WoTLK - Utgarde Keep Boss Strats

Prince Keleseth

There are four Vykrul standing in between you and the Prince. These can be pulled seperately from him, but all four of them will come together. These are just normal mobs found throughout the instance. Once the fourth one dies, the Prince will run towards your party. Have the tank pick him up, and start dps'ing him down. He will cast Frost Tomb from time to time on any member of your party including your tank that freezes them in a block of ice for 20 seconds. It can be removed via Ice Block or Divine Shield. Four Vykrul Skeletons will enter the room from the door on the left. They do not have a lot of health and can be killed quickly. Make sure to keep them grouped up when they die as Keleseth will resurrect them throughout the fight. When they are resurrected, they will still have the same amount of health as before and can be easily dealt with. It is best to kill them quickly in case your tank becomes Frost Tombed or they can be off-tanked if your group's gear is overpowered for the encounter.

Skarvald / Dalronn

Both of them are pulled together so it is best to tank them near the ramp where they are standing. Skarvald will randomly charge party members while Dalronn will drop agro randomly and only casts shadowbolt. You can either kill them at the same time or kill them seperately. The order in which they are killed, does not matter. If one dies before the other, the remaining boss will create a black spirit of the deceased. The spirit will not be targetable, cannot be killed, and has the same abilities it did when it was alive.

Ingvar the Plunderer

Ingvar is found speaking with two Vyrkul riding Proto-dragons at the end of his platform. Once he is agro'ed, the riders will fly away and will not bother your group for the duration of the fight. Make sure to tank Ingvar towards the end of the platform where he is standing and all casters need to stay max range from him. There are two phases to the fight and Ingvar has several devastating abilities, most of which have a cast time allowing the melee to get out of range. In phase 1, Ingvar will enrage early on and the enrage can stack up to 50 times increasing his attack speed by 5% per stack. He also casts Smash and Cleave which are both frontal cone abilities and have cast times allowing the tank to back away or for dps to move behind him. He also has Staggering Roar which deals damage and interrupts all spell casting for six seconds to all enemies within 60 yards. It is very important not to pull agro on this fight, especially if you are ranged, as you will most likely kill whoever is next to you if he happens to Cleave or Smash near any dps.

Once Ingvar dies, Annhylde the Caller appears and will resurrect Ingvar, making him the Lich King's undead servant. Once again, it is very important to keep Ingvar away from as much of the party as possible. Again he has an spell called Dreadful Roar that will interrupt spell casting for eight seconds and cause everyone to gain a debuff that increases shadow damage taken by 5%. This debuff is stackable. He can also place a curse on a party member that unless removed will cause the healer to take additional damage as well. Ingvar now has an upgraded Smash called Dark Smash that can be devastating unless the tank moves away when he begins to cast it. This ability will knockdown and stun the party for two seconds.

It is very important to have a curse removal in the party and to watch his casting bar in order to minimize the damage taken by not only the tank, but the entire party.

ALL INFO TAKEN FROM MMO-CHAMPION.COM!

WoTLK - The Nexus Boss Strats

Grand Magus Telestra

Start off by tanking Telestra towards the back of the room. She will cast Firebomb and Ice Nova and melee the tank. She also casts Gravity Well which tethers all party members to her and tosses them around the room causing everyone to take shadow damage. Group back up on one side and tank her on the other. At 50%, Telestra will split into three versions of herself: Arcane, Fire, and Frost. The fire version randomly scorches party members, but will stay on the tank for the majority of the time. Frost Telestra casts a room wide Blizzard, Frostbolt, and Ice Lance while the Arcane magus casts Time Stop which is a two second stun to all party members. The Arcane Magus also has the ability to sheep. If you do not have any form of crowd crontrol, then it is best to kill the Frost Magus first to minimize party damage. If you do not have someone who can cleanse or dispel the critter effect, it is best to kill the Arcane Magus next. Otherwise kill the Fire Magus after Frost to once again help minimize damage being done to the party. You can sheep or fear the magi if your party is capable and the magi can also be silenced. It is best to save silences for the Frost Magus's Blizzard if she is not CC'ed. After all three are killed, Telestra will re-assemble herself and continue to cast Firebomb and Gravity Well. Make sure to stay grouped up on one side so that the healer will be in range of everyone and to keep the party's health topped off in case she casts Gravity Well again.

Anomalus

Tank Anomalus in the center of his platform with the rest of the group spreading out in a semi-circle on one side. Anomalus will frequently open a Chaotic Rift which will diminish his size and make him invulnerable to attacks. Crazed Mana Wraiths will spawn out of the rift if it is not killed quickly enough. Make sure all dps is switched onto the rift as fast as possible and if any Wraiths come out, have the tank pick them up. The rifts and the wraiths have faily low health and can be easily killed. Kill the adds before your party continues to dps down Anomalus. He will open a rift several times throughout the fight.

Ormorok the Tree-Shaper

Begin tanking Ormorok in the middle of the platform where he stands, having your party spread out around you. This is so that none of the small flowers will agro your party during the fight if they happen to heal to full before you have killed Ormorok. Every so often, Ormorok will cast Crystal Spikes that will shoot out from his feet in four directions. These shards will be small at first, grow larger, and then spike up. They are easy to avoid, but if you are caught on top of one, it tosses you up into the air causing 2500 damage per second over three seconds. If you are tossed up into the air, you will take fall damage and unless topped off, will most likely die so it is very important to avoid these spikes at all costs. Ormorok also casts spell reflect that has four charges and must be used up before the shield disappates. Casters can use lower rank spells or keep casting a damage over time spell until the shield is gone. Ormorok will also enrage, increasing his damage. As long as all party members are able to stay away from the spikes, and the healer can keep the tank topped off, the fight will go smoothly.

Keristrasza

Keristrasza is a frozen in ice at the beginning of the instance. There are four orbs near her that are clickable. Once the area is clear of any patrols, click on the orbs and she will be released. Make sure the tank picks her up right away and keeps her parallel to the rest of the group. She has a tail sweep, casts Crystal Chains, Crystalfire Breath that does frostfire damage and slows attacks, and has a stackable debuff called Intense Cold that can stack up to nine times. Crystalfire Breath can be dispelled, and to prevent Intense Cold from stacking, all you have to do is move and it removes the debuff. Any movement clears the debuff so all casters can either strafe one step or jump after a cast or two. Melee and the tank must keep close watch on their debuff and move a little to clear it. Make sure there is someone in the party that can either dispel or cleanse so that they will be able to remove Crystal Chains. It will keep the targeted party member rooted for ten seconds and prevent them from clearing their Intense Cold debuff. Make sure to stand off so that you are facing her side so that you do not get tail swept or are hit with Crystalfire Breath.

All information taken from www.mmo-champion.com.

Mage PVP Macros

Destroy Mana Emerald + Conjure Mana Emerald
This will destroy your current Mana Emerald and conjure a new one. This is used for when you have 1-2 charges of your Mana Emerald left and want to make a new one without having to drag it out of your pack, delete it, and make a new one.

/run for i=0,4 do for j=1,GetContainerNumSlots(i) do if(GetContainerItemLink(i,j)or""):find("Mana Emer")then PickupContainerItem(i,j);DeleteCursorItem() end end end/cast Conjure Mana Emerald

Icelance Mouseover

Will Icelance your Mouseover target if you have once, otherwise it Icelances your target.

#showtooltip Ice Lance/cast [target=mouseover,harm] Ice Lance; Ice Lance

Wand Mouseover

Will Wand your Mouseover target if you have once, otherwise it will Wand your target.

#showtooltip Shoot/stopcasting/cast [target=mouseover,harm] Shoot; Shoot

Ice Block Fast
Stop whatever you are casting and cast ice block. A second click will remove it.

#showtooltip Ice Block/stopcasting/cancelaura Ice Block/cast Ice Block

Counterspell / Focus Counterspell
Stop whatever you are casting and cast counterspell. Holding down shift will cast it on your focus target instead of your current target.

#showtooltip Counterspell/stopcasting/cast [modifier:shift, target=focus] Counterspell/cast [nomodifier:shift] Counterspell

Counterspell Mouseover
Stop whatever you are casting and cast counterspell on your mouseover - if you have one. Otherwise it will cast Counterspell on your target.

#showtooltip Counterspell/stopcasting/cast [target=mouseover,exists,nohelp] Counterspell; Counterspell

Counterspell / Focus Counterspell Alternative
Stop whatever you are casting and cast counterspell on the focus target if it exists and on the current target if you have no focus target

#showtooltip Counterspell/stopcasting/cast [target=focus, exists] Counterspell; Counterspell

Summon Water Elemental / Pet Nova
Summon your Water Elemental if it is down. If you water elemental is up, it will use your pet's ranged nova.

#showtooltip Summon Water Elemental/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental/click PetActionButton5

Blink Now
Stop whatever you are casting and cast blink.

#showtooltip Blink/stopcasting/cast Blink

AP/Trinket/POM/Pyro
Blow all your cooldowns and launch an instant Pyroblast.

/stopcasting/cast Arcane Power/stopcasting/use Icon of the Silver Crescent/stopcasting/cast Presence of Mind/stopcasting/cast Pyroblast

Polymorph / Focus Polymorph
Cast rank 1 Polymorph on your current target. Holding down shift will cast it on your focus target instead of your current target.

#showtooltip Polymorph(Rank 1)/cast [modifier:shift, target=focus] Polymorph(Rank 1)/cast [nomodifier:shift] Polymorph(Rank 1)

Create Mana Gems
Create all mana gems. Sequence resets after one minute to match with arena prep time.

#showtooltip Conjure Mana Emerald/castsequence reset=60 Conjure Mana Emerald, Conjure Mana Ruby, Conjure Mana Citrine, Conjure Mana Jade, Conjure Mana Agate

Use Mana Gems
Use highest available mana gem. Uses clear errors so you do not get spammed with errors.

/use Mana Emerald/use Mana Ruby/use Mana Citrine/use Mana Jade/use Mana Agate/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear();

Eat, Drink, and Make Food/Water
This macro will create food or water or use it depending on what modifier you use

#show Conjured Glacier Water/use [nomodifier:alt] Conjured Glacier Water/use [nomodifier:alt] Conjured Croissant/cast [modifier:alt,button:1] Conjure Water/cast [modifier:alt,button:2] Conjure Food

Fire Ward/Frost Ward/Ice Barrier
Casts Fire ward while holding shift, Frost ward while holding control and otherwise Ice Barrier. (Space Saver)

#show Ice Barrier/cast [modifier:shift] Fire Ward/cast [modifier:ctrl] Frost Ward/cast Ice Barrier

Decurse Mouseover/Self
Decurses the target your mouse is hovering over. If you are not hovering over a friendly target decurse yourself.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Remove Lesser Curse/cast [target=player] Remove Lesser Curse

Best WoW Leveling Guide

Looking for the best world of warcraft leveling guide? We'll I'm going to tell you about the best one I have come across. The name is Idemise.

I Demise's leveling guide is a easy and fast way to get to 70/80. They are constantly updating it with new data and the fastest paths, and will soon release the WoTLK version once it hits stores Novemeber 13th.

With their guide you get a 60 day return time, try it out, if you don't like it then refund it. You get a special addon that tells you exactly where to go step by step, no more need to minimize if you don't use dual monitors or play in windowed mode. They have the current fastest 1-70 time, well not now that RAF( Recruit a friend) is out, but that is cheating :).

I personally love this guide and can't tell you how much faster it helped me reach 70 on my 4th character and now I have 6 level 70s.

If you need the link its the top banner on the right side of this page. Check it out if you are looking for a solid wow leveling guide.


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Good WoTLK Hunter PVE Specs

So since this new patch (3.02) has come out, Hunters are topping almost every PvE chart.

Marksman is keeping up with, and in some cases beating BM speced hunters in DPS.  

Here is the spec that I am using. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Dragonmaw&n=Crucial  .  Chimera Shot is awesome, basically just do a rotation of

open the fight with serpent sting

Repeat steady shot until chimera shot is up

hit chimera everytime its available.  

I use two different macros which one is for shot rotation and one is for trinkets, rapid fire, ect.  When I get home from work I will post the macros but they are incredibly useful.   

This spec has amazed me, I can burse down someone in PvE way too fast if they don't notice me.

Other spec is full BM, which there are many variables of, but are just as good dps essp when fully 25 man raid buffed. 

Easy Ways To Get Gold In WOW 3.0

Since the new patch has come out a few way to make gold have become open. 

As you know inscription has been implimented and everyone and their mom is trying to level it... well what does it use? Herbs.

1. Farm Herbs, I find that sungrass is selling very well, infact 50 gold a stack on my server.  A good place to get it? The Hinterlands is my personal favorite.

2. Vanity Pets.  Everyone is trying to get all the pets they can.  Just last night I ran Deadmines for the achievement and found a pirate bird pet.  Sold it within a hour on the auction house for 50 gold.  Also you can sell the alliance vendor pets on the neutral auction house for horde, or on the normal auction house for about 10-20 gold when they only cost 45 silver.  I have sold tons of these and it's very simple.

Hope these tips help you, and im sure you can find many more

Easiest WoW Achievements in WoTLK

So the new patch is out with the achievements function. Want to knwow some easy achievments to do?

1. Win a Duel
2. Hug a enemy after you kill them before they release
3. 5 Daily quests in a day
4. Buy all 7 Bank Slots
5. Do the easy instances. deadmines, ect.
6. Drink 25 beverages.
7. Explore different zones, you get an achievement for every zone!
8. Do a BG, kill all the races.
9. Get 30 kills in a single BG
10. Just browse the listings! Theres so many fun things to do and there pretty simple!

Goodluck, and get the Leeeeeroy title!

Most Overpowered Class in WoTLK?

What do you think the most overpowered class in WoTLK will be, or patch 3.02.  From everything I've seen and read looks like paladins, with the exeption of holy spec, will be the most OP and redesigned class.  

Retribution is supposed to be godly.  It will be doing more damage than warriors and bursting down any target in a few seconds.  

If you plan to reroll I'd prob go with the paladin.  

Make Gold With Herbalism before WoTLK

The new patch is being released today, october 14th.   As you probably already hear the new profession Inscription is being released also.  Well, everyone is going to want to powerlevel their new profession, but guess what, it takes tons of herbs to do.  

Yep! Inflation!!!!!  You would be smart to start farming as many herbs as you can this week because I have a almost positive feeling the market is going to skyrocket.  

The best herbs to farm you might ask? I would say level 30-50ish herbs.  The early level ones are too easy to get, and the outland ones, well, thats where all the high level players are, so really the only people in the middle zones are people leveling, so might as well take advantage of that.

Hope this helps you out, I know that it should hopfully buy me my new epic flyer.  

Playing the Auction House

Latly I have been bored with grinding and it seems as if the prices on motes and primals are falling, atleast on my server, so the past few days i have been playing the auction house. What is playing the auction house you say? Well basically it is just buying low selling high, which if you have ever ebayed you should know all about.

Playing the auction house requires some gold, but if you don't have tons of gold then you can start on lower items. You can buy out say all the light leather, linen cloth, ect and then control the market for that item. Once you gain more gold you can move to the more expensive items. This has actually been pretty entertaining for me latly.

Playing the auction house does require a bit of watching the prices for a little bit, or you can use auctioneer, but once you find a blue/epic that is lower than normal, buy it and relist it or spam it in trade for a very nice profit, esspecially if it's a pretty rare item.

Hope that helped if you didn't know what playing the auction house was, goodluck. Feel free to post back and tell me what you earned what your highest gain on an item was, ect.

Idemise WoTLK Leveling guide

If you want an Alliance leveling guide or an alternative guide to Jonas's horde guide, then Idemise is for you. They currently have the fastest leveling time from 1-60 and 1-70. They also sell both guides for alliance and horde as one pack. ALSO! Once you buy their guide you get updates forever, including WoTLK guide that is coming out soon as it launches. If that isn't enough, you can even try it out for 60 days if you arn't happy you can get a full refund. This is one of the, if not the best, guides for WoTLK leveling and normal 1-70 .

Check it out and if you don't like it, shoot, refund it after you hit 80! Go here

Retracting Honor Reset for WoTLK

Okay, so forget what I said about the honor reset.

We had hoped that the introduction of some new Honor rewards in the upcoming patch would give players a great opportunity to spend any of their remaining Honor. However, many players would still be surprised by an Honor and token reset as it isn’t something we’ve done in the past. As such, we've decided to not reset Honor or tokens upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. Players who save their Honor will be able to spend it on level 80 rewards, although those rewards will be significantly more expensive than their level 70 counterparts.