Utgarde Keep is hard to miss, the massive dungeon hub stands in the centre of Howling Fjord. The entrance to Utgarde Pinnacle is on the north side of the tower on a round platform. The instance contains 4 bosses, and most mobs drop a good amount of Frostweave Cloth (2-3 stacks per run) which at the moment sells for anything between 70g-100g a stack on my server. Not to mention - there's a mount. Reigns of the Blue Proto-Drake has a 1.5% drop rate off of Skadi the Ruthless.
The first boss, Svala Sorrowgrave, is an annoying fight. When you first meet her she'll be talking to the Lich King, he'll soon disappear and you can jump on in and kill her. At some point, probably just before you do your killing blow, she will stun you for a good 20 seconds. Luckily at level 90 she does next to no damage over that time and you can go back to wiping her ass on the floor when she lets you go.
Gortok Palehoof is an easy boss. You will find a trophy room with some lovely stuffed creatures. After activating them with the little platform across form the entrance to the room they will attack you one by one in a random order until all 4 minor beasts are down, then Gortok himself will attack. Very straight forward and an easy fight.
Boss number 3 is the one you are here for - Skadi the Ruthless. This fight is a little more technical than the first one but if you do it right it's very simple. Basically, kill all the adds, some of them will be Ymirjar Harpooners who will drop harpoons that you need to pick up. If you wanna do it quickly and get yourself an achievement while you're at it collect 4 harpoons before heading to the launchers (located at the north end of the fight) and wait for him to come in range of the harpoons.
Once he's there click the launcher, run to the next one and click that, so on and so on until you've hit him with all 4 harpoons. The launchers go out for a few seconds after you use them so you have to run from one to another unfortunately instead of just staying on one. That being said it is easily done solo. That should be enough to knock him off his mount in one go and will earn you the My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time achievement.
After that just attack attack attack til he's dead and hope to god he drops the mount.
*sigh*
I'm still hoping. Really, really hard.
The final boss is King Ymiron himself, and he is a pain in the royal ass. Basically he will attack you for a bit, and then run from boat to boat stuning you for 8 seconds each time. Unfortunately if you kill him before he gets to the last boat he will continue stunning you until he's done. Bastard.
Look at him sitting there all smug on his throne... ugh.
Once he's dead a door will open allowing you to walk back to the entrance with ease. If like me you didn't get the mount, at least you've made some cash and collected a few nice vendor items!
If you're lucky Ymiron might drop the Red Sword of Courage which is a really nice sword for transmog. It's my favourite sword at the moment... if I didn't have daggers I would transmog my weapons to that in a heartbeat.
It takes about 20-30 minutes to fully run through Utgarde Pinnacle, it can be a confusing instance with many doors and openings along the way, rest assured there is only one way to progress, making it impossible to get lost.
With a good amount of cash, frostweave, and vendor trash, as well as a chance at a mount drop this instance is a good easy way to pass some time and earn a few achievements.
Happy Hunting (^_^)
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