decks for 350 reputation during the Darkmoon Faire, or the low level decks for 25 reputation whether the Faire is running or not (they will summon a quest NPC, even if the Faire is closed.)
All of the Darkmoon Cards can be crafted through Inscription. Each card creation will produce one random card from any of the decks associated with that spell. It is not possible to select which card will be produced, only which possible decks the card may come from. You can trade or sell spare cards in exchange for or to buy cards you need to complete decks.
The trinkets obtained from the card decks are BoE, so you can sell the trinkets to buy more cards. Also, if you know someone who is turning in a deck for a trinket, but does not need the reputation, they can trade you the deck to turn it in for 350 rep and you can trade the trinket back to them.
Steamwheedle/Bloodsail Requirement
No clear consensus has yet been reached on whether or not you must be simultaneously exalted with the Steamwheedle Cartel and honored with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.
Initally, players needed to meet both of those reputation requirements at the same time to be awarded the achievement and title. More recently, some players have earned the achievement while hated with the Steamwheedle Cartel and honored with the Bloodsail Buccaneers, as long as they were exalted with the Steamwheedle Cartel before they began the grind. However, some players still have to regain their Steamwheedle Cartel reputation, without losing their Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation, in order to earn the achievement.
Responses from Blizzard Representatives have been mixed. In-game tickets have received answers both ways about requiring the reputations simultaneously. There have only been two blue posts on the World of Warcraft Forums regarding this:
- Re: [BUG]Insane in the Membrane | 2009-04-18 21:39 by
Dresorull
- Re: [BUG]Insane in the Membrane | 2009-04-18 21:39 by
- My understanding of this is that it was never required that you have these criteria met all at the same time. Once you reach the required reputation level with one of the factions, the criteria should be credited.
- Re: [BUG]Insane in the Membrane | 2009-04-18 21:39 by Dresorull
- Re: [BUG]Insane in the Membrane | 2009-04-18 21:39 by
- You shouldn't lose the criteria if you gained the reputation to obtain it.
Posters in this bug report thread returned with further evidence that the achievement is not working as intended (whether Blizzard intends it to be simultaneous or not), but no further response has been received on the forums from any Blizzard Representative.
Players can grind to exalted with Steamwheedle Cartel before attempting Bloodsail Buccaneers, if they wish. However, it does not appear guaranteed the achievement will be earned this way. Until the requirements are clarified by Blizzard and any existing bugs are corrected, having both Steamwheedle Cartel and Bloodsail Buccaneers at the same time is the only way to guarantee the achievement.
References
This achievement might be related to the song from Cypress Hill: Insane in the Membrane.
It might also be related to the Futurama episode: Insane in the Mainframe.
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