Rustbolt Resistor
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Sold by the Stolen Royal Vendorbot, the Rustbolt Resistance quartermaster in Rustbolt on Mechagon Island, to a character that is Exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance. The listed price is 524,288 gold; with the 20% discount that Exalted brings, the buyer pays 419,430 gold and 40 silver.
Time there about 2 min a visit
Guides Wowhead: Rustbolt Resistance Reputation Guide · wow.gg: Rustbolt Resistor
Before you go
- Nazjatar and Mechagon opened: at level 50 the Nazjatar introduction until its world quests open, then The Legend of Mechagon from Tinkmaster Overspark in Boralus or Gazlowe in Dazar'alor and the island's chain as far as Welcome to the Resistance, which opens the dailies; the island's two world quests also ask for Uniting Kul Tiras or Uniting Zandalar · about 3 h
- Exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance, 42,000 reputation from Neutral. Every day: the island's two world quests (850 and 75), about five daily quests (70-150 each), recycling in Junkwatt Depot (150) and the ten secret fish (25 each). Once only: 75 for the first kill of each of the 36 rares (2,700), 75 for each of the eight elite battle pets (600), the twelve-day Spider Tank chain (75 a day, 900), and 500 each for building the Rustbolt Gramophone and the Rustbolt Kegerator · about 14 h over 3 weeks
- 419,430 gold: the listed 524,288 less the 20% Exalted discount
In all: about 17 h of play, spread over 3 weeks, 419,430 gold, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Mechagon Island 73.7 36.9 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Boralus*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Zuldazar*
- Take the sub from Zuldazar to Mechagon*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
Only an Exalted character can buy it, so what is paid is 419,430.40 gold: that is what Wowhead's sold-by data shows and what a player reported in 2024. The journal's 524,288 gold is the list price (two to the nineteenth power; the wiki notes it is the number of bytes in 512 kibibytes), and a 2019 comment quotes 445,644.80, the price as seen at Revered. The gold figure given here is the discounted one; a buyer who wants to be safe brings the full 524,288.
The Rustbolt Resistance is a neutral faction, so either side can buy. The Exalted requirement is from the journal, Wowhead's tooltip, the wiki's page for the mount and both guides; the vendor's page on the wiki lists the mount without naming a standing. Coordinates: 73.7, 36.9 from the wiki, Wowhead's guide and wow.gg; Wowhead's tooltip for the vendor has 73.6, 36.4-36.6.
Blizzard has said that Battle for Azeroth reputations, this one among them, become Warband-wide in patch 12.1.5 (Blizzard Watch, 2026), which Blizzard Watch dates to 13 October 2026. Until then Exalted is needed on the buying character, and how standings on several characters will be combined had not been said.
The time to Exalted is the least certain figure: no source measures it, wow.gg's two to three weeks assumes every daily source is done, and Wowhead's guide gives no time. Other sources of reputation the guides name:
- a scribe's Contract: Rustbolt Resistance (10 more on every Battle for Azeroth world quest, usable from Friendly)
- two more dailies in the alternate timeline, on the days Chromie is in Rustbolt or with a Personal Time Displacer
- the boosts of the Darkmoon Faire (10%) and the World Quest Bonus Event (50% on world quests)
Wowhead's guide dates from Battle for Azeroth and still speaks of unlocking flying; the level the Nazjatar introduction asks for is taken from the notes on the other Mechagon mounts. A much-liked 2019 Wowhead comment says the HK-8 Aerial Oppression Unit that patrols Mechagon does not fire at a player on this mount. The item asks for level 10 and binds when picked up (wiki, Wowhead tooltip).
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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