Quick Facts

Series

1.	Do Your Worst
2.	Army of the Damned
3.	Futility
4.	Sindragosa's Fall

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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Comments

Comment by Joana

Here is a video for this quest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2efBLJVjs

Comment by Tro44

WOW I get to Fight as Arthas with the Frostmourne!

here are his 4 abilities.

Deathstorm
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=58912

Soul Cleave:
basically a cleave that restore 5% of your total mana.

Gift of the Lich King:
this spell rezs the Knights into ghouls. its a target ground type spell.
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=58916

Consume Minions:
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=58917

Comment by Cryaotic

Hands down, one of the best quests in WoW ever. Period.

Comment by 7995

This quest embodies everything that I wanted to see in the zombie event, but didn't.

More importantly, they need to make this into a Daily.

Comment by 261249

Fun quest... just be aware of where you "dismount" when you are done with the quest. I just popped into a huge mob of about 15 guys.

Comment by 258733

One of the best quests ever! Feels like being the lich king, kinda :)

Comment by 266922

Don't run too far from where you start the quest, when you get the warning that you should return it is more or less too late and you will be surrounded by a huge bunch of mobs (the same ones you killed earlier in Do Your Worst...and the dead remember :P).

Comment by Darkravager

Okay for those addicted to this quest and thinking to max out the fun by aggroing all the guards at the same time, DONT.

I aggroed everything, fired the Deathstorm, and POOF the whole server came down. >_<

Comment by Leporp

This quest needs to be a daily. I would do this without boredom.

Remeber, use the 4th spell when low on health/mana. And just keep killing and summoning ghouls.

Comment by Fallerup

when 10+ guys were hitting on me at once I had a very hard time casing deathstorm.. it wouldn't cast so I had to cleave them all to death and then deathstorm those at range

Comment by Nain

once you dismount all the regular mobs will reappear. so when you're done, make sure to dismount near the tent or soldiers.

Comment by Prenna

I had some trouble completing this quest. Hopefully my instructions will help anyone else having this problem:

When you are turned into the Prince; You need to target the Armies of Lore(can't remember the rest). They are the guys in Yellow.

What I did was stand on the wooden plank like podium, target the closest one and use the #1 button. As soon as they died, I hit #3 which gives you a green circle. Hover over the ones you just killed to turn them into your minions.

Use #4 as soon as your mana gets to half (usually one combo of 1 &3) to sustain your health and your mana.

Rinse and repeat until done. If you need to leave the stand to get to those further away, remember DO NOT exit (red arrow to the right of the new bar you get) until you are back on that stand as you will be back in the middle of a bunch of mobs.

If you die during this, just talk to the quest giver; he'll put you right back as the prince.

Comment by 203649

Epic quest - Simply kill a few of these guys, then raise them up, then kill some more, then raise them up, and before ya know it, you got yourself a Scourge army. =D

One of the many epic quests that lay awaiting the new players to Wrath of the Lich King in Icecrown.

As soon as the Icecrown raid is up, Icecrown will have a raid to join its already epic content.

Comment by 137993

While I understand Matthias is trying to tell us Arthas/The Lich King is a ruthless dude, i don't get why it is so futile to demolish large swaths of scourge.

Yes, it takes a real jerk to kill guys who have faithfully served you for months, but just because he is capable of turning them, doesn't mean there are an infinite number of corpses out there.

While any fallen soldier can be risen, if you just killed 150 ghouls, 20 necromancers and two giant ass bone guys, haven't you at least delayed him a tiny bit?

Comment by 358656

Now THIS is what Army of the Dead should be...minus the requirement for corpses. Summon 100 little ghouls to serve as a proper "Legion" as mentioned in the DK spell instead of 6-8. That would make DK insanely overpowered though...but it'd give the nice ability to try and pull a good fraction of a major instance...hit that spell....and watch the carnage. Ah and have the ability to command all the ghouls to explode at once in it...like you can do on a one for one basis for your army or you pet ghoul if you target them. In this case 10min CD would be kinda overkill...it'd then have to be a 1hr CD spell. Wishful thinking...AoD is perhaps my favorite DK skill.

True though, very fun quest. Too bad had to turn it in to move on.

Comment by SpitefulCrow

For a quest where you get to BE Arthas and raise up an army you'd think there would be more comments and discussion!

Comment by dreadblood

arthas doesnt seem so extremely powerful now.. I died twice as him...

Comment by Teldarsterallnes

are this and The Hunter and the Prince the only quests where you can actually BE arthas or be invloved with him in some way?

Comment by 360186

Whoa. Ozzy would sooo love this quest.

Comment by 132170

Does this quest have to be completed to unlock anything important? or can I keep it so I can do it whenever?

Comment by 344194

This questline/story line is good read.

Comment by Whiterock

CITADEL FOOTSTEPS Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Blackwatch<--The Shadow Vault {H}*-->The Duke*
| The Skybreaker(A)* | | Orgrim's Hammer(H)*
| | | | |
| 2)Exploiting an Opening(A) 2)Opportunity(H)
| 2)Securing the Perimeter(A) 2)Establishing Superiority(H)
| 2)Set it Off!(A) 2)Blow it Up!(H)
| |__________________________/
| |
| 2)A Short Fuse {H}--------->1)Parting Gifts
| 2)A Voice in the Dark {H} |->6)An Undead's Best Friend
| 2)Time to Hide {H} |->6)Honor is for the Weak /
| 1)Return to the Surface {H} 6)From Whence They Came / /
| 3)Field Repairs {H} \_____________________/__/
| 3)Do your Worst {H} | |
| 3)Army of the Damned {H} 6)Seeds of Chaos 6)Amidst the Confusion
| 2)Futility {H} \ /
| |->4)Sindragosa's Fall(A) 5)Vereth the Cunning
| |->4)Cradle of the Frostbrood(H) 5)New Recruit
| | 7)The Vile Hold
| 4)Where Dragons Fell {H} |->7)Generosity Abounds
| 5)Time for Answers {H} |->7)Stunning View /
| 5)The Hunter and the Prince {H} 7)Matchmaker / /
| 1)Knowledge is a Terrible Burden {H} \_________/_____/
| | \ |->7)The Rider of the Unholy
| 1)Tirion's Help(A) 1)Argent Aid(H) |->7)The Rider of Blood /
| | / 7)The Rider of Frost / /
| 5)Tirion's Gambit {H} \ / /
| 2)The Fate of Bloodbane
8)Where Are They Coming From?
| |
8)Death's Gaze 8)Destroying the Altars
|______________|
|->8)I'm Not Dead Yet!{H}
|---------------->8)Spill Their Blood
8)Jagged Shards /
|->7)The Runesmiths of Malykriss /
7)I'm Smelting... Smelting! / /
\_________________________/____/
| |
8)By Fire Be Purged 8)A Visit to the Doctor
/ /
8)Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton-->8)Let's Get Out of Here {H}
8)He's Gone to Pieces
8)Putting Olakin Back Together Again
8)The Flesh Giant Champion
Quest zones:
1)Unique zones_2)Icecrown Citadel_3)Valley of Lost Hope_4)Sindragosa's Fall_5)Icecrown Citadel(outside)_6)Weeping Quarry_7)Malykriss_8)Fleshwerks
N)Not-needed
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 kerrymayall

Matthias Lehner

*unscramble letters*

Arthas Menethil

Comment by B3y0nd

So much fun.

Comment by 731614

This quest was bugged for me this time around. Kept telling me my targets were invalid, out of range, and out of sight even when I stood right in front of them. Wouldn't let me exit back to the regular game phase though I could log out. When I tried running away from the scene to get force it to phase me back out, then invisible attackers nicked me to nearly to death. (Not sure but it seemed like it wouldn't let me die, lol.) I figured out after a few more attempts that it was the soldiers attacking me, I just needed to wait a minute for them to attack. Also, my ghoul army would not follow me so I had to sit and wait to be attacked so I could finish the quest. Exiting the game did not help. AT least I finished it.

Comment by 820341

Bugged for me as well. Same problems as you had with LoS and pet out of range. It seems to still consider you at the location you were when you accepted the quest instead of the location Arthas is.

A quick relog fixed it.

Comment by 834735

Yep this quest is destroyed as of 4.1. You can sort of fudge it if you're patient but it's not enjoyable AT ALL. A shame.

Comment by DawnArchitect

Indeed, it's a shame that with the new pet system this fantastic quest is bugged.

In current circumstances I found that one can still complete this quest easily and without loggin out. On the ground you can see the shadow of the wooden structure in the phased version. Stand near the edge of it so you can still talk with the boy. After you phase in Arthas should be stuck in the wood - AND THAT'S FINE. You can shoot and raise minions from this position and infatrymen respawn pretty quickly.

I hope this helps.

Comment by 991335

thank you for your help i had no idea i had to kill the guys with yellow

Comment by Boxofbeer

Army of the Damned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ksEYCWCfk

Comment by allOf

Army of the Damned https://youtu.be/ha_fM6KhmZo

Comment by Taraezor

As of now, badly bugged. Level appropriate, ala Chromie, our mana will be insufficient for the "1" button. Solution is to do as best with the other buttons and before you die to exit the vehicle. Then re-enter, rinse and repeat. Your tally thankfully does not reset each time that you reset.

With practice you'll realise that even without the "1" button the best strategy is to ALWAYS heal when "4" is off cooldown, even if it is just a top up, and to constantly move in as close as possible so that your melee range "2" can be effective and always spam "3" as it becomes available. So "2" and "3" in rapid succession with "4" as possible.

When you reach your total, move back to the platform or the quest giver. You must be standing about there. This is because you will be sent out of phase and that means that the mobs will be present. If like me you are wearing dodgy questing greens then you do not want to be swarmed! This location seems to be a quieter section. You'll have time to quickly hand in and then launch yourself into the air on your mount.

Yeah... I had a bit of grief here obviously, lol.

Comment by boogg

Get instant DC.

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Army of the Damned

Matthias Lehner at the First Legion Forward Camp wants you to raise an army of 100 Ghoulish Minions.

	Ghoulish Minion Raised (100)

Description

You probably think you're quite strong -- fighting these undead and crushing their bones beneath your war machines.

That is nothing compared to the strength it took to create them.

I saw the prince do it himself. I can show you how it happened... if you'd like.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13395))