TheWoWDBThis is part of the Iron Colossus chain which begins and ends with Bouldercrag the Rockshaper.
- Rare Earth
- Relief for the Fallen
Fighting Back- Slaves of the Stormforged
The Dark Ore- The Gifts of Loken
Facing the Storm- While on Step 4, a Dark Armor Sample will drop off Stormforged War Golems which starts:
- The Armor of Darkness
- The Armor's Secrets
- Valduran the Stormborn
- Destroy the Forges!
Hit Them Where it Hurts- A Colossal Threat
- The Heart of the Storm
- The final part: The Iron Colossus
Quest
The Dark Ore
A World of Warcraft quest in The Storm Peaks. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Though the questtext says 'western', the mine itself is in fact in the south of the questhub
28, 50
The entrance to the mine is at 27.5,49.7. Start collecting the ore carts from there.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneThe Storm Peaks
Quest ID12964
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12964))
What to do
StorylineThe Storm Peaks, step 40 of 113
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
At the Frozen Mine in the western part of the Snowdrift Plains, the stormforged iron dwarves have constructed a mine manned by slaves. It's well behind the lines, so we haven't been able to find out much about what's going on there, but my scouts have reported seeing them remove cartloads of dark, sickly looking ore.
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-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #120 31.4 38.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 31.4, 38.1
/way #120 31.4 38.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Storm Peaks 26.5, 51.0
/way #120 26.5 51.0
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
- Spark of Genius about 590 yards
- Telemetry Online about 590 yards
- Homeward Bound about 950 yards
- Reverberation about 950 yards
- The Huntsman's Creed about 980 yards
- Walk a Mile in Her Shadows about 1,020 yards
- Dark Descension about 1,020 yards
- A Signal in Storm Peaks about 1,140 yards
- Spark of Imagination about 1,180 yards
- Bonds of Thunder about 1,180 yards
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 Peaks
- Grom'arsh Crash-Site, The Storm Peaks
- Ulduar, The Storm Peaks
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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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Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Storyline
The Storm Peaks
Part 40 of 113.
Previous: Slaves of the Stormforged · Next: The Gifts of Loken
- 35Norgannon's Shell
- 36Rare Earth
- 37Fighting Back
- 38Relief for the Fallen
- 39Slaves of the Stormforged
- 40The Dark Ore
- 41The Gifts of Loken
- 42Facing the Storm
- 43Armor of Darkness
- 44The Armor's Secrets
- 45Valduran the Stormborn
- 46Destroy the Forges!
Showing steps 35 to 46 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.
- Slaves of the Stormforged
To the southwest, on the western side of the Snowdrift Plains, the iron dwarves have dug a mine into the hillside. There, they use captive mechagnomes, servants of Keeper Mimir, to mine ore.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Gifts of Loken
The one who commands the stormforged iron dwarves is called Runeseer Valduran. Although I have never seen them, it is said that his master, Keeper Loken, who took over Ulduar, has given Valduran powerful titan artifacts.
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
- Never Hunt Alone
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- Titanstrike
- Hunt for the Harbinger
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.