Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle defeated

[puppychow]

after you farm 5 harpoons and reset him, you quickly run to the end of the hallway by the harpoon machines. You park your entire team in the little room, all the way by the back (the frost on ground can hit the outer part of the room). They all drop magma totem every 15 secs. Now, one of your DPSers (not your tank or healer) go run to where skadi is. Make sure your tank starts AOE (either consecrate or D&D), your magma totems refresh, and have the DPSer aggro skadi.

now every single mob respawns in that tiny little room -- like 20 mobs or so. Your pally/DK should pick them up instantly, since he is the only one doing threat moves -- the shamans just have magma down for the first few secs. Wait to heal until the tank is at 50% or so, don't want to heal too early or all the mobs will aggro your healer and kill him. Meanwhile you still need to run the DPSer back to the team and put him in position (i run mage/3 shammy/pally tank team, so I just run the mage down and back since he has no totem).

DONT bring skadi down first pass, wait until everything is dead and 2 packs start spawning. Kill them fast, your tank should have the harpoons and go out and blast off 5 harpoons on skadis 2nd pass (about 50-60 seconds after event has started). He will land, move the tank as far away as you can while still being in LOS, kill any adds that are still up, replace magma totems with regular totems (plus poison), and taunt skadi whenever he is halfway to team.

If you search youtube for videos of skadi achievement you will see this strat, since its pretty much the only way to do the 3 min skadi kill achievement. Its also an easy way to do the bring-grauf-down-in-1-pass achievement, I've done them both this way.

[Terraelf]

You say farm harpoons and reset him. Ok I can do that. But then you say have one guy run and aggro him. This confuses me. Once you reset him and run back in you cannot run to the end without being swarmed by half the mobs half way to the end. Unless you have some mega speed buff I cant get to the end after resetting him without a crap load of mobs swarming us.

I've been doing Heroic UP with just my tank trying to get the Red Sword of Courage and we've been using this method. Bsaically you start him.. run back into the previous room from the last boss about half way until you drop out of combat.. then run back full speed and you can get behind where the boss starts before he respawns. So you start in the very back of the room and got back ther ewithout fighting anything.

[Dorffo]

I finally got this fight down more or less after 4 evenings of wiping on it after hitting up my other heroics...

bad ascii map:
x = harpoons
Skadi = skadi!


--------| x x x
adds
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Skadi starts here
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entrance
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1. start event by farming harppoons at the entrance end, get 5-7 (I like to pickup a few extra in case I have a newb moment) this will take a couple minutes as your waiting for harpooners to run down.
2. after aquiring said harpoons run out and reset the event, you have about 30 seconds before skadi and his ride come back and take their position at the entrance.
3. while he's despawned, run your whole team down to the room to the left of the harpoons (where the adds come out of)
4. set up, buff up, mana up etc
5. run a dps down towards the entrance and start the event again
6. As soon as he yells and hops on the drake, you'll get the whole gauntlet spawning on top of your team huddled in the little room there - be ready they usually are mostly dead by the time I get my sham who started the event back down to the rest of the crew (3x magma + concescrate).
7. Kill the adds, wait for first breath pass then plink away on the harpoons the next time he comes around and continue to kill him as noted above.

Key things to note: The doorway to the little room next to the harpoons is still within the AE strip he breathes, so be sure you're hugging the back wall. There will be 2-4 adds up when skadi lands, they need to be burned ASAP or the casters will own your dps/heals.

That's what's been working for me

[pinotnoir]

I see.. My problem was after I reset it he spawned because I didnt know I needed to bolt to the other end right after it reset. He would be there after I reset him and when I tried to run to the other end everything would spawn again. With this new information I will try him again.

[Dorffo]

I see.. My problem was after I reset it he spawned because I didnt know I needed to bolt to the other end right after it reset. He would be there after I reset him and when I tried to run to the other end everything would spawn again. With this new information I will try him again.

thats why I submitted the bad diagram... I had the same issue exactly.