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.

[Youngceo]

The bosses in this instance really are a pain in the ass. Im having troubles especially with the 2nd one (the 2 guys)

my shammys are 71, with about 1k spell damage, my dk tank has 13k hp, about 460 defense, more than enough parry etc.

These guys are just a joke but, you cant hold agro at all with either, one randomly spams shadow bolts and the other randomly charges guys, then the one who charges will come behind my tank where I have no defense so my hp will just drop...

I try healing through it but as soon as they're back to full within seconds one is dead again almost instantly, the agro is a joke.

Id love to see how you guys did it at 70 with 400 odd spell power and such

[Dominian]

The bosses in this instance really are a pain in the ass. Im having troubles especially with the 2nd one (the 2 guys)

my shammys are 71, with about 1k spell damage, my dk tank has 13k hp, about 460 defense, more than enough parry etc.

These guys are just a joke but, you cant hold agro at all with either, one randomly spams shadow bolts and the other randomly charges guys, then the one who charges will come behind my tank where I have no defense so my hp will just drop...

I try healing through it but as soon as they're back to full within seconds one is dead again almost instantly, the agro is a joke.

Id love to see how you guys did it at 70 with 400 odd spell power and such

1. The caster cant be tanked so dont bother with tanking him.
2. I cant recall ANY bosses/mobs who can charge at minimum range.
3. When he charges he doesnt dps so try to use it to your advantage.
4. Grounding totems absorbs the shadow bolts and use shadow aura.
5. Dont tank mobs with your back it hurts.

460 defence rating is NOT enough to be critt immune on 70-71 wich means something around each 50th hit will be a critt.

Here its done by Fuzzyboy at heroic and the fight is exactly the same.

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Utgarde_...e_Keep_heroic/

[Multibocks]

keep in mind I treat this as a drawn out healing fight... I make sure my paladin never drops below 50%, sometimes he Shadowbolts and then melees which can drop a bit of health quickly. Steady slow dps wins this everytime, in fact I no longer wipe on this guy due to mistiming heals. Now I gotta actually complete another heroic, lol.

[SilverSlice]

after doing some pug tanking in uk.
and my tank dinged 71, my shammys are 71 and one on 72
even if my dps's and healer is rather undergeared i guess. i thougth i try first boss
after all the Keleseth's Blade of Evocation will give my 4 shammys an additional 70ich dps so a quite good upgrade.

i think i tried 5 times or so, epic failure all of them.
so i tok a breake had some dinner, did read the tactics here rewrote some macro's and desided to take the boss down in the stairs.

on the 3? try after i rewrote som macro's and tried another tactic i did down him.

:thumbsup:

now i just need to keep farming uk until get 4x daggers wow armoury says it got 25 to 50 %on dropping so somewhere betwin 5 to 20ich run i guess
atleast i get rougthly speakign 4 to 5% xp pr clearing up to first boss so tomorrow i shoudl ding 72 on all my girls with a bit of luck perhaps even get betwin 1 to 4 daggers to.

when all my dps and healer get that dagger i wil clean out uk before i head over to nexus.

thanks for writing down tactics and various ways we boxers can deal with those bosses that are easy when not boxing

Silver

[Vêrst]

Hello


I ran UK at 71 with a paladin tank, resto shammy, moonkin druid and frost mage quad box team.

For the first boss I run in with all my guys and push out all the totems fast. All the chars stand close to the pala tank and i spam consecrate on every cooldown to pickup the skellies that spawn. I aslo use that pala aoe thing that stuns and does dmg to undead. When icetomb spawns i manually target it with my pala and all others except shaman assist and nuke it down. For healing I spam the tank with a healing wave/riptide macro and also macros for targetting other party members and spamming chain heal. I also pop mana tide and use the inervate on my shaman healer so he can spam. Just keep everyone topped off and this tac works well.

For the second boss i also run in and have all my chars stand on the same place and nuke the melee guy to 50% then change targets and kill the caster. The melee boss will die or be close to dead in the time i spend killing the caster. Healing for this is mostly chainhealing from my pala and some riptides on my pala tank.

The last boss was a little hard until i figured out his moves but when you know what he will go down as well. The hard part for me was avoiding smash, that aoe silence he does right after smash and the weapon he spawns. I tanked him in the middle of the circle and had the rest of my team stand at max range. I had a healing macro which would chain heal the two dpsers and the shaman and another macro which would cast assorted heals on my tank. I would make sure my tank was mostly topped of and otherwise i would spam chain heal on the rest of the grp. After each smash i would not do anything until that aoe silence came, at which point I would reassume damage and healing. I popped heroism after he spawns for the second time and he went down pretty fast.

Hope this helps. ;D

[Gomotron]

I've spent the last few gaming sessions getting pwned by this instance.

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but with a full group of 73's I am not getting past the first boss. My group has pathetic gear, basically quest gear from Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. I guess I'll try Nexus.

Edit:
Running DK, 4x Shaman

[Multibocks]

Don't get discouraged, the first boss is VERY hard on normal if you dont way outlevel the instance. I think I wiped a few times before I got it down. On normal you can basically ignore the frost tombs and straight up DPS, however make sure to keep your tank topped off and also make a macro for all your shaman to down a mana potion as with all the healing needed you will be oom before boss hits 30%ish.

[Hachoo]

Obviously it depends on the team makeup...once I figured out a strategy with my team the first boss was easy, even at 70-71. Realistically you need to figure out a way to down frost tombs fast (either by macro or AoE) and also a way to kill the skeletons. Fortunately for a team with multiple shamans you get both - chain lightning on the boss can kill the frost tombs AND the adds, and fire elementals will do both as well. So with a tank + 4 shamans or 5 shamans, just run up to the boss with all 5 characters, drop all fire elementals, and spam LB/CL over and over until hes dead, chain healing as necessary.

[Monk3yv]

Anyone have a macro that will target the frozen tombs for me then LB =]

I have a DK tank and 4 shammies (1 resto)

I'm having a god awful time trying to down the first boss. He either Tombs my healer or he tombs my DK and i'm not that great at multitasking. I tried to use magma tots to break the frozen tomb but it wasn't appearing to be working :S