Thorium Brotherhood Reputation Farming Guide
The Thorium Brotherhood is a faction of Dwarves who have split from the Dark Iron clan.
These talented craftsmen and blacksmiths reside at the Thorium Point, built on the cliffs overlooking the region called the Cauldron, in the far north of the Searing Gorge.
In this guide, we will focus on how to earn reputation with this faction in order to obtain the rewards that they offer.
Thorium Brotherhood Reputation in Season of Discovery
The Thorium Brotherhood reputation has received minor changes in Season of Discovery, mostly related to how reputation is acquired with the new Blackrock Eruption world event and new, stronger recipes, to help with clearing the 20-man Molten Core.
Overview
The Thorium Brotherhood faction in WoW Classic is a Dark Iron Dwarf faction most closely associated with the Molten Core raid instance and Blackrock Depths dungeon.
The main reason for gaining reputation with the Brotherhood is to unlock the unique crafting recipes they have for each profession. Especially the Fire Resistance gear needed against various raid bosses and Blacksmithing plans at Exalted to craft epic weapons.
Also The Brotherhood's quartermaster is the only one who can help you craft
the Legendary Two-Handed Hammer Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.
Gaining Reputation
You can do certain quests related with the faction at the Searing Gorge. You will start to quest at the Thorium Advance at the eastern part of the zone, advance to Thorium Point, and at the end reach the Iron Summit.
The main way to gain reputation for the Thorium Brotherhood, however, is to bring materials for the repeatable quests offered by the faction's members.
Repeatable Quests
From Neutral to Friendly
Master Smith Burninate at the Thorium Point will have three quest options for you until you reach Friendly:
- Restoring Fiery Flux Supplies via Heavy Leather;
- Restoring Fiery Flux Supplies via Iron;
- Restoring Fiery Flux Supplies via Kingsblood.
To complete these quests, you need to respectively turn in:
- 2x
Incendosaur Scale, 1x
Coal, 10x
Heavy Leather;
- 2x
Incendosaur Scale, 1x
Coal, 4x
Iron Bar;
- 2x
Incendosaur Scale, 1x
Coal, 4x
Kingsblood.
Each turn-in awards 25 reputation, which means you will need to complete 120 turn-ins. Obtaining the mats can be done as follows.
- You will mainly need
Incendosaur Scale for all three quests so you need to farm Incendosaurs in Searing Gorge for those.
Coal can be bought from Master Smith Burninate, the same NPC who is offeirng these quests.
Heavy Leather can be farmed by Skinners.
Iron Bar can be made by Miners.
Kingsblood can be gathered by Herbalists.
From Friendly to Honored
Upon reaching Friendly,
Master Smith Burninate will offer you a repeatable quest:
Gaining Even More Acceptance. Every turn-in requires 4x
Dark Iron Residue and rewards 25 reputation.
You can farm Dark Iron Residue from mobs and bosses at
Blackrock Depths, the 5-man Dungeon inside the Blackrock
Mountain, which you will be visiting quite a lot for the next step of material
turn-ins.
From Honored to Exalted
After reaching Honored, you will continue with Lokhtos Darkbargainer who is also the Quartermaster of the Thorium Brotherhood, residing in The Grim Guzzler bar inside the Blackrock Depths. He will offer you five repeatable quests:
- Favor Amongst the Brotherhood, Dark Iron Ore;
- Favor Amongst the Brotherhood, Fiery Core;
- Favor Amongst the Brotherhood, Lava Core;
- Favor Amongst the Brotherhood, Core Leather;
- Favor Amongst the Brotherhood, Blood of the Mountain.
To complete each of these quests, you need to respectively turn in:
- 10x
Dark Iron Ore for 50 reputation;
- 1x
Fiery Core for 200 reputation;
- 1x
Lava Core for 200 reputation;
- 2x
Core Leather for 150 reputation;
- 1x
Blood of the Mountain for 200 reputation.
These materials can be farmed from mobs and bosses in the Molten Core raid instance and you can repeat these until you reach Exalted.
Rewards and Quartermaster
The Thorium Brotherhood Quartermaster is Lokhtos Darkbargainer, he is a Dark Iron Dwarf and as mentioned before, resides in The Grim Guzzler bar, inside the Blackrock Depths. The rewards he is selling are listed in the table below.
How to Get Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros
The Legendary Two-Handed Hammer, Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros, is obtained through a crafting
process that involves the Thorium Brotherhood.
- In the Molten Core raid, Golemagg the Incinerator drops an item named
Sulfuron Ingot.
- If you get this item, Lokhtos Darkbargainer offers you a quest named A Binding Contract.
- If you complete the quest you will be rewarded with a Blacksmithing plan,
Plans: Sulfuron Hammer.
- This plan needs 300 (Artisan) Blacksmith skill to be learned and requires:
- 8x
Sulfuron Ingot;
- 20x
Dark Iron Bar;
- 50x
Arcanite Bar;
- 25x
Essence of Fire;
- 10x
Blood of the Mountain;
- 10x
Lava Core;
- 10x
Fiery Core.
- 8x
- These items are mostly very rare and very expensive, but if you can gather them, you can make
the
Sulfuron Hammer with it.
- Finally, when you combine
Sulfuron Hammer with the
Eye of Sulfuras, an item that drops from Ragnaros the Firelord (the final boss of Molten Core), then you will get the Legendary Two-Handed Hammer
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros.
Changelog
- 06 Jul. 2024: Updated for Season of Discovery.
- 06 Aug. 2019: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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