Last night in my 10 man raid, we decided to try to get all the achievements for Glory of the Icecrown Raider and get some sweet 310% mounts. Eight of the ten of us had already gotten all the heroic wings achievements when they went 10/12 HMs in one night and got heroic Sindy on 10 man the next week so all they needed were the achievements. I was on vacation the night they went 10/12 HMs so I still need 10 man HM Festergut, Professor Putricide, Blood Council, Blood Queen, and Dreamwalker to get my mount.
If you are interested in getting your sweet mount from 10 man ICC (You can see the mount's on my guilds website on the right side bar. We are currently recruiting a mage.), let me walk you through each of the achievements and how to get them. As mentioned above, you also have to beat all the bosses except LK on HM to get this achievement and get the mount. However, these achievements can be done in normal mode. Also, if you notice a link in the achievement name, I have tried to link the cultural reference with the achievement.
Boned - You may have gotten this one already in your dealings with Lord Marrowgar. It is pretty simple with good DPS and on non-heroic mode. Just kill all the bone spikes under 8 seconds.
Full House - Just like in poker, you will need 3 of a kind and a 2 of a kind for this Lady Deathwhisper achievement. For the 3 of a kind, you will need all 3 different types of fanatics (cult, deformed, reanimated). For the 2 of a kind, you will need both types of adherents (cult, reanimated). You will also need to keep them up for the entire Lady Deathwhisper fight. This is probably the second hardest achievement to get. You will need a hunter to kite the deformed fanatic. One of your tanks can handle the other 4 adds. What this means is that you will have only one tank tanking Lady Deathwhisper the entire fight. You will need misdirects from hunters (if they are not using it themselves on the deformed fanatics) and tricks of the trade from the rogues so the tank can keep aggro due to the stacking debuff.
I'm On a Boat - On lootship, you just have to make sure that no person goes to the opposite faction's airship more than twice. This really should be done on normal mode to just kill the ship as quickly as possible. You are going to have to split your tanks and DPS into two groups. Each group will stay over for two ice mages. By the time, the opposite ship should be going down in flames. Also, if you're in the last group that goes over, you can stay on the other ship because it will teleport you up to Saurfang once it goes down.
I've Gone and Made a Mess - Probably the easiest achievement of the bunch. If your DPS is sufficient and good at minimizing Saurfang's gaining of Blood Power, you will easily kill him before 5 Marks go out.
Dances with Oozes - It is amazing how fast you can kill Rotface on normal when you don't have DPS going around and trying to combine slimes. The goal of this achievement is to make sure that you don't get an ooze explosion or in other words, combine 5 slimes. The easiest way to do this is just burn the boss, move out of slime spray, but don't kite. If by chance, two of the slimes do get together, have the OT pick up those two slimes and kite away from the other slimes. I don't even think we got 5 mutated injections. This is really a test of your healers being able to keep up people with slimes hitting them.
Flu Shot Shortage - Very easy achievement to get here, but can be tough if you get to the Pungent Blight. The first set of people who get spores moves away from everybody. So does the second set of people. For the third set of spores, everybody stacks up so that everybody in the raid has 1 to 2 stacks of the inoculation. If the RNG is cruel and somebody gets picked for spores twice in a row, they will not be able to get the third stack and must move out of the raid. If it does get to Pungent Blight (it did not happen for us), then people will need to use cooldowns to keep themselves alive.
Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion - This is where having very high DPS will help you out immensely. The main key to this achievement is that the OT in the abomination will not slow down Professor Putricide's unstable experiment slimes at all. The way we handled this achievement was to set up on the right side of the room. When the green slime comes out, we blow it up immediately. When the orange slime comes out, we have range get on it early and kill it. The quicker you can get through phase 1 and phase 2, the easier this achievement is.
The Orb Whisperer - If everybody is doing what they should do in the Blood Council fight, you probably already have this achievement. The key is nobody can take more than 23,000 spell damage from a single hit in 10 man mode. This means three things. One, nobody near each up during empowered shockwave. Two, the person targeted with empowered flame has to run and kite through as many people as possible. Three, kinetic bombs must be kept up. These are all things you should be doing anyway during the fight.
Once Bitten, Twice Shy - This is the achievement that will require you to do Blood Queen twice, but it is pretty simple. One week, you have to beat her while a vampire. The other week, you have to beat her while you are not. If you run with a regular 10 man, you will likely find that the healers and tanks need to be bitten and the DPS does not for your entire raid to get the achievement.
Portal Jockey - This achievement wins the award for the most confusing description for an achievement. Reading it at first glance, it appears that everybody has to enter both portals. That is not the case. The key to this achievement is that the healers must enter all available portals. For 10 man, there will be two portals. Just make sure your healers are communicating which portals they are going into so they hit all of them.
All You Can Eat - Far and away, this is the hardest non-heroic achievement in this meta. During the Sindragosa fight, nobody can get more than 5 stacks of the mystic buffet debuff. The key here is the tanks have to clear their stack on every other iceblock. The easiest way to do this is to have the tanks on opposite sides of Sindragosa. Yes, you do run the risk of a tank being tail swiped, but that should not happen to often. During Phase 3, you will drop the very first ice block on the side with the tank who is tanking her at the start. DO NOT DPS the iceblock. When the OT clears his initial stack, he will run to the other side and taunt. At this time, two things should be happening. One, the second iceblock should be moving to the OT side. Two, the first tank should be clearing his stacks behind the first iceblock. After he clears his stack, you can DPS the block down. From there, you just alternate sides with the tanks letting them clear their stacks every time before DPSing the iceblock down. The tanks will likely get about 3-4 stacks each time, but they will be able to clear in time. It may take a few times to get this right, but once you do, it will be achievement unlocked.
Been Waiting a Long Time for This - And, yes, you will have to wait a long time for killing the LK to get this achievement. You have to get a stack of necrotic plague during phase 1 of the LK fight to 30. Note that once you do get the stack of 30, you can clear it then and still get the achievement. Rule 1: No AoE. The OT will need all the ghouls he can get his hands on to pass along the necrotic plague. This also means no Starfall during Phase 1. :( Rule 2: Only the first person who gets necrotic plague will run to the OT's mobs. Everybody else will run the opposite direction to have it cleared. The reason for this is having two necrotic plagues on mobs kill them so quickly that you aren't able to stack the first necrotic plague. Rule 3: Burn the LK down to about 75% and then stop DPS. You will be waiting for the stacks of necrotic plague to build up. Once the OT mobs hit 30 stacks, burn LK down to 70% to initiate the transition to phase 2. From there, you have to kill LK. This is a really tough achievement if you have not gotten to the point where you can one shot LK on normal because you will have to do this all again if you wipe, which means more waiting.
And this is all the non-heroic achievements that you need to get Glory of the Icecrown Raider. After this, you have to beat all the bosses except LK in heroic mode to get your nice shiny mount.
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