A Spark of Hope

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

A Spark of Hope

Quest 2 of 2 in the Refiner's Fire Chain

Both Factions • The Storm Peaks • Level 80 • Fjorn's Anvil

Bring the Refined Gleaming Ore to Thorim at the Temple of Storms.

Take it from the anvil the moment The Refiner's Fire turns in, then fly west to Thorim at 34, 46. Nothing hostile at the temple. Hand in Mending Fences in the same visit and Thorim opens Forging an Alliance. Do not turn this in until Mending Fences is finished. Handing it over phases Fjorn's Anvil and the Stormforged Iron Giants disappear, which leaves you unable to complete the kills. This pays 28,600 Sons of Hodir reputation, and together with Mending Fences it carries you out of Hated and straight into Honored, skipping four standings on the way.

Vikstone's Classic Expedition

There was one of Thorim's own runes under the surface of it, which meant Loken's giants had been forging their weapons out of something the Stormlord made. Thorim turned the metal over in his hands and said nothing at all.

Clearly, this is more than an ordinary hunk of metal. Unlike any ore you’re familiar with, it is hard but not brittle, far lighter than it looks, and glows even when cool. Looking closer, you can make out one of Thorim’s runes shining beneath the surface….

Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

Fjorn’s Anvil

END

Thorim

You are to bring the Refined Gleaming Ore to Thorim in the Temple of Storms.

Refined Gleaming Ore (Provided)

Quest Giver: Automatically starts after completing The Refiner's Fire by refining the slag at Fjorn's Anvil.
Quest Objective: Deliver the Steadily Glowing Metal to Thorim at the Temple of Storms (coordinates: 33, 58).
Thorim’s Location:
Thorim is located in the Temple of Storms at 33, 58. This area is easily accessible via flying mount.
Make sure to follow the quest chain to this point, as Thorim is phased until prerequisites are complete. — **Quest Objective:** Deliver the Steadily Glowing Metal to Thorim at the Temple of Storms (coordinates: 33, 58).

The Storm Peaks Storyline

Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Leggings of the Frozen Wastes

Frost Hardened Bracers

Pauldrons of the Ascent

Light-Touched Mantle

You will receive:

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

9,140 experience

22,000 reputation with The Sons of Hodir

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Fjorn’s Anvil — automatically offered after completing The Refiner’s Fire [77, 62]

Objective: Deliver the Refined Gleaming Ore to Thorim at the Temple of Storms [34, 46].

Walkthrough

Pick up the quest from Fjorn’s Anvil immediately after turning in The Refiner’s Fire.
Fly to Thorim at the Temple of Storms [34, 46]. There are no enemies to contend with at the Temple. Turn in the quest.
Turn in Mending Fences at the same time if you haven’t already. Thorim will then offer Forging an Alliance, which continues the Sons of Hodir chain.

Reputation Math

This quest awards +28,600 Sons of Hodir reputation (increased from 22,000 in Patch 3.3.0).
Combined with Mending Fences (+28,600), the total of 57,200 reputation takes you from the bottom of Hated all the way into Honored (approximately 6,200/12,000). You skip Hostile, Unfriendly, Neutral, and Friendly entirely.
Human characters with the Diplomacy racial (+10%) receive 31,460 per quest (62,920 total), reaching nearly the top of Honored.
This is the single biggest reputation jump in the entire Sons of Hodir grind. From here, the remaining push to Exalted requires daily quests and Relics of Ulduar turn-ins.

Efficiency Tips

Do not turn in A Spark of Hope before completing Mending Fences. If you turn in A Spark of Hope first, the area around Fjorn’s Anvil phases, and the Stormforged Iron Giants disappear. If you still need to finish killing giants for Mending Fences, you’ll be locked out.
After turning in both quests and picking up Forging an Alliance, head to Dun Niffelem [65, 60] to continue the chain and start unlocking daily quests.

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Quest Series (2):

80 The Refiner’s Fire
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80 A Spark of Hope
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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

3,050 experience

75 reputation with Argent Crusade

Vikstone's War Journal

The Refined Gleaming Ore was not like any metal I have handled. Hard without being brittle, lighter in the hand, and it held its glow after it had gone cold. Looking into it I could make out one of Thorim’s runes down beneath the surface, still lit.

Vikstone Portrait Act 3 — Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

Which meant it had been inside an iron giant at Fjorn’s Anvil, and that it had gotten there because someone left it lying about long enough for Loken’s smiths to find it.

That took me most of the climb to work through. He killed the man’s wife. He turned him against Arngrim and cost him his allies. He took Ulduar. And then he went to Thorim’s own forges for the metal to build the things currently besieging the frost giants.

“What do you have there, little one?” Thorim said.

I put it in his hand.

He turned it over twice and then closed his fist around it. Whatever he intends to do to his brother was settled somewhere inside those two turns of the wrist.

A spark of hope.

The ore carried Thorim’s own rune, which meant his brother’s giants had been forging weapons out of the Stormlord’s work, and the frost giants he needed to reach were down in Dun Niffelem behind a king nobody could mistake, because You Can’t Miss Him.

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Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

END

The Storm Peaks Storyline

Reward

5 Gold

80 Silver

9,140 experience

22,000 reputation with The Sons of Hodir

Walkthrough

3,050 experience

75 reputation with Argent Crusade

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