Do Your Worst

Quest Giver: Matthias Lehner – beside the Refurbished Demolisher, Valley of Lost Hope, Icecrown [68.0, 51.0]

Objective: Use the Refurbished Demolisher to destroy 150 Decomposed Ghouls, 20 Frostskull Mages, and 2 Bone Giants in the Valley of Lost Hope. Then speak to Matthias Lehner at the First Legion Forward Camp at [64, 44].

Quick Facts

• Level: 80
• Location: Valley of Lost Hope, Icecrown. Start at [68, 51], turn in at [64, 44].
• Chain: Follows Field Repairs; leads to Army of the Damned

Walkthrough

Matthias’s Challenge

• Matthias Lehner appears beside the demolisher you just repaired and delivers one of his most memorable lines. When he sees you preparing to use the war machine, he says: “You’re going to use this machine against the Scourge? You’re not going to win against them like that. You can destroy hundreds… even thousands of them. But you won’t win. Not out here.”
• He tells you to go ahead and play with your machine, then meet him at an old army encampment to the north, adding that “what I will show you will teach you a little bit about who you’re up against.”

Demolisher Abilities

Killing the Scourge

• 150 Decomposed Ghouls: These are packed in large groups throughout the valley, especially further north. One boulder kills an entire pack. Move north from the starting point, lobbing boulders at clusters from range. This goes quickly.
• 20 Frostskull Mages: Scattered among the ghouls. Also one-shot by Hurl Boulder. You will likely finish these while clearing ghoul packs.
• 2 Bone Giants: These are the only targets that require multiple hits, with approximately 50,000 HP each. Stand your ground and repeatedly fire boulders at them (3-4 hits to kill). Use Ram if they get into melee range.

Managing Demolisher Health

• If your demolisher takes heavy damage, use Double Speed to disengage and drive back to the starting point at [68, 51]. Dismount and mount a fresh Refurbished Demolisher.
• Avoid getting swarmed. Fire from range, clear packs before advancing, and use Double Speed to reposition.
• If the demolisher is destroyed while you are inside, you will aggro everything nearby on foot. Escape immediately and grab a new demolisher.
• If your demolisher’s abilities stop working (a known bug), dismount and mount a fresh one.

Turning In

• After completing all three kill objectives, head north to the First Legion Forward Camp at [64, 44]. Matthias Lehner stands near a ruined ballista.
• Important: Matthias appears at two locations simultaneously during this quest. The turn-in Matthias is at [64, 44], not the one at [68, 51] where you picked up the quest.

Efficiency Tips

• Work your way north from the demolisher’s starting position. The heaviest ghoul concentrations are in the northern valley, and the turn-in point is also to the north, so you end up exactly where you need to be.
• You can complete this quest without the demolisher if grouped. Regular kills from party members count toward the objectives, though the demolisher is far faster.
• Clear the area around the Forward Camp before dismounting. The next quest (Army of the Damned) starts and ends at the same location.

Lore & Secrets

Matthias Lehner’s Lesson

This quest is brilliantly designed as a narrative setup. You spend several minutes in a powerful siege engine, obliterating 150+ Scourge with devastating AoE attacks, feeling utterly dominant.

Then Matthias delivers the punchline on turn-in: “You killed your fair share, but for every one you destroyed, another rose from the dirt to take its place. You don’t know what you’re up against. Let me show you.”

The entire point of the quest is to demonstrate futility. No amount of military force can defeat the Scourge conventionally, because they simply raise more dead. This is the core argument Matthias has been building since Naz’anak: the Lich King’s power is not in his armies, it is in his ability to create armies infinitely from the fallen.

The chain’s next quests (Army of the Damned, Futility) drive this point home further through Arthas’s own memories.

Easter Eggs

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The quest name “Do Your Worst” is a direct quote from the film. In the scene where King Arthur threatens to say “Ni!” to an old crone, she responds: “Do your worst!” This continues the pattern of Monty Python references that runs through the Black Knight chain and other WotLK content.

Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.