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Comment by 262772

Did this the first night it was available on live. All you need to do is keep 2 Snowbolds up throughout the whole encounter(the little creatures that jump on your back and pummel you, they are summoned during Gormok) and then kill Icehowl with the 2 Snowbolds still alive. We managed to get the 2 Snowbolds on the two melee in the group, and it worked out great. You can just postphone killing Gormok until the Snowbolds target the character you wish to have carry one throughout the whole encounter. And, when you get to the Jormungars, it helps if you can Bloodlust on Acidmaw, as the poison can be a pain to cleanse if you are being slowed by a Snowbold.

Comment by 233837

We did this last night fairly easily and here's a couple tips:

Snobolds do crap for damage, so the affected players will need very minimal healing.
Wait until ALL FOUR snobolds are out, then pick two to die. If you kill the first snobold on say a holy pally, the next one that pops out might just land on the same pally again...you want to avoid that.
Basically snobolds completely bork anything with a cast time for the remainder of the fight, so the FIRST players to get cleared of your snobolds are your healers (except maybe a tree druid). If you're using 3 healers and they all got snobolded, bad luck and you may wish to wipe and start over.
The BEST players to carry snobolds: rogues, warriors, DKs, hunters, ret pallies, and enh shaman.
Players that are only about half-disabled by snobolds: holy & shadow priests and resto druids...it'll be annoying as heck for them, so give them plenty of sympathy. :o)
Really must remove snobolds off of: holy pallies, casting shammies, mages, locks, and boomkin...or live without 90% of them for the rest of the fight.
Take off thorns, ret aura, etc. so they don't take reflective damage.
Watch your incidental AoE dmg and try not to hit the snobolds, especially if it's in your main DPS rotation (living bomb, WW, consecrate, etc.). In fact everyone should just take those out of their rotations if melee has snobolds on them.
I don't remember what happens when a snobolded player dies...but try to keep those players alive.

I imagine most of this advice translates to the 25-man strat with the exception that you need to keep 4 snobolds up.

Comment by 150723

We did not manage to make this last night, we stayed with all 4 snobolds up, and 3 of them suddenly died when Icehowl showed up:/
All the 3 dead ones were on melee players, might have been from the aoe, but it was a bit frustrating. Because all of us nuked with our single target abilities, anyone had the same experience?

Comment by skyline33

Managed to solo this achievement as a prot paladin, 503 iL pretty easily actually, just don't use aoe and you are sorted!

Comment by TrainwrecHelFire

Easily soloable as level 100. Did it with frost DK 646 ilvl. Single target first boss, when you kill him all the required snobolds fall off him. Keep on single targeting bosses until you get to Icehowl, whack him down as well with single targets and you get the achievement.

Comment by ZalidTheBur

One tip for Guardian/Feral Druids. Do not use Berserk. I totally forgot that this causes Mangle to hit more targets.

Comment by Yotingo

For those of you who have never done this raid before but are trying for this achievement at cap level:

Remember that Gormok, the two jormungar, and Icehowl ALL COUNT AS THE SAME BOSS. Gormok, as the first "wave" of the fight, is the one who throws the snobolds at you needed to complete this achievement (not Icehowl, as you might assume from the achievement text). You have to WAIT for Gormok to toss at least two snobolds at you, and then keep those two alive all the way through the jormungar and the yeti phases.

So don't do what I did and burn through everything, thinking Icehowl will throw you snobolds for the achieve. He won't. :)

Comment by Thyra

I was wondering if the achievement works without a second player - the first boss throws the cobolds to you but you can only have 1 at your back. Just wait until he threw 2 cobolds at you, after you killed the boss the other one will drop off his back.

Comment by tsawwassen

Making this post for Legions.

I think it might be bugged in the players benefit. If you kill Gormok fast enough when he spawns, 4 Snobolds will spawn, but can't be attacked. They will stay up as you kill Acidmaw and Icehowl.

Easy achivement if it's on your to do list.

Comment by istalri

Don't kill anything until Icehowl is out (this will take a bit). When Icehowl is out, single target him and you will get the achievement. Completed solo with no problem.

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