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Icecrown Honor Above All Else Curing The Incurable Defending The Vanguard Scourge Tactics If There Are Survivors... Into The Wild Green Yonder A Cold Front Approaches The Last Line Of Defense Once More Unto The Breach, Hero Once More Unto The Breach, Hero The Scourgestone The Restless Dead The Purging Of Scourgeholme The Stone That Started A Revolution It Could Kill Us All The Air Stands Still Into The Frozen Heart Of Northrend The Battle For Crusaders' Pinnacle The Crusaders' Pinnacle Orgrim's Hammer The Broken Front Takes One to Know One Poke and Prod That's Abominable! Against the Giants Coprous the Defiled Basic Chemistry Sneak Preview Chain of Command Cannot Reproduce Retest Now Not a Bug Need More Info No Rest For The Wicked Raise the Barricades Bloodspattered Banners Blinding the Eyes in the Sky The Ironwall Rampart Before the Gate of Horror The Guardians of Corp'rethar Shatter the Shards It's All Fun and Games I Have an Idea, But First... Free Your Mind If He Cannot Be Turned The Shadow Vault The Duke Opportunity Establishing Superiority Blow it Up! A Short Fuse Parting Gifts An Undead's Best Friend Honor is for the Weak From Whence They Came Seeds of Chaos Amidst the Confusion Vereth the Cunning New Recruit The Vile Hold Generosity Abounds Matchmaker Stunning View The Rider of the Unholy The Rider of Frost The Rider of Blood The Fate of Bloodbane Eliminate the Competition The Bone Witch The Sum is Greater than the Parts The Art of Being a Water Terror Through the Eye Find the Ancient Hero Not-So-Honorable Combat Banshee's Revenge Battle at Valhalas Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn Battle at Valhalas: Carnage! Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge Where Are They Coming From? Destroying the Altars Death's Gaze Spill Their Blood Jagged Shards I'm Smelting... Smelting! The Runesmiths of Malykriss A Visit to the Doctor By Fire Be Purged Killing Two Scourge With One Skeleton He's Gone to Pieces Putting Olakin Back Together Again The Flesh Giant Champion A Voice in the Dark Time to Hide Return to the Surface Field Repairs Do Your Worst Army of the Damned Futility Cradle of the Frostbrood Where Dragons Fell Time for Answers The Hunter and the Prince Knowledge is a Terrible Burden Argent Aid Tirion's Gambit A Tale of Valor A Hero Remains The Keeper's Favor Hope Within the Emerald Nightmare The Boon of Remulos Time Yet Remains The Touch of an Aspect Dahlia's Tears The Boon of Alexstrasza Hope Yet Remains The Will of the Naaru The Boon of A'dal Light Within the Darkness

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Comment by 26478

A very large number of them spawn north of Corp'rethar (around 43, 65). They're very easy melee types by themselves, but there's a whole lot of elites in the area, the biggest difficulty is finding an open area to kill the Reavers. About ~63k hp, don't hit hard at all. I suggest finding a safe spot well off to the side and killing them there.

Becomes available after The Ironwall Rampart. Leads to The Guardians of Copre'thar and Shatter the Shards.

Comment by 246209

The Skeletal Reavers are snarable mobs,
I just stood at around 42.61 and easly solod this as a frostfire spec'd mage.

Comment by 39891

Leads to Shatter the Shards and The Guardians of Corp'rethar.

Comment by 18004

easily soloed by prot warrior.

Comment by 258509

Solo'd as a Lv 80 Holy Paladin. Really simple to do as they only hit for <1k every 3seconds or so on plate. I just pulled one from the group away so that I didn't aggro any extra elites.

Comment by 236316

You must complete Bloodspattered Banners before you can get this.

Comment by Longhorns

As hunter i sould say easy soleble, best spots for pulling is where they walk in an line you can pull 1 ad the time, locations are between 41.1, 58.7 and 44.2, 59.4.
However watch out for respawn treash from the ground :)

Comment by 251962

It should be noted that they do not regen health OOC. So if you happen to die, you can come back buff/heal and pick up where you left off. Making this soloable by anyone, just more time consuming and costly.

EDIT: Apprently if you don't re-attack the mob within a certain time, their health will eventually regen.

Comment by jon4009

Very easy to solo as a blood spec DK at level 80. Stand at around 44, 57 and pick off the single ones; keep diseases and horn of winter up and use icebound fortitude when you can, and spam death strike when cooldowns allow.

Comment by 201676

Easy to solo as a BM hunter if you are patient. When you attack Reavers aim for one out in the open or on the edge of their formation. As far as I can tell attacking one doesnt aggro the ones surrounding it...however if there is a Frostbrood Matron (I think they are called) flying near they will be aggro'd so make sure youre alone. Send pet in (in my case devilsaur) pop intimidation and beastial wrath... Start your shot rotation and dont be afraid to use cooldowns if necessary. Should you aggro a matron mid fight worry about finishing off the reaver.. Once he is down quickly dismiss pet and feign death..this should get the matron off your back and she wont aggro back to you unless you hit another reaver near her. Wait for cooldowns to be up, Mainly beastial wrath... Make sure you have full health and mana and repeat ;)

Comment by 294793

The Large Skeles spawn and walk in a straight line right in the middle of the area they are located @ and then Despawn after a short walk... cleared a small area just outside of thier agro range and pulled them 1 at a time, rinse, repeat.

be wary of the other mobs in this area with wide pat arcs. not too difficult but they have large argo range.

had ZERO argo issues with the matrons where i camped these...matrons not even close... was in the vicinity of 45, 60 for those with coordinates. those arent exact but close estimates.

GL!

dez

Comment by DeadMAX

Very easy solo quest - did it with normal PvE boomkin and found their despawn point (about 45,60)

It's place where they are going into line and you just pickup last and kill him - 63k hp, 800-1000 dmg to boomkin....piece of cake...

Comment by 156402

The best spot I found to kill them was about at 49,62. Easily soloed all as enha shammy, 5 man hero/ 10 Naxx geared.

Comment by 277628

Went to 51, 36 i think it was as a DK and just death gripped em 1 by one and killed em no problem, until the last 2 spawned right on me luckily I was able to blood strike and get 4k HP off em and take em both down. =)

Comment by 326784

Easy to solo as 80 Affliction lock.

Go to the southwest corner at 40.90, 63.90. Be careful as the place is full of 83 Elite dragons flying around. None of them attacked me even when they came really close, but I'd be careful nonetheless. Get your VW out (yes, VW tank!)

You'll see a gigantic army of these 80 Elite skeletons lined up on the ledge right beside you. Target the closest one, cast Haunt, and step back away from the ledge so you won`t pull any more by accident (his neighbors will ignore that you attacked him). Don`t let your VW engage him close to the ledge, you want to get him isolated first.

After you've managed to pull him to a safe spot, let your VW get aggro. Keep an eye on his health and start applying dots. The rest of the fight is healing the VW with Health Funnel and keeping the dots on the skeleton, being careful no to pull aggro. If you do, you can use Soulshatter to get him off of you and back on the VW. If Soulshatter is on cooldown, go all out DPS on the skeleton, and when you're about to die, sacrifice the VW for the shield and keep hitting him.

I did the quest solo and didn't die once, piece of cake.

Comment by 313224

Good Loc for Soloing them is 48.7, 62.6. There is a large area to kite around here, as well as few other mobs.

Comment by Aenonar

No problem at all for a prot war in early heroic gear. Killed one easily so grabbed 3 the next time. Killed them all without using a single cooldown. But it you pull 2. and a death knight, and then a frostwyrm matriarch at the end, you might need one or two heals (seriously, you wont need a third). Or simply use a cooldown like frenzied regeneration and you're good to go.

Comment by 95606

Was able to solo this as a combat rogue with heroic gear. Had to wait for evasion each time to avoid some of the hard hits, I have glyph of evasion granting me 5 extra sec so it was very doable. Just make sure you find a good spot so you don't get any adds!

Comment by Ungr

also soloed as combat rogue in heroic gear. I dont have the evasion glyph and did fine.

Comment by veno3

Slowable, rootable, stunnable. Very easy as a Mage.

I used a nice ''safe spot'' around 42,65, easy to pull 1 at a time without interruptions.

Comment by Whiterock

ORGRIM'S HAMMER Quest Tree From Whiterock
Give + to 10/05/2008 Jarlyn and 12/04/2008 Kangaxx54 aswell.

The Crusaders' Pinnacle* 1)Preparations for War
|->The Skybreaker(A)* The Shadow Vault*
| |
1)Orgrim's Hammer------->Opportunity*
|___________________________________________
| |->2)Mind Tricks |->D)Blood of the Chosen
3)The Broken Front |->D)Slaves to Saronite |->2)Joining the Assault
| +3)Avenge Me! |->2)Get to Ymirheim! |->D)Assault by Air
|->D)Make Them Pay! D)King of the Mountain |->D)Assault by Ground
|
|------------------------>1)Good For Something?
1)Takes One to Know One 3)Volatility-->D)Volatility
3)Poke and Prod 5)Green Technology
|________________________ 6)Fringe Science Benefits
| | |->D)Riding the Wavelength: The Bombardment
3)That's Abominable! | |->D)Total Ohmage: The Valley of Lost Hope!
|->D)That's Abominable! |
| 4)Against the Giants
5)Sneak Preview |->4)Coprous the Defiled
|->5)Chain of Command |->4)Basic Chemistry-->D)Neutralizing the Plague
|->5)Cannot Reproduce
| 5)Retest Now-->D)Retest Now
|
5)Drag and Drop-->D)Drag and Drop
|->5)Not a Bug-->D)Not a Bug
|
5)Need More Info----------------->5)No Rest For The Wicked
| |->D)No Rest For The Wicked
| |
7)Raise the Barricades----------->8)The Ironwall Rampart
|->8)Blinding the Eyes in the Sky |
| D)Keeping the Alliance Blind |
| |
8)Bloodspattered Banners |
|_________________________________|
|
9)Before the Gate of Horror
| \
9)Shatter the Shards 9)The Guardians of Corp'rethar

Amped for Revolt!(doesn't work/exist)
Quest Zones:
1)Orgrim's Hammer_____2)Ymirheim_____3)Broken Front_____4)Mord'Rethar_____5)Aldur'thar_____6)The Bombardment_____7)Valley of Lost Hope_____8)Valley of Fallen Heroes_____9)Corp'rethar
D)Daily
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.

Comment by 247762

For Mages solo, you can kill them til half life and disappear and continue after your health is full. He won't restore health like other mobs does.

Comment by hevgirl

Soloed as an 80 Ret Pally, with bad gear. lol
didn't need to pop any major cooldowns, but I did
use trinkets & wings when it was up to make it go faster. lol

best place to kill them imo is at 44, 57

they all line up there as they slowly despawn...
its hard to explain, but you can kill them easily as they come
down the line, just pull them to the side so the others can pat by.
clear out the non-elite junk before & you're gold.
(2 AoE packs of Converted Heroes come close but didn't aggro)

Comment by 220846

Soloed as a lvl 80 Frost mage.

Gah. This quest is extremely annoying, but it gets easy after a few tries.

I pulled with frost bolt (I was at their despawn point), then when they get near, I frost nova, then did a shatter combo. After that I summoned my water elemental and cast the ranged frost nova thing, then did another shatter combo. By this time your frost nova should've cool down-ed, so frost nova, and shatter combo. repeat till he dies.

Drink up, then pull another.

Oh, remember to clear the surrounding before engaging the reaver.

Comment by TheMaelstorm

If you decide to mass-murder them, try to move the crowd a bit after each try. It can be hard to select corpses for completing the quest if they are stacked on each other.

Comment by 1440987

Before the Gate of Horror http://youtu.be/9NXG6JbC0oM

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uatU5ORLno&feature=youtu.be

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Before the Gate of Horror

Koltira Deathweaver, aboard Orgrim's Hammer, wants you to use the Volatile Acid to dissolve the remains of 6 Skeletal Reavers.

	Skeletal Reaver bones dissolved (6)
	Suggested players: 5 (1)

Provided item:

	Volatile Acid (1)

Description

The Conflagration, the ground before Corp'rethar, south of the Ironwall Rampart, is where the Lich King's elite soldiers have formed up to defend the citadel.

Led by a contingent of death knights, a legion of skeletal reavers bars the way. I fear that even when these reavers fall, the Scourge will simply reconstitute them and send them back at us.

I've come up with a plan to stop this, but I have no way of knowing if it will work. Take this solution and use it to dissolve the remains of the reavers.

Completion

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13329))