The Refiner’s Fire

Quest Giver: Started by looting Slag Covered Metal from Stormforged Iron Giants during Mending Fences

Objective: Collect 10 Furious Sparks from Seething Revenants, then refine the slag at Fjorn’s Anvil.

Quick Facts

• Location: Frostfield Lake [70, 59] and Fjorn’s Anvil [77, 62], Storm Peaks
• Chain Position: Side branch off Mending Fences → The Refiner’s Fire → A Spark of Hope → Forging an Alliance
• Pairs With: Mending Fences (complete simultaneously in the same area)

Walkthrough

Getting the Quest

• The Slag Covered Metal drops from Stormforged Iron Giants while you’re doing Mending Fences. It only drops when you kill the giants using Thorim’s Charm of Earth with a Granite Boulder. If you kill giants without using the Charm, the item will not drop.
• Accept the quest from the item in your inventory immediately. Do not destroy or ignore it. If you abandon this quest after destroying the item, re-acquiring the Slag Covered Metal is extremely difficult (you would need to group with someone still on Mending Fences to see the giants).

Collecting Furious Sparks

• Kill Seething Revenants around Frostfield Lake [70, 59] and the Fjorn’s Anvil area. They’re non-elite and easy to kill. Furious Sparks have a near-100% drop rate, so you only need about 10 kills.
• The Revenants are not immune to fire damage, so fire-spec casters can DPS normally.
• Watch for the Stormforged Iron Giants (elite) patrolling the area. They share space with the Revenants, and if you accidentally aggro one without a Granite Boulder, you’re in serious trouble. Once you’ve completed Mending Fences, you can no longer pick up boulders, so steer clear.
• Seething Revenants can fly and will follow you to higher ground. You can use this to your advantage by pulling them away from the elite giants.

Refining at Fjorn’s Anvil

• The anvil is at [77, 62]. It is the one in the volcanic area near Fjorn’s spawn point.
• If Fjorn is still alive (you haven’t finished Mending Fences yet), kill him first with a boulder and the Charm before approaching the anvil.
• If you already killed Fjorn for Mending Fences but haven’t turned that quest in yet, the anvil should be accessible. Fjorn respawns after a few minutes, so act quickly.
• If Fjorn has respawned and is blocking the anvil, wait for him to patrol slightly away, then fly in, land on the far side of the anvil, and interact with it. You can safely turn in from the opposite side of the anvil without pulling aggro if you position carefully.
• Druids: Flight Form lets you hover directly over the anvil and interact without landing, avoiding aggro entirely.
• After turning in, the anvil gives you the follow-up quest A Spark of Hope. Pick it up before leaving.

Efficiency Tips

• The ideal order: while killing giants for Mending Fences, loot Slag Covered Metal from your first or second giant kill → accept The Refiner’s Fire → kill Seething Revenants for Furious Sparks between giant kills → finish 5 giants and Fjorn → turn in Refiner’s Fire at the anvil → pick up A Spark of Hope → fly to Thorim and turn in everything.
• If you’re in a raid group, leave it before farming. Furious Sparks won’t drop while you’re in a raid.
• The Seething Revenants in this phase also drop Crystallized Fire and Relics of Ulduar. Since very few players are in this quest phase at any given time, this is a low-competition farming spot for both items if you want to grind some gold before moving on.

Lore Context

Your character finds a mysterious gleaming metal inside the slag from the iron giants, and logically deduces that the fire revenants patrolling a frozen lake could provide the heat needed to refine it.

The refined ore turns out to be something significant enough to catch Thorim’s attention, driving the next step in the Sons of Hodir alliance.

Easter Eggs

• Biblical Reference: “The Refiner’s Fire” is a phrase from the Book of Malachi (3:2) in the Bible, describing a purifying fire that burns away impurities. The quest mechanics mirror the metaphor exactly: burning away slag to reveal the pure, gleaming metal beneath.

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