The War Within Brawler's Guild Guide
This guide covers everything you need to know about the return of the Brawler's Guild coming in Patch 11.2.7, complete with new boss fights, and new rewards.
The Brawler's Guild makes it's grand return in patch 11.2.7 of The War Within. It is a feature that will test your solo skills against 28 opponents, which you will have to defeat in a pre-defined order. Our goal with this guide is to give you all the information you need in order to defeat all these opponents and to earn all the achievements and rewards.
Joining the Brawler's Guild
Currently we do not know for certain how you gain access to the Brawler's Guild,
but it is speculated you will need an invitation similar to how it used to function with a
Blood-Soaked Invitation.
We will update this guide once we discover this information.
Locations
There is one Brawler's Guild location per faction and per realm.
- The Alliance arena is located within the Deeprun Tram in Stormwind City.
- The Horde arena is located in the north-eastern building of the Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar.
At each Brawler's Guild location, there is only one combat ring (for which players queue). This means that, at peak hours, you may have to wait in a queue for awhile before being able to participate.
The Brawler's Guild Fights
To get started on your journey to be the ultimate brawler you simply talk to any bouncer NPC located around the arena and let them know you want to fight. This will put you in a queue where you can see your position at the top of your screen. While waiting in queue you can watch other players take on the bosses of the Brawler's Guild, and once it is your turn you will be teleported into the Arena where your opponent will appear.
To help you save gold on potions, the Brawler's Guild quartermaster of your
faction will sell you some helpful potions:
Brawler's Healing Brute Punch (2
40
) ,
Brawler's Fight Tonic of Intellect
(20
)
Brawler's Fight Tonic of Agility (20
) ,
Brawler's Fight Tonic of Strength
(20
).
Ranks 1 to 7
You will fight each of the bosses in a predefined order of increasing difficulty. Each time you defeat the four opponents of a group, you increase your Brawler's Guild rank and unlock the next group of opponents. Some ranks grant you new rewards or achievements when you reach them.
The Brawler's Guild rank is a reputation that has goes from 0 to 1000. It will appear in the reputation window of your character pane. Every time you win a fight, you increase your reputation by 250, which means that after 4 fights, you reach a new reputation level (or rank). This reputation is character specific and not account wide.
Here are the bosses you will fight and the ranks associated with each of them.
Brawler's Guild Boss Guides
Sunny is a new challenger who is a cute fire flower that can quickly become a problem. Their main ability Sun blast will do some initial damage and apply a damage over time effect that stacks, this ability needs to be interrupted regularly so it doesn't get out of control. Periodically Sunny will Germinate hiding underground and summoning 4 Sunlings, while underground Sunny will cast Thorn Eruption. Make sure to dodge the thorns and kill all Sunlings to bring him back to the surface.
Sun Blast: Interrupt this ability when possible.
Germinate: Dodge
Thorn Eruption while killing all 4 Sunlings to end this intermission phase.
Doomflipper the seal is here to do one thing only, and that is to flip out! Doomflipper only has one ability, Flipping Out which will knock you up and deal some damage. Make sure to kite Doomflipper around to avoid his attack.
Flipping Out: Kite Doomflipper to avoid this ability.
Goredome the Shoveltusk, as the name implies he will attempt to gore you with his dome. He will cast Lumbering Charge which can be indicated by a red circle and an arrow pointing you in the direction he will charge. If hit by this ability it will one shot you, so make sure to dodge his charge and damage him down to defeat him.
Lumbering Charge: Dodge this ability, indicated by the red circle and arrow in the arena.
Dippy may not seem like a threat as a cute penguin, but this penguin quickly becomes deadly once he reaches you with his Peck attack. Any direct damage on Dippy triggers Slippy which knocks him away. If you knock him into a wall he will not be able to be knocked away further and will kill you. Stay in the middle of the arena and away from Dippy to defeat this dastardly penguin.
Peck: Does massive damage if hit, stay in the middle and continuously hit him to knock him away with
Slippy.
Bruce our favorite hungry Crocolisk returns as our first opponent at rank 2. He will periodically cast Chomp Chomp Chomp. You will need to stun him or quickly run away once the cast starts. It is a short cast time with a 3 second channel that deals massive damage if hit.
Chomp Chomp Chomp: Stun or run away from Bruce when this cast starts.
Bill the Janitor is ready to clean you up. He does very little damage and only cast Summon Broom which can be interrupted. Any cast of Summon Broom that gets off will summon either an Animated Broom or a Boom Broom. Brooms will put a stacking debuff Bristled on you which will increase all damage taken. Boom Brooms will cast Janitor's Revenge which will one shot you, so make sure to stun, snare, or root the Boom Broom to stay safely away from the explosion.
Summon Broom: Make sure to interrupt this ability when possible to not be overwhelmed by Brooms.
Janitor's Revenge: Stun, snare, or root any Boom Brooms casting this ability to avoid the explosion.
Oso is the beloved companion to the dwarven hunter Frost, who is quickly eaten at the start of the encounter by Oso. In this strange battle you must avoid Oso's attack Grizzly Leap, while also avoiding the frontal cone attack Shotgun Roar from Frost in the belly of the bear. Oso will also periodically swing at you with Clawstrophic, which will knock you back and make it harder to dodge Shotgun Roar.
Grizzly Leap: Dodge these leaps from Oso.
Shotgun Roar: Dodge these frontal cones from Frost.
Clawstrophobic: Once hit quickly move into a good position to not get hit by Shotgun Roar.
The void comes for us all, even Azeroth's adorable wildlife isn't safe. The Quacken will attack you with a flurry of attacks from his Tentickles spawning a tentacle under you. Make sure to move out of the way or you will be knocked up and take massive damage. The Quacken will also use Fowl Play throughout the fight transforming you until a duckling, and attempt to decimate you with his Tentickle Monster attack. While a duckling you cannot attack but can use your Quack! ability to give you a speed boost and dodge all of his tentacles.
Tentickles: Dodge all of the swirlies on the ground to avoid damage and a knockup.
Fowl Play: Become a duckling and dodge a barrage of tentacle attacks. Don't forget to use
Quack! to help you dodge everything.
Razorgrin the massive shark has flopped into the arena, he will chase you down and attempt to Bite you with his massive sharp teeth. Do your best to kite him around the arena avoiding him. If you are melee you will need to circle him and attack him from the back or sides.
Flop: Razorgrin will flop at you, kite him and avoid his
Bite.
Blat is a nasty ooze who will continuously clone himself as the fight goes on. Feel free to cleave the clones to reduce damage but only need to kill the original Blat to be victorious. Marking the original with a raid marker is helpful to identify which is your main target.
Split: Kite and kill the original Blat, and try not to get overwhelmed by the clones.
Ooliss is a horrific creature who only has a single ability Horrific Pursuir. While he is pursuing you make sure to run away and not get caught. He is immune to crowd control effects while pursuing but you can use snares to slow him down.
Horrific Pursuit: Run away and don't get caught while Ooliss pursues you.
King Kulaka is a giant Devilsaur who is locked onto you. He only has one ability Dash to chase you down if you try to run away. Simply pop all your offensive cooldowns, any defensives to keep you alive, use crowd control against him if you need a break and show him that you are the king of the arena.
Dash: You need to run away to drop your stacking debuff, he will chase you down when you do so. Make sure to stay calm and defeat him.
Meatball is a Gnoll with a interesting fight. He is unsurmountable health, until you start beating on him. As you do damage to Meatball he will spawn orbs that you must pick up to gain the Strange Feeling buff. Each stack will heal you and give you 10% increased damage. Shorly into the fight he will use his Meatball Mad ability which will make the fight substantially harder, make sure use a defensive ability. Also of note is that this fight ends when Meatball gets to 20% health.
Strange Energy: Hit Meatball to spawn orbs that when picked up grant
Strange Feeling, pick up as many as you can to help kill Meatball.
MEATBALL MAD!: Once he cast this ability, use a defensive and try to finish him off.
Ash'Katzuum the Draenei, who is the ultimate pet battler, is your next opponent. He will stand in the middle of the arena and constantly cast I Pick You!, which summons battle pets that will swarm the Arena. Dodge all the battle pets and defeat Ash as fast as you can to win!
I Pick You!: Dodge the battle pets summoned by Ash'Katzuum.
Crush is a monstrous ice yeti that wants to bring the arena down. His one ability is Collision. Which will cause him to jump away from you, then charge towards a wall. Move out of the way and take advantage of hitting him while he is stunned.
Collision: Make sure to dodge the charge when he cast this ability.
The undead construct known as Glorp has arrived to spread his poisonous ooze. He will drop pools of ooze with his Gloop ability, don't stand in these pools or you will take lots of damage. With each Gloop pool he will lose energy and take increased damage, after 4 pools he will cast Gloopsie. Don't be near him at the end of the cast or he will stun you and deal massive damage. After that, he will Re-gloop recalling all the ooze to him and start the process again.
Gloop: Dodge the pools spawned by Glorp.
Gloopsie: Get away before he finished this cast to avoid heavy damage and a stun.
Klunk is a gigantic construct with magnetic properties. Klunk only has one ability, Klunk. He will constantly cast this ability and slowly drag you in as it is cast. Each cast makes this pull stronger so make sure to defeat him quickly. Once the cast has finished he will do damage directly around him, shown by the circle under him. As well as a direct line of damage in front of him so make sure to move out of the way before he finishes each cast.
- Klunk: Make sure to dodge away from where he is facing, as well as be out of the circle under him once this cast finishes.
Stitches our beloved abomination from Duskwood becomes our next opponent. Stitches has two major mechanics, first he has an Aura of Rot constantly pulsing around him. As you stand in this aura you will constantly receive a stacking debuff, once at 10 stack you will die. To reset this, simply run out of the aura. But the moment you leave, Stitches will bring you right back with Stiches' Hook. With each hook your movement speed will be reduced making it harder and harder to move out, so try to leave his aura of rot as close to 10 stacks as possible.
Aura of Rot: Make sure to move out of this aura before reaching 10 stacks.
Stitches' Hook: Each time you leave the aura of rot, you will have reduced movement speed making it harder to leave his aura.
Topps is a giant Triceratops that will charge constantly with Dino Dash, each with more ferocity until only one of you leaves the arena. When he collides with the arena walls he will either start up another Dino Dash, or be stunned for a handful of seconds gaining the Dino Daze debuff taking extra damage for the duration. Make sure to stay on your feet dodging his dashes, and take advantage of the extra damage when he is stunned.
Dino Dash: Dodge Topps Dino Dashes, and take advantage when he hits a wall and is under the effects of
Dino Daze.
Carl is a lava worm with a fiery temperament. He will spit out lava pools, spawning walls going in four directions. If a wall hits an already existing pool, it will spawn new fire walls. Carl will occasionally Burrow disappearing underground and quickly resurfacing in a new location of the arena. Dodge pools and walls and take down this large worm.
- Lava Spit: Dodge the pools spawned by lava spit, as well as the walls made by the pools.
The Leper Gnome Quintet are five leper gnomes Fleasy, Greazy, Sleazy, Wheezy and Queasy. These gross gnomes all apply a stacking debuff Leperous Spew that will quickly become a problem. You will need to kite them around or control them with crowd control effects to drop this debuff. Using class specific defensive cooldowns will also lower stacks of the debuff.
Leperous Spew: use your defensives, crowd control effects, and kite these five leper gnomes to avoid high stacks of this ability.
They rebuilt him, they have the technology to make him better...stronger...faster... Mecha-Bruce is Bruce that you defeated but back more powerful than ever. This fight is similar to the other Bruce fight at rank 2 but with a twist! He will still try to chomp you but after each attempt Bruce will cast Better, Faster, Stronger which upgrades his damage, movement speed, and attack speed. After that he will cast Stasis Beam which will stun you for 4 seconds so make sure to be far away from Bruce before the cast gets off. The easiest way to take on this boss is to move in between two corners before he finishes stasis beam to maximize distance and avoid getting chomped.
Better, Stronger, Faster: Bruce will cast upgrades throughout the fight making him more powerful.
Stasis Beam: Maximize distance away from Bruce before this cast finishes to make him walk farther towards you.
Chomp Chomp Chomp Chomp Chomp Chomp Chomp: Make sure to not be in front of Bruce when he cast this ability.
GG Engineering,comprised of Max Megablast and Bo Bobble, are a pair of goblin and gnome engineers who each have their own ability. Max will cast Goblin Rocket Barrage indicated by a red circle on the ground targeting you, these deal damage to anything in their area including Max and Bo! Bo will cast Gnomish Death Ray which needs to be interrupted when possible. Occasionally throughout the fight each of them separately will cast Emergency Teleport, moving them under their Energy Shielding. While under the shields they will be immune to damage. Destroy the shield generators to do damage once again. The best strategy is to stand on top of Bo and use Max's Rockets to help whittle him down. The bosses share health so anything that does damage to both of them is super helpful!
Goblin Rocket Barrage: Use Max's rockets to help deal damage to your enemies.
Gnomish Death Ray: Interrupt this ability when possible.
Emergency Teleport: Both bosses will occasionaly teleport and become immune to damage, make sure to destroy the shield generator to deal damage to them again.
Dippy was not a fan of defeat so he grabbed his big friend Doopy to show us a lesson. This fight is similar to the rank 1 fight Dippy. Hit dippy to knock him away while kiting Doopy as he is very slow to avoid letting them get close. Try to kill Dippy first as he is much faster, if either of them hit you with Peck you will surely perish.
Peck: Constantly hit Doopy to knock him back while kiting Doopy and avoid letting them hit you with this ability.
Striaght out of Plunderstorm the Renegade Swabbie is here to get a victory royale. The fight starts with the arena being slowly encroached up by The Storm as an enrage timer. The swabbie will try to knock you back with Searing Axe a frontal, and Repel an area of effect around the boss. Periodically the swabbit will build a tower which needs to be destroyed as quickly as possible, as they will drink Slurp Brew and heal up during this time.
The Storm: Be careful to not stand in the storm as in envelops the arena.
Searing Axe: Avoid this frontal cone knockback.
Repel: Avoid this area of effect knockback.
Towering: Damage the tower down as quickly as possible to reduce the amount of healing from
Slurp Brew.
Ogrewatch is back in action. Dole Dastardly,Hudson,and Stuffshrew make up this team that give us a unique fight inspired by Blizzard's other game Overwatch. The start of the fight begins with Dole casting a very long cast High Noon and Hudson protecting the team with his Barrier Projector on the team. Disrupt the barrier with crowd control effects and take down Dole before he finishes his cast. You do not have to focus down Dole as he only stands there, however if high noon gets off it is a one shot and you will die. Hudson has a heavy hitting ability Tesla Cannon that needs to be interrupted or disrupted with a stun the moment you see it. Avoid bombs placed by Stuffshrew and use any crowd control available on both him and Hudson to help take down this trio.
Barrier Projector: Use crowd control to disrupt this ability.
High Noon: Make sure to kill Dole Dastardly before he finished this cast or you will die.
Tesla Cannon: Interrupt or stun Hudson this ability the moment you see it.
Maniacal Laugh: Avoid Stuffshrew with crowd control abilities or running away when he cast this to avoid a knockup and lots of damage, .
Being an obsolete model, Blingtron 3000 was sent to the arena to be our opponent. He will sit in the corner pelting you with constant casts of Mostly-Accurate Rocket, which will be shown by circles on the ground that must be avoided. As the fight goes on smaller Blingtron 2000s will spawn from the gold pile next to Blingtron and run at you. They have a small amount of health and need to be defeated, which will reduce them to 1 health and render them stunned. You must create a chain of these smaller Blingtron 2000s linking them from Blingtron 3000 to the gnomish tesla coil in the opposite corner. Once you have a chain of these small adds you must activate the gnomish tesla coil, Blingtron 3000 will be stunned and take 1000% increased damage so use your cooldowns and take him down. Avoid being killed by the electricity from the chain of smaller Blingtrons as that can damage and kill you as well.
Mostly-Accurate Rocket: Avoid the targets on the ground from this ability.
Overcharged: Activating the Gnomish Tesla Coil will create area of effect damage around each of the Blingtrons in the chain so stay away.
Malfunctioning: Burst down Blingtron 3000 while he takes 1000% increased damage.
What could be more epic than an undead shredding on his guitar riding a Devilsaur that is riding a shark equipped with two huge rockets and a laser beam? Absolutely nothing, and that is our final opponent in the Brawler's Guild, Epicus Maximus! This fight can get pretty intense with Pure Rock'n Roll cluttering up the floor that needs to be dodged. As well as Destructolaser which will spawn a laser beam that follows you and therefore needs to be kited. And finally Blue Crush which needs to be interrupted each time or will be a massive amount of damage all around the boss in about 35 yards so you can out range this ability as well. But keep calm, dodge the mechanics, use your cooldowns and defensives and this epic boss fight will go down.
Pure Rock'n Roll: Make sure to dodge these spheres on the ground.
Destructolaser: This laser beam will follow you so make sure to kite it as you damage the boss.
Blue Crush: Interrupt this ability, or you can outrange it by running very far away.
Challenge Cards
Each Brawler's Guild boss, as well as other bosses not fought as you climbed the ranks, has an item called a Challenge Card.
Challenge cards allows you to fight these bosses again or for the first time. These cards unlock
after you defeat each of the bosses achieving Rank 8 and can be bought for
3
from Card Trader Leila (Alliance)
or Card Trader Ami (Horde).
These 24 other fights only accessible from the Challenge Cards are below, and
once 15 are defeated you will earn the achievement
The Best There Is. Once we
have had a chance to fight these fights ourselves, we will update the guide below with
all the information on all the Challenge Card fights as well as the Random Brawls:
Broker Challenges
Added with Patch 11.2.7 broker challenges are a new way to experience all the fights the Brawler's Guild has to offer.
You are able to add an affix to make the fights a bit more challenging. There are eight of these affixes,
completing any fight with one of them active will award an achievement and completing all of these will award you the
Brawl Star achievement and the Brawl Star title.
To add any of these affixes to your fights, talk to Challenge Broker Senna for Alliance or Challenge Broker Guo for Horde.
| Challenge | Description | Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Arm the audience with foul fruit! | Fruits will be tossed at you while in the arena. If hit you will be knocked up, but it deals no damage. Dodge the fruit. | |
| Please freeze the arena! | The arena floor becomes frozen, making it quite slippery. | |
| Make me giant! | Your size is increased to massive proportions becoming. While large your movement speed is slowed and your hitbox becomes much bigger, making it harder to dodge many mechanics. | |
| Literally set me on fire! | Your character is constantly running forward while dropping fire patches on the ground. You are able to cast while moving and the fire patches do not harm you. | |
| I can win without a scratch! | You start the fight with a shield that will burst when taking any damage. You must win the fight with the shield on to get the achievement. | |
| Fill the arena with sticky molten tar! | The arena becomes filled with sticky tar that reduces your movement speed. Periodically parts of the arena will erupt in flame, if you stand on them you will take heavy damage. | |
| Make me as light as a feather! | Taking any damage will knock you back. | |
| I can win with just my bare hands! | You do not have a weapon. Your melee attack speed is increased by 200%. |
Rewards
Every time you win a fight, you will be given a
Brawler's Purse, which
contains a junk quality item that you can
sell for gold
, as well as approximately 100
Brawler's Gold which is a currency used for purchasing
small buffs for you and others around.
In addition, there are new and returning item rewards, which you can buy from Dershway the Triggered (Alliance) and "Bad Luck" Symmes (Horde). If you do not see the quartermaster, you will need to complete the first quest of the Brawler's Guild quest line which is unlocked by winning a brawl.
| Item | Type | Rank | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing Decor | Rank 2 | 500 |
|
| Battle Pet | Rank 3 | 500 |
|
| Battle Pet | Rank 3 | 500 |
|
|
Ring + Teleport | Rank 4 | 2,000 |
| Housing Decor | Rank 5 | 4,000 |
|
| Tabard | Rank 5 | 3,000 |
|
| Mount | Rank 6 | 4,000 |
|
| Housing Decor | Rank 7 | 8,000 |
|
| Heirloom Fist Weapon | Rank 8 | 1,000 |
|
| Transmog | Rank 8 | 10,000 |
|
| Mount | Rank 8 | 10,000 |
Upon reaching Rank 4, you get a
Brawler's Pass (Alliance / Horde), which is sent
by mail. You can sell it on the auction house or give it to a friend.
Brawler's Gold
Brawler's Gold is a currency that is used to purchase interesting items that effect everyone in the Brawler's guild.
You can collect
Brawler's Gold in one of three ways:
- Watching other players in the Brawler's Guild Arena: if you are in the
Arena when another player defeats a boss, you will be awarded with 1
Brawler's Gold; - Defeating a Brawler's Guild boss: a
Brawler's Purse is awarded
every time and it contains roughly 100
Brawler's Gold - Defeating a random Brawler's Guild boss: a
Bulging Brawler's Purse is awarded
every time and it contains roughly 250
Brawler's Gold
Gold Exchange trader are present next to the other vendors:
Ulaani for Alliance and Tiana Nevermorn for Horde. They sell
the items in the table below (prices in
Brawler's Gold)
| Item | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
100 |
This lets you queue for random brawls (where you fight a random
Brawler's Guild enemy) for 30 minutes, which allows you to obtain the
|
|
500 |
This creates an item that dispenses free potions to other Brawler's Guild player. |
|
1,000 |
This gives everyone in the area free drinks at the bar for 2 minutes. |
| 1,000 |
This grants everyone access to the "VIP room" for 10 minutes, an area normally only accessible to players who have reached the highest Brawler's Guild rank (and which serves no practical purpose, other than being able to see the fights from higher up). | |
| 1,000 |
This grants everyone free Zeppelin rides over the arena for 10 minutes. This is normally reserved for players who have reached the highest Brawler's Guild rank (and which serves no practical purpose, other than being able to see the fights from higher up). |
Achievements
The following achievements can be earned by participating in the Brawler's Guild:
The First Rule of Brawler's Guild (Alliance)
The First Rule of Brawler's Guild (Horde)
The Best There Is
Brawler's Chilled
Let Me Solo It
A Prime Ordeal
Audience Participation
Featherweight Brawler
Brawlzilla
Hot Footed
Bare Knuckle Brawl
Brawl Star
You Are Not The Contents Of Your Wallet
I Am Thrall's Complete Lack Of Surprise
The Best There Is requires you to defeat 15 of the optional 24 challenge card bosses.
Brawl Star requires you to defeat all eight of the broker's challenges,
these each add an extra affix to the fight to make them more challenging.
You Are Not The Contents Of Your Wallet requires you to obtain 20,000
.
I Am Thrall's Complete Lack Of Surprise requires you to defeat 10 bosses using the random brawl
mode. You can purchase a
Bag of Chipped Dice (A) from Ulaani
or a
Bag of Chipped Dice (H) from Tiana Nevermorn for
100
Brawler's Gold, which will enable to you to queue for
random brawls for 30 minutes. Note that using the item places a buff on a
Brawler guard, so in the 30 minutes that the buff is active, other
players can also queue for random brawls.
Conclusion
Thank you for taking the time to read over our Brawler's Guild Guide! If you have any comments or questions please head over to our forum for this page. Have a wonderful day!
Changelog
- 24 Nov. 2025: Guide added.
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