One Boss Leaves: Telestra bats eyelashes to victory
by Lisa Poisso 
Apr 2nd 2009 at 9:30AM
Grand Magus Telestra strolled out of the Thunderdome an easy victor this week -- and as reader Kellhouse noted, "P.S. She is also hot." It seems that her heat was convincing to the overwhelming margin of readers who voted for her in this bout against Prince Keleseth of Utgarde Keep.
Samedji presented the case for a stand-off: "I think I'm going to present the case for the tie here. Think about it: Their strengths counter their weaknesses extremely well. First of all, the skeletons would be neutralized pretty easily by Firebomb and Ice Nova when they go off. But these powers are only available to her when she's NOT SPLIT. Once she splits, she loses her ability to AOE, with the exception of Frost Telestra. One quick Ice Tomb there may be enough to get the Skellies back into the fight, and therefore useful to Keleseth again. Also, those skeletons are more useful during a Gravity well than you'd think, as I know I get a couple shots on her as I whip past as a rogue with each pass."
"Here's the way it goes down: Using the above tactics, Keleseth manages to bring her past her double split phase. Having exhausted her biggest weapon, she turns back to her next annoyance, which is that damn Ice Nova. She freezes Keleseth, which gives her enough time to ramp up a Fire Bomb to finish him off. However, she gets pushback from the Skellies saying hello, and Keleseth gets off one final Frost Tomb. As he hits the canvas, he rests easy knowing the combined melee power of his skellies plus the frosty grip of the grave will be enough to whittle her down. This one is a double K.O.
"And while I'm thinking about it, I'm not even sure The Arcane Telestra comes in to play during the split. From my knowledge, all she does is critter and Time Stop. And its pretty obvious Time Stop has some sort of cooldown on it."
The path to victory
Evalus laid out his version of the more popular theory. "Grand Magus Telestra would beat up Prince Keleseth," he wrote. "In the beginning of the fight, both of them will be flinging spells at each other, the Prince flinging Shadowbolts and Telestra throwing Firebombs. After a while, Keleseth will summon Skeletons and put up Cone Shield, but Telestra will quickly use Gravity Well to keep them busy before using an Ice Nova + Firebomb combination on them.
"So, she gets out of the Frost Tomb. Keleseth will then summon more Skeletons to keep Fire clone busy. He also puts up Bone Armor to black some damage. He Ice Tombs the Arcane clone, therefore preventing her from casting Time Stop. He then attacks the Frost clone. By then, the Fire clone would have killed off the Skeletons and is now trying to free the Arcane Clone. Keleseth kills the Arcane Clone and tries to beat down the last clone.
"By this time, Keleseth is nearly dead from getting zapped by lots of magic, but Telestra probably has about 50% health, as Keleseth's Shadowbolts packs a punch.
"Keleseth then tries to summon another batch of Skeletons and puts up Bone Armor again. However, an Ice Nova +Firebomb combination kills of the skeletons and rips the Prince's Bone Armor off.
"Keleseth fires Shadowbolts and attempts a last Ice Tomb. Telestra uses Mirror Image to escape. This time, the clones casts spells at Keleseth simultaneously, finally killing of the San'Layn Prince."
Vote in the next deathmatch (with more bosses from the five-man Wrath of the Lich King instances) when Two Bosses Enter returns later today.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Catiya of Feathermoon Apr 2nd 2009 9:47AM
Still trying to figure out why in the world you used that very, very old picture of Keleseth, but uh, grats Telestra xD!
Jason Apr 2nd 2009 11:08AM
Same. Very strange indeed. It doesn't even look like him.
Looks like a woman, actually.
foodlion Apr 2nd 2009 11:11AM
Haha, wasn't that the placeholder version of Keleseth used at Blizzcon?
But anyway, I love these posts; keep them coming. Hopefully we'll move on to raid bosses, and maybe even old worldies : ).
John Apr 2nd 2009 11:11AM
There can only be one...
wicked Apr 2nd 2009 12:10PM
Before having read the post, I saw the picture and thought, who is that boss??
Omegan01 Apr 2nd 2009 11:08PM
She gave him more than he could handle.