Glory of the Icecrown Raider is not one achievement, it is two, and they are not the same size. Achievement 4602, the 10-player meta, lists 16 criteria and mails the Reins of the Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher. Achievement 4603, the 25-player meta, lists 17 and mails the Reins of the Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher. Each is worth 25 achievement points, each is flagged as account-wide progress, and both still show their mount reward on live retail inside Icecrown Citadel in Northrend.
Where the 17th criterion comes from. The extra 25-player entry is Neck-Deep in Vile: kill every Vile Spirit that spawns before it explodes, then defeat the Lich King. There is no 10-player equivalent. The other 16 match across both sizes - four Heroic wing achievements (Storming the Citadel, The Plagueworks, The Crimson Hall, The Frostwing Halls) plus twelve encounter feats: Boned, Full House, I'm on a Boat, I've Gone and Made a Mess, Dances with Oozes, Flu Shot Shortage, Nausea Heartburn Indigestion, Once Bitten Twice Shy, The Orb Whisperer, Portal Jockey, All You Can Eat and Been Waiting a Long Time for This.
The criterion that no amount of gear can shortcut. Once Bitten, Twice Shy asks for Blood-Queen Lana'thel dead twice - once while you are a vampire and once without ever becoming one. Two kills of one boss on a weekly lockout means this meta has a hard floor of two weekly resets per raid size. That is the real difference from the two Glory metas already on timesaver.gg: Glory of the Ulduar Raider runs the same 13-criteria list on both raid sizes with nothing forcing a second reset, and Glory of the Firelands Raider merges 10-man and 25-man into a single lockout that a specialist can close in one sitting. Icecrown cannot be done in one week, ever.
Why it still costs hours. ICC is fully soloable at the level 90 Midnight cap, but three criteria fight modern damage head-on. Been Waiting a Long Time for This wants Necrotic Plague stacked to 30 before the Lich King dies, so the final pull has to be stalled while the plague is fed through adds. Full House needs Lady Deathwhisper to die with 5 different Cultist types alive at that instant. Portal Jockey requires entering every portal Valithria Dreamwalker spawns before she is healed to full. Normal and Heroic share a lockout per boss per raid size, so an accidental Normal kill burns that boss for the week - but 10-man and 25-man are separate raid IDs and can both be run in the same week.
Realistic time: one meta is roughly 4 to 6 hours of in-raid work spread over at least two lockouts; both metas and both frostbrood drakes land in roughly 8 to 12 hours across the same two-week window. Booking is 2 hours at $26.99, 4 at $53.99, 6 at $80.99 or 10 at $134.99, and anything longer is booked as repeat blocks at the same hourly rate rather than pretending one block finishes it. US is the default region and EU carries its own ladder. Piloted is standard, Self-play Remote adds 30%, Express adds 20% and Super Express adds 40%.
