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Comment by lifeisaloop

Where can I melt dark iron?

Comment by 3118

Dark Iron Bars require 8 Dark Iron Ore to smelt. The can only be smelted at the black forge. Assume you're looking at the bridge in BRD that leads to the entrance of Molten Core and the attunement shard. There is a short path off to the left. There is a black box looking thing. That is the black forge.

To craft most items that require Dark Iron Bars, the crafter will need the Black Forge. This is the black anvil constantly circled by Incendius in BRD. HOWEVER! Not all DIB items require said anvil, try a regular one first.

You'll notice most of the craftables are high quality FR items. One's best bet for decent FR without loss of stats is to make helm and pants and add +20 FR to each. The fewer items one must remove for FR the better.

Comment by 58313

Do BS's use Dark Iron Bars anymore after TBC?

Comment by 64664

How does anyone actually smelt it without having the Smelt Dark Iron 'spell' in the Smelting profession menu?

Comment by 74002

smelting view this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Fd7flRJLs

Comment by 134364

Maox, TYVM for that youtube post.
Outstanding video. Worked perfect :)

Comment by Lusiad

I have a char that is only a crafter. Can I craft Dark Iron stuff with him (if I get the bars form the AH/other char), even though I'm not a miner and thus couldn't learn to smelt Dark Iron?

Comment by Thottbot

wait so to smelt the bar, u need to talk to the guy, bring him gold, TS, and star rubies, and u have to smelt it in the fore in BRD? and is a black anvil also there where i make my dark iron pulverizer. this is what im understanding. this is a lot of trips to blackrock depths. son of a...

Comment by Thottbot

yea every time u need to smelt dark iron, u must go to the dark forge. way in the back of BRD after the fight of the seven. its near the molten vore entrance to the right behind a fire elemental. smelting a dark iron bar takes 8 dark iron ores. then u must go to the anvil to make these thigns, which is in a completely differnt place. and i dunno. that dark iron pulverizer, the plans tha ti have are pretty nice. 8 second stun:no matter the percent, thats nice. but yea it does takeawhile, 20g and 2 tgrips to BRD later and im at 14 bars. almost there. im guessing ill get 75-100 for the hammer.

Comment by Thottbot

If you actually read and comprehend that its not EASY to get this smelting dark iron. Yes you HAVE to go IN blackrock depths to have the guy teach you and YES you HAVE to go IN blackrock depths to actually smelt it. The previous post said a NAMED npc teaches you.

Comment by Thottbot

You can see deposits of dark iron on your minimap before ever learning to smelt the stuff. I have 2 stacks of it (in 2 trips to BRD) most of it mined from ore deposits, and I haven't yet learned to smelt it.

Comment by Thottbot

It's not about the weapons. It's about the resists on the armor. Between the legs, bracer, chest, shoulders and waist, the total fire resist is +101. I'm not sure if gloves and boots are out there, but if so, the plus to fire resist is pretty large. That combined with armor rating that doesn't totally suck can make this set desirable to some. The weapons were likely included by the devs as candy for those who would cry about there being nothing available to weaponsmith with the dark iron ore. Fire resistance will be important for trips to MC i'm sure. As in other games, the zones and the drops and gear obtained in those zones are designed to help the characters advance to the next higher tiers. It's rather pointless to say that it's not the best armor or weapons when it obviously doesn't come from the highest difficulty instance.

Comment by Thottbot

So we talked A LOT about the Forge and smelting, but where is the guy(Gloom'rel) who teached u how to smelt?
Is he inside the Bar, where we kill Ribbly? plz tell me!

Comment by Thottbot

Where can I get Dark Iron?
-Only in BRD can you find these Veins

Where do I learn to smelt Dark Iron?
-Gloom'rel will teach you how. You can find him in BRD. After you exit the bar, head down the steps and take the first left, which is Flamelash's room. Contine on past him and through the next room until you come to a tomb with 7 ghost. Gloom'rel is one of the ghosts.

Where can I make Dark Iron Bars?
-The dark forge is after the tomb where you talked to Gloom'rel. You will have to defeat the 7 guardians every time to get to the forge. After you exit the tomb, you'll see a fire elemental on your right... kill it and you'll find the forge along the wall behind him.

Comment by Thottbot

OK, lets say you've never looked at Dark Iron Ore before. You have mining as a skill and also blacksmithing (Weaponsmithing/Armorsmithing doesnt matter which). You want to start gathering Dark Iron Ore.

A few notes about the ore itself:
1. Blacrock Depths and Molten Core are the ONLY instances in the game in which it can be gathered.
2. The ore deposits will show up on you're minimap just as any other ore will.
3. You need to have mining skilled up to at least 230 to mine (heirgo smelt) the ore.

Blackrock depths is special because dark iron ore is completely bound to it. To smelt it you need to give 20 Gold Bars, 2 Star Rubies and 10 Truesilver bars to Gloom'rel in the 7 ghosts room, then you fight 7 elites and he will teach you how to smelt it.

Great so now you know how to break the ore down into bars, only there are a few problems:

1. To make one bar of dark iron you need 8 dark iron ore.
2. You need to smelt it at the black forge, located close to the Molten Core raid instance deep within BRD.

To make Dark Iron items with you bars requires dark iron plans that either:
1.Drop randomly in BRD, or...
2.Can be bought from Lokthos Darkbargainer once you attain exalted with the Thorium Brotherhood.

To make said Dark Iron items requires you to work at the Dark Anvil which is located in the centre of the instance near where Lord Incendius spawns.

All that being said: HAVE FUN.

Comment by Thottbot

lvl 60 rogue (me) soloed it all the way way to flamelash (stealthed) went past flamelash and into the room with the ghosts. i quickly flicked back 2 this page :) to check which guy teaches you. And there he was, Gloom 'rel. So i saw that little pot next 2 him and put the stuff in there, and hay presto. He taught me to smelt the ore into bars. Then i used my hearthstone....... simple

Comment by Thottbot

Yes, I'm practically tripping over dark iron veins in burning steppes, and there are some in searing gorge... After 1.7.0 patch it seems

Comment by Thottbot

Want an easy way to smelt Dark Iron?
for rogues and druids only:take a friend with u thats a roue or druid, u'll need the largest healing potion.
Stealth thru the bar out the back door to where ambassador flamelash is at, go behind him to the left side. Run and jump off the edge,into the lava,(heres where u'll need one of ur large healing potions),swim to the big rock left side of it. theres about 4 fire elemntals there, u can stand on the edge of the rock. they wont bother u im 59 rogue.after ure completly healed make ur way towards the other side of the rock facing the bridge.its a short distance to a ramp thats under the brdige on the left hand side. Bandage urself and go fight 1 54 or 55 elite elemental guarding the black forge.now u can smelt ur dark iron.u can also use this method to get ur attunement to the core quest done by urself. The fragment u need is on the other side of the brdige b4 the MC instance, looks like a mining vein thats like 10 ft. tall. GL. Im on the server Silvermoon and my rogues name is Vincentt if u have any questions. Ive done this.

Comment by Thottbot

You don't need to be able to smelt Dark Iron Ore to mine DI - you can mine without having the ability to smelt.

When you have all the stuff, 2 Star Ruby, 10 Truesilver Bars & 20 Gold Bars, Gloom'rel will request that you make a sacrifice. A ghostly brazier will appear next to him, you click that and learn how to smelt Dark Iron. Once you have learned this, you will not have to re-learn the recipe.

Comment by Thottbot

I brought the stuff to table next to that guy in BRB.
But before i talk to him he attack us, so i havn't complete the quest.

Need i deliver the things again or just talk to the guy is enough?

Comment by Thottbot

No - you dont have to have bs to smelt - you learn it just like smelting any other mineral - smelting is part of mining - not smithing

Comment by Thottbot

A lot of you are trying to correct previous posters and saying that it is also in Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes. It should be noted that this was added in a patch a few months ago. It used to be you could only find the ore in BRD and MC. They then added the viens to Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes.

Comment by Thottbot

OK, here is my situation, I would appreicate any advice, ( 60 Pally). Made to the Ghost Room and gave my offering, even saw in the chat box where it said I learned to smelt Dark Iron. I can make it to the forge but can't figure out how to smelt the dang stuff! I'm a Blacksmith so I smelt all the time but the option doesn't appear? I also got the Core Fragment and attuned but when I try to use it, it says Instance not Available. I was really bummmed, worked on gathering the ore for three weeks and then finally got to the forge with a backpack full or ore! NADA. Please, a little help would be greatly appreciated.....

Comment by Thottbot

Well, first of all, getting attuned has nothing to do with smelting it...to the left of the bridge where the MC instance portal is, there is another small bridge going to the left. That is where the forge is. It is guarded by one or two fire elementals.

Comment by Thottbot

it takes 8 dark iron ore to make 1 dark iron bar right? im pretty sure im right but i just want to make sure of this

Comment by Thottbot

The bars can be created solo by a rogue, will just cost you max. 2 greater fire protection potions depending your equipment.

(Btw i'm fully blue equipped by far nothing special)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vennis/wow/darkiron.html

a complete movie.

Comment by Thottbot

After you talk to him, a bowl appears on the ground. Click the bowl and it will ask you for 10 truesilver bars, 20 gold bars, and 2 star rubies. Complete that quest (just turn them in) and then talk to Grom again. He will then teach you how to smelt DI.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm a 60 lock on draenor. Just solo'd my way to the 7 ghosts room tonite to learn how to smelt this. I just had a hard time finding a group, and every night I'm on my guild is usually running an instance. Since I wasn't going to Ony figured I would try to solo this.

For those interested that aren't rogue/druids, you just need patience and some (8) invisibility potions, the key for BRD, and hopefully you've completed the love potion quest at some point. Enter BRD turn left, open all the doors. There is a fire pat. Pull that out the door and kill. Should be soloable for any class. Pop an invis pot and go open the turnstyle so you can get to the bar. When you click it you'll come out of invisible but if you're 60 nothing should agro. Now just wait 10 minutes, read something whatever, pop another invis pot and go upstairs. There's another fire pat that will come to the top of the stairs. Pull that and kill it. Wait again for the pot. (Depending if which version of the potion you have the next part you might have to stop at the cannons and wait again). Run down the hallway past the window you jump out to get to Incedious and solo MC/Forge.

There is another fire pat, pull and kill. Pop invis potion and run down hallway to the gnome/stone creations room. Here pull all the little gnome patrols. If you're lock just pop recklessness on em so they can't run. They're non elite. I killed about 6 of em. Run down the hall past the last column so you can hug the wall on your right to the fire dudes guarding the entry to the bar. I was able to run along the wall without a pot and without pulling agro. Pop a pot and run through the fire guys to the bar. Open door, pop pot and run to the ambassador guy. Go into next room, wait for the stone guy to patrol up the stairs and to your right, then run down stairs, pop pot and run to the dwarven/ghost room. Talk to Gloom and you're all done.

Comment by Thottbot

I was bored and wanted to make a movie to try out some options in Windows Movie maker, so i made this one, the only thing you recuire to do this is the BRD key and a Fire protection pot or 2.
The movie illustrates how to get to the Black Forge in BRD whitout Stealth and so on.
I have done this whit a hunter and a warrior aswell so dont worry if your not a mage, im sure you can do this whit other classes aswell.
Happy smelting!

http://files.filefront.com/BRD_smeltingwmv/;6075758;;/fileinfo.html

-One on Wildhammer (EU)

Comment by Thottbot

This stuff is useless in the expansion. Sell every ore and bar you have.

edit : ok, sorry. This stuff is worthless, not useless. This stuff was used for Fire-resistance gear in Molten Core and Blackwing Lair.

There's cheaper and easier Fire Resistance gear you can get at level 70. Don't bother learning to smelt it or going on smelting runs, since you'll probably won't make anything with it.

Comment by Thottbot

there are some people that want their character to "be all that they can be". its not always about whats easier or better. it is a game and well its part of the game so play and have fun.

Gimlion
61 dwarf warrior onyxia
knights who say NI

Comment by Thottbot

Engineers use Dark iron for some stuff that's still good post-expansion... such as Dark Iron Rifle.

Sure - there are better TBC guns but they're not that common and you can't use them at level 50

Comment by Thottbot

One of my toons is a 47 pally and blacksmith and has the plans for the Dark Iron Pulverizer, which requires dark iron bars. It is an awesome mace for its slowness and high end damage, not to mention its 8 second stun proc. That mace alone is well worth the effort to learn to smelt dark iron bars, if you are a pally.

Comment by Thottbot

I was looking at when you can mine/smelt what metals-- and it looks like I have to smelt at least some Dark Iron to get to 300 (295 with my enchanted gloves) so I can mine Fel Iron.

Is this the case?

Because I don't need dark iron with JC-- but I need to get past thorium...

Comment by Thottbot

Nah, don't need to smelt dark iron to get to 300. Just keep mining for thorium and dark iron. That'll get you're mining up to 300. I never learnt how to smelt dark iron, and I'm 375. Just needs patience. Also, Thorium's usually a good seller on AH. Dark iron ore sell's for 1g vendor price, and 2-3g average on AH. Dark iron bars go for quite a bit sometimes. Heck, I've seen a stack go for 40g. But if you want to learn to smelt it for Engineering, it's worth it. For blacksmithing it's a waste of time. Very handy for a guild, but very time consuming.

Comment by Allakhazam

I am looking to buy some in Eitrigg
PST Montes, bye bye

Comment by Allakhazam

I just picked 40 up for about 100g im selling them for about 4g each in stacks of 5. anyone know if these sell at this price? alliance laughing skull

Comment by Allakhazam

mining lvl?

Comment by Allakhazam

just send me mail if you need this

Server: Skullcrusher
Name: Valakivi

Edited, Nov 15th 2007 2:01pm by valakivi

Comment by Allakhazam

I am Minhoux from Bleeding Hollow.

If you need those I have three options for you:

1) If you need those and you are in alliance, wowmail me and i'll COD the number you need in the next 24h, for 9G each bar. I am sick of AH fees.

2) If you are an horde reply this threat that i will look each friday and I will but the number you need at Tanaris AH for 10G each, on saturday or any day you want them to be there.

3) If you want to be patient you can send me 8*dark iron ore + 1.5G for each bar you need and i'll smelt them for you on my next BRD trip. I usualy go to Dark forge one time a week with my bags full of ore. I know this option require some trust.

I hope to make some ingame bussiness with all Alla community.

Comment by Allakhazam

You need to do the dark iron legacy quest in order to get the shadowforge key. Its an important part to this quest that no one has mentioned so far.

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