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Comment by roby10

Utgarde Keep (pronounced oot-guard) is the first dungeon hub appearing in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. It is located on the shores of Lake Cauldros in the Howling Fjord of Northrend.

Utgarde will be inhabited by the vrykul (led by King Ymiron), a Viking-like race bent on proving their strength to the Lich King, who will raise the most worthy of their warriors to serve him beyond the grave. Therefore, it can be expected that this instance will feature at least some undead.

The first of two wings, known simply as the Utgarde Keep, was available for play at BlizzCon 2007. It is suitable for a 5-man level 70-72 party.

The second wing, Utgarde Pinnacle, will be a 5-man instance for level 80 players.

From:www.wowwiki.com

Comment by 83214

This is one of the first instances you can do as soon as you enter Northrend. Just like Hellfire Ramparts of TBC, this place will give out good gear compared to what most people get as soon as they get WotLK. In fact, once this place is properly tuned, a good group of level 70s with greens and blues can successfully complete this place.

Comment by Trellian

Finished this last night on my Resto Shaman (ZA/Badge geared). It is remarkably similar to Ramparts, the trash wasn't too hard at all, simple packs of 2, 3 and 4 mobs. Our party consisted of a Resto Shaman (me), Prot Warrior (MT), Prot Paladin (OT), Elemental Shaman, and a Mage of some spec :P

The first boss, Prince Keleseth fires off shadowbolts, and has and ability that will encase a random person in a block of ice, dealing 400 damage per tick, simple enough to heal through. He also summons skeletons that can be killed very quickly, then shortly after they die, they ress themselves and can be killed again. We killed him very quickly.

He dropped http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=35572 for us.

The second boss was Skarvald the Constructor and Dalronn the Controller. Easy peasy, Skarvald randomly charged, Dalronn chain casts Shadowbolt. When one died, he ressed as a 'black spirit' and couldnt be targetted, but the other one was nearly dead anyway, and as soon as the second one dies, you've won! Huzzah!

We got http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=35574 from these two scallywags.

The last boss (Ingvar the Plunderer) was very hard.

Basically, he hits hard, has an aoe roar that does Shadow damage and interrupts spells being cast (with an 8 second silence) and a stackable debuff that increases Shadow damage taken by 5%, and stacks up to 50 times >_<

When he dies, he gets ressurected, and gains an upgraded version of his major attack which now does this: Deals 17500 to 22500 Shadow damage to all enemies within a 10 yard cone in front of the caster. In addition, deals 1750 to 2250 Shadow damage to all enemies, knocking them down. 3 sec cast, 2 sec cooldown.

Basically, you have to tank him away from the rest of your party, with his back to them, and as soon as you see him casting - the tank has to get the hell out of there (especially in phase 2) - or you run the risk of taking up to 23000 shadow damage in one hit. A few times he one shot our tank and off tank.

We got him down on about our 5th try, and recieved http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=35576 for our troubles.

Comment by 83439

Some background information before you start.

The keep is located on the shores of Lake Cauldros in the Howling Fjord of Northrend.

Utgarde will be inhabited by the vrykul (led by King Ymiron), a Viking-like race bent on proving their strength to the Lich King, who will raise the most worthy of their warriors to serve him beyond the grave.

(The second wing, Utgarde Pinnacle, will be a 5-man instance for level 80 players.)

The vrykul are a race of half-giant warriors native to the Howling Fjord located in southeastern Northrend. It is said that in ancient times the vrykul inhabited the land, founding a vast and prosperous civilization. Then one day, without warning or explanation, the vrykul vanished, leaving behind only deserted villages and abandoned temples. Due to the settlement of Valgarde, the vrykul have recently returned.

These formidable warriors have begun attacking Horde and Alliance settlements, and many of the vrykul are pouring out of the fortress of Utgarde Keep, not far from Valgarde. The vrykul's motives and their whereabouts for the past several thousand years remain a mystery.

Inside Utgarde Keep, the Dragonflayer clan builds massive engines of war, and train proto-dragons to act as steeds and attacks for their raids.

Loyal to the slumbering King Ymiron, rumours abound that they serve the Lich King. They are dark and vampiric in nature, and tie into the Titan creation myth that will unfold as events of the expansion take place.

Utgarde Keep is their main base of operations and is similar to the fel orcs' Hellfire Citadel.

To see the tactics, check project lore here: http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=41008

Comment by 123370

Is this a good instance for leveling? ..just as Blood Furnace was in TBC?

Comment by elmundox

May i ask what faction this instance gives rep with?

Comment by Belse

Anyone knows how long this dungeon takes to finish?

Comment by 244554

Hi..just like to find out...if anyone noticed..how much exp do we roughly get from 1 run(lvl70's).Thanks

Comment by intuit

I believe you get between 90-100k xp per clear @ 70. If you have a geared group and can clear it in 15 or so minutes, it's amazing for leveling.

Comment by 129690

A decently geared group run will take about 30 minutes. I ran it 3 times yesterday with me (geared mt) a shammy (geared healer) and 3 random dps with ok gear.

Comment by 6981

I did this using Trellian's tactics. I just have one thing to add, the last boss aint really that hard. Tanked him without any problems just have his back towards the group :)

Comment by Akora

Last boss has similar circles all the time:

1st phase: HUMANOID FORM
- mostly he melees
- at the end of the cast he does he does ability similar to shockwave that protection warriors get from last talent. Beware to move away from it if your tank has less than 12 or 13k hp. Others should not stand in cone anyway.
- few seconds after he roars. All casters should stop casting after roar because he does aoe and at the same time he silences for quite a long time if you have been casting while being hit. Very bad for healers.
- He keeps these 2 abilities in this order every few seconds.
After he dies he is resurected.

2nd phase: UNDEAD FORM
He gets resurected with the exactly same amount of life as he had before.
- he is still meleeing mostly
- he uses 2 aoe knockbacks now, couldn't see the difference in yelling or anything.
-1st one is similar to previous, which does aoe and silences.
- 2nd one knocks down and adds a group debuff that increases shadow damage by 5%. Each time he does that you get another stack. He is usually down before 4th stack, but while 2maning him we got 13 stacks and it was still managable.
- last ability is his axe. From time to time he hurls his axe that starts doing whirlwinds which does around 1500-2500 damage on cloth per second. Run away from it.

Watch line of sight because of pillars and you should be ok.

P.S. Standing behind pillars doesn't remove the aoe knockbacks.

Comment by 178513

Not really hard. It's basically the same as Ramparts in TBC. The largest pull is 5 linked mobs. (More possible if you want) Most of the groups are 3 or 4 mobs. I ran this three times yesterday. It should take somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes, depending on how good your healer is at conserving mana to allow some measure of chainpulling.

Mobs of note: Enslaved Proto-Drakes do a minor knockback which doesn't seem to reduce aggro but is annoying all the same. Also do a flame breath, so tank away from the group and away from other mob packs so that your physical DPS doesn't get knocked into the other mobs.

The Rune-keepers cast runes. Big annoyance factor, since they can either make a mob go immune to all dmg for a few seconds, or cast an aura on them which does a lot of fire dmg every tick, like the mobs in Mechanar. If you've got two of these in one pull, either CC one or stun-nuke one.

Dragonflayer Strategists drop bombs that explode for some damage. They also hurl daggers at random party members. The Spiritualists heal. The undead mobs, Frenzied Geists specially, you'll encounter hit hard and fast, so don't sic your mage on them without tanking them.

Trellian's tacs for the bosses are spot-on. I'll add that the easiest (from my point of view as a tank) is to run through the boss when he casts Smash or Dark Smash, since he doesn't follow you. Also, the aggro doesn't seem to reset from phase 1 to phase 2 and he'll start with a roar in phase 2. It can be LoS'ed.

Comment by Ro3man

Utgarde Keep Quests
Alliance(two total)

Step I.Go to Scout Valoury 55,55 in Howling Fjord to start:
Fresh Legs
Step II. Turn into Defender Mordun 59,48 Howling Fjord to get:
Into Utgarde!
Disarmament(prereq Fresh Legs)

Comment by Ro3man

Utgarde Keep quests
Horde(3 total for the instance)

Step I. Go to High Executor Anselm to get
A Score to Settle
Step II Go to Dark Ranger Marrah (inside instance) to get
Disarmament
Ingvar Must Die

Comment by 224404

Though wowhead suggests otherwise, you CAN get into utgarde keep at 68 - and do the two quests obtained inside.

Comment by DK10016

You and your party must either be 10 feet away from the blast, or out of its way.
Directions for avoiding "Smash"

Melee: - When Ingvar is casting his, "Smash" ability, run to either the left or the right, out of his view.

Casters: You should always be at least 10 feet back.

Think of his "Smash" ability as a Mages spell, "Cone of Cold".

Comment by 65665

What reputation does this instance give, if any ?

Comment by 82616

Here is a full guide on every single boss in this instance made by myself
just for WoWhead and anyone wanting to know how to do instance :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZA-K0vjckA

Comment by mindphlux

A standard clear (ignoring some mobs you can skip) on Heroic mode awards 1950 reputation with the faction of your choice.

Comment by 256425

I would put this down as one of the easiest heroics. With a Rogue and Pally for CC, this was a cake walk (although two druids for wolf sleeping) Still easy. go go heroic!

Comment by alorathepriest

A Heroic Utgarde Keep run awards approx. 2000 reputation.

Comment by 282259

Maybe a reference to the Utgard mountains from the Aragon book series?

Comment by alpaca

Just 4-manned Utgarde with the following:
80 Shaman - 0 xp
76 Paladin - 150,332 xp
76 Priest - 146,686 xp
75 Priest - 144,000 xp

Because of some network problems tonight, we got kicked off every 8-12 minutes throughout the run, but we estimate it took us about 35 minutes. It'd have taken about 20 minutes w/o the disconnects. So, about 450k/hr for lvl 75-76ish.

Comment by 133414

Im lvl 68 and i got in and completed a run with a group. This instance does not require lvl 70.

Comment by 297165

A very easy instance to do for those that have TBC gear.For all the other groups that went to Northrend as soon as they got 68 level just a piece of advice:"Stay focused, mark and keep tacts coz its the only way to make it"

Comment by manowars

last boss sucks much better when you have a caster group

Comment by 304592

Tanked this today with an excellent PUG as a 71 Prot pally (12.5k unbuffed health, mostly Northrend quest reward greens), 2x 70 Mage, 73 Restro Druid, 71 Shammy. Apart from a dodgy pull (the one before you get in the place with all the fire - the name escapes me) and the last boss it was smooth running.

The last boss hits hard and fast in phase 2. He one-shotted me with Smash in Phase 2 once, and the rest of my group got him down to 8k before we wiped. Took three attempts to bring him down - probably my fault as he killed me twice with Smash.

First boss is a simple tank and spank. Get all your group to stay near you and spam consecrate when he brings in his adds. Hand of Freedom comes in handy against his frost CC. The second boss can give you trouble if you don't get them to die at roughly the same time - not really a problem when you're AoEing everything. The last boss seems pretty tough considering how easy the rest of the instance is, but I reckon with a bit of practice and an easier to see cast bar, it'd be quite easy.

Comment by Zizarz

Also, the lvl requirement of this instance is lvl 68, not 70 as it says

Comment by 308973

Able to enter at level 65 today, but of course quests were not available.

Comment by s3bbz0r

For being so bored I checked how much reputation you gain on this instance, and came up on 2000 rep till 2100 rep on your selected faction.
Happy farming!

Comment by 69072

I was just able to zone in at level 65. The summoning stone does not work for 65s, but you can zone in just fine.

Comment by 45047

has anyone tried this instance on normal mode solo? i'm curious if it's possible...

Comment by trademen

New favorite instance. It does not take a really long time for a group to do if they are prepared and understand the bosses. There seems to be a large number of optional pulls throughout the instances, there are some rooms (like the dragon stables) where you barely have to keep half of what is in the room to advance.

Lots of humanoids make for easy crowd control targets, thus making pulls very easy. There are also a few caves that are chock full of non elite undead mobs, any tank that makes it this far should have no problems rounding them all up and letting a mage/lock/pally/anything with any kind of aoe at all knock them all down.

The bosses are the most difficult part, I personally had difficulty with the last one. His shockwave like ability can easily one shot a healer or melee dps if they are not careful.

Comment by Wisdomsword

Utgarde Keep (pronounced OOT-ghaard) is the name of a dungeon in World of Warcraft (as well as the first instance of the same dungeon). The keep is located on the shores of Lake Cauldros in the Howling Fjord of Northrend.
Utgarde is inhabited by the vrykul (led by King Ymiron), a Viking-like race bent on proving their strength to the Lich King, who will raise the most worthy of their warriors to serve him beyond the grave. Enemy encounters include vrykul, undead, and more...
The first of two wings, known simply as Utgarde Keep, was available for play at BlizzCon 2007. It is suitable for a 5-man level 70-72 party.
The second wing, Utgarde Pinnacle, is a more difficult, 5-man instance for level 80 players.

History
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The vrykul are a race of half-giant warriors native to the Howling Fjord located in southeastern Northrend. It is said that, in ancient times, the vrykul inhabited the land, founding a vast and prosperous civilization. Then one day, without warning or explanation, the vrykul vanished, leaving behind only deserted villages and abandoned temples. Due to the settlement of Valgarde, the vrykul have recently returned.
These formidable warriors have begun attacking Horde and Alliance settlements, and many of the vrykul are pouring out of the fortress of Utgarde Keep, not far from Valgarde. The vrykul's motives and their whereabouts for the past several thousand years remain a mystery.
Inside Utgarde Keep, the Dragonflayer clan builds massive engines of war and train proto-dragons to act as steeds for their raids.
Loyal to the slumbering King Ymiron, rumors are abound that they serve the Lich King. They are dark and vampiric in nature, and tie into the titan creation myth that is slowly unfolding as events of the expansion take place.
Utgarde Keep is their main base of operations and is similar to the fel orcs' Hellfire Citadel.

Comment by 232620

Don't try to solo this. Ye'll do fine on the trash but the first boss keeps ye in frost tomb for 99% of the time so ye just end up dead.

Comment by weetabix

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying that the parts you visit inside aren't viewable on the outside, even if they just had the area mapped properly with no mobs I'd be happy.

Comment by 342692

I'm a beastmastery Hunter trying to farm Stone Keeper's shards, is this solo-able at 80?

Comment by 4069

For the Death Knights:

In case you've wiped and lost your pet (and don't have any Corpse Dust on you), you can case Raise Dead on his corpse between Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Comment by 293539

I was finally able to solo the prince, with some lucky bugs....the ice tomb for some reason didnt land twice that let me keep going. Im a BM hunter in most Nax gear with turtle in tank spec (I've tried with Bear, and even though they have more life the turtle shield works great when the adds are out, or your Iced). It took me about 9 tries to get him but I finally got it.

Start with your normal rotation, stay as close to the prince as you can, right before Ice Block make sure and throw out a mend pet. The first Ice block bugged and didnt land on me, the 2nd I used my pvp trink to get out, 3rd and 4th time I had to have pet target it for me and the fifth bugged again while I burned him down. Mend pet will keep pets alive while you're ice blocked so you really only have to worry about your own health. That's where I ended up losin it each time.

As soon as your out of Ice Block Volley all the mobs and if possible try and get a volley and mend off before your iced. If you can keep the adds killed and get out of the ice fairly quick then its not a bad fight. I had to use a bandage after 2 of the Ice's but the adds targetted me too soon most of the time and didnt get the full benefit so ended up havin to use a pot near the end. If you can get a stone from a lock too that would help some.

As far as the second boss...I only got 2 tries in on him. Basic plan burn caster to 10% then switch. The problem was that for some reason even tho pet had aggro the caster kept shootin at me...I tried usin MD and Feign but he just kept on me. The closest I got was 50% on the 2nd guy and 10% on the caster. If I could keep the caster off me, I dont think my pet had even lost any health. The bear might be better for this fight but I wanted to keep the turtle out for the end fight.

I believe with the right practice you can solo this place....however it seems to take to long to be productive. If ya can just grab a buddy and duo it will go a lot faster. Shouldnt be hard and pretty much any spec would help.

Comment by Titan

I highly recommend someone in the party have some Mighty Shadow Protection Potion for the 2nd phase of the Ingvar fight, it really helps lessen the damage that he does.

Comment by Seraphis

(sigh) It feels so sad to look back at Sunwell Plateau after this.
But, all things must come to an end. :)

Comment by 227308

Am I a nerd to notice this, but was there a Maximal symbol (Transformers Beast Wars) near the last boss? or was it something like it?

Comment by mindthegap5

I got told this is the easiest place for emblems of heroism, is it?

Comment by 360694

An 155-ilvl Blue item has the same item value with an 125-ilv Epic item.
In other words, the normal drops from UK have the same value with the epic drops from
Prince Malchezaar (last boss in Karazhan) or
Kael'thas Sunstrider (heroic mode only) or
any other drops , found inside Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair.
Notice that Tier 4 sets have 120-ivl items , so they can be easily replaced with drops from normal Utgarde Keep.
Also, an 155-ilvl Blue item is BETTER than EVERY Green item in-game .

Comment by spiralyguy

Solo'd the instance as a Uld/Naxx geared Blood DK. Stayed in DPS gear and Blood presence the whole time.

1st boss roflstomped me on my first try, forgot to equip my pvp trinket, got blocked, that was pretty much it. Second time I tried I was more prepared. Chain casted DnD and Horn until I had full runic power before engaging the boss (only works if you have morbidity). Then I cast army of the dead and summoned a ghoul, plage strike, icy touch, hysteria+dancing rune weapon then just unload. Once you're out of runes use Empower runic weapon and unload again. He blocked me once when he was at 30% or so but I trinketed out and finished him off. I didn't really worry about the adds at all, I think heart strike got a couple of em. Was doing around 5k dps on him including the summons, any less I think I would have gotten blocked twice and owned.

2nd boss hit's pretty hard. It was hard to keep myself healed up with death strike. Ended up having to double death strike, then empower rune weapon and double death strike again plus used my endless healing potion and lifeblood. Heart strike makes killing them at the same time pretty trivial.

3rd boss was cake. Just avoid the smash and take him down.

Also, the worgs hurt, kill them first, and don't stand in bombs.

Comment by 287191

As for thrash, I could fully solo it with level 77 prot paladin. Full blue crafted prot gear + enchants. Lifeward on the MH. Of course pots (+45 def rating and +20 all stats) and food buff gave me 18k hits. Some packs of 4 mobs (especially later ones with casters) were slightly harder, but really I did not have to bubble heal too much on thrash pulls.

1st boss is simply impossible at the level, no way to survive the ice blocks. Skipped.
2nd boss - they also hit too hard to outlast. Skipped.
3rd boss - funny enough, I could get till 2nd phase with some pillar abuse. In 2nd phase, unfortunately, the whirling axe thing kept wiping me, since even if I avoid it ASAP, i still get 1-2 hits, which is 1.5-3k damage - too much to keep health and mana undrained for too long.

Bottom line. Trash mobs are ~6k (or drakes - 10k) rested exp. Good alternative to leveling, if you are bored of questing and want a slight challenge.

Comment by SimonW50

For 1 heroic run whit rep tabard. You earn around 2187 reputation.

Comment by deathhlock

great 1st wotLK heroic run for new lvl 80s ready to do heroics

Comment by 288218

i just entered it @ lvl 66 with my mage so prob you can enter it @ 65 so farm it for greens and bleu for de with a booster and get a F*ck ton of gold :P

Comment by endless409

Note that Utgarde Keep and Utgarde Pinnacle were designed after Utgard Spire in the book Eragon. Utgard was the last stronghold of the Dragon Riders, a once noble clan of protectors; before King Galbatorix slew the remaining, posed as the villain in this book. A tribute to the author Christopher Paolini no doubt.

Comment by 163674

Something I've just noticed while waiting for a party member get back to the computer while in Utgarde Keep - the last part of the instance, the bridge and arena where you face Ingvar, is called Tyr's terrace.
This could be a possible reference to the Viking metal band Týr, as there are obvious similarities and connections between the Vikings and the vrykul.
Or, I could just be reading into this a bit too much :P up to the rest of you to decide.

Just looked it up on wikipedia, and Tyr is also the god of single combat in norse mythology, so my guess is Blizz were referring to that instead hehe.

Comment by 481646

1st boss-just ignore the adds and focus on boss

2nd boss-make macro and alert everyone when one boss is on 5% hp then nuke other one.Also focus on caster cause he makes wonderfull damage

3rd boss-First kill is easy just pillar hide and best is to have more range dps then melee. Only prob can be if the healer gets stuned for 2 sec and cant heal-also for begginers healing pots can come in handy if first time healing and dont have enough mana or mp5

Comment by Sagentine

Requires 68-80 to queue for random dungeon finder.

Comment by 441563

This is easily soloable by an enh sham in some ICC/badge gear.

Pulls are super easy unless you get really unlucky with MW procs even if there's 3 or 4 mobs. Be sure to keep shamwall on CD during the pulls for the 30% damage reduction. (makes it much more manageable)

Keleseth wasn't too tricky, just pop your wolves as soon as the warning for frost tomb comes up and they can kill it for you. I only had one tomb on me but i used BL anyways just to be sure i'd kill him fast enough.

Skarvald and Dalronn were a little tougher, but same basic strat. pop wolves, Bl and your regular totems. Burn one to 5% then finish them at the same time.

Ingvar was a little tougher (probably because i had almost no MW procs...) used wolves on the pull and rage. burned him in about 25 seconds. saved BL for the undead phase as well as fire ele just for the heck of it. dark smash was pretty brutal and i had to use a runic health pot.

Sorry for the wall o' text but just wanting to help any other enh shams out there that want to do something other than waiting for raids to reset.

Comment by 424422

This is the longest 3-badge Heroic dungeon in WotLK.

Comment by 59839

I have solo'd today in HC mode with DK. 5757gs tank gear. 45/0/26
I tried the first many times by the time he succeeded. Too much dmg from the frost tomb.
Made frost gear Icebane Chestguard, Icebane Girdle, Icebane Treads. And if frost tomb not resist then use pet attack or Titan-Forged Rune of Alacrity.

On second boss need many heal. Dalronn the Controller spammed Shadow bolt. My hps on this boss 1800.

Last boss very easy.

Comment by 582467

So today I decide, for the hell of it, to solo Ingvar. Only thing is, I don't have a tanking pet right now because I accidentally released my croc instead of my cat when I got my wolf. So what do I do?

I hunterstealth through the instance and burn Ingvar down before he kills my wolf!

I keep my pet dismissed throughout the run, just running through and feigning death whenever I get attacked. The room with the fire is the hardest, and it's still easy. I just shoot the guy that's on the chain, the fire stops, I run to the other side and feign death.

Prince is nerve wracking because I probably won't be able to solo him (Because I'm survival with a ferocity pet and no glyph of mending, I don't trust my wolf to live through my being frost tombed)and I don't know his aggro radius. I manage to get by without aggro.

Skarvald & Dalronn are pathetically easy to skip because you don't even need to use the stairs. The chains blocking the sides don't go all the way to the wall. You could probably skip them even in heroic.

So then I get to Ingvar. Turns out pets are smart and automatically avoid the smash by running behind him. Only thing is, Ingvar's melee hits for almost a fifth of my wolf's health. So. When my mend pet starts to lose to Ingvar's melee damage, I run to the other side of the area and distracting shot to give it more time.

I beat down his first phase with my wolf about half health and then the fun part begins. His melee now hits harder and his smash can't be completely avoided. He ended up doing just enough damage that my mend pet couldn't keep up and my pet died when he was at 12k health.

I thought to myself.

"Son of a hooker."

I lay it all on him, and find that he's immune to all types of slow. No Wing Clip, no Concussive Shot, and no Frost Trap. So. Black Arrow, Serpent Sting, Snake Trap, Explosive Shot, Disengage, Aimed Shot, Explosive Shot...

We both die at the same time.

So I hunterstealth all the way back through and find that he dropped Ingvar's Monolithic Cleaver. Pfah.

In any case, it was a very fun way to waste a lot of time I could have spent working on Loremaster of Northrend.

Comment by 657343

wow you think blizz would put stuff in this instace for a non caster tank wow Blizz you suck put sholder pads or how about a shield oh wait i got it a non casters plate chest piece wow that would make my warrior alot better because this is the first instance that you can do outside of Outlands that you can do and this is better then any outlands chest piece Chestplate of the Northern Lights so get rid of the intlect and put strangth on it or something (if its spirit i will kill you) thank you all for reading this if you agree rate it good or comment.

Comment by LemonSocks

An unusual bug occurred last night when I put my level 69 pally tank in for a specific. We killed Prince Keleseth and then Skarvald & Dalronn fine. Afterwards we moved on up the next staircase but the healer DC'd so me and another dps died on the trash. The healer didn't come back and we had no ress, so I ran back in only to find that I couldn't get into the room where Skarvald & Dalronn would have been.

There was a large gate shutting me out, and when we replaced the healer the new one couldn't get through either. I've never seen that gate before, and I can't see any reason why it should be closed when the boss behind it is dead. I can only imagine it was a bug with the latest patch (4.0.3).

Hopefully it'll be resolved before too long, but this is something to look out for.

Comment by Zolnar

Since patch 4.0.3 went live on 11.23.10, I've noticed some changes to minimum level requirements to enter dungeons. I'm not sure if the changes are intentional or the result of a bug since they weren't listed in the official or undocumented patch notes.

While planning to run my priest alt through UK when he hits 65 tonight, I noticed that the requirement to enter UK has now been changed to 67. If these changes have been made to all dungeons, can we please get some updated information on this whenever it becomes available.

Comment by 439988

Seems to require lvl 67 to enter now.

Comment by katbrat

At 3:30pm CST I was in a LFG pug in Utgarde Keep and the inside gate closed on us. Druid and Warlock could not come back inside, even when they ported out and back in. It brought them to the front of the instance and blocked us off from one another. It was the gate before Skarvald the Constructor & Dalronn the Controller. Was this a bug or is there a reason for this? We could not finish the instance. Perhaps others have had this issue and may be able to assist each other.

Comment by Muzzle248

I had this same problem. The rest of the group infront of the gate could not go on without me and the healer and we had to disband.

Comment by 758272

I am 85 feral dps druid in full bloodied pvp agility set with Seliza's Spear (Heroic) equipped. Successfully soloed this dungeon easy to get the mood recipes. (Haunted Herring, Tasty Cupcake, etc) None of the bosses or mobs took me below 85% health, I have 107.7k health unbuffed. First boss's frost tomb was never successfully cast on me.

Comment by 725660

anyone know what it means when there is a gate blocking the way

Comment by MarkBelain

Utgarde keep now requires level 67 to enter. Not 65.

Comment by 815738

NOW REQUIRES:
Level 67
To ENTER.

the information listed in the info box is currently incorrect.

you can however still summon people from the meeting stone at 65 ... srsly blizz...10 levels to shattered halls...and now two to UK

Comment by 142125

I ran this twice at 70 before coming here to check gear drops. Nothing notable for tanks on normal besides rep.

Comment by 717646

Solo'd as an 85 Hunter. This dungeon is easy. Let your pet do all the work, and use Feign Death when they run after you.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any Justice Points for doing it. Apparently you have to do it as a group to get them.

Comment by cronix91

Required levels: 65 is wrong. 67 are the right numbers!

Comment by thunderold

It is now level 67 to get in, I tried it on my lvl 66 .

Comment by Stjimmy

Don't bother trying to solo any boss other then that last one as a rogue. They are way too RNG based.
The first few mobs you have to either kill or have you on at the furnace thing will see through your vanish unless you're far enough away. If you get caught in a daze, you're screwed as they will continue to daze you.

First boss will iceblock you, leaving you completely open for attacks until your inevitable death.

Second boss, which is a caster and a melee, will kill you as well nomatter which one you start on.

Edit: Talking about heroic. Not normal.

Comment by Martika

I am level 68 and I tried to enter this instance today and it told me I was too low level! I can queue for it in dungeon finder and accept the quests that are inside, and the person who was running me through was able to summon me into the dungeon from inside - but I could not enter!

Comment by 961718

Utgarde Keep entrance: In the front of the building, you'll see the Meeting Stone for Utgarde Pinnacle. Fly around to the back and the very bottom of the building. The entrance to Utgarde Keep is near a bunch of flying Daggercap Hawks , a big camp fire, and a couple Dragonflayer Thane guards standing outside.

Fly in and go down a long hallway and the entrance to the instance is inside.

Comment by 900996

This can be easily solo'd as an SP at level 85 on Normal, maybe lower for someone who has more skills than I. :) You can also pretty solo everything as a lvl85 SP on Heroic; however, the only thing you might need help with is the 2 bosses (Controller and Constructor due to adds and spirit rez which doesn't matter who you down first). Unless you are geared well and a better player than me, or I am just horrible...you might want help with them! :). I ended passing them until I could find someone to help and it was a decent geared Warlock. I will try again when I have a bit higher gear. Hey, I was even surprised that I got "On the Rock's" achievement on the first boss as solo...so....have fun! :)

Comment by 410866

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49JdA4Km6GE
@i hate this HernyaStyle@

Comment by 1029787

Solo'd as an 85 Kitty Druid. Took about 20 minutes, give or take a couple for chatting. Here was my haul:

- 9 Frostweave Cloth
- 9 Greens
- 4 Blues (one BoE)
- 6 Greys
- A bunch of misc greys and food.
- It seemed like enemies were dropping about 20-30s each, didn't pay much attention to that.

Sold everything except the cloth and Blue BoE for 87g.

Not bad. It was stupid easy too. Pulling 5+ mobs never got me to less than 120k health out of 132k.

Comment by 1064831

I just went through this Solo on Heroic as part of the Lunar Festival achievements. Unfortunately there is a bug- I killed Skarvald & Dalronn but they didn't count. Their dead bodies were laying there, but I couldn't loot and they didn't count toward finishing the dungeon. I got what I needed for the Lunar Festival, but no luck on finishing the dungeon. A GM actually responded to the ticket I submitted...they are aware of a problem. Fantastic...now to see if it actually gets fixed.

Comment by 997878

I made a video for this Dungeon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-XxMwQ1Xk

Comment by 1122904

Running this one as a tank, I'm often left handling the mobs alone with no healing while my &*!@#$% group mates run like hell to get the weapons before I have a chance to, leaving me to do the biggest &*!@#$%-ry a tank can do in a 5 men instance (leaving). Why can't we all act like civilized people?

Comment by 30049

Just a little info...

Normal

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 67.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 68-78.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is orange difficulty lvl 68-69, yellow difficulty lvl 70-74 and green difficulty lvl 75-78.

You can queue this dungeon as random dungeon lvl 69-72.

You have to be lvl 68 to obtain the quests.

Heroic

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 80.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 80-82.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 80-82.

You can not queue this dungeon as random dungeon.

Item level requirement: 180.

See more in this guide.

Comment by Turpentine

Although trading Justice Points for Kirin Tor Commendation Badge is probably the fastest way to gain reputation with the Kirin Tor, running dungeons with Tabard of the Kirin Tor equipped is an alternative if you still need some of the Lich King dungeon achievements or just want to do something else.

Heroic Utgarde Keep yielded 3,062 reputation points with a level 90 Monk in a level 25 guild. No other enhancements on the character.

(Heroic Wrath of the Lich King instances can be done only once per day).

Comment by sivla

Originally you could get in here at level 66 if you could get to the place by being summoned by a lock, then they changed it to level 67, now for some twisted stupid dumb reason they have upped it to level 68 minimum to enter....seriously, you can enter level 70 instances in outland which by the way are a lot harder (mobs hit far harder in my opinion) and yet blizzard feel it necessary to up it again.

Outlands is a dump, and a headache, this dungeon would have been the perfect tonic at level 67 to grab another level..but like ramparts, which is now 58 minimum to enter (which kinda makes sense since you cannot get through the dark portal until then (which they promised multiple times to lower over the years and yet here we are still waiting).

Never the less, don't bother coming here until you ding 68..because yup some idiot at blizz decided yeah lets bang the entrance qualification to the above level...cmon blizz over the last couple of years your game really has lost the 'fun factor' for alt toons..yawn really

Comment by xantheuslopez

I completed this dungeon tonight to gain rep. When I killed Skarvald, I did not get any credit for it. The dungeon shows I had 3 of 4 required kills, but he did not respawn and was nowhere to be found. Has anyone else had this problem or did I do something dumb along the way to cause it to happen? Thanks!

Comment by 1205711

Fun fact:
When in Dragonflayer Pens you are actually outside. Don't believe me? Look up!

Comment by 1440987

Utgarde Keep Entrance: http://youtu.be/ISvFnR9O6n8

Comment by Zidane3838

The entrance to this dungeon can be found at the following coordinates:

/way Howling Fjord 58.09 50.47 Utgarde Keep Entrance

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made a video of the instance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZU3aKrS_zc

Comment by 1503784

Interesting trick as a rogue, when you reach the outdoor part of the zone, after the first group outside, you will see a flying Proto-Drake. If you use the Cloak and Dagger Talent, and ambush the drake before it flies over the main path, depending on your timing, you will either land on top of the small tower (not so interesting, very small and you can't walk very far) OR fall out of the dungeon and into the water. You will not die, but the only way to get back up (as far as I can see) is to kill yourself or teleport out of the instance and come back. You can walk onto land, and it is basically an empty version of Howling Fjord. But the map is small and if you go far enough you can jump off the end of the map, and die. I have not tried using a priest to levitate me so I can run off the end and see how far it goes, but it was very interesting seeing myself fall off the map.

Comment by Tkeleth

The gate that allows you to exit the instance quickly after you kill the last boss is currently not opening on Normal. Haven't tried Heroic yet.

Comment by eric0707

Utgarde Keep Dungeon Entrance Location --> https://youtu.be/AoaMimpcAHw

Comment by WoWGnGP

Utgarde Keep Entrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9iLhyPcSIE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Scrogdor

For anyone interested in 2019 this is still an issue. Take your time killing the boss. He can't hurt you if you are doing it at 120, so just weapon smack him or something.

Comment by TerribleAtGames

This is a warning I'm surprised haven't been mentioned: Do not nuke the mobs in Furnace of Hate, you might end up unable to proceed past the wall of flames!

During my first solo run as lvl 104 affliction Gnome Warlock I got stuck at the second wall of flame because I nuked the mob handling the chain among with 2 nearby mobs with my Vile Taint. The instant kill didn't made the chain stop, and due to that there was still a wall of flame blocking my way. The only thing that helped was to reset the instance and try again, killing the chain guys slower.

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If Chromie Time is enabled, Utgarde Keep's level range is 10-50, but can only be queued if you're using Chromie Time on the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Check more information on Chromie Time in our guide!

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Prince Keleseth – The Lich King deployed Keleseth to Utgarde Keep in hopes of harnessing the vrykul's potential for destruction. Upon arriving, the ambassador found a people who were more than eager to assist the Scourge. The keep has proved to be an excellent staging point for terrorizing the Howling Fjord, and Keleseth has no intention of losing it to insolent trespassers.
Skarvald & Dalronn – It's a vrykul tradition to make unlikely partners work together. Some say it's to allow divergent abilities to complement each other; others say it's for the amusement of King Ymiron. Regardless, Skarvald and Dalronn are a perfect example of this custom. Between a vrykul's brawn and a human's necromantic arts, they will punish those who meddle with the Scourge.
Ingvar the Plunderer – Ingvar's brute strength is legendary even among the vrykul. Rumor has it that he once bested King Ymiron in a brawl. The truth is unknown, but purveyors of that tale usually don't live for a retelling. Ingvar has promised the Lich King that he'll use all measures of brutality to hold the keep, a promise that he dare not break.

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