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Has anyone run Pinnacle (regular or heroic) as a single person controlling tank/DPS? I got up to Skadi no problem, but the gauntlet is problematic -- I can get to the end usually, but its a lot of coordination trying to fire off harpoons, tank the new adds coming in, heal the tank and the team, and DPS the adds. I almost always end up pulling heal aggro, having a shaman die, and then the tank dies

If anyones done it and has any tips, would love to hear them. One trick is to just run the gauntlet and loot a bunch of harpoons, then run all the way back out to the start -- the boss resets and you keep the harpoons. Still, doesn't help much with the actual mechanics at the end of the hall.
I've beaten Skadi once, but I'm basically having the same problems as you. What you can do is bunch up in a corridor in the room at the end for the passage (where the mobs spawn) and then when you've beaten down the two mobs spawing, run out with the tank and fire some harpoons. This poses two problems however. First of all, there's the hell that is getting down there. I've only managed to do this three times. Secondly, if you use this tactic, you'll need to tank Skadi inside the room, leaving very little room for error when he whirlwinds.

There's a bug you can use (I tried it, it works fine but I want to beat the encounter in the normal way since it feels sort of like exploiting), where you start the fight, then run back into the room before Skadi. The encounter resets and you have 30 secs to run down to the end before Skadi respawns. You park your party down there, including the tank, and use a dps char to run down and restart the encounter. You then AE tank the whole bunch (it's very doable) and proceed from there.