Nagrand Revisited

Epic mounts and reputation, are a recurring theme at the moment. As a Dwarf the natural mount is the Ram (or Llama, affectionately known as Flossie). In my opinion they are the least aesthetically pleasing of all the Alliance mounts. Exalted status with the 5 main races is difficult and would mean farming cloth or backtracking looking for quests that were missed out on the ascent to level 70.

I have had my eye on a Frostsaber to go with Bobcat, but the thought of doing any questing in Darnasus fills me with dread. Farming cloth for the Alliance would be so dreary.

My next favourite would be to gain Exalted with those fine fellows the Kurenai - who offer all manner of Talbuks. Slightly more sexy than a sheep in my opinion. http://www.wowwiki.com/Talbuk_(Mount) & http://www.wowwiki.com/War_Talbuk

Reputation with the Kurenai mostly involves killing ogres. So far so good, and they drop Obsidian Warbeads which give 500xp for 10. The problem is the sheer quantity required. BRK did a calculation of the number required to go from Revered to Exalted, a total of 12000 rep.
http://bigredkitty.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-get-pink-war-talbuk.html
The calculation comes to an earth shattering 800 ogres. This may be one for doing over time, much like fishing. Anyway how to get up to Revered in the first place.

The list of quests includes both the Zangarmarsh and Nagrand areas http://www.ampwow.com/wow/viewReputation/Kurenai.php#startContent.

Most of the quests are of the hack/maim/slash variety. My personal favourite was the Corki chain. The useless son of the Kurenai leader Arechron

• HELP!
• Corki is Missing Again
• Corki's Ransom
• Cho'War The Pillager

Corki constantly ends up in a cave awaiting is fate - 3 times you need to rescue him and 3rd time requires the impressive fight with Cho'War. Not so much difficult as quite fun, long and he uses dirty tactics.

So all quests completed and only 10000 rep to go - might be some time yet.

Snakes on Planes

As a big fan of the Stranglethorn Vale safari quests, I have been looking forward to visiting Nagrand and Nesingwary. Nagrand is a beautiful area, with lush green fields, purple swirling skies and big lumps of land floating in the air. The canyons and waterfalls are a fantastic setting for an area of mass carnage and destruction. The first 3 quests in the safari series are:

Talbuk Mastery
Windroc Mastery
Clefthoof Mastery

Kill 30 of each and return. This is bread and butter for a Hunter with Skinning (90K xp for the kills) 60 (Knothide/strips/Clefthoof leather) (30K xp for the quest completions).

Talbuk Mastery (2)
A Rare Bean

These two run together take about 30 mins - with plenty more Knothide to show for your troubles.

Clefthoof Mastery (2)

The Clefthoof Bulls are a bit more ferocious, and even attack you if you get too close. Lacking the same numbers as the lesser Clefthoof, there is a need to find multiple spawn grounds to bag your 30.

I invited a couple of friends to help the Group parts of:

Talbuk Mastery (3)
Clefthoof Mastery (3)

I am not sure that these are really a group quest, but maybe it was just made to look too easy with aid of 2 level 70's. I will tackle the Windrocs when I run out of more interesting quests.