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Get Koalbeard!

Get Koalbeard! is a Horde-only quest for level 15-30 in Thousand Needles. It is step 36 of 107 in the Thousand Needles storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thousand Needles at 88.6, 54.9. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

If we're going to get those oil drilling rights, we need to know what the Alliance is offering. How can we win if we can't do them one better?!

Their negotiator, Kravel Koalbeard, is up there talking with one of their khans right now. Why don't you head up and persuade him to hand over the Alliance's proposal?

You don't have to kill him... we're not savages! Just rough him up a bit.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationBilgewater Cartel +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+250

Reward details

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Thousand Needles that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Two If By Boat (+25), Do Me a Favor? (+25), Down in the Deeps (+250), Bar Fight! (+250), In the Outhouse (+250), Pirate Accuracy Increasing (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThousand NeedlesTurn-in marker at 88.6, 54.9, 2 mapped points
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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Thousand Needles Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Thousand Needles map showing where to go for Get Koalbeard!Turn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #64 88.6 54.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThousand Needles 88.6, 54.9/way #64 88.6 54.9
  • Objective areaThousand Needles 86.8, 51.5/way #64 86.8 51.5

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Thousand Needles map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Thousand Needles, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thousand Needles:

  • Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge, Thousand NeedlesAlliance and Horde · about 650 yards south-west
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north-west
  • Gadgetzan, TanarisHorde · about 1,600 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards north-west

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Quest Line

Storyline

Thousand Needles

Part 36 of 107.

Previous: Get Zherin! · Next: The Ancient Brazier

  1. 31Carcass Collection
  2. 32The Mad Magus
  3. 33Negotiations
  4. 34Negotiations
  5. 35Get Zherin!
  6. 36Get Koalbeard!
  7. 37The Ancient Brazier
  8. 38Fool's Gold
  9. 39Fool's Gold
  10. 42Back to Crazzle

Showing steps 31 to 42 of 107.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Get Zherin!Thousand Needles · Level 15-30

    If we're going to get those oil drilling rights, we need to know what the Horde is offering. How can we win if we can't do them one better?! Their negotiator, Trackmaster Zherin, is up there talking with one of their khans right now.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Ancient BrazierThousand Needles · Level 15-30

    What do we have here? A <race>? Come to steal our land with your honeyed tongue and promises? You do not fool me. I have lived a long time, and I know what dealing with your kind means. But the khans do not listen to their elders like they used to. Since you are here, I will put you to use.

The storyline at a glance

Thousand Needles has 107 steps, from The Grimtotem are Coming to Spread the Word.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thousand Needles (106), Feralas (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Thousand Needles map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.

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