How to Utgarde Keep

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Man, finding multibox advice is tough when you don't run shamans.

My pally + 3 locks + priest team hasn't gotten past Kelsereth yet at 70, in mostly BC crafted epics and BOP blues. The trash is extremely easy and pretty fun (any time I get to wipe three mana bars on Seed of Corruption, you can bet I'll be giggling softly to myself), but the boss is just a beast. Once I figured out how basically to fight him, with shadow resistance aura and buffs and a macro to nuke the Ice Tombs, I got him as far ... oh, 1/3 health. Not even close.

I'm trying to keep in mind that sometimes it only takes one level, or one additional piece of +resistance gear to deal with a tricky boss! Any non-shaman advice would be great though.

I'm running almost the same team as you and having the same problem (I have a warrior instead of a paladin tank). I cannot get past this boss. I've wiped well over 20 times on this guy and the best I've gotten him to is 50%.

The problems I'm running into:
- Stupid f'ing skeletons always spawn when I'm healing so they rush right at the healer. I have to time my thunderclap as they pass and sometimes one or more will get by. This means I have to spend time taunting off my priest while managing everything else.
- Stupid ice tomb hits my tank when the skeletons come out.
- Stupid ice tomb hits my priest when my tank is low on health.

One or more of these happen at some point of this encounter without fail. My 50% attempt was because I lucked out, finally my priest got ice tombed and I died. I've even tried using my pvp trinket on my tank to make sure he can break out early.

I was planning on going back in when my tank had more health, but every piece of plate in borean tundra and howling fjord is dps ret/DK/arms-fury stuff or paladin gear except for one shield. I bought some crafted greens that brought me up to 12.2k health, but that's still not enough.

Completely frustrated with this encounter considering how easy the trash is and the level it's supposed to be on par with. I've given up on this instance and I'm going to try Nexus instead.