Garalon Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• Avoid moving underneath the boss to prevent additional Crushs from occurring.
• Focus the same legs early on to slow Garalon down quickly.

• Coordinate defensive cooldowns for each Crush.
• Tanks will take a lot of damage during Phase 2, be prepared for big hits.

• Both tanks need to be stacked in front of Garalon at all times for Furious Swipe.
• Avoid moving underneath the boss to prevent additional Crushs from occurring.
• Garalon hits very hard during Phase 2, always roll defensive cooldowns here.

Garalon is a 2 Phase fight, where players will need to kite him around the room most of the encounter. Garalon can be attack on 2 parts of his body: his legs and his torso. Each of Garalons 4 legs has its own health bar and can be killed; when killed Garalon will gain a stack of Broken Leg, dealing 3% of his max health and slowing his movement speed by 15%, stacking up to 4 times. These Legs are surrounded by a small, visible circle, which buffs players inside that circle with Weak Points. This increases damage dealt to that particular Leg by 100%, allowing you to quickly kill it off. Every 30-seconds Garalon will use Mend Leg to revive a previously killed Leg, which players should promptly kill again.

Garalon will also use Crush every 35-seconds, dealing fatal damage to any players underneath him, and 250,000 Physical damage to all other players, stunning them for 2-seconds. He will also use Crush immediately whenever any player runs underneath him, specifically within his visual red circle hitbox; give his very large body extra room and always stand at max range. Garalon will also use Furious Swipe every 10-seconds or so, dealing high Physical damage in a frontal-cone. If at least 2 players are not hit by Furious Swipe, Garalon will gain a stack of Fury, so be sure the tanks are stacked together in front of Garalon to ensure they always are hit. The tanks must always be moving ahead of Garalon as he will be moving towards them, being sure they never go underneath him and trigger a Crush.

The main challenge of the encounter comes from dealing with Pheromones, which Garalon will apply to the nearest player when he is engaged; He will then fixate on the player with Pheromones, chasing them around the room. In addition to causing Garalon to fixate on the debuffed player, Pheromones will deal raid-wide damage every 2-seconds, hitting all players in combat with the boss. Every 2-seconds it will also create a Pheromone Pool at the players feet ( Pheromone Trail), damaging anyone in the area. Lastly it will apply a stacking debuff on the player, Pungency, which increases the damage that Pheromones deals by 10% per stack. Note that Pungency increases the damage that Pheromones deals while on the targeted player, increasing the entire raids damage taken, not just the targeted player.

Pungency will quickly stack up, causing Pheromones damage to quickly increase; to prevent it from overwhelming the raid, you can "pass" the Pheromones debuff to another player by touching them. This will make the new player become fixated by Garalon, requiring them to kite him, and cause the new player to have to drop the Pheromone Pools around the outskirts of the room. The benefit of doing this is the new player will have no stacks of Pungency, reducing the raid-wide damage that Pheromones deals. We recommend passing the Pheromones off around every 12-14 stacks of Pungency, right around the time that Crush will go off; this is to prevent deaths to the combined Crush damage and stun, on top of the greatly buffed Pheromones from a player with high stacks of Pungency. The Pungency debuff lasts 6-minutes, requiring nearly everyone in the raid to do the Pheromones eventually as the fight goes on.

Start off by having a designated player to be the first Pheromones target; Garalon will always place the first debuff on the closest enemy when he enters combat. We recommend having a Ranged DPS, such as a Hunter using Camouflage, to soak the first one and begin kiting. The rest of the DPS should choose a leg, using all major DPS cooldowns such as Bloodlust, to burn down his legs as quickly as possible; utilize the Weak Points buffs by standing inside the circles to quickly break his legs. This is extremely important at the start of the fight to reduce Garalons speed with the Broken Leg debuff, making it much easier to kite him. Your priority should be to kill 2 legs very quickly on pull.

All players, especially tanks, should be mindful of their positioning and Garalons hitbox, avoiding walking under him at all times as he moves around the room. The Pheromone Trails will last for the rest of the encounter, so do your best to drop them off on the very edges of the room. DPS should always be mindful not to stand in front of Garalon, as Furious Swipe hits very hard, killing most non-tanks. Kill the Legs whenever Garalon uses Mend Leg, and push him down to 33% to begin Phase 2.

Phase 2, technically Heroic only mode, plays out exactly the same as Phase 1; the only difference is that Garalon does not chase the Pheromones target, and must instead be tanked. Players will still need to deal with Legs, Crush, Furious Swipe, and Pheromones; this includes the Pheromone Trail circles, Pungency stacks, and the constant raid-wide damage. Have your tank grab Garalon quickly and constantly rotate a defensive buff, as He hits like an absolute truck. Burn him down for the remaining 33% of his health, and you will be halfway done with the Heart of Fear.

3.

Garalon 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 all difficulties.

3.1.

Celestial Dungeon Loot

Item
Xaril's Hood of Intoxicating Vapors
Shoulders of Foaming Fluids
Sandals of the Unbidden
Robes of Eighty Lights
Bonebreaker Gauntlets
Vestments of Steaming Ichor
Grips of the Leviathan
Garalon's Hollow Skull
Garalon's Graven Carapace
Grasps of Panic
Necklace of Congealed Weaknesses
Legbreaker Greatcloak
Stormwake Mistcloak
Ring of the Shattered Shell

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

3.2.

Normal Difficulty Loot

Item
Xaril's Hood of Intoxicating Vapors
Shoulders of Foaming Fluids
Sandals of the Unbidden
Robes of Eighty Lights
Bonebreaker Gauntlets
Vestments of Steaming Ichor
Grips of the Leviathan
Garalon's Hollow Skull
Garalon's Graven Carapace
Grasps of Panic
Necklace of Congealed Weaknesses
Legbreaker Greatcloak
Stormwake Mistcloak
Ring of the Shattered Shell

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

3.3.

Heroic Difficulty Loot

Item
Xaril's Hood of Intoxicating Vapors
Shoulders of Foaming Fluids
Sandals of the Unbidden
Robes of Eighty Lights
Bonebreaker Gauntlets
Vestments of Steaming Ichor
Grips of the Leviathan
Garalon's Hollow Skull
Garalon's Graven Carapace
Grasps of Panic
Necklace of Congealed Weaknesses
Legbreaker Greatcloak
Stormwake Mistcloak
Ring of the Shattered Shell

Achievement	Description
Heroic: Garalon	Defeat Garalon in Heart of Fear on Heroic difficulty.
Like an Arrow to the Face	Defeat Garalon in Heart of Fear on Normal or Heroic difficulty without destroying any of his legs.

Garalon is just one of the six encounters present in the Heart of Fear raid of Mists of Pandaria. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other pages for the raid below.