How to Get a Pink War Talbuk
I did a very bad thing a few days ago. My adorable friend Jazzy loves my Cobalt War Talbuk. You have to reach exalted with Kurenai to get one, but she saw mine and wanted one, so she’s been grinding away at the Nagrand ogres.
The other night she was saying in vent how hard she’s working to get her Talbuk, but she doesn’t know what colors there are. I told her,
“Well, you saw my blue, there’s tan, white, gray, and pink.”
PINK!!!! She screamed.
I said, well, Pink with kinda green polka dots, but they’re small.
PINK WITH GREEN POLKA DOTS!! OMG!!! I GOTTA HAVE IT!!!
“Also, Jazzy, they sell an elixir at exalted that changes your hair color, but it’s random”
YOU MEAN LIKE NOGGENFOGGER, BUT IT CHANGES YOUR HAIR COLOR?
“yeah, jazzy. It’s not too expensive, because who wants to chance getting a bad color”
OMG I DO! I WANT IT TO CHANGE TO PINK TO MATCH MY PINK TALBUK!!!
And for the next three hours, Jazzy was explaining to The Entire Guild how she was going to grind rep non-stop to get her pink talbuk and maybe change her hair to match.
I received whispers non-stop from guildies, telling me how bad I was and when I was going to tell her the truth. “Jazzy believes everything you say, you can’t be so cruel to her,” was the basic sentiment.
Then Sweetevil joined the guild. Sweet is a warlock and is Jazzy’s twin in looks and temperament. I invited her because she was a good warlock and, frankly, I thought Jazzy would love to have a twin sister in the guild, (I was right on that, btw.) And Jazzy told her about her plans for her pink Talbuk. In guild chat, Sweet said, “Um, there is no Pink Talbuk. Who told you that?”
I swear, guild chat stopped. Legendary-chat stopped. All yapping in Vent talk stopped…. and then Jazzy spoke to the guild…
Damh…
DAMH
DAMH!!!!!!
Oh Damh, how could you, I’m crying!!! I so wanted a pink Talbuk…
OMG THERE”S NO ELIXIR TO CHANGE MY HAIR COLOR EITHER, IS THERE!!!
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that I have some major Warlock Karma to rebuild. So to attempt to rectify my misdeeds, I decided to help her get whatever color Talbuk she wants by figuring out how many ogres she needed to get her reputation to exalted with Kuranei.
Let’s assume Jazzy just hit revered with Kuranei. From revered to exalted requires 21,000 reputation points. She gets these points from killing ogres and turning in stacks of warbeads. It’s time to break out the BRK Algebra Notebook!
X = ogres killed
For every ogre killed, she earns 10 rep:
Ogre Killing Rep = 10 * X
Y = warbeads
She also gets rep for turning in stacks of warbeads. For every stack of 10 warbeads, she gets 500 rep:
Warbeads Rep = 500 * ( Y / 10 )
Simplified more,
Warbeads Rep = 50 * Y
Our total Kuranei rep is gained from both ogres and beads:
Total Kuranei Rep = Ogre Killing Rep + Warbeads Rep
Total Kuranei Rep = ( 10 * X ) + ( 50 * Y )
We know the warbeads drop at a 33% rate in Nagrand; for every 100 ogres we kill, we get 33 warbeads. We can show this relationship with this formula:
( X / 100 ) = ( Y / 33 )
We cannot get warbeads without killing ogres, so we have an independent/dependent variable relationship, which we can express by solving the previous formula for ‘Y’:
Y = [ ( 33 * X ) / 100 ]
What the shows is that for every ogre we kill, we get 33/100ths of a warbead. Kill 100 ogres, and we get 33 warbeads. But this isn’t exactly true, as we cannot turn-in a single warbead; they must be turned-in in stacks of ten. But for now, we’ll pretend we get 33/100ths of a warbead per ogre and revisit this “error” later.
We can go back to our original Total Kuranei Rep formula and remove the dependent variable ‘Y’ by replacing it with our ogre/warbead relationship:
Total Kuranei Rep = ( 10 * X ) + ( 50 * Y )
Total Kuranei Rep = ( 10 * X ) + ( 50 * [ ( 33 * X ) / 100 ] )
and simplified further:
Total Kuranei Rep = ( 10 * X ) + [ ( 33 * X ) / 2 ]
So that tells us how much Kuranei rep we will earn depending on how many ogres we kill, with the warbeads calculation built in.
Now we want to know, How many ogres do we have to kill to earn 21,000 rep and this reach exalted with Kuranei. Since we know our Total Kurenai Rep, we can just use this number in our formula:
Total Kuranei Rep = ( 10 * X ) + [ ( 33 * X ) / 2 ]
21,000 = ( 10 * X ) + [ ( 33 * X ) / 2 ]
And from here, it’s simply a problem of solving this equation for ‘X’. First, we multiply both sides of the equation by 2:
2 * 21,000 = 2 * [ ( 10 * X ) + [ ( 33 * X ) / 2 ] ]
42,000 = [ 2 * ( 10 * X ) ] + [ 2 * [ ( 33 * X ) / 2 ] ]
42,000 = ( 20 * X ) + ( 33 * X )
42,000 = 53 * X
X = 42,000 / 53
X = 792.45 or 793 ogres.
Is that exactly right? Remember when we said that each ogre drops 33/100ths of a warbead? We knew that was wrong, so let’s correct for it and the fact that we have to turn in warbeads in stacks of ten.
If Jazzy killed 793 ogres, how much rep will that earn her:
793 ogres * 10 rep per ogre = 7930 rep
How many beads will Jazzy get if she kills 793 ogres, and the warbeads drop at a 33% rate:
793 * 0.33 = 261.69 or 262 beads.
How much rep will she get for those, knowing that you can only turn them in in stacks of 10:
262 / 10 = 26.2 or 26 stacks
26 stacks * 500 rep per stack = 13000 rep
We remember that Total Kuranei Rep is Ogre Rep + Warbead Rep:
Total Kuranei Rep = 7930 + 13000 = 20,930 rep
OK, so Jazzy will be 70 rep short if she only kills 793 ogres due to fact that the warbeads must be turned-in in stacks of ten. She has to kill seven more ogres to get herself to the 21,000 rep mark, so our total is:
793 ogres + 7 ogres = 800 ogres.
There ya go Jazzy. Bag yourself 800 ogres, and if the warbeads drop at a 33% rate, you’ll have yourself a new Talbuk mount. Just not a pink one… but I’d make one for you if I could, I hope you know that. 
Edit: The new and much, much improved Pink Talbuk picture was supplied by the BRK Resident Artist and Chairwoman of the BRK Department of Art Sciences, Luineannon. (She has Photoshop and gobs of talent, while I have Microsoft Paint and the spraycan tool, so cut me a little slack.)
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Most probably theres a similar questline for the Aliance, like to my proud horde self.. In Nagrand there’s a quest chain (14 quests) including Auchenai Crypts end boss killing and it takes about 1 day to do it al lthe line. At the end Thrall, Warcheef of the horde comes to agrand, to visit his grandmother, and to give strength to Garrosh Hellscreem..
This questline was about ~10k/21k rep for me, so it really worth the effort..
Theres a half-dranei half-ork blademaster at Burning Blade ruins, I bet he is involved in the similar quest for the Alliance as for the horde too..
Uhm.. I looked up the quest.. It starts with the one called “The Impotent Leader”, but this helps you not.. Maybe if you can dig up the similar questline for the kurenai.. Ampwow has a fraction rep guide, where u can dig up other quests for them too.. in my opinion questing gives faster rep then gridding, and more fun..
btw the Obsidian warbeads droprate is displayed in the ampwow site also, amd they say that the Mages and shaman has about 34%, so 1% better droprate.. =)
Oh and 1 more thing.. BRK.. THAT was pure evil.. Pure.. no kidding =D
[sorry for the long post..]
OMG!!! Everything makes perfect sense now.
I had always just assumed that you were some precocious yet socially stunted kid/geek who poured his creativity into this blog versus show it at school and get picked on.
Then you mentioned Mrs. BRK and I admit I was taken aback slightly. Mrs BRK??!!?? How could a teenager be married? Was it true or was it a ruse to throw me off the sent? I decided it was a ruse, given the whole “incident” with the falsified search keywords. I mean, come on - should we call you Scooter?
But now… With the post… It’s all prefectly clear to me now….
You’re a 50 year old high school math teacher - aren’t you?????
my head hurts after reading that and i still don’t know any more than i did before i started =P
adrus
Adrus. Get revered with Kurenai. Kill 800 ogres and collect all the warbeads. Turn-in the warbeads and you should be exalted with Kurenai and you can buy a Talbuk. All the rest is me spouting math-fun.
JAZZY says…
man i am like…. so embarrassed… >.<
Never change, Jazzy. We love you.
Happy to have helped with the pink Talbuk.
Hope this will help Jazzy out some.
I will at some point soon be revered with Kuranei. Then the long killing spree of 800 ogres begins. This will help me get some decent stuff i hope. Money and cloth will be in nice supply after all these kills.
not new to the site, but this is the first time i’ve commented
I have to admit, i stole the pink talbuk story for a friend who is looking to grind kurenai rep, hope that’s ok, I actually posted it on our guild’s website (www.councilofelders.net), again, if that’s ok 
oh, by the way! more druid guest posts!
~Kelektra, Feral Drood, Khadgar server
you also gets rep for turning in stacks of warbeads. For every stack of 10 warbeads, you gets 500 rep
This isn’t correct… after honored you only get 250 rep per 10 beads so someone that wants to break out the correct math should adjust the formula accordingly