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Comment by mixter

Reward should be a flyable Sindragosa

*crosses fingers*

Comment by 367286

Interesting on how this meta doesn't even require defeating arthas on heroic difficulty, similar to how zero keeper Yogg-Saron and Algalon were not required. I'm hoping it doesn't stay this way, but who knows.

Comment by 11529

It does, however, require two different achivements for the Arthas encounter (as of November 21, 2009), while all of the other bosses have their hard mode as well as a "fun" achivement. If it stays this way, and as killing Arthas on heroic gives a title, I'd reckon Arthas Hard Mode takes a similar role as Algalon did, in that it's effectively the pinnacle of content and if you can complete the fight (which getting to requires completing Putricide, Blood-Queen and Sindragosa on hard that week, like a disappearing Algalon key) then you should be able to achieve this anyway.

Oh, and there's also another achievement for completing every encounter on heroic mode (Heroic: The Fall of the Lich King), if anyone's curious.

Comment by Bareno

I like the fact that the icon of this achievement is the best pally helm of all time :)

Comment by Dradee

I have been wondering a little. When Ulduar was released, the mount rewards from Glory of the Raider 10 and 25 man were removed. Now, when Icecrown Citadel has been released, the mount rewards from Glory of the Ulduar Raider 10 and 25 man have not been removed and are still available.

Comment by 188099

Do you need to complete the whole list of achievements in the heroic version of the raid or just the ones that specifically say "Heroic" to get this achievement?

Comment by 409340

To answer Gargaron's question, no, you do not have to get the special achievements on heroic. I got (sorry I do not know how to link the actual achievement) on 10-player normal and it listed me as having that requirement completed.

Comment by Yndin

It's very nice of Blizzard for finally giving "same" reward for PvE and PvP oriented players. Depending on your realm you should start seeing these this or next week.

Comment by Lucero

I tried to find the link to the blue post, but they are on record as saying there are no plans to remove them and if they decide to they will do their best to give players a 30 day notice. I read this blue post myself, I'm not just citing 2nd hand quotes. Sorry I can't find a link to the source. =(

Comment by Ashvael

Upon completing this achievement you get a letter of Highlord Darion Mograine with the subject Glory of the Icecrown Raider. This letter includes the Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher and the following text.

Name of the player,

As the Lich King's influence wanes, some
of his more powerful minions have
wrested free of his grasp.

This frost wyrm drake my men captured is a
prime example. She has a will of her own
and then some.

One of my men lost an arm breaking her in,
but she now takes to riders fairly well --
provided they themselves are skilled and
strong willed.

Please accept this magnificent beast as a
gift from the Knights of the Ebon Blade. It
was an honor to fight along your side in
this greatest of battles.

With honor,
Darion Mograine.

A screenshot of the letter can be found here.

Comment by Paranoia

on 3/24/10 Blizzard hot fixed this meta so that players do not need Neck-Deep in Vile anymore to get the drake.

This was only applied to the 10 man meta, not the 25 man.

Comment by Massacher

so how long does it take to get through all of the Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player) raid achievements?

what gear would you recommend for a destro lock to accomplish these achievements?

this is my current gear as of writing.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Twisting+Nether&cn=M%C3%A1ssacher

it's welfare epics along with trash atm but i am working on gearing up.

Comment by Lorath

The honest answer is probably months. If you're gunning for the drake, your gear should be your last concern. The majority of the achievements for the meta require FIRST AND FORMOST a great raid composition and coordination. You are just one of ten players. It means squat if you have the best gear in the game if you have three others in the raid that insist on standing in fire/acid/slime for one second too long. Many of the fights require a perfect battle from start to finish to get this.

Take the achievement for example. If you understand the fight mechanics (and you should for ALL fights to begin trying for the drake), you'll know that this is extremely hard for a ranged dps to get. The standard fight strategy has the first bitten be a ranged dps. Then that player bites one other ranged, on the 2nd round of bites the two ranged bite the last two ranged (or 1-2 melee as case may be). 3rd round all dps and healers will be bitten (4 bites x 2 = 8 vampires + 2 non-bitten tanks). The battle must be over before the 4th round of bites. For a dps to get the achievement if they have no off spec role (switching with a healer or tank, which locks can't do), two things must happen: the fight must end before the 3rd round of biting AND one of the players in 2nd round must bite a healer or another dps instead of you. That takes a raid that has the dps, coordination and planning ahead to do this.

My advice: find a good permanent raid group to go with, clear the whole raid including Arthas (necessary for heroic modes anyhow), then practice each fight to perfection. Along the way, you'll get the gear you need to do this. No shortcuts here...

There are guides out there for gearing any class/spec combination. You can even check RAWR to see what gear and enchants/gems are best upgrades for your spec.

P.S. Sorry for the wall of text, but I want to clear up the idea that "LOL I HAS UBER GEAR, THIS'LL BE EASY".

Comment by Saltie

All You Can Eat (10 Player) is by far the most annoying of all the achievements. I remember doing my Drake run a month or so ago. It was totaly annoying to get through all of Phase 1 without any problems, and all of a sudden it goes wrong in Phase 2 for silly reasons like people forgetting to reset their stacks. So you gotta wipe it and go again.
However, no with the buff currently standing at 15% this should be a breeze if you have got through the heroic modes of ICC 10. In actual fact, if you have the correct raid composition, you can actualy do most of the achievements on heroic mode instead of normal mode.
From my personal experience, I have to say to anyone that is going for their Drakes to ensure they are stocked up on not just Speed Pots, Flasks, Food and Cash, but stock up on focus. Unlike Glory of the Raider pre-3.1 and the Ulduar Glory achievement, this one can be extended by a week or two purely by a lack of focus, and not Dps, Healing, or Tank messing up.

Comment by 24756

Having done these achievements a few weeks ago with our heavily overgeared group, I figured I should make a list and quick recap of tactics for each of the individual achievements. All of these were done on Normal mode, except for Gunship.

Hard

All You Can Eat - By far, the most frustrating achievement. We played normally until phase 3, where the second tank would take cover behind the first Ice Block. As soon as his stacks went off he'd run in and taunt, the previous tank would take cover behind the ice block. When this tanks' stacks were gone, he'd shout out to kill the Ice Block and run in and taunt, the other tank going to the next ice block. Repeat. It's mostly a matter of control. We lost this one week because someone lagged and didn't notice he blew the stacks. To combat this, I reccomend the addon Smorgasbord. Just remember to turn it off if you're not doing the achievement or you'll see massive amounts of spam.

Medium

Been Waiting a Long Time for This - Have the first person who gets the plague dispel it outside the group and just stack the remaining diseases. Nothing to hard, per se, but if you skip over 30 (say, having a 29 merge with a 2 giving you 31), you fail it, and it takes a bit of time. Furthermore, if you're short on DPS the Enrage timer might become troublesome.

Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion - Simply don't slow the slimes. If you're not well geared bump this up a bit, as I imagine that, for a non-horribly overgeared group, this one could be pretty painful. The abom still has to eat the goo, but this does give him time to help out with DPS more, hurrying the fight along.

Full House - First, pray to your god of choice to make the RNG kind. This one can be very frustrating if you don't get the right mobs turned. Empowered adherents don't count, by the way, so feel free to kill those. We had a hunter kite the deformed around and our OT simply kept aggro on the other mobs and ran around. This does mean your MT will not have a lot of threat, so be careful. If you feel safe doing it, you could have your OT taunt off aswell, but then you have to make sure no one uses any abilities that deal even incidental AoE damage.

Portal Jockey - Do this with 4 healers, if possible. Send 3 in through the portals everytime. It makes the fight go by faster, though you might have some DPS issues if your group isn't quite that well geared yet.

Dances with Ooozes - I'm not sure how hard this is in a properly geared group. You can either merge 2 small ones into a big one, and merge that with another big one, still only increasing the stack by one, or doing what we did - simply leave everyone out and nuking on the boss, only having an OT ready in case a few melee get it and it grows in size.

Easy

Flu Shot Shortage - Have the first two people who get the debuff run out. Then, the next time, have the peopel that got the first batch run out and everyone should have one stack. Then for the third and final, have everyone clump up. Should someone get the debuff twice in a row, just make sure they run out on the third. This one's a bit RNG, I suppose - I guess there's a chance the same person gets the debuff 3 times in which case, just wipe it up and try again. The damage should be fairly easy to heal through.

Once Bitten, Twicy Shy - Not a very hard achievement, in fact, many will get it incidentally. That said, just arrange bite orders properly and if someone doesn't want to get bit, make sure they don't attack the boss until the first bite's gone out. If you can get her down in Heroic, you should not have any issues with biting the 'wrong' people. Will take more than one run to get, however.

I'm on a Boat - Split the raid into half. We left the cannoners on our ship at all times, so each jumping group consisted of 4 players - though you can arrange 5 peopel to jump, if you so chose. Have the first group jump the first two times, and then the second group the last two. After they land the second time, make sure they stay put on the ship in case there's a fifth freeze. Furthermore, don't have them jump around on the ship - It might count as landing an extra time.

Incidental

These ones you, essentially, get by killing the boss in question normally. If you're capable of doing the heroic modes, you probably have the achievements already. But, in case not...

Boned - Make sure that everyone attacks the bone spikes immedeatly. This can be rough in heroic because of the spikes popping up in the Bone Storm phase aswell, so you might want to do it on normal.

I've Gone and Made a Mess - Avoid the beasts like the plague, and don't stand to clumped up. Getting 3 debuffs is common in the Heroic version of the fight, so again, I advice doing this on normal.

The Orb Whisperer - Make sure that the tank on the Shadow guy has his stacks high, and soak as much as possible of the empower flame orbs when the fire guy has the orb.

Removed

Neck-Deep in Vile - This one's not required for the Meta anymore, and as such I haven't done it. It appearently requires pretty heavy ranged AoE stacking, but I really can't comment. It looks pretty rough, though.

Comment by nolervik

Nice list there, Torte. Good job.
We made all of the achievements above on heroic mode, except for professor, sindragos and the lich king ones, so none of them is especially hard. With that said, i mean that if your group is capable of downing the wings on heroic mode, you probably wont have any problems with doing theese achives.

Also, imo, Full House was the most frustrating achivement.

Good luck!

Comment by Hidendra

My group found All You Can Eat the hardest - I was tanking. After a while people got it together and everything synced together.

Full House was probably the next most difficult - even though we only wiped once. The paladin tank was on Deathwhisper in P3 so he could bubble-taunt to reset stacks and I was on adds. I also kited the Deformed, which was actually easy enough to do even with most of the adds bashing on me (one or two were shackled).

Comment by 347772

Does anybody know if the mount rewarded from this achievement will be obtainable in Cataclysm?

Comment by Hidendra

According to GC, they will not be removed in Cataclysm. It's subject to change, of course.

This is all tentative and could change, but we don't really have a problem with protodrake farming. What we will probably do with really unusual mounts like Mimiron's Head and Invincible is make them a rare drop. The 100% drop rate won't make sense when you can overpower the content.

If you want to overpower the content for a drake though, go for it. Players who did it "legit" had the benefit of having the achievement and mount earlier than anyone else. The most prestigious mounts will change in Cataclysm.

Even though the drake in its current state is still very easy and accessible to everyone, no amount of gear will make up for the fact that H Sindy can/will one shot you on Heroic, and all of the other aspects of the encounters and achievements.

Personally I'd prefer if the mount was made unobtainable simply because I already got it and it's a nice status symbol (people have mistaken it for the Furious Glad frost wyrm a few times).

Comment by 455360

I don't think people want it for the 310% if you want a 310% mount just do the freaking "World Events" achievement line and there you go. I think people as myself want it because its only of the cooler mounts in game. But sure if you think it should be taken away then ok. Fine thats cool. Just remember Cata is a fresh start and when theres a cool mount you want and they take it away after Cata then you will feel the same as I

Comment by bozolino

an alternative method to do all you can eat is to zerg her when she enters the last phase... we did it with 1 tank, 1 healer and 8 dps, bl and full dps on her

Comment by 623684

I think everyone is pretty much saying, "If I have the mount already, REMOVE IT IN CATACLYSM. If I don't have it, LEAVE IT IN CATACLYSM"

Comment by dYnkYn

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25578319313&sid=1&pageNo=2

Comment by Ghar

You can't and won't be able to obtain gladiator mounts of previous seasons, why should you be able to get equivalent pve mount from previous content?

That's like saying 'you could get armored nether-drakes from the BC gladiator season, why didn't they remove regular nether-drakes when WotLK came out?'

I fully support leaving the frostbrood in, along with any other achievement mounts.

I absolutely hate when content is removed from a game, regardless of what game. I've gotten my share of discontinued items, but would still rather they stayed in, even if i have it already (with exception to pre-expansion events).

Comment by 715631

Hey guys, do we have some sort of confirmation that this achievement 'Glory of the Icecrown Raider' and its mount should still be available for Cataclysm?

Nothing seems concrete about it except with the most recent updates on the patches for the game imply that we can still get it although I'm puzzled. If this would still appear when Cataclysm finally is released.

Comment by Farlo

Me and a guild/friend group decided to give this a shot last night. All 85s, mostly in heroic gear, so the encounters weren't too difficult. We got to Sindragosa in Heroic and only missed 2 achievements along the way. Vry easy fights in 85 gear, but the strategy from 80 is still needed.

Marrowgar was simple as always, and as long as you get the spikes down, it's easy to do heroic and achievement together.

Deathwhisper was a bit of a pain, and we decided to get heroic in one go, and the achievement in normal next week. Heroic was simple enough, just need an OT for all the adds, and burn her down. Can't forsee any problems next week.

Lootship is fun of course, and we got the achievement in heroic as well, just have your tank hop over and stay there.

Saurfang is also fairly simple, adds are a bit faster, but not much else was changed. The achievement was a lot easier with the boost in dps, so we grabbed both.
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Rotface was fun as always, and as with Saurfang, it became easy to get the achievement in the heroic run.

Festergut was almost a tank and spank with the amoung of health we have now, and as long as people dodge the oozes, you can get the achievement in heroic.

Putricide is still very much the same, but a lot quicker. Just make sure the adds are nuked down quickly and the tank in the Abom doesn't cast Regurgitated Ooze. Overall pretty easy and do-able to get achievement in heroic.
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Blood Princes were simple once the group knew what it was doing, and the achievement is up to the tank on Keleseth, making sure not to get hit hard. Easy enough in heroic, but some might want to do it normal.

Blood Queen, annoyingly, takes two weeks to get the achievement. One simple way is to have everyone get it one week, and the next week have someone who already has both get it first and die. A quick brez and the fight is still easy without any vampires around.
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Dreamwalker was also annoying until the group learned how it worked properly. After that, it's a very very easy fight. We decided we just wanted it done in heroic, so we didn't get both this week. It should be really easy to get the achievement though, just fill all the holes ;).

Sindragosa is also easy once the positioning is right, and with the floating markers, it became even more simple. We got the achievement on heroic just through sheer dps, so it might change depending on the group.
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I'll update this when we down heroic LK tonight, and whether we got the achievement with it. Until then, good luck, and I hope this helps for anyone who still wants their outdated mount :D

Comment by wowgeek123

At level 85, the achievements in ICC become easier than imaginable. The following details what to do with a group of level 85s with par gear (in other words, they can pull 10k+ with the buff).

My group split this into two weeks. The first week, we did achievements, the second week, we did heroics. (the week of heroics is not nearly as long).

-Lord Marrowgar: Easiest boss around. Just kill the spikes and DPS him down. If you do it right, you will have one or even no bone storms.

-Lady Deathwhisper: This one requires the most control of the fight, and it is often RNG based (luck). I found that if you DPS her sheild down to around ~10% (takes 30 seconds to do), and then wait for a couple rounds of adds to spawn, you can adequately guarentee this achievement. One thing though, make sure you have at least TWO adherants and TWO fanatics up at once, because sometimes they can evolve into the reanimated, and the achievement is messed up if you only have one. Anyway, wait at ~10% until every add is present, and the more, the better. Have a hunter or some kiting class ready for the deformed fanatic, and that same hunter can DPS down empowered adherants (they don't count towards the achievement). Once you are sure that the fight cannot go wrong, take out the sheild and her remaining 3 million health.

- Gunship Battle: Well named "Lootship" this encounter is hard to mess up. It is very doable on heroic AND still get the achievement. Simply set to heroic, and send one tank, one healer, and two DPS over to the other side, and have them stay there. A neat trick for the tank on the other boat is that you can rocket onto the top of their ship, and then Muradin throws his hammers at you, but can't reach you. HOWEVER, the hammer has a stacking DoT on the tank that starts dealing around 60k a second. When this happens, go down to Muradin and let him melee you until the stacks drop, then run back up.

- Saurfang: Do this on heroic, and DPS him down. It requires 3 marks or less for the achievement, but he has a mere 10 million health, and goes down quickly, just make sure that the tank rotation is in play, for then he will heal more than your DPS can handle, even at 85.

- Festergut: At level 85, my group took out rotface in 58 seconds. He was able to cast ONE set of spores at this time. If you are confident with your DPS, take him out that way and don't worry about anything else. If you are NOT confident, spread out and then DPS him out, to ensure that no one gets the spore more than twice.

- Rotface: Easy. Just spread out, and DPS him down. If you do this right, only one tank is needed, and only one healer is needed, because of minimal damage, and crazy DPS.

- Professor Putricide: Easily the most retarded and insane achievement, this achievement requires you to NOT use the slow effect on the slimes. Its not that bad really, simply DPS the slimes down with precision, and they won't bother anyone.

- Blood Princes: This achievement is the hardest one to pull off, simply because at level 85, it doesn't matter how much damage you take. Here is a good way to ensure a win: DPS him down really quick, for he only has 5 million health. Bring the three of them close together, so that target switching is easy and no one has to move. SPREAD OUT, if the big ball of fury hits you and you are close to someone, you ruined the achievement. Kinetic orbs are so easy to take out, one DoT from a shadowpriest or a warlock sends em back up. The princes should be dead in less than a minute, and should have no more than one switch if you are good.

- Blood-Queen Lana'thel: Do this on heroic the first time, and normal the second time. Keep track of whoever is NOT a vampire, and then make them a vampire the second time around. This fight is over quickly, so make sure that on the second time, everyone who was not a vampire the first time becomes one.

- Dreamwalker: Contrary to some peoples's beliefs, this achievement does NOT mean to go into a portal for every set of portals, and then it becomes an individual achievement, NO. When dreamwalker spawns portals, she spawns three at a time. As long as three people get into them for every single portals spawning, you got this achievement. Only one tank is needed for this, and it is good to have three designated people for the portals.

- Sindragosa: At level 80, it was possible to zerg this with one tank, one healer and 8 DPS. At level 85, it is impossible NOT to get it this way. Go one tank, one or two healers, and make sure that Bloodlust/Heroism and Time Warp are saved for the last phase.

- Lich King: This is the hardest achievement to pull off, and it is extremely long, and annoying. The entire achievement is in the first phase, and it requires NO DPS on the adds at all. First off, have the people who are dispelling to only dispel once. Have the first person with the debuff step out of the raid to be dispeled, but not on the adds. Have the SECOND person do it on the adds (if the first person did it, the chain dies at around 15, because you run out of adds). Make sure that ALL of the adds are stacked up on each other, and realize that 20 stacks of this debuff will one shot every add it touches, so it is possible to have all of your adds die off. After the second person is dispelled on the adds, every other person after that person has to be dispelled outside the raid. Have your DPS quickly take the LK down to 72% and then have them stop and just chill out. Wait for 30 stacks, and then take LK out of P1. ALSO, if the stacks go onto your tank, dispel them immediately because they will one shot him. This achievement is really difficult in the long run, because after you get P1 right, you still have to take out LK, and it is a difficult fight.

HEROICS:
Pretty much all of them are DPS races, and it doesn't matter much about the mechanics because of our massive health pools.
Make sure you remember what i said above on the Blood Queen fight. Heroic LK is still as bad as ever, and i don't suggest trying it unless you are meaning to get it. It just takes too long, and isn't worth the wiping. A couple fights that need some forwarning.
Blood Princes HEROIC: They have only 7 million health, but the damage going around is very very, high, and you get thrown around like rag dolls. Being thrown around is pretty much impossible to avoid, so my group stayed spread out against the left wall, so you get thrown into the wall, and it doesn't matter (yay!).
Sindragosa HEROIC: Just make sure you get the hell out of the way if u get a mark in P3, because two people get em, and thats a wipe if they freeze a lot of people.

Blizzard Policy: This mount is still obtainable, and still at large, but I don't suggest sitting back in your chairs and thinking along the lines of "I will get it later." This achievement is probably going to go away soon, because it is so easy to get nowadays. I would get it now, because I think that blizzard will soon make it a priority to get these achievements out. I wouldn't be surprised if they got removed in the near future.

ALSO: The 25 man achievement is significantly harder than the 10 man one,(though still pretty easy) but rewards a drake that is almost identical. If you just want a skeleton drake, this one is the one to get just because it is that much easier.

Comment by 426749

My group managed to 1 shot this entire meta in 1 run, here is how we did it (all bosses were done on heroic):

Marrowgar - If you dont get this achive, you have no hope. 1 tank 2 heals

Deathwhisper - We actually 1 tanked this, leaving her mana shield up while we waited for adds to spawn, we marked the ones we needed, and had people kill the ones we already had up, then once we had all adds up, we just burned her down in about 20 seconds with a frost DK sort of tanking. 1 tank 2 heals

Gunship - Left a tank and a DPS over on their gunship (although we had this silly hunter who kept shooting Saurfang, and when you damage him he gets stacks, so by the end he was doing over 1000% increased damage, we healed through it). Easy. 1 tank 2 heals

Saurfang - Just burned him down, most people had this achieve, but it didnt matter, he got 2 marks out, was 20% into his 3rd when he died. 1 tank 2 heals.

Rotface - Burned him down, ignored mechanics. 1 tank 2 heals

Festergut - Burned him down, ignored mechanics. 1 tank 2 heals

Professor Putricide - Just made sure dps swapped to slimes immediately, slimes didnt get anywhere before they dropped, burned PP down easy. 1 tank 2 heal

Blood Princes - Not exactly sure how we got this, I think the tanks just kept up their stacks and we killed them before they did any significant damage to anyone, mostly just burned. 1 tank 2 heal

Blood Queen - Burned her down, ignored mechanics, we organized before hand who absolutely did need a bite and who didnt, then bit/didnt bite people as appropriate. 1 tank 2 heal

Dreamwalker - We actually wiped on this because one of our healers was derping and not entering portals so we didnt actually heal her fast enough and hit enrage timer since we were 2 healing. Did it again, had both healers in the portals, healed her up in seconds. 1 tank 2 heal

Sindragosa - This is again a DPS race, however the aerial phase is still a challenge of sorts, as autoattacks bring the Ice Tombs down FAR to quickly, and the bombs will still 1 shot people on heroic. Thus, we simply had DPS do nothing, do ZERO DAMAGE to the tombs until she landed, and then had them burn the tombs down in seconds as soon as she landed. Then, once we got to the final phase, we blew hero and burned her before Magic Buffet got to 4 stacks. 1 tank 2 heal

Lich King - This was a challenge to do on heroic, so to be safe we used 2 tanks and 3 heals.

Positioning: We had the main tank and the melee stand on lich king at the bottom of the steps, the OT standing off to the left with all the adds, and a marker on the ground to the right for Necrotic dumps. Ranged stood basically right behind the melee
Necrotic Strategy: In order to get the required 30 stacks of Necrotic Plague, we had our DPS burn LK down to about 78% then stop (DoTs finished him down to about 75%) and then they just stood there. This was key, since if the DPS damages LK or the adds, you will most likely fail due to lack of adds or pushing to the next phase. In order to make sure we had enough adds to sustain Necrotic Plague after ~25 stacks, we had the first two people run away from the raid to the designated dump point on the right and then dispelled it off of them, far enough away from the raid that it did not jump. Then we had the 3rd person who got Necrotic Plague run over to the adds and dispelled it off of him so it jumped to the adds. Every subsequent person who got Necrotic Plague ran to the dump point and had it dispelled away from the raid, to prevent stacks from hopping from say 29 to 31 (it is possible this bug was fixed, we did not want to take chances)

After Necrotic Plague reached 30 stacks we simply burned away the last 5% of his health and pushed him into the transition phase and the fight progressed as normal. We chose to 3 heal this because as this was on heroic mode, the LK does a fairly significant amount of damage in the first place, this tied with the ~70% damage buff he gets from all the Necrotic Plague jumps makes 2 healing this slightly risky, doable, but a little risky. Thus we played it safe and got the kill.

Hope this helped everyone, best of luck!

Comment by Syllvos

Important to note that these achievements are now easily doable with heroic modes on, even shorthanded. Don't be afraid to go all in if you're with a good group!

Comment by 939352

Last night, patch 4.3 we did a guild run on HC mode through ICC to get all of these achievements in one go.
Other than Once bitten, twice shy we easily managed to do the whole thing in one go on HC mode. Even the LK one + Neck-Deep in Vile.

Our group 8-9 ppl (all 85, Item lvl around 388 I would say)

1. Paladin tank
1. DK tank
1. Paladin healer
1. Druid healer (joined at 5th boss)
1. Mage
1. Warlock
2. Hunters
1. Boomkin Druid (left after Sindragosa)

1st boss - Lord Marrogar & Boned
Very easy one on HC with achievement combined. Just make sure you stack up so people can get the spikes down under 8 seconds. Which is not hard at all.. max it took us was 2-3 seconds. This can only go wrong if you spread and people have to look for the location of the spiked player. Honestly, don't worry about the fires on the ground anymore. It was easy for the paladin healer to heal everyone through it and whilst the DPS just kept nuking the boss.

2nd boss - Lady Deathwhisper & Full House
We actually wiped on the first try because the healer was assigned to do the marking of the 5 mobs that need to stay alive during the fight and thus forgot to heal. The raid still takes some serious dmg. You be smart to assign the tanks to do the marking. Our tanks just marked the mobs that were allowed to be killed with skull. The 5 adds that need to stay alive are: Deformed Fanatic, Reanimated Fanatic, Reanimated Adherent, Cult Fanatic and Cult Adherent. Once you've collected all 5 types, nuke the boss. Still a bit healing intense but can be 1-man healed!

3rd boss - Gunship Battle & I'm on a boat
Piece of cake, battle mage is down pretty much instant which allows you to keep dps'ing on the enemy ship. Just make sure 1 tank and 1 dps jump the first two times, then switch to the other tank and another dps. That should be enough. Maybe as back up have another set of 2 ready to jump. Everyone should atleast grab a parachute! Just to be sure...

4th boss - The Deathbringer &I've gone and made a mess
Nuke, nuke, nuke. Done. That easy :)

5th boss - Rotface & Dances with Oozes
Have your raid spreadout around his circle, make sure dispellers are dispelling.. Nuke it :)

6th boss -Festergut & Flu Shot Shortage
Exactly same tactic as Rotface, spread around his circle and nuke :) We didn't even get to 3 spores. If that does happen.. have the player with Spores on their head move away from eachother.

7th boss - Putricide & Nausea, Heartbum, Indigestion...
Very easy... pretty much a dps nuke fest. Just don't use the slow ability etc. We did still nuke the oozes that spawned and had a tank in the abomination :)

8th boss - Blood Prince Council & The Orb Whisperer
We did nothing different than usual other than having a paladin resistance aura up. Regular tactics and dps'ing should do the trick.

9th boss - Blood-Queen & Once bitten, Twice Shy
This one is a bit a sad achievement if you've never been in ICC before, it requires two runs to complete... You've to defeat her once whilst you're a vampire and once whilst you're not. So unfortunately if you haven't done this boss yet... you will have to go again. In our case, raid had to stop with DPS until everyone that needed to be bitten was bitten, she could have been dead much quicker if we didn't have to wait for the bite ability to proc. Person who starts dps'ing will be first to be bitten. Smart is, especially if you're not on TS or something, to discuss bite order before engaging into the encounter.

10th boss - Dreamwalker & Portal Jockey
This one is actually more tricky than you would think, we had 3 people jumping in the portals, both healers and a dps (hunter). The hunter just went in and didn;t take any of the red glow, this way the healers could get as many stacks as possible :) She should be fully healed ONLY when there are NO portals up. You will fail if the portals start spawning or have spawned and she reaches 100% health. So make sure she's on like 95% jump in the portals, when you get out, heal that last 5%... you only have a few seconds between each go before new portals spawn. So be careful :)

11th boss - Sindragosa & All you can eat
We had so much DPS she didn't even got to her regular flying phase where she does those white dots on the floor. We went from initial pull into 3rd phase due to DPS being so high. Incase you've a bit lower dps than us, make sure your raid knows how to do the whole iceblock positioning + dodging the white damage bulbs.. it can still wipe your raid at 85. Tactics = power. To escape 5 stacks of mystic buffet.. run behind an iceblock out of LoS from Sindragosa and wait till your debuff despawns. We didn't need to do this. I had 3 stacks when she died.

12th boss - Lich King + Been waiting a Long Time for This + Neck-Deep in Vile
Our biggest problem with this was the shortage of ghouls to keep the plague up. We pretty much did no DPS untill we reached the 30 stacks. First plague was dispelled out of the group, after that it was just regular tactics from HC move from shadow traps, dispell plague at tanks etc etc. 2nd phase nothing different tbh, then you all get pulled below him.. kill ALL the spirits! Once you get back up, spread... devile inc! Devile WILL wipe you if people keep staying it. Finish the remaining spirits.. finish the LK... Done :)

Goodluck!

Comment by caltoro

Mail after do glory:
From: Highlord Darion Mograine
Subject: Glory of the Icecrown Raider

Caltoro,

As the Lich King's influence wanes, some of his more powerful minions have wrested free of his grasp.

This frost wyrm drake my men captured is a prime example. She has a will of her own and then some.

One of my men lost an arm breaking her in, but she now takes to riders fairly well -- provided they themselves are skilled and strong willed.

Please accept this magnificent beast as a gift from the Knights of the Ebon Blade. It was an honor to fight along your side in this greatest of battles.

With honor,
Darion Mograine

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Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player)

Complete the 10-player raid achievements listed below.

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	Boned (10 player) (1)
	I'm on a Boat (10 player) (1)
	Dances with Oozes (10 player) (1)
	Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion... (10 player) (1)
	Once Bitten, Twice Shy (10 player) (1)
	All You Can Eat (10 player) (1)
	Heroic: Storming the Citadel (10 player) (1)
	Heroic: The Crimson Hall (10 player) (1)

	Full House (10 player) (1)
	I've Gone and Made a Mess (10 player) (1)
	Flu Shot Shortage (10 player) (1)
	The Orb Whisperer (10 player) (1)
	Portal Jockey (10 player) (1)
	Been Waiting a Long Time for This (10 player) (1)
	Heroic: The Plagueworks (10 player) (1)
	Heroic: The Frostwing Halls (10 player) (1)

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	Reins of the Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher

Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player)

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