I did UP (non-heroic) on the weekend with my team for the elder achievement in there, and yes Skadi was a real learning curve.

My team:


  • Prot pally - 25K HP, 510 defense (I know I am under the cap, working on it)
  • Moonkin - 1900 spell damage (all Naxx 25 man gear, he's my raiding main although I play resto in raids, I was respecced for the weekend)
  • 3 x Elemental shammys - 1300 spell damage each
I didn't use the reset trick, and wiped 3 times before I got it got him down. The only real issue I had was with the 3 ranged at the end of the hall, because if I parked up there to deal with them it was too hard to see where the aoe frost was going to land. So, I would park the team half way, run up and grab everyone then train them back down until they were aound my team, run the tank back into their mix, dropped 3 x magma totems and healing streams, and basically killed them as fast as I could.

Once that was done I parked my team 30 yards away from the harpoons, gathered up any new spawns, and when prompted used the harpoons on each thrower. He dropped, and it was a tank and spank, using the new pally single taunt once whirlwind starts.

Note that I had the druid healing since I didn't really have the macros setup to get the most out of the moonkin dps and he had the biggest mana pool.

I'll try it on heroic once I get the team better geared.