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Storyline
Azshara Runaway Shredder! The Captain's Logs Up a Tree Defend the Gates! Arborcide A Quota to Meet Basilisk Bashin' Stone Cold The Perfect Prism Prismbreak Refleshification Another Warm Body Hand-me-downs Military Breakthrough First Degree Mortar In The Face! Profitability Scouting Private Chat A Thousand Stories in the Sand Memories of the Dead Mystery of the Sarcen Stone Survey the Lakeshore Gunk in the Trunk Dozercism Mortar the Point To Gut a Fish Investigating the Sea Shrine The Keystone Shard Report to Twocrush Sisters of the Sea When Science Attacks Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped Nine's Plan Raptor Raptor Rocket Mysterious Azsharite A Gigantic Snack Befriending Giants Azsharite Experiment Number One The Terrible Tinkers of the Ruined Reaches Azsharite Experiment Number Two Operation Fishgut Rapid Deployment There Are Many Like It Mop Up Halo Drops Field Promotion Head of the Snake Ticker Required Handling the Goods Still Beating Heart Extermination Shore Leave Azshara Blues Friends Come In All Colors A Little Pick-me-up That's Just Rude! Absorbent Full of Hot Water Wash Out Dressed to Impress Waste of Thyme Renewable Resource Shear Will Manual Labor Trouble Under Foot The Pinnacle of Learning Watch Your Step The Trial of Fire The Trial of Frost The Trial of Shadow Xylem's Asylum Wasn't It Obvious? Easy is Boring Turning the Tables Pro-liberation Ice Cold Fade to Black Farewell, Minnow Airborne Again Where's My Head? Lightning Strike Assassination Grounded! Rigged to Blow Push the Button! Blacken the Skies Commando Drop Let Them Feast on Fear The Conquest of Azshara

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Comment by troelala

From the quest giver, take the mine field entrance at the right side, where the giants walk up and down the ramp.

Comment by AyaJulia

This quest seems finicky. If you're having issues completing it, make sure of the following:

-You're shooting a giant that's walking TOWARD you--that is, you're shooting him "In The Face!"
-You're shooting from the minefield path as instructed in the quest text.

As a level 80, figuring I could just steamroll over this one, I shot from the bottom of the minefield path on a giant that was walking away from me. The giant died, but I didn't get credit and had to abandon the quest to pick up a new SFG (consumed on-use). The second time, I positioned myself around (31,60) so the minefield entrance picket signs were between the giants and I, and I made sure to shoot one that was walking toward me. This gave me credit properly.

Comment by 385357

Using the SFG didn't give me credit for the kill. I thought maybe I was "outside" the minefield, so I abandoned it and tried again from the middle of the minefield. Still no good. I wound up just having to manual kill one, and then I got credit.

edit because of post above me: both my shots were on Giants coming toward me, and still didn't count.

Comment by 702799

I pulled it so it was facing me shot it and completed.

Comment by 668742

After trying to kill the Giants twice with the SFG and not getting credit, I decided to try pulling one of them first and then using the SFG. It worked. So if you're having trouble getting credit, go ahead and try pulling one first.

Comment by Tren

This quest is only available after completing the quest Military Breakthrough.

Comment by 710897

I had to do this quest 3 times before it completed and after reading the other comments it seems like some other people had to do it 3 times also. Maybe this is what the problem is?

The first time I did it by shooting from the ramp at a giant coming towards me and it didn't complete.
The second time I pulled the giant first and shot him in the face and it didn't complete.
The third time I just stood on the ramp and shot one in the face again and it completed.

Comment by 712497

As a feral druid, I killed it the first two times while in cat form, as you could still shoot the SFG. I didn't get credit for it either time. The second time, I made sure to switch out of cat form and got credit for it.

Comment by 669009

Just found out why this didn't work for some , when they step over the mines , they take 10 dmg , so it might count as a ninja kill :] , so you just need to be careful that the giant has full health > pull it > apply SFG to face , job done
If someone else can confirm , that would be great.

Comment by 315117

Pow! Right in the kisser.

Comment by 283267

Used the SMG and didnt get credit. Killed one without SMG and got credit.

Comment by pitsweat

I just confirmed the "ninja kill" theory. After waiting for the giant to reach the top of the hill, the giant's health will reset. Pulling the giant with an attack before it reaches the mines again will result in the quest completion.

Comment by Talvanor

Really redefines the phrase "boom, headshot" when you get a headshot with an RPG specifically designed to smash faces.

Comment by 728513

Just in case anyone is wondering, you don't actually have to use the buggy SFG to complete the quest.

I simply killed him myself and that credited for the quest.

Comment by lokisc

ok first off you are all in the wrong area..you don't go to the mine fields..you goto the area were you were bombing the naga in the quest First Degree Mortar . you will see several Enslaved Son of Arkkoroc walking up a hill. (31.40,60.84). just wait for one to face you coming up the hill and shoot BOOM HEAD SHOT and your done.

Comment by 748840

I did this 'sniper-style'. I went to that ramp that the giants walk up and down, and hid in the bushes a good 10 metres (Or yards... w/e) down the ramp and just shot as the nearest one walked towards me. I had no idea that this could ever possibly be bugged until some of you guys pointed it out.

Quest worked fine.

Comment by 551498

Us cool kids ( Paladins ) Can do this not by using the SFG. But by using crusader strike and word of glory =)

Comment by Aislinana

There is a real frustration here though in that "untapped" giants are fairly rare if you're doing this quest on-level and can't just aggro a giant before it walks into the mines while it is coming in range of you. Thankfully, I got this quest the second time with an untapped giant, and then scurried away as I had aggroed another giant in the process.

Comment by x5992

I don't get what I'm doing wrong. No matter what I do I get "Invalid Target"

Comment by 604409

I just tried this. Shot the Son dead, went back to turn in the quest, no "?" Couldn't get another SFG so abandoned, took the quest again. Shot the son dead, but noticed, this time that I didn't gret the "completed" msg so used my spells to kill another one. 3 kills for 1 quest credit.

Comment by Billredskin

Did it on 3rd try. Just make sure that the mob has exactly 100% HP.

Comment by Farzeer

If you're higher level (30+ or something) and it doesn't count once you have shot the SFG, you can just go there and kill couple of them until you get the credit for using that SFG. I had to kill 2 or 3 of them in total.

Comment by ninobam

hmmm... had to do it a couple of times before it actually worked. Kept saying i didn't killed him. Kinda laggy

Comment by iFitzGerald

I think the weapon we use (the SFG) might be a reference to to the BFG from the Doom and Quake video games. It's known as the BFG 9000 on the Doom series and as BFG10k on the Quake series.
BFG stands for Big F***ing Gun, so SFG might be Small F***ing Gun although I think the idea would be making a reference to the acronym (SFG -> BFG) and not to the whole name...

Comment by 4513

If anybody failed the quest and you need another SFG just abandon the quest and pick it up again. You will be given a new one.

Comment by 1097657

I registered here just to post a comment about this quest, so others could do it a bit more simpler than myself.

I tried to complete this quest four times according to the various tips given here, but with no luck.

I finally got credit for the kill when I stood just behind the minefield posts and shot a spell on one of the giants right after it had turned to go back down the hill. Once I got its attention and it had turned to attack me, I fired the rocket and that did it.

So, get the giant to attack you right after it has turned to go back, so he'll turn and face you with full health, then fire away! Hope this help.

Comment by Aurorasofia

There seem to be a few groups of Naga at the top of the hill now so beware getting too close to try and shoot the giants!

Comment by 1440987

In The Face! http://youtu.be/v6x1jOC88zc

Comment by 1374013

In the Face! https://youtu.be/EPjxW-IBzeE

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JlDiaXdkQY&feature=youtu.be

Comment by JakeTheDisease

After the leveling scaling change in 7.3.5 these might not always die from the rocket hit like they used too, I shot the son on my 53 Warlock and walked away not knowing it was still alive and then got confused as to why the quest wasn't finished.
Fortunately most classes have an easy time taking these down from 100 % hp.

Comment by Ulkrim

how do you get another SFG when you miss the shot?

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In The Face!

Use an SFG to kill an Enslaved Son of Arkkoroc in the southern minefield.

	Enslaved Son of Arkkoroc slain (1)

Provided item:

	SFG (1)

Description

The naga are using those giants to stamp paths through our minefields. Time to put that SFG to use!

Head over to the entrance to the southern minefield - I think you can figure out the rest.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Bilgewater Cartel

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(14472))