Baron Geddon and Golemagg Raid Guide

Updated: May 2025

Minis in Golemagg’s Army

• Drake - Engulfing Flames
• Earth Elemental - Shrapnel Blast
• Firehammer - Moultin’ Metal
• Fire Elemental - Molten Core
• Pyromancer - Conflagrate

Golemagg has a deck of only 6 minis (including Kobold), but it also has a reduced hand size of only 3 minis, which makes it harder for Golemagg to cycle to the right mini.

The Boss and Other Minis

Golemagg

• 12,000 health
• Unstoppable, Armored
• Melee: 320 Physical damage, 2.1 seconds attack speed, 15 acquire radius (Golemagg will come after anyone who shoots at it, although it will not move further than 11 from its spawn point)
• Stomp: 300 Physical damage, 7 seconds cooldown, 4 radius, hits ground minis only

Core Rager

• 3400 health
• Resistant
• Bite: 200 Physical damage, 2.0 seconds attack speed
• Charge: Core Rager will charge at ground minis that cross its horizontal lane. Charge knocks back and stuns ground minis on a radius of 3 for 1.6 seconds. Cooldown 5 seconds.
• Immolate: Deals 10 Elemental damage every 0.5 seconds to enemy minis within a radius of 4.5

Map Mechanics

Core Ragers guard the horizontal lanes. They will charge at any ground minis attempting to cross the lanes, and will also attack flying minis that attempt to fly right over them. They will not charge at flying minis on another vertical lane.

When a Core Rager dies, the Incinerate Rune on the vertical lane it was on is activated and deals 60 Elemental damage every 0.5 seconds for 12.5 seconds on a radius of 6. The Core Rager is resurrected with 75% health after 24 seconds.

Phase 2 begins at 75% health

• Golemagg cleanses itself of Burn and Poison
• Golemagg gains a 90% damage shield for 5 seconds
• Golemagg activates all four Incineration runes (each Tower and the boss spawn zone) to deal 60 Elemental damage every 0.5 seconds for 12.5 seconds on a radius of 6.

Phase 3 begins at 50% health

• Golemagg cleanses itself of Burn and Poison
• Golemagg gains a 90% damage shield for 5 seconds
• Golemagg activates all four Incineration runes (each Tower and the boss spawn zone) to deal 60 Elemental damage every 0.5 seconds for 12.5 seconds on a radius of 6.
• Golemagg gains the Call Hound ability and will spawn Core Hounds with Guard Dog talent every 45 seconds

Phase 4 begins at 25% health

• Golemagg cleanses itself of Burn and Poison
• Golemagg gains a 90% damage shield for 5 seconds
• Golemagg activates all four Incineration runes (each Tower and the boss spawn zone) to deal 60 Elemental damage every 0.5 seconds for 12.5 seconds on a radius of 6.

General Strategy

Do not pull the Core Ragers on your partner’s flying minis!

With that out of the way, we can start talking about the strategy in more detail.

There are three main ways to beat Golemagg:

• Push through the middle with Flying minis
• Defend, and kill Golemagg with Unbound minis and spells
• Build a deathball that can brute-force its way through at least one of the Core Ragers

Push with flying minis requires the least levels, which makes it the most accessible strategy. With minis at the encounter level cap, building a deathball may be an easier strategy to execute though.

When you push with flying minis, there are a few things you want to keep an eye on:

• Core Ragers start at the left and right sides, and you do not want to pull them to the middle. This means absolutely no ground minis on the middle lane at the Core Rager areas.
• You can mine the gold mine on the right. The Core Rager will charge through the middle, but will not aggro minis there while passing through. The Immolate effect may hurt your fragile flyers if it passes through right underneath them.
• Note that Whelp Eggs are ground minis, but the hatched Whelps are not: do not play the Eggs on the Core Rager area. Whelps can safely fly over.
• When you have a good feel for the damage you are taking, you can tank the middle Tower with a Quilboar, but it MUST die at the Tower and not walk up towards the boss. If in doubt, do not play it there.
• Golemagg’s ranged units can be a problem, especially Pyromancer. Keep some spells ready to handle them and protect your flying minis.
• Golemagg can only attack flying minis one-by-one. This makes minis like Dire Batlings phenomenal at tanking Golemagg while your damage-dealers work on it.
• You can reinforce your push from the middle Tower after you have captured it. Note that you will lose it at the phase transition. If you play minis there right before you lose it, play them as far up as possible to avoid the incinerate zone.
• While fighting against Golemagg, you can play ground minis behind him where they will not pull the Core Rager. Whelp Eggs and Quilboar are both great.
• If you have the Bramble Burst talent on Quilboar, it can be used to extend the poison duration. Poison lasts for 5 seconds, so you need to play it in time.
• Even if your first attack does not kill Golemagg, you can often build a second attack through the middle again.

There are a few ways you can go about with the defence strategy. Typically, you want to attack Golemagg either with Whelp Eggs, Quilboar, and Execute, or you can use Arcane Blast with the Torrent talent to gain levels and deal increasing amounts of damage to the boss. With these strategies, you need to have a plan on how to defend, also against the Molten Giants that start appearing midway through the fight.

The deathball strategy is typically done with Drakkisath, Tirion, Cenarius, or Malfurion. With enough levels and a cooperating partner, it is possible to brute-force through both Core Ragers, but because they activate the incinerate rune on the lane where they die, you usually want to set up a distraction at least for the first Core Rager.

Send a tank with a healer (Malfurion healing may be enough) to keep the first Core Rager occupied. The right side is better because then you have access to both gold mines: you can mine right next to where you are tanking the Core Rager. Then, send your main army through the left side: this will also secure the left gold mine for you. It is important to use a side lane because there you have enough room for your army to move out of the Core Rager zone when fighting Golemagg. If you push through the middle, you may end up fighting in the middle of the Core Rager area. You can distract the second Core Rager too to get your army to pass unscathed, but it is often easier to simply fight the second Core Rager with your main army.