Utgarde Keep... (PUG)

[Klamor]

Just started playing again and for some reason i can't get past the first boss in this instance with any group... what's the strategy, because everytime i do it, i hear different strats the contradict eachother and we always wipe...

BTW: i'm 70 prot warrior

[Hachoo]

How many are you boxing? You say PuG, does that mean you're playing solo? You probably won't find too much advice for killing bosses here unless you're multiboxing, otherwise just check out the strategies on WoW Wiki or thottbot. I personally haven't done any northrend instances at all in a group with other people, only by myself, where the strategies will be wildly different than a group of 5 separate players.

[Naysayer]

Make your healer stand right next to your tank (within melee range). AoE damage is the key. It should be a short encounter with this strategy.



Strategy

The Prince Keleseth boss fight begins when
you kill the last pack in the room with him. After pulling and killing
the last pack, the prince will come straight for your party without a
chance to rest.

It is important to mind the random Ice Tomb
applied to players, these can be burnt down and should be if your party
is low on healing. An ice tomb does approximately 8000 damage which
leaves most level 70s either dead or very close to it.


In addition to ice tombs, the prince will summon 5 skeletons which can
be crowd controlled, make sure they are grouped up when they die
because they will be resurrected periodically throughout the fight and
its easier to control them if theyre in a group.


Note: If possible its advisable to pull Prince Keleseth off the table
in the center of the room as the chairs cause line of sight issues as
well as it disrupts pathing with skeletons. With your healer next to your tank, all aggro from the adds should lock onto your healer and your tank will be able to pick them up easily while the dps AoE's over the tanks head. You can also just have your dps focus fire the boss while the tank holds the adds, but killing the adds with aoe gives your healer a break between add respawns incase he's having trouble keeping people up.

This strat is ezmode for pally tanks due to consecration, but I'm sure a decent warrior can hold all of the adds with a little effort.

[Hachoo]

FWIW I've done Keleseth on normal and heroic at least 5 times and never once has he come at me after killing the 4 guys before him. I always have time to rest up before attacking him. Not sure why ever strategy on wowwiki, thottbot, etc, says he comes right at you.

[blast3r]

FWIW I've done Keleseth on normal and heroic at least 5 times and never once has he come at me after killing the 4 guys before him. I always have time to rest up before attacking him. Not sure why ever strategy on wowwiki, thottbot, etc, says he comes right at you.

I always kill the 4 mobs first and it does NOT aggro Keleseth. Perhaps this is how it was in beta? I think the main thing that needs to be done is to handle the 'frost tombs' where you get ice blocked and can't do anything but receive damage. With my shamans I drop fire elementals back near the wall far enough away from the boss so that it doesn't attack it but will come up and destroy the frost tombs. Will also take care of the adds.

[Pact]

/target frost tomb
on all your dps characters macros..and if your solo...put it on a macro