Gara'jal the Spiritbinder Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• Use personal defensive cooldowns when you are debuffed by Voodoo Dolls, especially when Gara'jal the Spiritbinder is below 20% health.
• Ignore the Severer of Souls inside the Spirit Realm and entirely focus on killing the Shadowy Minions only.

• Try to use defensive or healing cooldowns whenever Voodoo Dolls debuffs are out as this is the most likely time to have deaths.
• Inside the Spirit Realm you must quickly heal players above 90% to grant them the Return Soul spell, allowing them to return to the Normal Realm.
• Gara'jal the Spiritbinder will hit the tank (and thus the Voodoo Dolls targets) very hard once he gains Frenzy; use any remaining cooldowns and mana to over heal the selected targets.

• Tanks should taunt off each other as needed to remain the top 2 playhers on the threat table, ensuring that the off-tank will be attacked once the current tank is teleported away via Banishment.
• Watch your debuffs for Voodoo Dolls and always try to have a personal defensive cooldown active if you are tanking with this debuff as it will greatly reduce the linked players damage taken.
• Our recommended strategy will require the tanks to be sacrificed here, be sure to have a combat res available for you, such as Soulstone.

Gara'jal the Spiritbinder is the third fight in Mogu'Shan Vaults, and is arguably one of the easiest fights throughout all of Mists of Pandaria. This fight takes place across 2 Phases, with players needing to fight in both the Normal Realm and a special Spirit Realm.

The raid should stack up together on top of Gara'jal the Spiritbinder to help with healing. Constantly throughout Phase 1 Gara'jal the Spiritbinder will create Spirit Totems, summoning a totem at a random location that is surrounded by a purplish circle. These totems, when killed, will teleport up to 5 players within the purple circle into the Spirit Realm (more on that soon). The other ability that Gara'jal the Spiritbinder uses worth noting is Voodoo Dolls, which will be used on the current tank and 5 random players. Voodoo Dolls will cause the 5 selected players to take the same damage that the tank with Voodoo Dolls takes whenever they are hit by Gara'jal the Spiritbinder; tanks should be ready to use mitigation abilities and personal defensive cooldowns whenever this debuff is active as this can easily kill squishy classes otherwise. Players debuffed by Voodoo Dolls will also be unable to enter the Spirit Realm via the Spirit Totems until the debuff expires.

Tanks will also need to deal with Banishment, which will instantly send the current tank into the Spirit Realm; this will also remove the Voodoo Dolls debuffs on the tank and the 5 linked players. Both tanks should taunt Gara'jal the Spiritbinder off each other, as needed, to ensure they are both at the top of the threat list as Banishments will occur instantly. Inside the Spirit Realm will be 3 Severer of Souls, which will kill the Banishment tank target after 30 seconds if all 3 are not killed.

Inside the Spirit Realm will be adds that constantly spawn, Shadowy Minion, which attack random targets for moderate damage in either the Spirit or Normal realms. These adds will constantly spawn throughout the encounter and should be dealt with by sending a team of players down into the Spirit Realm to clear them out periodically. To enter the Spirit Realm, players can stand inside the purple circle surrounding a Spirit Totem before killing the totem; doing so will teleport up to 5 players into the Spirit Realm. Upon entering the Spirit Realm, all players will be reduced to 30% health and be split apart from their body (which remains in the Normal Realm). From here, players will have 30-seconds to exit the Spirit Realm before being killed, which requires them to be healed back up to at least 90% health. Assign a "Spirit Realm Group", consisting of about 6 DPS and 2 Healers; you ideally only want 1 Healer and 4 DPS to enter the Spirit Realm at once, but you will need a couple of backups as players targeted by Voodoo Dolls are unable to enter the Spirit Realm. Plan accordingly and be sure that each time a group goes into the Spirit Realm they have 1 healer with them.

Inside the Spirit Realm the healer will be focusing on topping up all 5 players, while the DPS should focus on killing as many Shadowy Minions as possible. Once healed to at least 90% health, players will gain the ability Return Soul, removing them from the Spirit Realm and returning them back to their bodies in the Normal Realm. DPS players should attempt to stay inside the Spirit Realm as long as possible (30-seconds max before they die), killing as many Shadowy Minions as possible before using Return Soul; do not simply return to the Normal Realm as soon as you are healed up! Upon returning to the Normal Realm, players will be debuffed by Frail Soul, preventing those players from entering the Spirit Realm for 30 seconds.

Our recommended strategy is to make this fight as simple as possible by assigning 1 group of players (4 DPS, 1 Healer with a few extra players as backups in case of Voodoo Dolls debuffs) to enter the Spirit Realm every 30 seconds and kill as many Shadowy Minions as possible before exiting. Tanks teleported to the Spirit Realm via Banishment should simply be ignored and allowed to die, saving precious DPS for Gara'jal the Spiritbinder himself. Battle res your tanks after they die in the Spirit Realm and continue nuking down Gara'jal the Spiritbinder until around 25% health.

At around 25% health you will want to send your Spirit Realm team down one last time to clear out as many Shadowy Minions as possible, as once Gara'jal the Spiritbinder reaches 20% health he will no longer create any new Spirit Totems, which is the only way players can enter the Spirit Realm. Having a 2nd Spirit Realm group go down here to help clear out additional Shadowy Minions can be a great idea so long as this extra group has a healer with them. Once Gara'jal the Spiritbinder reaches 20% health He will Frenzy gaining 50% melee haste and inflicting 25% additional damage. Rotate defensive cooldowns here and quickly finish off the boss before the damage taken by the tanks and raid overwhelms the healer.

3.

Gara'jal the Spiritbinder Loot

Celestial Normal Heroic

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.1.

Celestial Dungeon Loot

Item
Shadowsummoner Spaulders
Sandals of the Severed Soul
Netherrealm Shoulderpads
Spaulders of the Divided Mind
Fetters of Death
Leggings of Imprisoned Will
Bindings of Ancient Spirits
Bonded Soul Bracers
Sollerets of Spirit Splitting
Soulgrasp Choker
Circuit of the Frail Soul
Gara'kal, Fist of the Spiritbinder
Eye of the Ancient Spirit

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.2.

Normal Difficulty Loot

Item
Shadowsummoner Spaulders
Sandals of the Severed Soul
Netherrealm Shoulderpads
Spaulders of the Divided Mind
Fetters of Death
Leggings of Imprisoned Will
Bindings of Ancient Spirits
Bonded Soul Bracers
Sollerets of Spirit Splitting
Soulgrasp Choker
Circuit of the Frail Soul
Gara'kal, Fist of the Spiritbinder
Eye of the Ancient Spirit

Below you will find all of the loot available for this boss encounter. Use the different buttons to view the different loot between both Normal and Heroic difficulties.

3.3.

Heroic Difficulty Loot

Item
Shadowsummoner Spaulders
Sandals of the Severed Soul
Netherrealm Shoulderpads
Spaulders of the Divided Mind
Fetters of Death
Leggings of Imprisoned Will
Bindings of Ancient Spirits
Bonded Soul Bracers
Sollerets of Spirit Splitting
Soulgrasp Choker
Circuit of the Frail Soul
Gara'kal, Fist of the Spiritbinder
Eye of the Ancient Spirit

Achievement	Description
Heroic: Gara'jal the Spiritbinder	Defeat Gara'jal the Spiritbinder in Mogu'shan Vaults on Heroic difficulty.
Sorry, Were You Looking for This?	Successfully activate the Ancient Mogu Artifact during the Gara'jal the Spiritbinder encounter in Mogu'shan Vaults on Normal or Heroic difficulty.

Gara'jal the Spiritbinder is just one of the six encounters present in the Mogu'shan Vaults raid of Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other pages for the raid below.