Boxed my first heroic.

Faction transfer landed and I moved my Druid and my son's pally over to the horde.

Saturday morning my son and I decided to try our first heroic. I figured Utgarde Keep would be a good start as I think it's the easiest instance This was very much a spur of the moment thing and I haven't even run any normal northrend instances on this team.

I was controlling the tank and dps, my son was controlling the healer (he has very little experience of healing with the pally).

I hadn't setup my tank to run with the group - about the only thing i did was unbind my 1-= keys.
Gear wise, he's okay for heroics with about 27k stam in bear form.

The pally has decent healing gear mainly from raid drops nobody wanted and the odd badge item.

My shaman are all fresh 80's, 3 pieces of pvp epics the rest is greener than something very green indeed.
Just under 1k spell power completely unbuffed. (I.e without flametongue and totem of wrath).
Additionally they were all PVP specced (can't afford dual spec on them right now).

I went in there with low expectations, but all things considered it went better than I thought.
There were a few wipes early on, mostly due to stupid mistakes - like forgetting to take my shammies off follow as I ran in, and failing to notice that they weren't all able to cast (I'm rusty) or when I wiped on Prince Keleseth asI hit one of my F keys to refresh the shamans water shield, forgetting that I hadn't unbound those keys on my druid so he popped out of bear form to heal. A tank in cow form doesn't last long :)


I did manage to kill 2 out of the 3 bosses.

However Ingvar was my downfall. One shaman died early on, and considering how poor my dps is that was bad news.
It took all of my shamans remaining mana to down phase 1.

Tried to run for it - but found out that the bit where you normally jump down into water to leave the instance has a gate over it if you haven't killed the boss.

Only had time for one attempt - but I'm sure with some tweaking I can down him.

big grats. With less than perfect gear/specs it sounds like you're on your way.

I know it's been discussed but how did you manage the frost tombs on Prince K? Totems alone?
I ran in there quickly on my team and wiped a few times on him and gave up. I thought I had it figured out but I was way wrong.

For the prince I basically hugged the tank . Kept everyone in close and dropped magma totems.

My healer might have been busting some of the frost tombs - but on the occassions he was frost tombed I
didn't do anything to break him out other than the magma totems.

I know others have specific /target lines in their dps macros, or a seperate target macro that they hit , but this was a spur of the moment run. By hugging the tank it makes it easier for the tank to gather the skeletal adds up, and the magmas take them down quickly.

I seem to remember Prince Keleseth doing ranged attacks with shadowbolts, but when everyone was close in I was either missing them happening (as they don't have to travel far) or they didn't happen. (plus the pally put shadow resistance aura up).

On the twin bosses (second boss in Utgarde) I also hugged the tank to minmise the charges. Popped fire elementals and burned them down.