my mage is lvl 51 and i had some money from my last char so i bought the
hide(650g)
8 arcane crystals(20g each)
just one ubrs run and some strat runs and there i have it.
This is definatly worth it as i would like the crit as fire mage and some nice stam/intell, its great.

Ive had this cap for a while (probabaly 4-5 months) i believe they increased the drop rate of abomination stiches and chance to for there to be a scarlet thread spawn...when i did the quest it took me 10 runs or so of both undead and scarlet strat to get the required mats...now when i occasionally go to strat i see multiple stiches and threads everytime....also this hat does make the decision of wether or not to get a netherwind crown pretty difficult =P

If you think you are going to get this cap, think again.

The main ingredient is a Pristine Hide of the Beast.

A pristine Hide of the beast has something like 0.1% chance that it can be lvl 300 skinned off of a 15 man raidable boss, The Beast in UBRS. Alot claim 0.01% chance, but I doubt blizzard would be that cruel, 0.1% chance is evil enough.

So calculate the low chance of this being skinned with the fact that you will be rolling against 15 other people, and you can pretty much catagorize this quest as "Not in your lifetime."

Blizzard just made this quest to make you drool.

No, you can get more than one thread per Scarlet Side Strat run. There are 3 rare spawns of where the thread can be. Look up Enchanted Scarlet Thread on this site and someone has already posted where. The most threads I have ever gotten on a run is 2.

So curtisbouvier, GG to you, nub.

I could be mistaken if there were changes in patch 1.6, but I doubt that.

How to get this item:
Step 1: Kill the beast in UBRS.
Step 2: Skin the beast/wait for someone else to skin it.
Step 3: Talk to the NPC that now appears where the beast's corpse was.
Step 4: Do the delivery quest to Winterspring that the NPC gives you (after you finish your UBRS run of course).
Step 5: Talk to the NPC in everlook that you're delivering the quest item to.
Step 6: Look at his catalogue of items he can make for you.
Step 7: Select Cap of the Scarlet Savant.
Step 8: Gather materials. (good luck with that, read other posts below for where to acquire them).
Step 9: Return to the dude who had the catalogue in Everlook with the materials and 50 gold.
Step 10: Frolic.

Edited, Fri Aug 26 18:23:30 2005

Considering how There is only 1 thread per run, on teh scarlet side, that says alot about your honesty. GG noob.

for 2g

cap looks like magneto's helm

To start this chain you need to kill The Beast in Upper Blackrock Spire and talk to Finkle Einhorn (a gnome in the belly of the beast, who does not always pop out) -- he will give you a quest to talk to Malyfous Darkhammer in Winterspring, who will then let you look at his catalogue, allowing you to get the quest. Click the catalogue to get the quest.

Components
Note: From what I understand, it is best to keep the quest in your log while seeking to find these components (specifically the thread and stitchings). Apparently unless someone in an instance has the quest, the thread won't spawn at all? Unsure about the stitchings. Better safe than sorry, and at 60 you should have ample room in your log.

50 gold
The easiest part.

1 Pristine Hide of the Beast
This is a rare drop from skinning The Beast.. You need 310 skinning to skin it -- thus, you must have 300 skinning as well as another rare drop -- Finkle's Skinner -- http://www.thottbot.com/beta.cgi?i=18885 -- to skin it all. It is tradeable, however.

5 Frayed Abomination Stitching
These are rare drops off of Abominations in Stratholme.

8 Arcane Crystal
These are rare drops off of Rich Thorium Nodes.

5 Enchanted Scarlet Thread
These spawn -- not drop -- on the Scarlet side of Stratholme. They look like little spools of thread. There's a chance for them to spawn in the Zealous Paladin's Room (both on the desk and in the box with books), on a bench on the right side in the hallway directly opposite the Zealous Paladin's Room, in the Archivist's Room and after you kill Balnazzar they can sometimes respawn. (Anyone know any other spawn points?)

http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=18526

This hat is not worth the time, energy, and cash compared to the Crown of the Ogre King.

If you buy the tradable parts, you're looking at 1300 gold and 25+ Strat runs.

If you have a guild devoted to getting you the parts, you'll need 300g, 50+ UBRS runs, 5+ Strat runs, and 5+ hours of farming Thorium veins.

Completed my quest earlier today. Incredible cap, and it's just as sexy visually as it is statistically.

Anyone know where this drops? I'm actually going to assume it's a quest because of no minimum level listed but any help would be much appreciated. I'm assuming I'll have to be about 14 levels higher to even think about it but whatever :-p