If you were a noob like me and you flew off before he upgraded it, you wont be able to complete it unless you abandon the quest and reacquire.
You need to wait there while he goes through the motions and it will appear on top of the anvil when he's done.
Quest
Leather to Legendary
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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For Legion remix:
After taking the quest, Schmied (the quest giver) walks to the forge and returns to the anvil and starts hitting it with his hammer (20 sec RP) - then the 'Plated Barding' spawns on the anvil and you can take it.
Literally just moving as soon as you pick up the quest can cause him to bug.
Just abandon it and retake it, relogging is not necessary - but sit still once you pick the quest up.
Quest facts
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Description
Let's begin, shall we? I mean, I'll be doing all the work, but you get to watch! <Alard grins a wide smile at you and begins working.>
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.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #23 76.9 50.9
Objective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #627 44.3 28.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inEastern Plaguelands 76.9, 50.9
/way #23 76.9 50.9 - Objective areaDalaran 44.3, 28.6
/way #627 44.3 28.6
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 Eastern Plaguelands map
- Blood of Sargeras same spot
- Lumenstone same spot
- Defenders of the World same spot
- Champion: Li Li Stormstout about 10 yards
- Champion: Chen Stormstout about 10 yards
- Champion: Vanessa VanCleef about 10 yards
- Champion: Garona Halforcen about 10 yards
- Light's Charge about 20 yards
- Awakenings about 20 yards
- Ravencrest's Legacy about 20 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Eastern Plaguelands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Eastern Plaguelands:
- Light's Hope Chapel, Eastern Plaguelands
- Acherus: The Ebon Hold
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.
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Storyline
Class Mount: Paladin
Part 7 of 8.
Previous: A Few Things First · Next: Stirring in the Shadows
- 1Worthy of the Title
- 2Preparations Underway
- 3Preparations Underway
- 4The Hammer of Dalaran
- 5A Few Things First
- 6A Few Things First
- 7Leather to Legendary
- 8Stirring in the Shadows
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.
- A Few Things First
Lately I've been working with the ore of this land, leystone it's called. I've found its qualities to hold remarkable strength and durability. We'll need a lot of it for this. There is felslate, but that's a probably too tainted for what you're looking to do with this barding.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Stirring in the Shadows
We must now purify the barding by both material and immaterial means. For the material, we need to travel to Stratholme. When it thrived, before the plague, it produced holy water capable of cleansing even the darkest of magics. There still may be caches of it lying untouched there that we can use.
Other quests with this name
This one: Level 45.
The storyline at a glance
Class Mount: Paladin has 8 steps, from Worthy of the Title to Stirring in the Shadows.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Eastern Plaguelands (4), Dalaran (3), Light's Hope Chapel (1).
Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands map
- Eastern Plaguelands
- Origins
- Path of the Light III
- The Path of Light
- The Scarlet Enclave
- The Ashbringer
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.