Guarm Trial of Valor Raid Strategy Guide

Damage Dealers:
Avoid standing near allies so the effects of , and are minimized.
When Guarm casts , stand grouped with allies within either , or . Don't mix the elements!
Move out of Guarm's way when he performs a .

Healers:
Avoid standing near allies so the effects of , and are minimized.
Dispel allies affected by .
When Guarm casts , stand grouped with allies within either , or . Don't mix the elements!
Move out of Guarm's way when he performs a .

Tanks:
causes Guarm's basic attacks to hit two players. Stand next to one another!
Face Guarm away from your allies to avoid hitting them with .
When Guarm casts , stand grouped with allies within either , or . Don't mix the elements!
Move out of Guarm's way when he performs a .

Guarm Abilities & StrategyGuarmGuarmGuarmGuardian's Breath

One will cast Fiery Phlegm (red), another Salty Spittle (pale blue) and the last Dark Discharge (purple).

All three breaths do a large amount of damage split between all players hit, whilst applying an element specific debuff which will instantly kill a player if they take a breath of a different element.

For each player not hit by any of the breaths, Guarm will gain a stack of Frothing Rage which permanently increases his damage by 5%.

You must split your raid into thirds and assign each group to an individual breath to share the incoming damage.

Each group then must continue to soak the same breath for the entire fight to avoid being instantly killed by a non-matching breath, and also to prevent Frothing Rage stacks from accumulating.

The breaths, regardless of where the boss is facing, are not always in the same location as each head will cast one of the three breaths randomly. You must react fast in order to get into the correct breath before the cast has finished.

Flashing FangsGuarmGuarmGuardian's Breath

Strategy 1 - Face Guarm away from the raid for the majority of the fight and turn to face the group when the Guardian's Breath ability is coming in.

Strategy 2 - Have your ranged DPS at least 25 yards in front of Guarm, with the melee stacked just behind Guarm himself.

GuarmGuardian's BreathGuarmRoaring LeapGuarm

As the fight is reliant on precise positioning, we recommend having the largest clump of players be in melee. This allows Guarm to remain in roughly the same position whilst also maximizing DPS, as the melee DPS will be able to damage him as they fly in the air while the range can sit back and continue dealing damage to him.

Ranged players also want to be at least 25 yards away from Guarm to avoid the knockback aspect of this ability, as well as being spread after the knockback has finished to avoid being leaped upon.

Headlong ChargeGuarm

Anyone caught in his path will take a lethal amount of physical damage.

The raid will also take a large amount of ticking damage throughout the ability. Assign Healing cooldowns for each charge to cover the damage.

If you quickly identify which side of the bridge he's going to charge down first you can use this to your advantage and simply stand on the opposite side.

Speed increases, such as Stampeding Roar can help less mobile classes avoid the series of charges.

After the Headlong Charge has finished make sure you quickly position the boss ready for either a Guardian's Breath or Flashing Fangs.

GuarmShadow Lick

Flame Lick deals significant pulsing area of effect damage to players within 5 yards.

Frost Lick will instantly stun a random ranged player for 5 seconds. This effect can be dispelled.

Shadow Lick players need to be spot healed by healers to remove the healing absorption debuff.

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For most groups you'll have the best results using it on the pull.

We would however recommend groups with large amount of Shadow Priests to consider timing it with later stages of .

Compositions with a significant amount execute DPS (Warriors/Shadow Priests/Hunters) it may be better timed towards the last 45 seconds of the fight.

Strategy Summary

Split your raid into three groups and have each group soak one of the elemental breaths when Guardian's Breath is cast. Each player will need to soak that same elemental breath type for the rest of the encounter.

Ranged players need to remain spread 5 yards at all times to minimize the effects of Guardian Licks abilities.

Healers need to make sure they dispel the Frost Lick stun and heal up the Shadow Lick healing absorption shield.

The raid should position so that the ranged players are at least 25 yards in front of Guarms face, with the melee DPS stacked up behind him. This will reduce the effect of his Flashing Fangs.

Tanks need to remain stacked on top of one another to spread the damage of Multi-headed.

Everyone needs to move out of the way of the Headlong Charge and the tanks need to be ready to quickly position Guarm afterwards, ready for the next Guardian's Breath or Flashing Fangs.

Melee DPS should remain stacked up during Roaring Leap to ensure that the boss will jump onto them, rather than the ranged players.

Have BIG DPS - Kill Guarm within 5 minutes!

Looking for Raid DifficultyGuarmHeroic DifficultyMythic DifficultyVolatile FoamFlaming Volatile FoamBriney Volatile FoamShadowy Volatile Foam

These debuffs are applied to a random player and deal ticking damage to them.

If they are dispelled, they will jump to the nearest player, however if they time out they will apply their magic type debuff to the player (the same one the player received from the breath).

If a player has a Volatile Foam debuff time out on them, and it doesn't match the element type that they got from the breath, they will instantly die.

Instead you want to dispel the debuffs next to a player with a matching elemental debuff type and then allow the Volatile Foam to time out on them.

Comments

Comment by 1709941

I don't understand why blizz designed Surrender to Madness and then decided it would be a good idea if bosses:

become untargetable (Helya MoS)
have unavoidable fear (Dragons of Nightmare)
have obscured vision (Ill'gynoth)
run or jump out of range (Elerethe and Guarm)
etc

Comment by 137110

The raid will also take a small amount of ticking damage throughout the ability. Avoiding this ability is vital as being hit in most cases will be lethal.

From what my guild is experiencing on Normal right now, it's showing 250k ticks to the whole raid.

Comment by Aleo22

Weirdly his enrage did not activate when I downed him for the 1st time.

Comment by 1723779

Have BIG DPS - Kill Guarm within 5 minutes!

Just a note on this, our guild ran Guarm on normal tonight, and he was running a 6-minute enrage timer. This is a hard enrage, at 6 minutes he will jump back and do his charge, but down the middle of the room, so it can't be dodged. This will 1-shot anyone in the raid. 5 minutes might be heroic timer?

Comment by zeusnow

Does anyone know what happens if all the raid members soaked the same breath initially? Does he get any buffs for any unsoaked breaths?

Comment by Itsversayce

On LFR, it appears his heads will always cast the same breath. Therefore, the breath positioning does not change (ex. if first breath's Fire is left, Frost is middle, Shadow is right it will always be this way for the remainder of the encounter).

Comment by Thechieftain

On mythic mode first foam and first breath comes one after another. So dont ask for dispell if u get the foam. Go your foam color match breath also if u have immunty (like turtles, bubbles, shadow of cloak) use em to get rid of foam save a healer dispell. Encounter demands a lot of dispell bring as much as shadow priest you can or for the sake of immunities retri paladins, Hunters, mages, rogues etc.

Guarm Trial of Valor Raid Strategy Guide

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