This quest is for people who have farmed (or tryied) Bloodsail Buccanears reputation. As you kill the guards in Booty bay, you also lose rep at the other steamwheedle factions, and Blizzard made some Friendly NPC's without factions outside each of Steamwheedle place, where you can do hand ins of cloths etc.
As you hand in, you get 500 rep with Gadgetzan, but lose 500 rep with Bloodsail, so only do this if you've given up, or already got the clothings of Bloodsail.

If you are completely hated with all Steamweedle factions you need to turn in the following amounts of stacks:

Ratchet (Non-Human): 168 Stacks of Linen and 336 Empty Vials will get you to Neutral.
Ratchet (Human): 152 Stacks of Linen and 304 Empty Vials will get you to Neutral.
Booty Bay: 84 Stacks of Silk and 168 Red Dye will get you to Neutral.
Gadgetzan: 42 Stacks of Mageweave and 84 Strong Flux will get you to Neutral.
Everlook: 22 Stacks of Runecloth and 44 Coal will get you to Neutral.

If you don't like to waste turn-ins, just turn in each quest 34 times (if you do all 4 quests once you get 1250 reputation with every faction, 42000/1250=33.6).

EDIT: As explained below, these calculations assume you turn in 168 stacks of Linen, then 84 stacks of Silk, etc. As Mageweave and Runecloth are more expensive on most realms this is the most cost-efficient way.

This quest is for gaining reputation back to Neutral from Hated.

There are a lot of really good locations listed under https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4338#comments Mageweave Cloth

A Great way to get Gadgetzan Reputation, And stay in the same area!
First..if you are horde: Fly to Freewind Post.
If you are alliance: Fly to Feralas.
Then run to the Waterspring fields of Tanaris and kill the Wastewander NPCs..they yield 5+ Rep with Gadgetzan...and it doesn't affect your Bloodsail rep!
Farming rep by killing Wastewander is a good idea because you get Gadgetzan rep AND those Wastewander mobs drop Mageweave cloth for this quest.

Rumsen is standing just north of Gadgetzan

Does NOT appear to count for Loremaster of Kalimdor, even on first turn-in. In case anyone was curious.

Optimal Reputation Repair

For those of you looking to use as few mats as possible to repair your goblin reputation with all four factions in the most efficient manner possible, given current auction house prices, it is most cost-efficient to essentially just go in order -- turn in all the linen you need to get neutral with the first faction, all the silk to get neutral with the second, then all the runecloth to get neutral with the third, then all the mageweave to get neutral with the fourth.

I was thinking about this and whether there was any way to find a more optimal approach. The idea is that turning in cloth for one faction in addition raises rep with all the other factions as well, albeit at a smaller rate, so maybe by not maxing out each faction right away, we could save money

For each faction, one turn in yields 500 rep for that faction's particular cloth quest . That same turn in also gives 250 rep for all the others, so the problem we wish to solve is to get more than 42,000 rep with the following constraints:

* Once neutral is reached in any faction, no more turn ins for that faction can occur.

* At the end, each faction must have at least 42,000 rep (neutral).

* We want to minimize the total amount of gold spent on cloth at the AH.

To solve this problem, I wrote a MATLAB script to determine a ""rep vector"" whose four elements are the reputations with each faction at the end. Inside, there is simply a for loop that takes in a ""turn in vector"" whose elements are the number of turn ins for each faction. When rep with a certain faction exceeds 42,000, no reputation is awarded for further turn ins, which accounts for the constraint that the quest cannot be done at that point.

It goes through and allocates reputation linen first, then silk, then runecloth, then mageweave, since in my auction house on Cairne at the time, this was the order from least to most expensive, so the answer likely will decrease the number of turn ins as the expense per stack gets higher.

I used the following prices for a 20x stack of cloth:
Linen Cloth: 1.5 g

Silk Cloth: 4.5 g

Runecloth: 6 g

Mageweave: 31 g

These prices are basically in line with the normalized price of a 20x stack output from Auctioneer on 2009/12/22 on the Cairne realm, alliance side.

I then used a simulated annealing routine to essentially throw in semi-random turn in vectors and compute their cost. If the total rep vector did not equal or exceed 42,000 in each of its entries, the cost function would return an arbitrarily high cost (meaning it is not a solution).

The results I obtained for the optimal turn in amounts were:

Linen Cloth: 168 stacks (84 turn ins)

Silk Cloth: 84 stacks (42 turn ins)

Runecloth: 40 stacks (20 turn ins)

Mageweave: 22 stacks (11 turn ins)

This is essentially the turn in routine you would use above, with one tiny change -- use only 20 turn ins of Runecloth instead of the 21 you need to get neutral right away. With the above turn in numbers, this comes out to 1,552 gold total. With the simpler strategy of maxing out neutral immediately, after the 21 turn-ins of Runecloth, you still need to do 11 turn-ins of Mageweave, which gives a total cost of 1,564 gold.

So technically there is a more optimal solution to gaining your reputation back, but it only saves you twelve gold and if the prices for the mats on your AH are hugely distorted from the values I used (specifically for the mageweave), then it won't apply. But if they're close, then you could save twelve gold. Woot.

Anyway, I thought I would post this so that others who are curious about this question can find out and not spend the time to actually compute it all out, resting peacefully knowing that they're getting the most goblin rep bang for their gold.

Good luck!

Just did this rep repairing, im fresh out of money now. but i do get to wear my Bloodsail Admiral title and noggenfogger skeleton with pride :)

oh, and not get facerolled by a million guards.

In the post-Shattering game world, I found that Baron runs (UD Strat) are great for Mageweave. Remember how Runecloth used to drop like rain in that place? With the lower level mobs, now it's Mageweave.

There are other - and arguably better - place to farm it, but if you're still chasing a Deathcharger this could be a viable option.

For anyone repairing their Goblin rep, here's a list of all the repair quests.

https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=9266 Everlook Quest
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=9259 Booty Bay Quest
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=9267 Ratchet Quest
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=9268 Gadgetzan Quest

Hope this helped (: