World of Warcraft at Ten Ton Hammer

In this instance you will fill one of two roles. You will either be healing, or helping with DPS. While you can heal as either a Discipline Priest, or a Holy Priest, for Utgarde Keep there isn’t much difference between these two. It is a 5 man instance, and as such it’s pretty easy to heal with either spec. If you are specced Shadow, you will be helping out with DPS.

Trash Mobs

All of the trash mobs in Utgarde Keep are pretty straight forward fights. If you are Shadow specced, your role is very easy. Wait for the tank to get aggro, and then use your DOTs, and Mind Flay to bring them down. You can use Vampiric Embrace followed by Mind Blast to help heal the group if your healer is having a hard time, and use Vampiric Touch followed by Mind Blast to help restore Mana to the group. In fact many groups will ask you to just keep Vampiric Embrace, and Vampiric Touch going all the time. If you are fighting a large number of mobs at the same time, use Mind Sear to AOE them down. Throw up a Fade if you take Aggro, and you should sail through the trash mobs with ease.

If you are healing Utgarde Keep, the trash mobs are pretty easy on you. Most of your heals will be concentrated on the main tank, with only an occasional heal needed on the off tank, or other party members.  Throw Prayer of Mending on the main tank as he charges. Use Prayer of Mending as much as possible; it’s a great heal with a low Mana cost. Use Renew to keep everyone topped off as needed in between Prayer of Mending castings. Power Word: Shield is also a great way to prevent your tank from taking damage, but check with him first, some tanks don’t like it. Throw a Greater Heal if someone is getting swamped but in general it won’t be needed. Throw up a Fade if you take aggro, and you should sail through the trash mobs with ease.

Prince Keleseth

If you are doing DPS, this fight is pretty easy. Wait for the tank to get aggro, and then lay into the Prince. Use Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch and Mind Blast to help with Mana and healing. Keep your DOTs up at all times and Mind Flay in between. Use your Shadowfiend as the fight gets underway to keep your Mana topped off. The only thing to watch out for during this fight is the Ice Tomb. Whoever gets trapped inside has to be freed right away or will go down quickly. Use your Mind Flay on the Tomb, and everything will be fine.

If you are healing for this fight, you need to watch the tank closely. It is a straight forward fight, but the Prince can hit pretty hard. Keep casting Prayer of Mending anytime you can, and keep Renew up at all times on the tank. Use your Greater Heal if he starts taking to much damage. You might need to throw a Circle of Healing out there if the group starts getting hit to hard by the skeleton adds. You can use your Shadowfiend or Hymn of Hope if your Mana gets to low. Just keep the tank topped off and the rest of the fight will take care of itself.

Possible Loot
Reinforced Velvet Helm
Wand of the San’layn

Skarvald and Dalronn

This fight is a bit more difficult than the Prince fight. The goal of this fight is to kill both bosses as close to the same time as possible. So if you are doing DPS, you need to be clear who you are going to attack. Once is has been decided which target is yours, follow the same rotation that you did for Keleseth.  Use Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch and Mind Blast to help with Mana and healing. Keep your DOTs up at all times and Mind Flay in between. Use your Shadowfiend as the fight gets underway to keep your Mana topped off.

This fight is a bit more difficult if you are healing. You will have to watch the tank, and the off tank closely because each will have a boss attacking them. Skarvald also tends to jump around a bit, making it hard for the tank to hold aggro. Keep casting Prayer of Mending anytime you can, and keep Renew up at all times on the main tank and off tank. You will probably have to cast Circle of Healing more than you did with Keleseth. You can use your Shadowfiend or Hymn of Hope if your Mana gets too low. Just keep Renew up, and use Greater Heal as needed as you should be fine.

Possible Loot
Unfortunately you get ripped off from this boss. There is really nothing they drop that is useful to you.

Ingvar the Plunderer

If you are doing DPS on this fight, there is one thing to remember, Stay back! Ingvar has a strong cleave, and really nasty Shadow AoE attacks that will take down all but the strongest tanks. His attacks are shadow based, so you can use Shadow Protection to help the group out on this fight. Stay at a distance and follow your normal rotation of using Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch and Mind Blast to help with Mana and healing. Keep your DOTs up at all times and Mind Flay in between. Use your Shadowfiend as the fight gets underway to keep your Mana topped off.

If you are healing there isn’t much new that you will have to do. Use Shadow Protection on the group (his attacks are Shadow based), and stay well back from Ingvar. Keep casting Prayer of Mending anytime you can, and keep Renew up at all times on the main tank and off tank. Use Greater Heal if anyone drops below 50% to get them back up and you will probably have to cast Circle of Healing quite a bit because of Ingvar’s AoE attacks. The biggest issue with this fight is that you will have to kill Ingvar twice, so watch your mana. Save your Shadowfiend and Hymn of Hope for the second part of the fight, Ingvar hits harder now, and you will need all the mana you can get.

Possible Loot
Ring of Decimation
Signet of Swift Judgment
Annhylde’s Ring
Breeches of the Caller