Deadliest Catch

I figured I'd post a little guide on the "Deadliest Catch" achievement for Zul'Gurub. This guide is assuming you haven't done the quest...First, here is the map...(adapted from Wowwiki.com, so I didn't create this, I just drew a white line on it).

At any rate, you'll need to be in a raid group in order to enter this instance. Find a friend who isn't questing to start a group with, make sure to convert to a raid group. If they're grouped with you in a raid group, they won't be able to complete any of their quests...a few things that have worked for me: Getting a friend to switch to an alt they aren't working on...invite them to party, convert to a raid and they can go offline. This keeps you in the raid group but prevents you from getting ported out of the instance if they drop group. So far, I've been lucky enough not to get ported if my friend happens to drop group, but why risk it?

I'd recommend grabbing a few "Elixirs of Water Walking" to make this really easy. It saves you a lot of trouble, ultimately. Once you enter the instance, make your way down to the water and follow the white path to "area 9" on the map. If you haven't finished Loremaster, you should be able to "track low level quests" and find a quest on Nat Pagle's toolbox on Nat's Landing in ZG. Take the quest and head back to Nat Pagle off of Theramore Isle.

BUY MUDSKUNK LURES. A friend of mine wanted to do this achievement and he turned in the quest but forgot to buy the lures. He didn't realize it until he had already made his way back to ZG and then had to turn around and go back. Save yourself some trouble. Buy them after you turn in the quest.

Now, make your way back to ZG and down to the water. Switch tracking to "Find Fish" to make it a little easier for you. What you're looking for is "muddy churning water" pools in the little moat surrounding Hakkar's little island. Fish up 5 Zulian Mudskunks.

Once you have all five, you should be able to click the "Mudskunk Lure" and it'll automatically get tossed into the water. You "should" also have your achievement just from doing this. That's how it happened with me, at any rate. If you have no intention of fighting Gahz'ranka, then you should probably throw the lure and either stealth or start running away right after you get the achievement.

If you WANT to fight Gahz...here is what works for me:

After throwing the lure in the water, I pop into bear and wait for Gahz to spawn and make his way up onto the landing. Position him in such a way that Gahz ends up standing on the edge of the landing and YOU are in the water.

This will prevent huge amounts of fall damage when he uses his Massive Geyser ability.

I, personally, fight him with myself under water and him standing on the very edge of Nat's Landing. He does Massive Geyser often enough that you shouldn't run out of breath, but it's easy enough to just come to the surface if you're running low. (Now, I'm a tank, so really I don't take much damage from him. I'm pretty sure you could solo him easily as a caster if you play intelligently.) When he uses massive geyser and blasts you up into the air, you should be landing right back in the water, taking NO fall damage. From there on in, it's just destroying Gahz and collecting loot.

The picture isn't that clear, but I forgot to screen shot it. Figures, right? He's pretty easy anyway, to be completely honest with you. I can only imagine the hell that he unleashed back when it took 20 people to raid ZG.

Go go Gahz'ranka! :)

So that's my little Deadliest Catch/Gahz guide. Super easy boss, and I'm sure if you get the Tome of Polymorph, you could sell it for a nice chunk of change at the AH or even donate it to a mage in guild. Not a whole lot of CC going on these days, but I imagine a mage would find something fun to do with it. hehe

Happy Achieving!