In this 5-minute video, I'll show you how I farm Icecrown Citadel 25-man raid (Heroic) on multiple toons without having to clear the trash and other bosses on all of them.
ICC is the final raid zone from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and is easily soloable by most DPS classes level 90 and up. The final boss (the Lich King himself) can only be accessed if you clear all* the other bosses in the raid first, which makes farming him a bit of a chore if you don't know this trick.
*You CAN skip Valithria Dreamwalker, by skirting around the right side of her room to the elevator down to Sindragosa's level.
Why would anyone want to farm ICC? Well, if you kill the Lich King in 25-man Heroic mode, he has a chance to drop one of the rarest mounts in the game: Invincible's Reins. This mount will ONLY drop from 25-man heroic LK, and only has a 1% chance of dropping. If you don't want to spend an hour or more on every alt you have to farm this raid, then here's how to go about making your runs quick and easy:
- On your main toon, fly to ICC in Northrend, and set the raid difficulty to 25-man NORMAL before you enter. (Yes, normal.)
- Clear the raid bosses up to and including Sindragosa.
- Turn around and ride up the right-side ramp off Sindragosa's balcony and use the teleporting pad to port to Light's Hammer, then exit the raid out the entrance portal.
- Once outside, open up Raid Finder, and start a custom group. Name it whatever you want, and make sure you check auto-accept. If all the alts you'll be using happen to be in the same guild as your main, you can also check the box that says "private." This will keep random players from joining the group. You can always just kick them, though.
- After you've created the group, log out, and log into the alt you want to run next (ALT#1). Open up the custom group search in Raid Finder, search for your group, and join it. Auto-accept should add you into the group immediately. Wait a minute or so after joining and it should automatically make you the leader.
(Note: Do NOT ever kick your main toon from the group.) - Go to ICC, and outside the raid portal set the raid difficulty to 25-man NORMAL. Even if it already says you're set to 25N, just do it again anyway.
- Enter the raid, and a lockout warning box should pop up. Hover over it to see which bosses are still alive; their names will be green. Lich King should be green. If you don't get a lockout warning, or if it says 12/12, or his name is red, exit the raid, set to 25 normal again and enter again to retry.
- Accept the 25-Normal lockout. Then while inside the raid, change the difficulty to 25-Heroic. The raid will reload and you'll get a new lockout warning box, this time for heroic. Again, make sure the Lich King's name is green before you accept.
- After accepting the heroic lockout, run to the teleporter in Light's Hammer and teleport to Upper Spire. Run up the ramp and across the center platform, and it will automatically transport you to the LK's throne. Talk to Tirion to start the battle.
(Note: A 110 makes this fight trivial, but make sure to don't step in black puddles in phase one, or let the falling ice spheres touch you in phase 2--kill them immediately with a ranged attack or they'll blow you off the platform to your death no matter what level you are). - Kill the LK, sit through a couple minutes of roleplay and loot him.
- If you don't get the mount, hearth and logout, then start again at step number 5 with your next alt. If you're on Alt #2 or beyond, make sure you kick the previous alt from the group before entering the raid, but leave your main toon in the group at all times.
- Once you're out of alts to run it for the week, you have a choice to make: log back into your main toon to kill him one last time on 25 Heroic, OR you can just NOT kill him on your main, then extend your lockout to prevent having to clear the raid next week.
- If you go with the second option, wait until Tuesday rolls around (which is when raid lockouts usually reset.) Login to your main. Hit "O" to bring up the social menu. Click the Raids tab, then the Raid Info button. It will say Expired on Icecrown Citadel, but you can click that and choose to extend the lockout. Go to step #4 of this guide and start the process over again of killing him on all your alts. This will keep you from having to clear trash and bosses in ICC each week.
I hope this helps you with farming the Lich King, and good luck on getting that mount!!
As a side note, I really love how the music matched up with the video-- "into the air" during the gunship battle, etc. It wasn't planned that way, but it really worked out!
Music: Vanishing by A Perfect Circle
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