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MobSkadi the Ruthless
Image of Skadi the Ruthless
Race Frost vrykul (Undead)
Location Utgarde Pinnacle
Status Killable
Utgarde Pinnacle

Svala Sorrowgrave
Gortok Palehoof
Skadi the Ruthless
King Ymiron

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Loot

Skadi the Ruthless is a frost vrykul and the third boss of Utgarde Pinnacle, a wing of Utgarde Keep.

Attacks and abilities

Crush - Deals about 10k physical damage to the target.

Poisoned Spear - applies a DoT (damage over time) that does several thousand damage per tick.

Whirlwind - standard whirlwind ability, doing 6-7k on plate, capable of moving while using whirlwind. Skadi the Ruthless is susceptible to disarm abilities even on Heroic mode.

Strategies

This fight is relatively complicated but not difficult once learned.

When the fight begins, Skadi the Ruthless will mount his proto-drake and fly up into the air, beginning a gauntlet style event. Your party must work their way about 150 yards up a hallway fighting 4-5 waves of 5-6 Frost Vrykul each.

While you are fighting through the gauntlet, Skadi will fly over on his drake and cast frostfire on the ground in long strips. Standing in the fire does ~3k a second. It is useful to have a member of the party aware of Skadi's movement so that you can predict and call which side of the hall his breath will be cast on.

Ymirjar Harpooners will drop harpoons that stick in the ground. Party members need to loot the harpoons along the way.

When you reach the end of the gauntlet, there are three harpoon guns mounted on the edge of the keep. Occasionally you will see the emote that "Skadi is in Range of the Harpoons" and a party member, who has a harpoon, needs to use the harpoon gun. An effective strategy is to assign a single player to collect the harpoons and fire them at Skadi. Several harpoons can be fired in one pass if the player is fast. Additionally, if the group wipes unused harpoons will remain in a player's inventory, allowing you to have a full stack by the time you reach the end of the gauntlet on subsequent attempts.

After 4 hits with harpoons (6 Heroic), Skadi's drake will die and he will dismount. When he lands the tank must quickly establish aggro otherwise Skadi may immediately kill vulnerable group members. It is handy if hunters use misdirection (and rogues use tricks of the trade)on the tank in anticipation of this and begin DPSing immediately. From this point on the adds stop spawning and it is essentially a tank and spank. He has an ability that does ~6k damage to the tank and stuns him for 2 seconds. Skadi will also occasionally cast whirlwind, which hits for ~2k, and target a random party member (Warriors use disarm even on Heroic). The targeted party member must kite the boss away from the rest of party to reduce overall damage taken (Warriors should taunt while kiting backwards, this will pull the boss towards them during his whirlwind). Skadi will also occasionally throw a poisoned spear which will hit for around 6k and then DoT for around 2k every 3 seconds, healers must be fast to react to this as an already weakened player will die quickly from it.

It should also be noted that as of Patch 3.0.8 this boss encounter is bugged. When the last of the adds is killed he will immediately despawn, even if he's already down and fighting. Groups must ensure that at least one add is kept alive until the end of the fight, otherwise they will have no choice but to reset and start again.

Easiest way to do it

The gauntlet resets if everyone runs into the previous room so to make it easier, have four people stand in the previous room and let one person go in and start the event. Stay inside the doorway and kill Ymirjar Harpooners (usually 2 adds at a time come into the doorway) until you gather the harpoons (6 Heroic) and once you have gathered the harpoons; go back into the previous room and the boss will despawn, once he despaws the group runs to the end of the hallway. One person will head back to the boss and start the event. Kill the mobs, pay close attention to the "Witch Doctors" as they cast mostly at healers, prefer to kill them as they spawn. Once you have downed the majority of the mobs, during the next boss pass have the person carrying the harpoons shoot the boss down. Then begin to clear remaining adds and then the boss. Beware; rushing to the Harpoon end and gathering in the doorway despawns the boss mid-combat.

Loot

Normal mode
Heroic mode

Quotes

Aggro:

  • What mongrels dare intrude here? Look alive, my brothers! A feast for the one that brings me their heads!

Drake's death:

  • You motherless knaves! Your corpses will make fine morsels for my new drake!

Drake breath:

  • Sear them to the bone!
  • Go now! Leave nothing but ash in your wake!
  • Cleanse our sacred halls with flame!

Kill:

  • Not so brash now, are you?
  • I'll mount your skull from the highest tower!

Death:

  • ARGH! You call that... an attack? I'll... show... aghhhh...

Trivia

Skadi is the northern Goddess of the Hunt and Winter in the nordic Mythology. The name may also be a reference to a witch Ruta Skadi in trilogy called His dark materials.

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