Icecrown Citadel (instance)

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For the greater complex of which this dungeon is a part, see Icecrown Citadel.

Icecrown Citadel
IC, IC10, IC25
Icecrown Citadel loading screen
Location	Icecrown Citadel, Icecrown Glacier
Race(s)	Scourge
End boss	The Lich King
Instance info
Type	Raid
Advised level	80
Player limit	10/25
Bosses Lord Marrowgar Lady Deathwhisper Icecrown Gunship Battle Deathbringer Saurfang Festergut Rotface Professor Putricide Blood Princes Blood-Queen Lana'thel Valithria Dreamwalker Sindragosa The Lich King (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) Other Icecrown Citadel instances The Forge of Souls (5) Pit of Saron (5) Halls of Reflection (5)
Other raids
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Icecrown Citadel
The Frozen Halls
The Forge of Souls (5)
Bronjahm Devourer of Souls
Pit of Saron (5)
Forgemaster Garfrost Krick and Ick Scourgelord Tyrannus
Halls of Reflection (5)
Falric Marwyn The Lich King
Icecrown Citadel (10/25)
Lower Spire Lord Marrowgar Lady Deathwhisper Icecrown Gunship Battle Deathbringer Saurfang The Plagueworks Festergut Rotface Professor Putricide The Crimson Hall Blood Princes (Valanar, Keleseth and Taldaram) Blood-Queen Lana'thel Frostwing Halls Valithria Dreamwalker Sindragosa The Frozen Throne The Lich King

Icecrown Citadel is planned to be released in patch 3.3. This raid is the pinnacle of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Contents 1 Layout 1.1 Zone map 1.2 Difficulty 1.3 Access progression 2 Dungeon Denizens 2.1 Bosses and encounters 2.2 NPCs, Bosses and Monsters 3 Related achievements 4 Gallery 5 Patch changes 6 References 7 External links

Layout

• 4 floors and 12 boss encounters
• Chill of the Throne is zone-wide and allows all creatures to ignore 20% of a player's dodge rating, much like Sunwell Radiance.^[1]
• Waypoints and teleporters are being reused here because the instance is really big. The instance is built around the spire where the Frozen Throne sits
  • On the second floor, players will have to board an airship with their faction leader and race against the other faction to reach the third floor. Players will eventually board their ship with rocket packs and catapults to fight them
  • The third floor seems to be the biggest one and will feature 3 wings
  • The fourth floor is where players will fight the Lich King.

Zone map

The instance maps were added in build 10554 of the PTR. The very first build shipped maps that the Blizzard artists use to create the styled maps. The maps were updated a few builds later with the in-game style.

Light's Hammer Lord Marrowgar Lady Deathwhisper	Icecrown Gunship Battle	Deathbringer Saurfang	Rimafang Spinestalker Sindragosa
Festergut, Rotface Professor Putricide Blood-Queen Lana'thel Valithria Dreamwalker	Blood Princes	The Lich King	Frostmourne

Difficulty

Icecrown Citadel will be home of the updated instance difficulty setting which can be changed on a boss per boss basis. It will be able to be switched at any time during a raid without leaving and reentering the instance.

Some restrictions on when you cannot change it will be in place. Such as, you cannot change the difficulty in combat or during certain scripted events. To enable it you will have first have to have defeated the Lich King on normal mode, and heroic mode will not affect trash in anyway and will only change the bosses.^[2]

Access progression

Icecrown Citadel will be split into four sections for release, in the following order: The Lower Spire (the first four bosses), the Plagueworks (the next three), the Crimson Hall (the next two), and Frostwing Halls (the last three). There will be a period of some weeks after the opening of the first section before going on into the second. The Lich King may not be fought until Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel and Sindragosa are dead. Any heroic modes may not be attempted until the Lich King has been defeated on normal mode, and you cannot face the Lich King on heroic mode during that week's lockout unless you defeat Putricide, Lana'thel and Sindragosa on heroic mode.

In addition, there will be limited attempts on the four most difficult encounters - Putricide, Lana'thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King - similar to the Tribute Chest for Trial of the Grand Crusader (with the exception of there being no reward for completing the instance before the attempts run out). This symbolizes the support (in the form of troops and materiel) provided by the Ashen Verdict. The number of available attempts will increase in increments as the raid sections open; when the second section (with Putricide) opens, players will have five attempts; the third (Lana'thel) will boost that to ten, and the final (Sindragosa/Lich King) will boost it to a total of fifteen. The number will increase further in the weeks after all twelve encounters are open, indicating the growing strength of the Ashen Verdict. Once all of the attempts run out, these four bosses will despawn for the week.^[3]

Dungeon Denizens

Ghostcrawler had stated that there would be 31 bosses in the Citadel,^[4] but later admitted it was a joke.^[5] It was later confirmed at Blizzcon that Icecrown would contain 12 bosses, plus an additional 7 in the 5-man wings.

Bosses and encounters

The Lower Spire

• Lord Marrowgar
• Lady Deathwhisper
• Icecrown Gunship Battle
• Deathbringer Saurfang, described as "the Lich King's most powerful death knight"

The Plagueworks

• Festergut
• Rotface
• Professor Putricide

The Crimson Hall

• Blood Princes
  • Prince Valanar
  • Prince Keleseth
  • Prince Taldaram
• Blood-Queen Lana'thel

Frostwing Halls

• Valithria Dreamwalker
• Sindragosa, former consort of Malygos, raised as the Queen of the Frostbrood. Shown in several promotional pieces and the login screen.

The Frozen Throne

• The Lich King, master of the Scourge, will be the final boss of Icecrown Citadel.^[6]

NPCs, Bosses and Monsters

Zone	Monsters	Boss	NPCs
Light's Hammer	The Damned		Muradin Bronzebeard Highlord Tirion Fordring Alchemist Finklestein <Ashen Verdict Quartermaster> Goodman the "Closer" <Emblem of Frost Quartermaster> Malfus Grimfrost <Mage Armor> Crusader Grimtong <Warrior Armor> Crusader Halford <Paladin Armor> Jedebia <Shaman Armor> Highlord Darion Mograine Alana Moonstrike <Druid Armor> Talan Moonstrike <Hunter Armor> Niby the Almighty <Warlock Armor> Ormus the Penitent <Death Knight Armor> High Overlord Saurfang Scott the Merciful <Priest Armor> Yili <Rogue Armor>
The Lower Spire	The Damned	Lord Marrowgar  Lady Deathwhisper  Icecrown Gunship Battle  Deathbringer Saurfang
The Spire	Val'kyr Herald
The Plagueworks	Vengeful Fleshripper	Festergut  Rotface  Professor Putricide
The Crimson Hall		Blood Princes  Blood-Queen Lana'thel
Frostwing Halls	Sister Svalna  Ymirjar Battle-Maiden  Ymirjar Huntress  Ymirjar Warrior	Valithria Dreamwalker  Sindragosa	Captain Arnath Captain Brandon Captain Grondel Captain Rupert Crok Scourgebane <Grand Champion of the Ebon Blade>
Frozen Throne		The Lich King

Related achievements

10-player mode	25-player mode	Objective
Lower Spire
Storming the Citadel ( Heroic)	Storming the Citadel ( Heroic)	Defeat the first four bosses in Icecrown Citadel
Boned	Boned	Defeat Lord Marrowgar without anyone being impaled for more than 8 seconds
Full House	Full House	Defeat Lady Deathwhisper with at least five different types of Cultists active at the time of her demise
I'm on a Boat	I'm on a Boat	Claim victory in the Icecrown Gunship Battle without any raid member visiting the enemy gunship more than once
I've Gone and Made a Mess	I've Gone and Made a Mess	Defeat the Deathbringer before Mark of the Fallen Champion is cast three times
Plagueworks
The Plagueworks ( Heroic)	The Plagueworks ( Heroic)	Defeat the bosses of The Plagueworks in Icecrown Citadel
Flu Shot Shortage	Flu Shot Shortage	Defeat Festergut while none of the players in your raid group ever had 3 stacks of Inoculated
Dances with Oozes	Dances with Oozes	Defeat Rotface without a Big Ooze casting Unstable Ooze Explosion
Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion...	Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion...	Defeat Professor Putricide without using Regurgitated Ooze on the Abomination
Crimson Hall
The Crimson Hall ( Heroic)	The Crimson Hall ( Heroic)	Defeat the bosses of The Crimson Hall in Icecrown Citadel
The Orb Whisperer	The Orb Whisperer	Defeat the Blood Council without anyone in the raid taking more than 21,000 spell damage in a single hit.
Once Bitten, Twice Shy	Once Bitten, Twice Shy	Defeat the Blood Queen once as a vampire and again without becoming a vampire
Frostwing Halls
The Frostwing Halls ( Heroic)	The Frostwing Halls ( Heroic)	Defeat the bosses of The Frostwing Halls in Icecrown Citadel
Portal Jockey	Portal Jockey	Enter every portal spawned by Valithria Dreamwalker before healing her to full health
All You Can Eat	All You Can Eat	Defeat Sindragosa without any member of your raid receiving more than 4 stacks of Mystic Buffet.
Frozen Throne
Fall of the Lich King ( Heroic)	Fall of the Lich King ( Heroic)	Defeat every boss in Icecrown Citadel
The Frozen Throne	The Frozen Throne	Defeat the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel
Bane of the Fallen King	The Light of Dawn	Defeat the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel in Heroic mode
Been Waiting a Long Time for This	Been Waiting a Long Time for This	Allow Necrotic Plague to stack to 30 before defeating the Lich King
Neck-Deep in Vile	Neck-Deep in Vile	Kill every Vile Spirit that spawns before it explodes and then defeat the Lich King

Gallery

Icecrown Citadel

Icecrown Citadel's door broken

Entering the instance

Patch changes

• Patch 3.3.0 (PTR): Added.
  

References

External links

v • d • e Subzones of Icecrown Citadel Cathedral of Darkness · Corp'rethar: The Horror Gate · The Crimson Hall · Frostwing Halls · The Frozen Throne · Light's Hammer · The Lower Spire · Naz'anak: The Forgotten Depths · The Plagueworks · The Spire

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