The Lich King Boss Guide - The Frozen Throne
The final boss of the Frozen Throne's Icecrown Citadel adventure is The Lich King!
Fight Details
On the Lich King's first turn, he will play a cheat card based on the class you are playing.
- Purge the Weak - No cheap minions for Druid. You best be ramping up!
- The Hunted - Hunters are damaged for every minion in their deck. Ouch!
- The True Lich - Mages only get 1 health? What is this sorcery?
- Fallen Champions - Don't let your minions die, Paladins. The Lich King will get them!
- Shut up, Priest - Mmpphhhhhh!!! Priests are not allowed to speak.
- The Price of Power - Oh sorry Rogues, did you want spells? No spells for you!
- Necrotic Plague - Better have some buffs, Shamans. Your whole deck becomes 1/1s.
- Soul Reaper - Have duplicates in your deck Warlock? Take some damage!
- The True King - Warriors see the Lich King sit at 130 total armor and 30 health.
The fight doesn't have anything really special to it at the start. Keeping control of the board is a requirement at this point. When possible you should deal some damage to to his face, but don't make that a priority.
On turn 7, The Lich King will play Frostmourne. At this point, all minions on his side of the field are killed, 6 Trapped Soul are spawned for him, and he goes immune thanks to his new hero power, Harvest of Souls.
Your goal now is to get rid of the Trapped Souls as soon as possible to break the immunity and get rid of the weapon. It should be noted that Frostmoune also goes immune, preventing charges from being used. After all Trapped Souls are destroyed, The Lich King loses his hero power and gains a new one - Remorseless Winter.
Once he's gone into this next phase, the fight has no new mechanics to it. Simply take him out before you end up dead due to the increasing damage every turn from his hero power.
Watch Out For These Cards
- Anti-Magic Shell - If he has a bunch of minions in plays, expect the worst, expect this to be dropped.
- Frostmourne - Since he and his weapon are immune during this phase, you want to get it over with ASAP.
- Looming Presence - Not much you can do about it but just be warned that he does have it in his deck. If you know you'll just have gotten enough damage for lethal next turn, be prepared to cry when he drops it.
Rewards
There are two rewards from defeating this fight.
- Clear the fight once to receive a Frozen Throne card pack.
- Clear the fight with all nine classes to receive the Prince Arthas hero skin for Paladin.
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Decks to Try
All decks that we have available below have been confirmed by us to work for the fight.
You can also check out Chakki's 9 decks that he used to obtain his Prince Arthas.
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I finally had him down to 1 health with a Rogue Murloc deck. THen he spawned his 2/6 minions, killed all my murlocs and killed me. Ah well, it was only my 56th attempt at him with various decks, that's the closest I ever got. Looking at all the other decks recommended, since I don't have all the cards, it would cost me another 300€ to maybe get the needed cards to maybe beat him... so...much...fun...
Rogue plays jade. Just jades and some healing. The rest of the deck are spells, so they get burned and you can combo peacefully
Hi guys
I am having difficulties using druid post nerf to beat the Lich king
any tips or replacement for innervate
Has anyone tried to make him discard Frostmourne with howlfiend and treachery?
I think frostmourne is put into his hand on turn 7, just like the class specific spell is put into his hand on his turn 1.
Discardlock LUL
The PVE designer of Blizzard must hate the mage's guts, there is no way to survive for more than 5 rounds except you are extremely luck to using secret to counter that bastard's cheating ability in first round.
ummm.....i used murloc mage (and for 6 other classes) you just need to keep his board clear and hit him in the face before turn 7.
Thank you for ur advice, I have use murloc deck beaten the boss for Shaman & Rogue, may try it for mage latter.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/925123-lich-king-won
won against lich king eventually. Just need 7 more... might be hopeless with current cards.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/925127-lich-king-won
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/925168-lich-king-won
JUSt won with priest. 6to go!
Probably the worst boss I've faced in my history of video games. Holy shit what an absolute pile of RNG fiesta packed with pointless artificial difficulty. Adventure bosses should require to be restarted if the boss has the absolute nuts, like Maloriak, but in this case YOU need to have the one-in-a-million hand AND the boss has to have literally nothing. Restart ad inifinium until it happens, do that nine times.
Just make him purchasable with money as well, I don't have time for this restart simulator.
I beat him easily with murloc shaman. It's just that it's very hard to win with all 9 classes. That why the reward is only a skin....
I've needed no more than 4 tries for any of the classes except Mage and Paladin, and that's with zero Murloc cheapouts. It's not that bad with decent decks. That's also the fun part, figuring out which decks can beat him with consistency.
just play Snowflipper Penguin...the reaction :O
I....I love him. <3
http://imgur.com/a/B0uNA
try this for rogue i got it in 2 tries lol!
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/923463-cheap-lich-king-rogue
There are more ways to win you know...