Gaining Approval of the Kurenei

This week, I have been working towards my 59th rep, and after a couple of days of old-school grinding, I had it.

That rep is Kurenei, with the Ogres of Nagrand.

I’m going to write a tiny post about how I went about gaining that rep. There might be more efficient ways to farm it, but this suited my current on/off mood.

Location (unscientifically tested!)

1. Northwind Cleft

• 31 ogres to kill per lap
• takes about 2mins per lap
• 6-8 beads gained (including respawns on the way back)
• Start outside, kill and loot all. In cave, turn right until you can’t. Turn 180 then follow same proceedure. Lots of ores in this cave too.
• Pros: nice circular route, fast respawning ogres, good mining nodes
• Cons: lots of levellers and popular with other rep grinders as lots of websites suggest this site

 

Start here, enter cave and keeeeel.

2. Laughing Skull Ruins (near ring of blood)

• 29-32 ogres to kill per lap
• takes about 2mins per lap
• 10-12 beads gained (including any respawns en route)
• Start at one end and work your way across vertically following the mini village layout
• Pros: more beads, out in the open (I hate caves!)
• Cons: heavily contested by levellers and others in the area

Rep Gain

• Make sure you do all the relevant quests, this should take you to almost revered
• You get 11 rep per ogre plus the Warbeads you can hand in at Telaa. I handed the beads in every 100 stack, but others prefer to save those towards Consortium rep and just grind ogres. I personally find that a bit soul destroying, but each to their own.

To summarise – it’s a mean grind but you feel it goes quite quickly as you have quest items to hand in for instant reward. You pick up a LOT of netherweave cloth too – stacks of the stuff – so that’s a nice perk. Lots of competition for mobs though, so I always did it later at night.

Hope this helps!