Garr and Gehennas & Shazzrah Raid Guide

Updated: May 2025

Minis in Garr’s Army

• Chain Lightning - Brilliant Flash
• Darkspear Troll - Headhunting
• Dark Iron Miner - Dark Iron Armaments
• Defias Bandits - Last Resort
• Drake - Roost
• Ghoul - Bone Shield
• Vultures - Tendon Rip

All of Garr’s minis are Armored.

The Boss and Other Minis

Garr

• 12,000 health
• Unstoppable, Armored, gains Resistant in phase 3
• Melee: 260 Physical damage, 2.0 seconds attack speed, 10 range
• Anti-Magic pulse: 4.0 seconds cooldown, 12 radius, removes Bloodlust and Stealth from enemy minis; removes Frost, Poison, Burn, and Living Bomb from friendly minis

Firesworn

• 4000 health
• Armored
• Unarmed hit: 140 Siege damage, 2.0 seconds attack speed, melee range, only attacks buildings and Ragnaros
• If a Firesworn destroys a building, it deals 225 Physical damage to all nearby enemies in a radius of 5
• When a Firesworn dies, it explodes for 400 Elemental damage on a radius of 6
• Anti-Magic pulse: 4.0 seconds cooldown, 9 radius, removes Bloodlust and Stealth from enemy minis; removes Frost, Poison, Burn, and Living Bomb from friendly minis

Map Mechanics

Whenever you capture a Tower, Garr spawns two Firesworn at his side. The Firesworn start making their way down towards your base, one on each lane.Trading Towers back and forth can spawn a lot of Firesworn.

Phase 2 begins at 70% health

• Garr cleanses itself of Burn and Poison
• Multiquake deals lethal damage to all enemy minis within a radius of 15 from Garr
• Multiquake also deals 16 Siege damage to all enemies within a radius of 7 around each Tower every 0.2 seconds for 10 seconds, including to any enemy-held Towers themselves. Towers take 1600 damage overall from Multiquake, so they survive it if they are higher level than Garr.
• Garr casts Earthquake: targets the closest enemy ground mini or building within a range from 9 to 100, and deals 5 Siege damage every 0.25 seconds on a radius of 7 until the main target dies. Garr will subsequently cast another Earthquake after 12 seconds.
• Unlike many other bosses, Garr does not gain a damage shield at phase transitions

Phase 3 begins at 40% health

• Garr cleanses itself of Burn and Poison
• Garr gains Resistant
• There is a permanent Earthquake effect on your Barracks: 40 dps until Garr dies or your Barracks die.
• Final quake deals 30 Physical damage every 0.2 seconds (150 dps) on a radius of 7 around the quake in front of Garr - this is Garr’s only attack ability in the last phase
• Unlike many other bosses, Garr does not gain a damage shield at phase transitions

General Strategy

You have three main considerations in the encounter:

• Whenever you capture a Tower, Garr spawns two Firesworn: you don’t want to end up fighting over Towers or you may get overwhelmed.
• At the start of phase 2, all minis near Garr will be killed with a small delay (you can Cheat Death through it, but the timing is very precise)
• Phase 3 is a race because your Barracks will take continuous damage

The mainstream answer to these worries is to push only one lane, hit hard enough to reach phase 2 but not so hard that you would immediately reach phase 3, and then build another push on the same side that will take Garr through phases 2 and 3.

The secondary lane can be defended with Ritual of Rime Skeleton Parties or Angry Chickens.

Garr’s Headhunting Darkspear Troll can be a problem for such defenses, so you want a spell or an Unbound mini to handle it, such as S.A.F.E. Pilot.

There are multiple alternative strategies too. You can beat Garr with a single push if you time your Cheat Death just right and avoid the wipe. You can also push both sides: ideally, one side arrives at Garr first and pushes it to phase 2, and the other side arrives after the wipe and finishes the job. The higher your levels, the more leeway you have, even more so because Garr’s Multiquake does not destroy the Towers if they are at a higher level than Garr.