A Good Head On Your Shoulders

A Good Head On Your Shoulders
Start	Trenton Lighthammer
End	Trenton Lighthammer
Level	45 (Requires 40)
Category	Blacksmithing
Experience	3900 EXP (or 23 40 at level 70)
Rewards	the recipe for  [Ornate Mithril Helm]

A Good Head On Your Shoulders
Level: 45 (Requires 40)
Trenton Lighthammer
Trenton Lighthammer
XP: 3900 EXP (or 23 40 at level 70)
Rewards:
the recipe for  [Ornate Mithril Helm]

Objectives

Bring two Mithril Coifs and one  [Ornate Mithril Shoulder] to Trenton Lighthammer.

• [Ornate Mithril Shoulder]
• [Mithril Coif] (2)

Description

It seems as if master had this planned from the start. I was not taught to create the items which you learned to create and you were not taught the items which I learned to create.

The master is wise, <name>. We shall teach each other!

Show me how to make a mithril coif and ornate mithril shoulders and I shall show you how to create an ornate mithril helm.

Progress

Have you completed the crafting of the items, <name>?

Completion

Excellent! A fair tradeoff, if I do say so myself. Watch and learn, <name>!

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

• 3900 XP (or 23 40 at level 70)
• You learn the recipe to make  [Ornate Mithril Helm]. (No separate object involved.)

Quest progression

The Mithril Order
Level range	35+
Zones	Stranglethorn Vale, Tanaris

The Mithril Order quest chain provides a blacksmith with the recipes they need to complete the quest

•   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith

The quester learns 7 blacksmithing plans in the course of this chain, and gains two trinkets. The quester is not obligated to specialize in armorsmithing to start or complete this series of quests.

The Mithril Order

Preamble

  [40] The Origins of Smithing /   [40] The Old Ways

An older smith in town (Orgrimmar for the Horde, Stormwind for the Alliance) offers to teach you something new.

• Horde: Aturk the Anvil asks you to bring back 4 Steel Breastplates and 4 Steel Plate Helmets. In exchange, he will teach you how to make  [Orcish War Leggings].
• Alliance: Hank the Hammer asks you to make 6  [Golden Scale Bracers]. In return, he offers you  [Plans: Golden Scale Gauntlets].

Costs

Horde	Alliance
120  [Steel Bar] 36  [Heavy Stone] 16  [Solid Stone] 4  [Citrine]	30  [Steel Bar] 36  [Heavy Stone]

Part one: Galvan the Ancient

  [40] In Search of Galvan /   [40] Booty Bay or Bust!

Hank the Hammer (or for the Horde, Ox) recognizes your achievement, and asks you to take a  [Mithril Insignia] to McGavan in Booty Bay, at the southern end of Stranglethorn Vale.

This is, of course a test. Those not worthy of joining the Mithril Order will accept the insignia and not turn it over. But those who are worthy...

  [40] The Mithril Order

McGavan is happy to find another worthy of induction into the Order. And he knows where the smith  Galvan the Ancient is! He directs you to take a token to Galvan, to show that McGavan sent you.

Galvan, you are told, is deep in the wilds of Stranglethorn Vale^{[50.6, 20.5]}, between Zul Gurub and the Mosh'Ogg Ogre Mound.

Indeed, you find him there. And more, seeing the pendant, he wants to start your induction into the Mithril Order immediately!

Galvan the Ancient gives three quests (these may be completed in any order):

  [45] Smelt on, Smelt off

Materials Required:

• 40  [Iron Bar]
• 40  [Mithril Bar]

• Reward:  [Plans: Ornate Mithril Pants]

  [45] The Great Silver Deceiver

Materials Required:

• 40  [Mithril Bar]
• 5  [Truesilver Bar]

•  [Plans: Ornate Mithril Gloves]

  [45] The Art of the Imbue

Materials Required:

• 40  [Mithril Bar]
• 4  [Citrine]

•  [Plans: Ornate Mithril Shoulder]

  [45] Galvan's Finest Pupil

Complete any one of the above three quests, and Galvan will direct you to his finest pupil,  Trenton Lighthammer <The Mithril Order>, in Gadgetzan.

  [45] Expert Blacksmith!

Complete all three of the above quests, and Galvan declares you to be The Big Winner!

As an expert blacksmith, you have earned a signet, and the hammer it summons...

[Signet of Expertise]

[Hammer of Expertise]

Costs for part 1

Total Materials required
40  [Iron Bar] 120  [Mithril Bar] 5  [Truesilver Bar] 4  [Citrine]

Part 2: Trenton Lighthammer

Trenton gives you three quests. Like Galvan's quests, these can be completed in any order. Trenton teaches you the plans directly; there is no separate item "Plans: Ornate Mithril Boots" (or breastplate or helm).

  [45] The World At Your Feet

• 2  [Heavy Mithril Boots]
• 1  [Ornate Mithril Pants] (from   [45] Smelt on, Smelt off)

• Reward: Trenton teaches you how to make  [Ornate Mithril Boots]

  [45] The Mithril Kid

• 2  [Heavy Mithril Breastplate]
• 1  [Ornate Mithril Gloves] (from   [45] The Great Silver Deceiver)

• Reward: Trenton teaches you how to make  [Ornate Mithril Breastplate]

  [45] A Good Head On Your Shoulders

• 2  [Mithril Coif]
• 1  [Ornate Mithril Shoulder] (from   [45] The Art of the Imbue)

• Reward: Trenton teaches you how to make  [Ornate Mithril Helm]

Each of Trenton's quests use knowledge you got from Galvan the Ancient and rewards you with something you will need for the final quest.

  [50] Did You Lose This?

If you complete all three of these quests, Trenton rewards your dedication by offering you another trinket:

[Glimmering Mithril Insignia]

Costs for part 2

Total Materials required
114  [Mithril Bar] 3  [Truesilver Bar] 8  [Solid Grinding Stone] 18  [Mageweave Cloth] 14  [Thick Leather] 1  [Aquamarine]

Postlude: The Art of the Armorsmith

Main article:   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith

The quests Galvan the Ancient gives you provides the recipes you need for Trenton Lighthammer. And the quests Trenton gives you provide the recipes you need for this quest.

•   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith or   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith

• 4  [Ornate Mithril Helm]
• 2  [Ornate Mithril Boots]
• 1  [Ornate Mithril Breastplate]

Materials to complete this quest
108  [Mithril Bar] 18  [Truesilver Bar] 7  [Solid Grinding Stone] 8  [Thick Leather] 2  [Aquamarine] 1  [Heart of Fire]

Total Materials Required

To complete the entire chain, from the initial quest all the way up through the   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith quest, you will need:

Materials to complete this quest
30  [Steel Bar] 36  [Heavy Stone] 60  [Solid Stone] 40  [Iron Bar] 26  [Truesilver Bar] 4  [Citrine]	342  [Mithril Bar] 18  [Mageweave Cloth] 22  [Thick Leather] 3  [Aquamarine] 1  [Heart of Fire]

Due to differences in the initial quest, Horde characters must use these addition resources:

• 90  [Steel Bar]
• 16  [Solid Stone]
• 4  [Citrine]

Notes

Orcish War Leggings were formerly learned from a set of plans. They are now learned directly.

Summary

1.   [40] The Origins of Smithing /  [51-60] The Old Ways
2.   [40] In Search of Galvan /   [40] Booty Bay or Bust!
3.   [40] The Mithril Order
4. Three quests, which can be completed in any order:
   •   [45] Smelt on, Smelt off
   •   [45] The Great Silver Deceiver
   •   [45] The Art of the Imbue

   Complete all of the above to get the quest

     [45] Expert Blacksmith!

5. Complete any one of the three to progress:

     [45] Galvan's Finest Pupil

6. Again, three quests which can be completed in any order:
   •   [45] The World At Your Feet
   •   [45] A Good Head On Your Shoulders
   •   [45] The Mithril Kid
7.   [50] Did You Lose This?

This entire series is designed to earn you the recipes needed to complete this quest:

•   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith /   [40] The Art of the Armorsmith

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB