Quick Facts

Series

1.	It's All Fun and Games It's All Fun and Games
2.	I Have an Idea, But First...
3.	Free Your Mind

Storyline
Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle The Skybreaker The Broken Front Your Attention, Please Borrowed Technology ...All the Help We Can Get. Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Basic Chemistry Coprous the Defiled Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Get the Message The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Sindragosa's Fall Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Tirion's Help Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by 92105

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...

Comment by Sythium

In Beta, the quest rewards 13g 23s at level 80.

Comment by Ambrosius

Cords are 44.3, 21.5 - floating at the top of The Shadow Vault. Baron Silver can be found at 44.2, 24,7 just beside.

Comment by 87017

A classic homage to the Eye of Sauron :)

As for beating the eye, it currently has major trouble tracking targets that are slightly above it. Which is to say it tries to shoot in a horizontal direction, but if you are above it it will miss you completely. Could be a failure of the AI to track targets, or could be that the Lich King didn't need it to track the sky and so it has no ability to look up. In any case, the quest is hard to complete if you stay low, and ridiculously easy if you stay high.

Comment by ZaftAlthaus

You now have to be very close to it to do damage, which isn't good, because its hp is MUCH higher than yours.

The good part? It doesn't restore HP.

The easiest way to go about this is go up, shoot it, go down, wait for cooldown, up, shoot it, etc etc. When you get low on health, land, bandage, eat, whatever, and then just repeat. You can go afk to take a tinkle if you want, it doesn't matter -- its HP stays the same.

Or of course you could just get more than one person and pew pew it to hell.

Comment by Orden

Quest seems bugged atm, I killed him 2x, then disbanded & accepted again... killed him again, still nothing...

Comment by Psight

The coords are correct (44,21), and its not bugged.. Stay at max range(80y) shoot it down to 10%, then move forward to let it hit you, and BLAM kill it! Q complete!

Comment by 132997

Be sure you turn Off 'Auto Dismount in Flight' in your Interface options before doing this quest. Otherwise you will dismount in flight when using the quest item.

Comment by 250585

I cant find find Thassarian nowhere, even on the flying ship. I checked every position in Icecrown and he is nowhere, i lost about 17 hours just to find him... If u can post movie or something that can help me find him i will be insanely happy. Dont tell me i dont have the eyes or something, to confirm my words i will upload on youtube movie that he is not on that position as he should be.

Comment by egarland

The Blaster has a bigger range than the eye but if you kill it while it cant hurt you you don't get credit.

Sit at max range and dps it down to about 10%.

Get close and fire one last time and you should complete the quest.

Comment by 97618

Very fun quest to do when 10 other people are tagging it the same time.

Comment by 171525

You need to have a Flying Mount and Cold Weather Training in order to get this quest, because it is given in the floating plane plateform, high in the sky.

This quest is necessary to do in order to buy the Tabard of the Ebon Blade from the Ebon Blade quartermaster at The Shadow Vault.

To put it simply, you need a flying mount to get this quest and the Tabard.

Comment by 61487

This quest line opens Shadow Vault as an area, where you get a new fp, inn and mail box.
New quests which give Ebon Hold rep too.

Comment by 223375

Here is the sequence of quests that lead to the Final Challenge.
(A for Alliance, H for Horde)

1A It's All Fun and Games
1H It's All Fun and Games
2 I Have an Idea, But First...
3 Free Your Mind
4A If He Cannot Be Turned
4H If He Cannot Be Turned
5A The Shadow Vault
5H The Shadow Vault
6 The Duke
7 Eliminate the Competition
8 The Bone Witch
9 Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls
NOTE: You do not need to complete step 9, but you must be on the quest in order to loot Dr. Terrible's "Building a Better Flesh Giant", which starts step 10. I never handed in step 9, even after the Final Challenge, just to be sure.
10 The Sum is Greater than the Parts
11 The Art of Being a Water Terror
12 Through the Eye
13 Find the Ancient Hero
14 Not-So-Honorable Combat
15 Banshee's Revenge
16 Battle at Valhalas
17 Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes
18 Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
19 Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
20 Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
21 Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
22 Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge

Enjoy! :D

Comment by Fukar

Update 11.12.08 Blaster has bigger range than The Ocular, but this in NOT true "When you get low on health, land, bandage, eat, whatever, and then just repeat. You can go afk to take a tinkle if you want, it doesn't matter -- its HP stays the same."
I´ve shoot it down to 40%, land and bandage myself for short period, max 30sec...fly above again and the eye has full health...

Comment by ackros

I found this from the quest giver on zarsu landing in dalaran at 77, and im undead warlock.

the little hellicopter brings u on a tour and lands on a sky ship. from there u can pick up 3or 4 quests.

then hope on your winged mount and fly over to the shadow vault.

its up on top of it

fly in below it til you are able to start shooting and when last HP is left, move closer so it can hit you, turn on cast bars to show you its trying.

now continue to fire till its dead

Comment by 287966

this quest is glitched. i destroyed the ocular but did not get credit for it beacause i wasn't close enough. i have picked it up and abandoned 4 times now. the ocular will not reset.

Comment by morituri

I just did it following some of the hints above. It is totally true that the Blaster has more range than the Ocular.

If you put the Blaster in the action bar, its icon will show the red dot, meaning you are out of range. So, from far away, click on the Ocular and then get closer, slowly, till red dot on Blaster icon changes to white (or light gray). Carefull here now, it's very easy to be on Ocular's range. Once you get the right (safe) range, you can use the Blaster (dam I wish I had one of those blasters all the time).

Watch the amount of damage in the Ocular's life bar, so you can calculate the moment when you only need 1 last shot. That's gonna (visually) be, around 5% of the total Ocular's health, more or less. When that moment comes, get inside the Ocular's range and shoot the last Blaster shot.

Worked like a charm for me. Good lucks, happy blasting...

Comment by 309394

The bug has been fixed! I made sure that I was just BARELY within range of the Blaster, and I was taking damage. It didn't matter whether I was above it, even with it, or below it. If I was within range of the Blaster, I took damage.

Fortunately, the "bug" that allows you to land (nearby at least) and eat / drink without the Ocular regaining its HP hasn't been fixed.

So, what you do now is take it down as far as you dare, land so you can eat, continue this pattern as needed, and finish the quest.

The one thing I DID do, after reading the comments here, was to make sure that I was WELL within its range (my griff's beak coulda put its eye out, I was that close) before taking the last shot.

Comment by 211100

People, please stop just posting comments without looking at previous entry's. the quest is NOT bugged, and if you don't get credit you probably weren't in combat. So please stop posting "oh it's bugged, i can't kill it" and look at the posts.

To gremling: You just did what i told you not to do.

Comment by LunarEclipse

Is it just me.. or when looking at The Ocular, did anyone else start thinking "Eye of Sauron"? You know.. aside from The Ocular being blue-ish XD

edit:
... and as soon as I posted, I read over a comment that already had that... sorry Anenome ><

Comment by 322569

As a Druid this quest was a cake for me.

You can use the Eyesore Blaster in Flight Form, and you will be near enough to get the credit for it.
You do have to heal yourself though, so use Lifeblood.
You may also shapeshift and HoT yourself when falling as you WILL LEAVE COMBAT,
so shapeshifting into Flight Form again works just fine.

Comment by JcaL

any idea why this is not working for me? My Eyesore Blaster is never usable? even when im in range and in combat with The Ocular it tells me im too far away? I dont understand, it didnt do this with my main:/

Comment by 321608

The reason is they have reduced the range the eyesore blaster works so you can't stay out of range and do this any longer, this is my 4th character that has done this quest and I can confirm it has been changed. The HP of the eye doesnt regen so you can can fly down regain HP and then continue. Just takes a bit longer than before :)

I did manage to do this on my warrior without having to fly down and reagin HP it was hitting me for around 690 the CD of the deathly stare that hits you is roughly on a par with your eyesore blaster, characters with large HP pools will be able to just stay and nuke others will need to drop down and heal.

Comment by 44517

Initially I had no success as I was using the Jumbo seaforium charge
So I read the posts here.

Well as a mage with 12.5k health I flew up in range at the same level and took damage intending to fly away to heal then return and finish it off.

To my delight I killed it, losing only 8k health, so I'm wondering why the need for tactics?

Get there fast
face it
attack it,
note how much it hits you for each turn,
and be prepared to run when down to 4 times that as it hits you 2-3 times as you leave as I discovered when using the wrong bomb.

Comment by 303387

wtf guys? it hitted me even when my blaster was off range!(at least 5 yards offrange)
:S

Comment by ipara

Just finished the quest... You no longer are able to use your weapon above the eye, I put it in my toolbar and it never turned white/gray unless the eye itself was attacking me. This also applied to the range as I could not fire on the eye unless it also fired at me... What I did was attack it until I was low on health and then flew above it and sat there while I regained my health. I then flew back in and finished the quest, no problem. The eye once damaged does not regain it's health...

Comment by mattyfresh

just hit, move out of range, move back in to hit, go out of range, etc. until the last couple hits, just sit there then and finish it.

Comment by jmichels

An easier way to kill the Ocular is to side step whenever you see it casting death stare at you. The blaster will continue to channel even while moving. You can move and attack faster then the eye can track you. Note I was on an epic flyer, I am not sure if the slower flyers will side step fast enough.
I ended up doing this before reading any of the posts here and found it very easy to kill the eye this way. This is on version 3.0.8

Comment by 346283

Does this remind anyone else of Lord of the Rings lol?

Comment by 29671

I submitted a screen shot. It may not be bugged for some people, but that doesn't mean it isn't bugged. That is the nature of a bug, for those not in the software business :) Now, that said, I don't have range issues, I can't get the eye (on several separate visits) to reset its HP, its always at 1HP and it doesn't seem to change no matter how I engage it. And with THAT said, 1 blast from the laser doesn't kill it with the 1HP, either. What's a DK to do? /sigh No, its not bugged, cause it worked for everyone else.

Comment by 22661

confirmed if it bugs out at 1 health just attack it in any way and you kill it and get credit

Comment by 309038

Was bugged for me, above instructions worked :)

Comment by 26545

Still bugged. As a Druid, all I did was fly above it in Flight Form, shift to caster, then Moonfired it once as I fell through. This was enough to take off the last 1HP and grant me the kill. Once he's dead, you're out of combat, and you can switch right back to Flight Form. Much easier than trying to find somewhere to land.

Comment by 304583

Which quests do you need to have done before this one will open up?

Comment by 303387

it attacked me even when blaster was off range...

Comment by Negisensei

Just Shoot It

Comment by krawler

As of 3.2, the blasters range is the same as the eyes "deathly stare".

Just blast away, the eye only does 800hp to a failgeared 78 DK so you can blast the eye dead well before you lose even half your hp.

Comment by 421112

it's all fun and games till i lose the game ><

Comment by Rasmus0909

Stay sharp everyone! It has an Evil stare

Comment by shadowspa

Its not only a reference to the Eye of Sauron(ofc,like all of Mordo...ehh Icecrown,its a reference to LotR.)

C'thun used to say:''It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.'' when you killed his eye,but for some reason it's been removed.

2 references in 1 FTW :P

Comment by Whiterock

SHADOW VAULT Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 12/09/2008 Rawkster aswell.

1)It's All Fun and Games {H}
1)I Have an Idea, But First...
1)Free Your Mind
1)If He Cannot Be Turned {H}
|->Blackwatch*
|
Orgrim's Hammer(H)* 1)The Shadow Vault {H} The Skybreaker(A)*
| / | \ |
Opportunity(H)* | Exploiting an Opening(A)*
1)The Duke
| |
2)Eliminate the Competition 2)Honor Challenge---->2)Get the Key
3)The Bone Witch 2)Shadow Vault Decree 2)Let the Baron Know
|->3)Reading the Bones |____________________/
| R)Reading the Bones |->3)Vandalizing Jotunheim
| |->D)Leave Our Mark
|->4)Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls |->3)Crush Dem Vrykuls!
| | D)Vile Like Fire!
|->4)Revenge for the Vargul |
| N)Vaelen Has Returned
4)The Sum is Greater than the Parts 3)Ebon Blade Prisoners
| |->D)Shoot 'Em Up
3)The Art of Being a Water Terror |
| N)To the Rise with all Due Haste!
3)Through the Eye 6)The Story Thus Far...
| |->D)From Their Corpses, Rise!
3)Find the Ancient Hero |->7)Blood in the Water
| | 7)You'll Need a Gryphon
3)Not-So-Honorable Combat | D)No Fly Zone
| |->D)Intelligence Gathering
3)Banshee's Revenge +7)The Grand (Admiral's) Plan
| 7)In Strict Confidence
5)Battle at Valhalas 7)Second Chances
5)Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes 7)The Admiral Revealed
5)Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
5)Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
5)Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
5)Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
5)Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge
Quest zones:
1)Shadow Vault_____2)Savage Ledge_____3)Jotunheim_____4)The Underhalls_____5)Valhalas_____6)Death's Rise_____7)Onslaught Harbor
D)Daily_____N)Not-needed_____R)Repeatable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by Shamora

the eye as of 3.2.2 shoots its deathly stare (or watchamacallit) whether you're above or below it, ie in 360 degrees.

also have lightheaded and tomtom's waypoints installed, so the waypoint arrow showed a blaster range of 130 yards to turn grey, whereas the eye is still shooting me up till 140-150 yards!

fortunately, you can still land on the space below, just out of range and heal. the eye still doesn't regain hp. had to bandage twice (yes, bad gear). the only thing i worried about was someone else coming in to finish the job and that i'd have to start over!

bad blizzard!

Comment by 128534

I'm sorry but it looks like a giant vag1na to me

Comment by 452994

Just did it, the deathly stare now outranges the blaster, and it can shoot well above and below the horizon.

It still does not regain health, so you can land, regain health and repeat.

Comment by 537439

Where do you pick up the quest to go see Baron Silver?

Comment by 52261

I don't know why everyone has been using these weird strats. I just went in and blasted it down and it died before I did.

Comment by WowheadEnjoyer

To get this quest fly to the boat hovering over Icecrown, talk to Koltira Deathweaver and he'll give you the quest "It's all fun and games".
From there just return the quest to Baron Sliver at the bottom of the tower once you've killed the eye and start the chain to unlock the vault and get the Knights of the Ebon Blade Tabard.
Here is the chain.

QUESTS TO UNLOCK THE VAULT
1 It's All Fun and Games
2 I Have an Idea, But First...
3 Free Your Mind
4 If He Cannot Be Turned
5 The Shadow Vault
6 The Duke
7 Honor Challenge
8 Shadow Vault Decree
9 Get the Key
10 Let the Baron Know

Comment by Nekrotik

Pretty straightforward from what I could see. I moved into max range and the thing started attacking. I hit the blaster button 10 times (it hit for 10% of the target's hp each time) and I had 70% health left when it died. I was at the same height as the eye, and never moved. Nothing tricky about it.

Comment by almiross

lord of the rings copy!

Comment by silversol

The eyesore blaster takes 10% of it's life, when you get shot you lose 5% of your life. I've always just stood in range and use the item on CD and the eye dies when I have about 30% life left.

Edit: Just be sure to start with 100% life when you first shoot.

Comment by 693838

It's all fun and games until someone loses an Ocular.

Comment by ToolPackinMama

I just did it on my level 77 BM hunter with 17790 health.

I put the blaster on my action bar, buffed health with food, flew to max range, and started blasting.

I blasted every time the CD was up, and succeeded with about 30% health left.

No stopping, no dropping to eat, nothing like that.

Turning it in, I aggroed a level 80 (non-elite) mob. Good thing I stopped to eat after killing the eye.

Comment by 921838

i killed it 3 times while INSIDE the eye itself, and still have no credit for the quest. what is going on here? please help

Comment by evokish

The sauron refference here is so ovious its not even funny.

Comment by 1440987

It's All Fun and Games http://youtu.be/fJ_FhNprsMg

Comment by Boxofbeer

It's All Fun and Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drUAmMoUU9A

Comment by Allurelle

The number of problems with Storm Peaks and Ice Crown at this point are overwhelming. This quest said you can use the Eyesore Blaster mounted. I used it mounted and killed the Ocular, but immediately dismounted and fell to my death. Oh, yeah, and to make it worse, I can't get to my body to res so I had to take the sickness. Joy.

I know this is old stuff, but since it's necessary for Loremaster, can Bliz at least fix some of the bugs or reduce the number of quests required when they remove entire groups of NPC's that are supposed to give us the quests? It's getting really frustrating.

Comment by allOf

It's All Fun and Games https://youtu.be/Cu3kw-x-UOQ

Comment by lockh33d

If you wish to save a bit of time, you can stand on the top of one of the four pillars around the eye and attack it normally. Even at lower levels, you should still be able to kill it faster than using the quest item.

Comment by CzechCloud

Look up!

Comment by Lintian

The destination marker for this quest is wrong. You need to get on top of the tower, not inside it.

Comment by afkhunter

Your Incandescent Essence head enchant can proc while mounted and using the blaster making this quest end way quicker.

Links

It's All Fun and Games

Destroy The Ocular and then report to Baron Sliver at The Shadow Vault.

	The Ocular has been destroyed (1)

Provided item:

	Eyesore Blaster (1)

Description

The Knights of the Ebon Blade want to take the Scourge base known as The Shadow Vault to the northwest. I have a contact in their group who has asked for help.

The first step is to blind the Lich King. He's using a device known as The Ocular to watch the area, which floats above the vault's spires.

Our dwarves have created something for you to use against it. After the 'eye' has been destroyed, find Baron Sliver on the vault grounds. He's pretending to still be under the Lich King's will.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12887))