Prince Keleseth, heroic UK

[Darm]

Well, I've come aways since my last post. Thank you very much to everyone for the helpful advice. Thanks Hachoo for your videos, I have found them to be extremely helpful.

I've cleared Heroic UK, but Prince Keleseth is always a tough fight. Frost Tombs just seem to rock my world. I have read about putting a "/target Frost Tomb" line in my DPS macro, but haven't seen any actual macro, so I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this. RIght now, I do have a target Frost Tomb macro for my DK and then the shaman assist him to nuke it down.

But, perhaps this would be an improvement. Or would it not work?

/target Frost Tomb
/cast Lightning bolt
/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

Watching Hachoo's videos, it just seems like he blows Prince Keleseth apart real fast, or perhaps the magma totems take it out. My fights go on a bit longer, and it seems like Prince Keleseth likes to put a Frost Tomb on the same target twice in quick succession. Perhaps that is just my bad luck.

Anyway, I've been able to kill this boss, but I'm interested in making the outcome a bit more predictable.

[Hachoo]

My video I actually ignored the frost tombs to try for the achievement (i must have killed one though because I didn't get it).

Best method IMO when you first start out is to drop 4x fire elemental totems (and don't forget 4 healing stream totems). Basically run to the boss with your shamans directly behind you, as soon as you reach the boss drop 4x healing stream, 4x fire elemental, and then go to town. The fire elementals will kill the adds, the frost tombs, and help damage the boss.

Alternatively you can drop magmas, you just have to remember to keep refreshing them every 8 or 10 seconds or however long they last

[Powerwar]

I use magma totems and they take care of the tombs.

I run a pala tank + 3 elemental shamans + 1 resto shaman as dedicated healer. My gear is far away from Hachoo's gear... some of my toons still have lvl 65 greens on them, so go figure.

I have chain heal set on a separate button on all the DPS toons, so they can heal through AoE damage or just heal themselves when needed.

The fight goes this way...

1 ) Before going to the boss put earth shield and riptide on the tank, so he can survive the initial damage while the shamans lay the totems down.
2 ) Capitan america shield throw, run to the boss with all shamans following the tank.
3 ) Lay down 4 x magma totem and tank consecrates.
4 ) The DPS toons cast chain heal, this basically fills the tank HP.
5 ) DPS fun starts
6 ) When some toon is frost tombed the magma totems and an ocassional chain lightning do the trick... then just cast chain heal to top all the toons HP and DPS more.

Sure the fight lasts longer... my fights are long ones due to a severe lack of DPS, but as long as my healing power is good everything goes down sooner or later.

[Coltimar]

Exceedingly helpful info. I clear H-CoS, H-Gundrak and 3 other first bosses in heroics but I have been afraid to try UK :/ This scum bag gave me so much trouble on regular at 70-71 I hated the fight. I'm going to give it a whirl tomorrow. Thanks again.

[Starbuck_Jones]

This is my current dps macro on my followers that I use in UK. Im running a paladin and 4 druids. I manually apply treants Moonfire and Insect Swarm along with HOT's as needed.

/assist sbjones
/target frost tomb
/use 13
/use 14
/castrandom Starfire, Wrath, Wrath

This gets the job done. I do not do any positioning for my druids they are just on the standard /follow and as long as they are standing on each other they will hit frost tombs on themselves as well as my paladin out front. I approch the boss from the left side of the table so the skeletons run right to the paladin and I pop Holy Wrath to stop them and keep agro on the paladin and Concecration does the rest.

[Dominian]

UK heroic with the "on the rocks" achivement (not killing a singel frost tomb) is incomming.

I dont realy outgear the instance either.. Well im uploading it atm, so expect it later today!

[Dominian]

UK heroic Multiboxed:

Setup: Paladin,3 shamans and a hunter

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Utgarde_Keep_Multiboxed/

[Heenan]

I use an all-in-one similar to yours:

/target Frost Tomb (for UK)
/target Snake Wrap (for GD)
/target Web Wrap (for AN)
/castrandom Fire Blast, Arcane Barrage

It usually only takes 1 cast for my mages to drop whatever trap is up.

Although, now I try for the achievements and find that healing through these is quite easy once geared.

[Darm]

Hachoo --

Thank you very much, fire elementals worked very well. Downed on the first try.


Heenan --

Do you use that macro all the time? If I understand macros correctly that macro would work just fine in an instance that wasn't UK or GD or AN, right? That is, if you used that macro in Halls of Lightning (an instance without Frost Tombs/Snake Wrap or Web Wrap) executing that macro would just go to the "/castrandom Fire Blast, Arcane Barrage" line and not get stalled out looking for a target that didn't exist. Right?

[Heenan]

Yes, it works. It falls through to whatever my pally has targeted if it can't find what it's looking for. But I have it on a separate key that I only use when I know I am going to have this happen to the group.