Dark Riding Talbuk
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Sold in Halaa, the contested town in the middle of Nagrand in Outland, for 70 Halaa Battle Tokens and 15 Halaa Research Tokens: by Aldraan while the Alliance holds the town, by Coreiel while the Horde does. Both kinds of token come at once, and in full, from the rare Draenor garrison mission Mysteries of Lok-rath; the old way is fighting over Halaa for the Battle Tokens and handing in crystal powder from Nagrand's creatures for the Research Tokens.
Time there about 5 min a visit
Guides Wowhead: Mounts from the Garrison · wow.gg: Dark War Talbuk
Before you go
- A Draenor garrison with its mission table and levelled followers: the mission (level 98 when it was added) is only offered once followers are high enough, and wants one follower that counters Minion Swarms · about 1 h
- 70 Halaa Battle Tokens: the garrison mission Mysteries of Lok-rath (rare, one follower, one hour, 10 Garrison Resources) pays 100 Battle Tokens and 40 Research Tokens, but turns up on the mission table only now and then. Otherwise one token for each kill of an enemy-faction player at Halaa that gives Honor, made by the character or its group · about 1 h over 9 weeks
- 15 Halaa Research Tokens: covered by the same mission (it pays 40). Otherwise 150 Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Samples, which drop from creatures all over Nagrand, handed in ten at a time in Halaa while the character's faction holds it
- Halaa held by the character's faction, or the vendor is not there. Taking it: kill the other side's 15 Halaani Guards (bombing runs from the four wyvern roosts around the town help), then have more of one's own side on the plateau than the other has until the town changes hands · about 0.5 h
In all: about 2.5 h of play, spread over 9 weeks, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Nagrand 42.8 42.4 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Shattrath*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way Nagrand 42.8 42.4 - Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Shattrath*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
The journal's cost of 7,015 is the two prices run together: 70 Battle Tokens and 15 Research Tokens. That is from the wiki's page for the mount (as read in 2026), which also has the two vendors and 'Each vendor is only available while their faction controls Halaa'.
One run of the mission (100 and 40) pays for this mount with 30 Battle Tokens and 25 Research Tokens over, but not for both talbuks: together they cost 170 and 35, so two missions or the PvP way for the rest. Both tokens are items that bind when picked up, so the character that runs the mission has to be the one that buys; a 2021 comment says the vendor accepts tokens lying in the bank.
How often the mission comes up is not published in any source read; the days given here are a guess from a handful of comments and could be far off either way.
The PvP way depends on enemy players being at Halaa. The wiki notes few take part, and the most-voted Wowhead comment on the other talbuk (2012) warns that repeatedly killing a willing player is treated as cheating the Honor system. The time given here does not count on it.
Everything but the price is taken from the Dark War Talbuk, the armoured talbuk the same two vendors sell for 100 and 20; Wowhead's page for this item was not read. The vendor coordinates are from Wowhead's tooltips for Aldraan (21485) and Coreiel (21474): 42.8, 42.4-42.6. The wiki has the reins at level 17 with Apprentice Riding since patch 9.0.1; they bind when picked up.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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