Complete Icecrown Citadel Achievements Guide for WoW WotLK Classic

Icecrown Citadel stands as one of the most iconic raids in World of Warcraft history, offering players an extensive collection of challenging achievements. Whether you’re pursuing the coveted Glory of the Icecrown Raider meta-achievement or simply looking to complete individual challenges, this icecrown citadel achievements guide will help you master every achievement in both 10-player and 25-player modes.

Icecrown Citadel Achieveemnts Guide

 

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📊 Achievement Categories

Category Description Points Rewards
⚔️ Challenge Achievements Self-imposed challenges that test raid coordination and execution 10 points each Required for meta achievements
Kill Credit Achievements Automatically granted upon defeating boss encounters 10 points each Titles and progression tracking
🏆 Meta Achievements Complete collections of other achievements 25 points Exclusive Mounts (Frostbrood Vanquishers)
💎 Feats of Strength Ultra-rare: realm firsts, legendary weapons, rare drops 0 points Immense prestige and bragging rights


Boned (10/25 Player) – Lord Marrowgar

🎯 Objective: Defeat Lord Marrowgar without any raid member remaining impaled for more than 8 seconds.

⚠️ Key Mechanic: Bone Spike Graveyard impales players with a 3-second cast time.Lord Marrowgar NPC

📝 Strategy:

  • Watch for the 3-second cast animation
  • Call out impaled players immediately in voice comms
  • All DPS switch to Bone Spike within 2 seconds
  • Maintain loose positioning for melee access
  • Use damage cooldowns for rapid elimination

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Assign a dedicated spike-caller to monitor cast bars
  • Classes with instant-cast abilities should prioritize immediate switching
  • Target macros can speed up spike targeting

Full House (10/25 Player) – Lady Deathwhisper

🎯 Objective: Defeat Lady Deathwhisper with at least five different cultist types alive.

📋 Required Add Types:

  1. Deformed Fanatic
  2. Reanimated Fanatic
  3. Reanimated AdherentLady Deathwhisper Boss in Icecrown Citadel Wotlk Classic
  4. Cult Fanatic
  5. Cult Adherent

📝 Strategy:

  • Mark each add type as they spawn from portals
  • 👮 Designate specific players for add control/CC duties
  • Use slows, roots, and stuns to manage living adds
  • Communicate constantly about which adds can be killed
  • Push Phase 2 aggressively once all adds are secured
  • Avoid cleave and AoE damage near controlled adds

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Hunter kiting and frost mage slows excel here
  • Save Bloodlust/Heroism for Phase 2
  • Use raid markers for add identification

I’m on a Boat (10/25 Player) – Gunship Battle Achievement

🎯 Objective: Win the Gunship Battle without any raid member visiting the enemy ship more than twice.

📝 Strategy:

  • Divide raid into three boarding teams
  • Assign permanent cannon operators who never leave
  • Rotate boarding teams systematicallyAlliance and Horde gunships battling in ICC aerial combat
  • Kill enemy mages quickly with burst damage
  •  Maximize cannon damage during non-boarding phases
  • Time jumps with mage respawns

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Use raid assignment addons to track boarding rotations
  • Assign strongest burst DPS to boarding teams
  • Communicate jump counts clearly

I’ve Gone and Made a Mess (10/25 Player) – Deathbringer Saurfang

🎯 Objective: Defeat Deathbringer Saurfang before Mark of the Fallen Champion is cast three times.

📝 Strategy:

  • Execute perfect tank swaps on every Rune of BloodIcecrown Citadel Saurfang Deathbringer Guide and tips
  • Spread raid to minimize Blood Nova splash
  • Use slows and CC on Blood Beasts comprehensively
  • Kill Blood Beasts before they reach anyone
  • Use Bloodlust on pull for maximum burst
  • Coordinate all major damage cooldowns

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Death Knights excel at Blood Beast control (Chains of Ice, Death Grip)
  • Hunters can kite and slow effectively
  • Save defensives for high energy phases

Flu Shot Shortage (10/25 Player) – Festergut

🎯 Objective: Defeat Festergut without any player ever reaching 3 stacks of Inoculated.

⚠️ Key Mechanic: Gas Spore explodes after 12 seconds, granting Inoculated stacks (25% damage reduction per stack, max 3).

📝 Phase-by-Phase Execution:

Phase 1️⃣ – First Gas Spores:Wotlk Classic Festergut Guide on ICC

  • 👤 Only spore carriers get stacks
  • 🚫 Everyone else stays away

Phase 2️⃣ – Second Gas Spores:

  • ✅ 0-stack players position near carriers
  • ❌ 1-stack players stay away

Phase 3️⃣ – Third Gas Spores:

  • ✅ All 1-stack players get second stack
  • ⚡ Activate Bloodlust immediately
  • 🔥 Execute maximum burst damage

💡 Pro Tips:

  • If someone gets spore 2+ times, communicate and adjust immediately
  • Any player reaching 3 stacks = wipe and reset
  • Healers need to be prepared for high damage intake

Dances with Oozes (10/25 Player) – Rotface Achievement

🎯 Objective: Defeat Rotface without a Big Ooze casting Unstable Ooze Explosion.

⚠️ Key Mechanic: Mutated Infection creates Small Oozes. When oozes merge, they gain Unstable Ooze stacks. At 5 stacks = explosion.

📝 Strategy:Wotlk Classic Icecrown Citadel Rotface Guide

  • Spread raid across maximum space
  • Bloodlust on pull for aggressive DPS
  • Don’t taunt Small Oozes
  • Heal through Small Ooze damage
  • Stay spread to prevent ooze merging
  •  If oozes merge, tank kites immediately
  •  Accept up to 4 stacks if boss health is critical

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Movement speed buffs significantly help
  • Maintain visual awareness of all ooze positions
  • Use speed potions if necessary

Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion… (10/25 Player) – Professor Putricide

🎯 Objective: Defeat Professor Putricide without using Regurgitated Ooze on the Abomination.

⚠️ Key Restriction: The Abomination pilot cannot use the Regurgitated Ooze ability (damages and slows oozes).Professor Putricide on Icecrown Citadel

📝 Strategy:

  • Select skilled player for Abomination pilot
  • Completely avoid Regurgitated Ooze button
  • Compensate with movement abilities/potions
  • Use swiftness potions during Phases 1 and 2
  • Focus on positioning and kiting
  • Remember: oozes only spawn in first two phases

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Classes with sprint abilities (Rogue, Druid) make superior pilots
  • Practice positioning without the slow crutch
  • Communication is key for ooze avoidance

The Orb Whisperer (10/25 Player) – Blood Prince Council

🎯 Objective: Defeat Blood Prince Council without anyone taking more than 23,000 spell damage in a single hit (10-player).

⚠️ Dangerous Ability: Empowered Shadow Lance when Prince Keleseth has Invocation of Blood.

Blood Prince Council Bosses

📝 Strategy:

  • Keleseth tank accumulates Shadow Resonance stacks
  • Each stack reduces Empowered Shadow Lance damage by 35%
  • Maintain 3-5 stacks for optimal mitigation
  • Gain stacks by threatening Dark Nucleus (purple orbs)
  • Apply DoTs or light damage to hold threat
  • Carefully manage AoE to prevent threat loss
  • Monitor stack duration (orbs expire naturally)
  • Coordinate with healers for stack balance

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Dark Nucleus = purple orbs (see visual guide above)
  • Test stack amounts with healers before achievement attempt
  • Tanks should call out when stacks drop

Once Bitten, Twice Shy (25 Player Only) – Blood-Queen Lana’thel

🎯 Objective: Defeat Blood-Queen Lana’thel once as a vampire AND once without becoming a vampire.

⚠️ Key Mechanic: Blood-Queen bites the third-highest threat player (not tanks).Icecrown Citadel Blood Queen Lana'thel Boss

📝 Strategy:

  • Manipulate threat meters to control bite targeting
  • Coordinate with raid for deliberate bite selection
  • ✅ Complete Kill #1 while receiving vampirism
  • ✅ Complete Kill #2 while avoiding vampirism
  • Bitten players get action button to spread debuff

💡 Pro Tips:

  • This is a personal achievement (not raid-wide)
  • Track who still needs which version
  • DPS can manipulate threat with stance dancing/abilities

Portal Jockey (10/25 Player) – Valithria Dreamwalker

🎯 Objective: Enter every portal spawned by Valithria Dreamwalker before healing her to full.

⚠️ Critical Rules:

  • 🚪 3 Nightmare Portals spawn periodically
  • ⏰ Portals active for 10 secondsValithria Dreamwalker Guide and Strategy on Icecrown Citadel
  • ✅ EVERY portal must be entered
  • 🚫 Can’t heal Valithria to full while players inside
  • 🚫 Can’t let portals despawn without entry

📝 Strategy:

  • Assign three portal teams for rotation
  • Ensure every portal gets at least one entrant
  • Never allow all players in portals simultaneously (resets encounter)
  • Complete portal exit before full heal
  • Track portal spawns and coordinate timing
  • One player can enter multiple portals across phases

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Assign a portal coordinator to call rotations
  • 3 different people must enter each wave of 3 portals
  • Use DBM/BigWigs for portal spawn timers

All You Can Eat (10/25 Player) – Sindragosa Achievement

🎯 Objective: Defeat Sindragosa without any raid member exceeding 5 stacks of Mystic Buffet.

⚠️ Key Mechanic: Mystic Buffet pulses periodically, applying 8-second debuff stacks.

📝 Strategy:Sindragosa frost wyrm breathing ice in Icecrown

  • Line-of-sight behind Ice Tomb players to avoid pulses
  • Carefully manage stack accumulation and timing
  • Rotate positioning between Ice Tomb objects
  • 👀 Monitor individual stack counts continuously
  • Allow debuffs to expire before returning to range
  • Coordinate Ice Tomb usage for LoS opportunities

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Assign stack callers to warn raid members
  • Use defensive cooldowns at 4-5 stacks
  • Melee should rotate out when stacks get high
  • Plan Bloodlust timing around stack management

Been Waiting a Long Time for This (10/25 Player) – The Lich King

🎯 Objective: Allow Necrotic Plague to stack to 30 before defeating the Lich King.

⚠️ Critical Window: Necrotic Plague ONLY in Phase 1 (100% → 70% health).

📝 Strategy:The Lich King Guide

  • Debuff jumps every 15 seconds when expiring
  • Each jump adds 1 stack (need 29 jumps total)
  • Debuff can jump via expiration OR player death
  • DO NOT DISPEL (resets stacks)
  • Bring powerful healers and defensives
  • Debuff increases damage taken AND Lich King damage
  • Slow Phase 1 DPS to allow sufficient jumps

💡 Pro Tips:

  • Coordinate major healing cooldowns at high stacks
  • Track plague stacks with raid frames/DBM
  • Stop DPS if necessary to stay in Phase 1
  • The disease CAN be dispelled but shouldn’t be

Neck-Deep in Vile (10/25 Player) – The Lich King Achievement

🎯 Objective: Kill every Vile Spirit before it explodes, then defeat the Lich King.

⚠️ Spawn Timing: Vile Spirits appear after Lich King reaches 40% health.

📝 Strategy:

  • Each wave spawns 10 Vile Spirits
  • Spirits explode after 30 seconds
  • Spirits are FLYING units (limited melee reach)
  • Assign ALL ranged DPS to immediate spirit targeting
  • Keep melee on boss for consistent damage
  • Use target marking for priority
  • Deploy AoE abilities strategically
  • Use movement abilities to maintain contact

💡 Pro Tips:

  • This is VERY difficult in 10-player mode
  • NOT required for 10-player meta achievement
  • Hunters, Mages, Warlocks, and Balance Druids excel here
  • Use focus macros for quick targeting

✅ Kill Credit Achievements

10-Player Normal Mode

Achievement Requirement
Storming the Citadel Defeat first 4 bosses
The Plagueworks Defeat Festergut, Rotface, Putricide
The Crimson Hall Defeat Blood Princes, Blood-Queen
The Frostwing Halls Defeat Valithria, Sindragosa
The Frozen Throne Defeat the Lich King

🏆 Title Reward: The Kingslayer


10-Player Heroic Mode

Achievement Requirement
Heroic: Storming the Citadel Defeat first 4 bosses (Heroic)
Heroic: The Plagueworks Defeat Plagueworks (Heroic)
Heroic: The Crimson Hall Defeat Crimson Hall (Heroic)
Heroic: The Frostwing Halls Defeat Frostwing Halls (Heroic)
Bane of the Fallen King Defeat Lich King (Heroic)

🏆 Title Reward: Bane of the Fallen King

25-Player Normal Mode

Same structure as 10-player, but with 25 raiders.

🏆 Title Reward: The Kingslayer


25-Player Heroic Mode

Achievement Requirement
Heroic: Storming the Citadel Defeat first 4 bosses (Heroic)
Heroic: The Plagueworks Defeat Plagueworks (Heroic)
Heroic: The Crimson Hall Defeat Crimson Hall (Heroic)
Heroic: The Frostwing Halls Defeat Frostwing Halls (Heroic)
The Light of Dawn Defeat Lich King (Heroic)

🏆 Title Reward: The Light of Dawn (most prestigious!)


Meta Achievements

Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 Player)

📋 Requirements:

  • ✅ All 10-player Heroic kill credits
  • ✅ All 10-player Challenge achievements
  • ❌ EXCEPT Neck-Deep in Vile (not required!)

🎁 Reward: Reins of the Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher

🐉 A magnificent crimson drake with bloody armor and imposing presence!


Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 Player)

📋 Requirements:

  • ✅ All 25-player Heroic kill credits
  • ✅ ALL 25-player Challenge achievements
  • ✅ INCLUDING Neck-Deep in Vile

🎁 Reward: Reins of the Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher

🐉 A stunning frost-blue drake with gleaming ice-themed armor!


Feats of Strength

🥇 Realm First! Fall of the Lich King

🎯 Requirement: Participate in realm’s first 25-player Heroic Lich King defeat.

💰 Points: 0 (Feat of Strength)

⏰ Availability: One-time only per realm

This ultra-rare achievement represents server dominance and cutting-edge progression.


Shadowmourne Achievement

🎯 Requirement: Complete the legendary weapon questline and wield Shadowmourne.

💰 Points: 0 (Feat of Strength)

📝 Notes: Lengthy questline requiring extensive raiding and rare materials.

The legendary two-handed axe for plate DPS classes!


Invincible’s Reins

🎯 Requirement: Obtain Invincible mount from the Lich King.

💰 Points: 0 (Feat of Strength)

📊 Drop Rate: Extremely low (~1%)

The Lich King’s legendary mount – one of the most sought-after mounts in WoW!

 

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