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The Armor's Secrets

A World of Warcraft quest in The Storm Peaks. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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This is part of the Iron Colossus chain which begins and ends with Bouldercrag the Rockshaper.


  2. Rare Earth

  4. Relief for the Fallen
    Fighting Back

  6. Slaves of the Stormforged
    The Dark Ore

  8. The Gifts of Loken
    Facing the Storm

  10. While on Step 4, a Dark Armor Sample will drop off Stormforged War Golems which starts:

  12. The Armor of Darkness

  14. The Armor's Secrets

  16. Valduran the Stormborn

  18. Destroy the Forges!
    Hit Them Where it Hurts

  20. A Colossal Threat

  22. The Heart of the Storm

  24. The final part: The Iron Colossus

Read all 17 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneThe Storm Peaks
Quest ID12980

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12980))

What to do

StorylineThe Storm Peaks, step 44 of 113
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

The presence of that armor plate is disorienting, but we need to find out all we can from it. It could be part of one of Valduran's schemes. He's dedicated an extraordinary amount of effort to mining, refining, smithing, and testing this metal. To the east, along the northern mountain face, is a building called Mimir's Workshop. It hasn't been used in quite some time, but if we're lucky, some of its attendants are still functional. Take your armor plate there and learn what you can from it.

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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.

The Storm Peaks Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
The Storm Peaks map showing where to go for The Armor's SecretsTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #120 31.3 38.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 31.3, 38.2/way #120 31.3 38.2
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 32.0, 40.7/way #120 32.0 40.7
  • Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 31.3, 38.1/way #120 31.3 38.1

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 The Storm Peaks map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Storm Peaks:

  • Bouldercrag's Refuge, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 100 yards north-west
  • Grom'arsh Crash-Site, The Storm PeaksHorde · about 640 yards south-east
  • Ulduar, The Storm PeaksAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards south-east

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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Storyline

The Storm Peaks

Part 44 of 113.

Previous: Armor of Darkness · Next: Valduran the Stormborn

  1. 39Slaves of the Stormforged
  2. 40The Dark Ore
  3. 41The Gifts of Loken
  4. 42Facing the Storm
  5. 43Armor of Darkness
  6. 44The Armor's Secrets
  7. 45Valduran the Stormborn
  8. 46Destroy the Forges!
  9. 47Hit Them Where it Hurts
  10. 48A Colossal Threat
  11. 49The Heart of the Storm
  12. 50The Iron Colossus

Showing steps 39 to 50 of 113.

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.

  • Armor of DarknessThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    This armor plate is thick and oversized compared to the rest of the golem's defenses. A quick examination of the golem's corpse reveals that this heavier plate seems to have been bolted on as an afterthought or a crude upgrade.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Valduran the StormbornThe Storm Peaks · Level 25-30

    We have no choice, <name>. What you learned in Mimir's Workshop means that we must act before Valduran can complete and unleash his new weapon. Even now, the refuge's defenders fight to buy us time to deal with Valduran the Stormborn.

The storyline at a glance

The Storm Peaks has 113 steps, from Clean Up to The Reckoning.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Storm Peaks (110), Zul'Drak (2), Crystalsong Forest (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on The Storm Peaks 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.