I'm so bloody close to CE Exalted / Earthwarden and Steamvaults runs just haven't been coming together lately cuz all my peeps wanna badgerun Kara, but tonight I figured out an (admittedly cheesy) way to farm some rep.
On regular Steamvaults, the first pair of melee mobs is easy to solo now that you can root the first one for half the fight, and they've been dropping Coilfang Armaments like mad. (how do YOU spell jinks?) I did this one time just to see how easy it would be, and they BOTH dropped them. Kill, back up, reset instance, back in again. I've done it 4 more times now, and each time at least one of them dropped one.
So 12 rep x 2 for the mobs x 4 "runs" got me 96 rep, and 75 per Armament times 5 (2,1,1,1) got me another 375.
500 rep in a matter of minutes...solo. Feels silly, but a better investment of my time than dailies. : )
Just wanted to share in case anybody else is sick of running, or trying to run Steamvaults "for realz." : )