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Series

1.	The Sum is Greater than the Parts
2.	The Art of Being a Water Terror
3.	Through the Eye
4.	Find the Ancient Hero
5.	Not-So-Honorable Combat
6.	Banshee's Revenge
7.	Battle at Valhalas

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 Orgrim's Hammer 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 The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry 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 Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Shadow Vault The Duke Exploiting an Opening Securing the Perimeter Set it Off! A Short Fuse Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! 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 Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid 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 246808

You have to "unlock" a gate by the water. You will posses a water terror and proceed to run and kill 10 vrykul. It will have a tool bar to use once you posses it. It mentions you have to be quick, but there were not any problems. Just do it fast in case :)

Comment by 251192

Renegade Certified

There is a water lake look on your MINI map not on the world map around 31,40 is the lake , you need to open the gate simply clicking on it, there is no item provided.

Comment by cmppayne26542

The camrea glitches when you take the water terror for some reason, it just adjusts really high and hard to see the water terror your controlling and can't loot.

Comment by 17299

It is actually also possible to do this as "yourself"; if you only do the first hit on your target as a Water Terror and then dismount, if you think it's faster.

Comment by 260696

Shocking, another broken quest from Blizz.

I wasn't able to target any mobs while in the "vehicle"

The camera controls are so broken it's not even worth it.

Skip this one, it's not worth the frustation.

Comment by 245247

STEP 1: Disable any UI mods. They may interfere with Blizz's new vehicle UI.

STEP 2: Go to the gate at 31, 41 and right click it. You will now take control of a Water Terror elemental.

STEP 3: Have fun learning and using his attacks to kill any 10 mobs in the surrounding area.

STEP 4: Turn in the quest to The Bone Witch, (cave entrance 32, 42), and profit.

Comment by 11107

The Water Terror's abilites are pretty simple, and combat is not unlike that of a frost mage.

Frostbolt - just like the Mage spell. slows attackers and does damage.

Spell Reflection - Like a Warrior, you deflect spells back to the caster. Good for the casters in the area (the ones with water terror pets).

Frost Nova - Like a Mage. Freezes enemies in place in an area around your character.

Crashing Wave - Knockback with damage.

Generally, you'll want to go after the vrykul in the area that don't have pets - Warriors and Spear-Sisters. Spam frostbolts at them, and use frost nova or crashing wave whenever they get near.

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 256943

i dont know if im the only person, but this quest seemed rather buggy. The spell reflection didnt work, the knockback effect only worked about 1/2 the time, and frost nova only rooted people about 1/2 the time, even if i was standing almost on top of them.

the fastest and easiest way is just stand at 40 yards and spam frostbolt.

Comment by 73472

This quests name is a likely reference to the book "The Perks of Being a Wall Flower" by Stephen Chbosky.

Comment by koiter

There is a little glitch to where if you fly on top of the gate and open it, say 2-3 times the water elementals will be your pets, you cant control them but they will attack, then there is the water ele you possess they willl still help you. Just a little tip to help it go by faster.

You can get as many as you want, i got out 10 and tore the whole place up.

and they stay with you even if you arent possessing an elemental

Comment by 250896

Valhalas Vargul also count as kills for this quest. It doesn't have to be the mobs called something with Jotunheim.

Comment by 320270

You can do this quest while in druid flight form. It was handy for me since I was exiting my water terrors after each kill to loot & could quickly fly back to the gate.

Comment by myszaq

Seems there are some more bugs in this quest - my possessed Terror got killed by a Water Magi and his pet Terror, I got catapulted onto the ground and I've had no action bars and the keys binded to actions on them didn't work. Had to relog for it to fix itself...

Comment by Eirwen

This was one of the easiest "possession" quests I've ever done. Granted, I'm a mage, so the movements felt familiar.

1) Hit them with Frostbolt (3) to do damage and slow movement. Do that until they get close.
2) Knock them back with a wave (2)
3) Hit them with Frostbolt again.
4) If they get too close early on, hit 4 (ice block), back up, and then Frostbolt them.

My Water Terror never got below 75% health.

Comment by Chapter

Njorndar Spear-Sister says: I will feed you to the dogs!

Nothing like an elemental snack for your pet!

Comment by taurenmoo812

I hate quests like theses. The rate of killing mobs in these kind of quests is damingly slow compared to what you would be use to. Even a holy paladin could kill the mobs here faster then this water elemental.
I'm just not sure what the quest giver thinks this would be giving a 'poke' to the lich king, is it an effort to make him laugh because of how annoying it is?

Comment by 400593

Fun quest, but I do recommend doing it with another person or 2 because its slow killing them solo.

Comment by 200156

If you are annoyed by how slow you are killing the mobs you can try out the following tactic. Run from mob to mob tagging them with one frostbolt each then "dismount" from the water elemental, so that when you kill them you still get credit for the quest because you engaged them while in the elemental.

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 485968

You don't have to kill the targets.
i simply frostbolt each one then about 4 or 5 at a time. when the elemental dies, your character can finish the job.
As long as you damaged them as the elemental they count towards the quest. then go back and grab another one. or if you are good enough attack all ten.

Comment by 448052

Since patch 3.3.3 Water Terror damage appears to be buffed. Frost bolt only has 1 second cast and no cooldown now. I can't recall what it was before but leveling my 7th level 80 I remember killing stuff ALOT slower with the water terror

Comment by jcj64200031

You still get full EXP per kill while possessing the water elemental, and with the buff in 3.3.3, I highly suggest just going around destroying the vrykul for the EXP per kill.

Comment by 456362

I stayed on the elemental for about 30 minutes and killed all of the vrykul in the area. It is definitely the fastest way to level once you unlock the quest. I highly recommend (ab)using this! I had 600k left until 80 and dinged 80 doing this on my shaman. The frost bolt is spammable - meaning you can chain cast it like mages can do in the last 10% or so of their cast. It does 2k per frostbolt and the conal AE does 4k-5k damage to each target and knocks the opponents back.

Very fast kills.

Comment by 584465

Extremely fun quest since the buff.
Rack 'em n smack 'em

Comment by Whoopa

The Gate is at 31 41.
For those without coords: http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=210:317401
Hope this helped, had a hard time finding it myself.

Comment by 146544

My DK-Unholy level 79, did this with no problems. went top work on bad guys outside the witches cave more than 10bad guys to OFF, I took but, it said completed

Comment by Brielle

SUPER EAST ROTATION!:

Get max distance from your target.

Press 1, watch the tick on your target
Press 1 again
When your target get close to you Press 2
Repeat

So: 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 is what I used per target.

Comment by 776293

Possibly a reference to Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Rings." More specifically the "Book of Water." Each book concerning the art of Swordsmanship.

Comment by Sharkyman

adashiel on 2008/11/22 (Patch 3.0.3)
You can loot all the mobs you kill, but not while you're still possessing the water terror, so there is some motivation for getting this done quickly. After all, if you take too long your kills' corpses will despawn. Fortunately, you can always dismount, loot, and then possess another water terror.

Sadly you cannot loot them even if you dismount your water terror :(

Comment by Tigronn

spellreflect the casters spells (not the pets) insta-kill

Comment by 923647

As of 5.1 the Water Terror is weaksauce. It takes forever to kill anything and it's not gonna cause any "terror" at all. As a lvl79 warrior I could kill these Vrykul ten times faster. I had to go back and get another one twice because it died so easily. Attention Blizzard: Buff this thing now.

Comment by THRobinson

Horrible quest... takes 3-4x longer to kill stuff than my lvl78 Hunter

Comment by 1120191

I have found an easy way doing this, take your elemental, run around, look for mages. Then wait for em to cast Frostbolt, when it is close to an end, Cast reflective shield, you should one shot then or almost.

Hope it helps those farming for Loremaster :P

Comment by 1440987

The Art of Being a Water Terror http://youtu.be/f1yUzZpfwqE

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Art of Being a Water Terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDUo0tNfLA

Comment by 1064378

Spam Crashing Wave (2). Very quick.

Comment by allOf

The Art of Being a Water Terror https://youtu.be/QotADTN52Cc

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=e7dLLh7DEzU&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Andrinoo

For those "blind" players like me, there's a gate right in front of the cave, click and then start killing vrykull!

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The Art of Being a Water Terror

The Bone Witch in Njorndar Village wants you to possess a Water Terror and use it to slay 10 vrykul in the greater Jotunheim region.

Qualifying vrykul are Jotunheim Sleep-Watchers, Jotunheim Warriors, Mjordin Water Magi, Njorndar Spear-Sisters, and Valhalas Vargul.

	Jotunheim vrykul slain while possessing a Water Terror (10)

Description

The water lock outside my cave is teeming with elementals that the vrykul magi have yet to tame. I am going to teach you a trick for possessing these creatures for a short time, and you will use them to wreak havoc upon Jotunheim!

<The banshee-infested vrykul draws magic in the air and touches a large finger to your forehead.>

Go now and open the gate to the lock. A water terror will rush out and you will possess it to destroy our enemies!

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Pantaloons of the Water Magi			Spear-Sisters Mantle
	Jotunheim Shackles			Links of the Sleep-Watcher

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(13091))