King Ymiron (tactics)

King Ymiron is the last boss of Utgarde Pinnacle.

Adventure Guide
''Proud Ymiron ruled the northern wastes until the vrykul's long slumber relegated him to insignificance. He regained consciousness to find that his wife had been murdered, his lands besieged by enemies. He has cast off his mortality and demands vengeance, eager to show the terrible resolve of an awakened giant.''

Gift of the Fallen Kings
When King Ymiron reaches 66% and 33% health remaining, he calls upon a fallen vrykul king to grant him a new ability. He retains this ability until he chooses a new fallen king. In Heroic Difficulty, King Ymiron calls on a fallen king at 80%, 60%, 40% and 20% health remaining.
 * Avenging Spirit
 * Avenging Spirit
 * Avenging Spirit
 * Avenging Spirit
 * Avenging Spirit

Tactics
This fight requires little strategy but is still quite difficult, particularly in heroic.

The primary aspect of this fight is that he hits the tank VERY hard. His normal hits are for ~3k-5k and Dark Slash hits the tank for 50% of their health.

Occasionally, King Ymiron will cast Bane which causes shadow damage when he is attacked. All DPS need to stop attacking when Bane is up. It needs to be dispelled or spell stolen immediately so dps can resume.

He will also occasionally cast Fetid Rot on a random party member, which needs to be removed as quickly as possible.

Every 33% HP on normal, and every 20% on heroic, King Ymiron will cast Screams of the Dead, which stuns the entire party for 8 seconds (mages can blink out of this stun and humans can use Every Man for Himself). He will then randomly run to one of the 4 longboats in the room and channel a spell from a Vrykul ancestor there. This will give him an additional ability for the next 33 or 20% of his life. After reaching the next 33/20% mark, the previous longboat will burn and that ability will end. Thus, Ymiron will call on two ancestors' blessings during his normal battle, and all four during his heroic battle.

With respect to Ymiron's throne, these boats do:

Near Left Boat Haldor - Gives the target the debuff Spirit Strike that increases damage taken. Will stack over time!

Near Right Boat Bjorn - Allows him to summon Spirit Fount, an orb that does AoE shadow damage and moves around the room slowly. Ymiron needs to be kited away from the Fount and party members need to stay away from it.

Far Left Boat Ranulf - Give him the ability to cast spirit burst, an AoE shadow nova for ~2k (Heroic: ~4-5k)

Far Right Boat Tor - Allows King Ymiron to summon 4 Avenging Spirit adds that can be AoE'd down.

Related Achievements

 * Utgarde Pinnacle (achievement)
 * Heroic: Utgarde Pinnacle
 * Heroic: Utgarde Pinnacle Guild Run
 * King's Bane
 * Hail To The King, Baby (during Children's Week)

Quotes

 * Aggro
 * yell


 * Summons King Bjorn
 * yell


 * Summons King Haldor
 * yell


 * Summons King Ranulf
 * yell


 * Summons King Tor
 * yell


 * Killing a player
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell
 * yell


 * Death
 * yell

Trivia

 * Ymiron is voiced by Michael McConnohie.