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Comment by maurice

You can't summon this boss unless someone has the lure - https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=19974 - and fish - https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=19975.

To buy the lure you have to complete this quest - https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=8227 - first. It starts from a crate on the ground near the lake in ZG.

You get the fish by fishing in ZG, I believe it requires 365 fishing skill.

Comment by 5484

You are correct. You fish in the muddy pools of water located in a variety of places in the instance. It requires 5 to cast the barrel.

As for Ghaz'ranka himself, I suggest swimming into the deep pool to the south of Nat Pagle's Landing, and clearing out the fish. Have whoever's holding it through the barrel in, and get with everyone else in the pool underwater. Use warlocks to cast underwater breathing.

If you do this, the fight is a joke and easy. The tank handles Ghaz'ranka relatively far away from everyone else but still under water. This eliminates his knockback and damage moves. He's just a damage versus healer fight at that point, which is easy.

On a side note, if any fish respawn, have mages polymorph them if close to killing, otherwise have a few switch focus and kill them.

-Ghost

Comment by 42230

For all you who seek to make a little extra money and fun

Two man this boss - An awerage healer and a decent tank is enough at lvl 70.

Done with 70 Blood elf paladin and 70 Orc warrior (No problem, not even close to dead or running low on mana)

Chance of the book drop is either a happy mage in guild or a happy crew to sell the book which I would say is an easy 1k gold atleast!

Happy Farming!

Comment by 60921

kinda hard boss to do 3man ... since he aggro resets while the tank is in teh air ...
i would suggest tank him under some kind of roof somewhere since when i tanked him under the water he kept knockbackin me :/

stupid boss hits for ~800 on a well geared tank ...
his massive geyser thingy might do ~5k falldmg :/
gl have fun ...
as Lightophile said "For all you who seek to make a little extra money and fun" ... go grind primals or something ... the stupid book wont drop ... :(

Comment by Seany

Just to note, it seems that if you summon this boss and fail to kill him, you will be unable to summon him again later.

Comment by 16359

Two manned with a Holy Paladin and a Protection Warrior. Stood at the edge of the water so the knockback knocked us into the water, then ran back to the edge of the land so that the fish would not keep attacking us. Judge Wisdom and keep the Seal up and you should never have mana problems.

Comment by skribs

I didn't, but a paladin on the Allakhazam forums solod him.

Comment by 110479

For those uninitiated...

To summon Gahz'ranka you'll need mudskunk lures and zulian mudskunks (fish). Here are the steps:

(1) Enter ZG (you'll need to be at least lvl 55 and in a raid group... get a friend to grp with you and convert to raid; if either of you drops group, you'll be ported, so get someone who isn't questing since being in a raid will prevent him from completing most quests). I recommend lvl 70 so you have a small aggro radius. Make an immediate left through the tall grass and pass to the left of a troll mob in front of a hut (you can mind-soothe as a priest, but it's really unnecessary at 70). Jump into the water, and swim over the waterfall and down into a large circular moat.

(2) You may aggro the fish ("Frenzies"), but they are 60 elite and any class in decent gear can solo them. They give you a 75% armor debuff, but this shouldn't be a problem unless you're fighting more than 1 or 2. Kill the fish.

(3) Go clockwise, killing fish as needed. The 4-packs or 5-packs of alligators on the shore won't aggro if you stay away from them. Some classes can solo these alligators (my holy pally has no problem, but my priest has a rough time), and you may want to for the rep items they drop (coins and bijous) if you care about ZG rep. ZG rep is still useful for enchanters interested in producing mana oil and wizard oil considered by some to be superior to their TBC replacements.

(4) Pagle Point is on the NE corner and pretty obvious. It has no alligators. Run ashore there and collect up as much Darkmoon Special Reserve as you like (gets you drunk). Click on Nat Pagle's measuring tape and accept the quest.

(5) Hearth, force-hearth, or die (naked, but the run-back is longish) and go visit Nat Pagle in Duskwallow Marsh. Turn in the quest, and buy a bunch of Mudskunk Lures from him (1g each).

(6) Return to ZG with a fishing pole and some fishing skill. Look for "muddy churning water" pools (often near alligator groups; if you have fish-finding ability, turn it on) and fish up 5 Zulian Mudskunks. You need 425 fishing to avoid getaways, so max fishing (375 skill) and a lure guarantees you no headaches. You won't be able to fish from land in most spots without aggroing the gators, so either use a priest/shaman (Levitate or Water Walking) to fish, or solo the alligator packs (if you can) or go back to Pagle Point and fish the single pool there, if it exists. Unfortunately a pool will usually yield only 2-3 fish. The pools respawn after some time, probably after soft-reset. The alligator-packs will as well.

An option for non-priest/shaman is to use Elixir of Waterwalking. This elixir is a common reward from the fishing daily, and they are often on the AH.

On some servers the fish are for sale, but that's uncommon.

(7) Get yourself a group and go back to Pagle Point in ZG. Decide on your strategy and click on a Mudskunk Lure with 5 fish in inventory (you do not need fishing skill to do this... anyone can summon with a lure and 5 fish... they are not soulbound). This summons Gahz'ranka. He has been soloed in 70mins, but obviously it's much easier with 3 friends in 5mins.

Go kill the tiger boss up the hill and get your tiger mount afterward! Good luck.

Comment by Cthu

Soloed as a prot warrior at level 70 in 16 minutes. I was fully buff, with gear (T5 - ZA) giving me passive immunity to crushing blow (102.4% miss + dodge + parry + block rating). With 17805 armor, 717 block value and demoralizing shout always up I took no physical damage. To avoid his frost damage, I used https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=23576 at the beginning and then https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=22842 every 2 minutes.
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=27529 can help you, as always when soloing old boss.

I killed him into the water and didn't aggro any fish, though they had respawn since my previous try.

He loot no gold, so with all these consumables you will lose money if you never loot the turtle book. Better to do it easily with a healer and share the gold ^^

Comment by tlanwarrior

Did this with my Feral Girlfriend yesterday, and had the tome drop. Took roughly 20 minutes to do the fight (I'm a resto shaman, so not very much in ways of dps). Had the tome drop, and went home 2k richer after selling it to a mage who was more then happy to pay for it.

Comment by Tripix

If you going to fish Zulian Mudskunk, remember to hold fishing bobber inside the Muddy Churning Waters, you will get Zulian only when bobber is inside Muddy Waters. After 3 successful catches, fishing spot will disappear so u need to find other one.

Comment by 64683

Soloed this as a T6 Feral Druid today. The fight took 17 minutes and was quite challenging. Basically I used Frenzied Regeneration and Badge of Tenacity whenever I could, and if I got low on health I used Barkskin+Regrowth+Healing Touch x2. It's important to time this after he casts Massive Geyser to avoid interuption. I got through 3 Innervates and 3 Super Mana Potions.

He didn't drop the tome but I'll be returning here every 3 days. :)

Comment by Cantras

Fun fight, make sure you get the lure barrel thing, be aware that tossing the lure summons him instantly (the first time, i thought you had to fish with it), Can be 3-manned pretty easily. I personally prefer 3-manning over trying to 5 or 6 man it, just because there's fewer people to screw up. ;)

Anyway: Does anyone know if there's a way to tell if he's been summoned/killed already?

Because it'd be nice to know for when I do pug ZG runs, if it's close to the reset then I don't have to feel guilty about running down with some friends for a chance at the book. If there's anything like "all the fish pools despawn after an hour" or "trolls dance at pagle's point" that would let me know if they got him after I left or not, that'd be pretty cool.

Comment by 180403

What gear is required to 5 man her at lvl 70? 1 tank 1 healer 3 dps? :D and if its so what gear?

Comment by lordkarthas

2-manned him with a feral druid and a resto druid in mostly Karazhan purples. The healer had to innervate and drink a couple potions, but we didn't have any difficulty.

Comment by 34167

For bored T6 geared feral druids, i recommend trying a few solo attempts on this boss and if you can kill it, keep farming it. As mentioned previously, the polymorph book is worth a lot and a for a well geared feral tank this fight is surprisingly easy.

Some tips:
-Use the statute technique mentioned above, to avoid the fall damage.
-Wear full tank gear and have your Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch equipped, ready to trinket, barkskin, health pot, heal when you get low (start thinking about healing at around 40%)
-Wait until Ghaz has used his knockback before switching out to heal (watch for the screen shaking and switch out just after that), even if you're getting really low. If the knockback interrupts whatever heal you were trying off, you're pretty much dead.
-In high stam gear the healing from improved LotP will keep you from needing to switch out to heal often, I usually only have to heal 2 or 3 times.

Comment by 232622

For The Deadliest Catch Achievement ..

At level 70, you can easily swim to Pagle's Point, having to kill only a few fish along the way.

When Gahz'ranka is summoned, only the person that actually performs the summoning will receive the Achievement. However, if you are able to kill Gahz'ranka (which my husband and I were easily able to do .. Feral Druid \ Enh Shaman) and have an additional 5 fish and a lure, you can re-summon the boss immediately. Gahz'ranka will not reappear, but if a different person performed the summoning, they will also get the Achievement.

Comment by jaxsonbateman

Just solo'd as a 70 holy pally in T6 level gear. With the vast regen now provided by Seal of Wisdom + Judgement of Wisdom, it was simply a case of keeping them both up, Holy Shocking on every cooldown, healing up when below 70% (using primarily FoL, or a Divine Favor'd Holy Light), and wearing down the beast. Mana went down faster when below 35% due to the introduction of Hammer of Wrath into my rotation, but at that point it was simply a matter of balancing mana supply and damage output. If I ever dropped below 20% mana I would just auto attack and judge wisdom until back above 50% mana.

The fight took around 10-15 mins, but no consumables were used, nor were Divine Shield, Hand of Protection or Lay on Hands used. Positioning is very important - you need to be standing underneath the support beams in Nat's burnt out tent. I only got hit up once when I must've been out of that position.

Comment by 235892

Solo'd today as a 70 holy paladin, as the above poster said its reasonably easy with the huge regen but I did not fight him inside the tent, I found an area where you get knocked up but land in the water but he does not move so did not have to worry about fall damage, used bubble at the end as a frenzy respawned on me and would have been destroyed with the huge armor debuff from it.
Used LoH at the end for extra mana to nuke the last few % off, great fun

No poly: turtle book this try though but got the deadliest catch :)

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd271/Solar_Silv/GahzRankaSolo.png

Comment by azinja

Was going after this fellow for the fishing achievement and figured we'd might aswell try our hand at smacking him down.

We = 2 lvl 75 Death Knights in questing greens/few blues, both deep in blood.

He went down without much trouble (a bit surprised that our self healing was enough to keep us alive tbh, but it worked nicely).
Just took a little while to wear him down, about 5-10 or so minutes.

Comment by 234928

As a lvl 80 boomkin, I was able to solo him today. It took about 5 minutes to do so and it wasn't easy. I'm still wearing at least 5 blues with only 3piece T7(10) so it will only get easier as the higher quality gear is attained.

I had to pop innervate about halfway through and use 1 mana pot towards the end which I probably could've skipped cause he was almost dead at that point.

I'm sure other classes will have an easier time then I did. =]

Edit: I wanted to add that the tip about standing under the nose of the statue is GREAT for positioning. You don't have to worry about the fall damage nor do you have to worry about the fish respawning on you during the fight.

Comment by 253029

Easily soloed as a Resto Shaman today. Took about 8 minutes or so, just put down searing totem, melee'd, shocked and cast riptide on myself on cooldown.

At first, I was just healing through the fall damage which was easy in itself, but at some point I ended up under the tent and didn't get knocked up again for the rest of the fight. Didn't matter either way, just made it a bit faster.

Comment by 232212

Easily soloed as a level 80 Prot Pally. Buffed myself with Sanctuary and used Frost Resist aura. Judged Light and kept up Seal of Wisdom. Just stand in the water and you won't take the fall damage from his knockback.

Comment by tlanwarrior

Pathetically easy to solo now.

I just did it with my girlfriends druid standing near by in case it got rough, and I was amazing able to keep myself up.

Blood DK, no tanking talents, and about ~475 def in tanking gear.

Comment by shoot2thrill

I soloed this today as a level 80 shadow priest in ilevel 200-226 gear. The boss can get some lucky crits off so make sure inner fire is up at all times.. it also helps to shield often if you have the mana for it.

Comment by Vampyrr

Soloed him last night as a TG warrior. I tossed on a couple pieces of tanking gear and used my 2hander and my shield. It was rough had to pot and I used lifeblood + enraged regeneration twice. Save the shield wall for when you have to wait for your regen to come back up. Still almost didnt make it but it was fun as hell!

Comment by paublina

Easily soloed this pathetic sea monster yesterday..... NOT REALLY :D I thought this post was to tell people how to summon it.. oh well :) As an 80 lock i was actually able to SWIM to pagles point while gathering Zulian Mudskunks, and didn't have to kill a single thing (well maybe a dude in the front door because he was chasing me when I was going in the instance) but anyway! I swam to Pagles Pointe clicked the Lure thing started to run away but then i thought WHAT THE HELL! :D and tried to killit but failed horribly :( after he killed my felguard I let it kill me then I rezd with ss and swam as far away as possible :D

Comment by 153953

Soloed as a BM Hunter in pre-Naxx epics with a scorpid pet. Pet wasn't talented for tanking. Would be a much easier fight with a pet that has Pet Barding and Blood of the Rhino. No special techniques required. Just Auto, Steady, Sting, Mend, Feign, MD, cooldowns.

Comment by Jaiz

Went to ZG to do https://www.wowhead.com/cata/achievement=560 and was like "Why not?" And killed it. https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=22739 along with the epic leather helm dropped.

- 80 BM hunter.

Comment by nemspyda

Trivial as a feral druid - could probably do it in greens. I didn't even have to heal.

Comment by Tric

I tried soloing him tonite but every 30-40 seconds or so he kept reseting aggro...
Anyone knows why this keeps happening?
Porr vw couldnt build squat

Comment by ipwnfaces

Very easy to solo as an 80 warlock.
Spec'd haunt / soul link would be ideal.
Keep out a pet - I used my felhunter, this allows you some time while gahz will target your pet to use his frost breath every now and then. Just drain tank with Demon Armor + Siphon Life + Corruption + Haunt + CoE and spam your Drain Life while refreshing Haunt. Keep a Health stone made in case you get low.
Another tip is to use your Demonic Teleport ability so that you can (if not in water) not take the fall damage, but more importantly you get to the ground faster and then can start draining again.

Comment by 279763

Soloing ZG as Retribution Paladin: Gahz'ranka

It's one of the easy fights of ZG. Only thing you need to do is stand right below the nose of the head statue and don't move an inch from there. Since he can't throw you in the air when you're standing there, it's a simple fight without any surprises.

My spell setup: Bl.of W, SoC, JoW , no consecrations at all. Don't forget to use Divine Plea when it's available.
My gear: Naxx10 equivalent.
Agathoklis, human retribution paladin in Bloodhoof

Comment by 237381

Beware soloing using the 'hide under the statue' method...
Easy to solo as 80 tank warrior, and done it a few times just standing in the water so you get no fall damage. Today I tried standing under the nose to get a quicker kill, and it worked for about 8 or 10 knockbacks. Had him down to about 10-15% and he somehow managed to knock me up into the air next time (think he may have been moving me a very small amount each time he bumped me up in air to the statue's nose?). When I was in air, he evade-glitched, and reset his health bar, while my health bar dropped from about 25k down to 5k from fall damage. Died shortly after that ofc.
80 Prot warrior in mostly naxx25 gear.

Comment by 350714

Ok now im getting $%^&ed he still hasent dropped this bloody tome of polymorph and been farming it for months, how many times have you's had to farm it before its dropped?

Comment by joshua10

after summoning this boss just for the achievement, i decided to give it a shot in soloing him as a survival hunter, very easy fight, just had to make sure pet had aggro, to my surprise, it dropped the turtle polymorph tome, and traded it to a guildie mage for a tcg epic tabard

Comment by 356967

Solo'd today as a Blood 80 DK. Extrmely easy fight. Stand underneath the statues nose and you will take, at most, 800 dmg from the Massive Geyser.

Keep up diseases, sacrifice your pet if needed, etc... Took about 4 minutes from start to finish. Probly would have gone quicker, but I was in tank gear(which wasn't needed).

Got Tome of Polymorph: Turtle and Tigule's Harpoon! Woot!

Comment by 78626

been farming him on my disc priest lately, pretty easy solo, no poly turtle yet

Comment by 29877

Soloed him without much trouble as an 80 shadow priest using the 'hide under nose of statue' method. 25-man Naxx gear and a couple Ulduar pieces. (+2200 sp).

Comment by Cocomatona

To whoever downrated all the comments about soloing Gahz'ranka, please stop. This is useful information now that soloing 20 man raid bosses is in the realm of possibility.

Comment by discfor1

Not surprising - Solo'd as Lvl 80 Prot Pally. Heroic Blues with a few epics. Stand under the statue nose works great. You can rotate your camera once fighitng to keep yourself under the nose because he does indeed move you slightly left or right on the knockback power. Seal of wisdom then judge light or wisdom depending on your need. Keep Divine Plea up with hits. Sacred Shield up as well. Then pound a way. It takes a while but is very doable. Turtle morf book dropped on my second try. Will keep at it. Side note - watch out for the troll axe throwers. They can stun lock you or something pretty quick. Most mobs drop coins and bijous if you are looking for that stuff too.
Note posting to brag just to give info. Going back into older stuff is pretty fun and a good way to get caught up on lore and explore stuff I never had the chance to see.

Enjoy.

Comment by 103710

solo'd as an 80 ele shaman, very simple. just slow dps and occasionally heal. used the under the nose method. sold the polymorph turtle book for 1k :D

Comment by Flibble

Soloable as an 80 Ele Shaman, mostly PVP gear with 4 pc t9.5, PVP spec. Glyphs = Stoneclaw, Thunder, Fire Nova Totem (not useful on this fight, of course)

STRATEGY:
Drop Earth Elemental, burn Ohgan (I didn't need Bloodlust; you might depending on gear).

The trick is you want the Earth Ele up for his entire Enrage, so you have 1 minute to kill Ohgan.

Heal the elemental as necessary until Enrage wears off. Use PVP trinket on the fear only if the elemental is under 50%.

Once the elemental expires, alternate between Stoneclaw Totem (for the shield) and Tremor Totem (to break fear). Keep Water Shield up, heal yourself as necessary. I actually used a mana pot, because it was dragging on so long that I got tired of it.

Comment by 487226

Soloed him with my disc priest, mixed gear. Not recommended as you're not actually fighting him but your mana pool, slow dps ftw. Reflective shield ended up doing about 60% of the damage which led to a long fight. But anyone who wants to try anyway, it's possible :).

Comment by Healingproof

Soloed as a frostmage in pvp specc, was just meant to do the "Deadliest Catch"- Achivement.

Comment by Crymoar

Solo'd as an 80 Shadow Priest.

I used the statue method, but before throwing the lure in I changed to my Holy off-spec and dropped a Lolwell, than changed back to Shadow. As long as you stay under the nose his knockback isn't anything to worry about and as long as you keep PW:S up he won't hurt you too bad. He started hitting a little harder towards the end so I started using my Lolwell and my Shadowfiend to finish him off.

Took about a 2 minutes tops for me to kill him, and he dropped the Tome, Tigule's harpoon, and two greens. Needless to say I was a VERY happy camper.

Comment by Rhapsodi

Half-heartedly tried to solo with my 80 rogue in epic PVP gear after completing the Deadliest Catch. Buffed up with what I could (agil scroll and +80ap/stam well fed buff) and "tanked" him under the nose as suggested. Had him down to 48% health when he tossed me into the air and brought me to 20%. Considered chugging a health pot but realized it prob wouldn't keep me alive long enough to take him out at that point regardless (and my trinkets and evasion cooldowns were spent). Opted for vanish to get out alive. :) Anyway, based on my one measly attempt I'd say if you don't have healing capabilities, you're better off taking a buddy if you want to try for him.

Comment by 376045

8/9/10 - Solo'd him as a lvl 80 combat rogue (GS 5684). Used deadly poison, instant poison, food buff, and one runic health potion. Down to 6K health before he dropped.

Comment by 593561

Zul Gurub as a raid will be gone by Cataclysm, so It would be a good idea for you to farm the Tome as much as you can before them

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=26560871177&pageNo=1&sid=2000#18

This goes for the Raptor Hatchlings and the mounts as well

Comment by Ithryn

More than a year later, it might be worth noting that this boss is now complete faceroll for most classes to solo at 80. Just stand under the nose of the statue behind you to avoid fall damage.

Other worthwhile ZG bosses - Thekal (rezing) and Mandokir (burst damage, fears) - still take moderate concentration.

Comment by 252166

Soloed as arcane mage with icc gear.Nothing hard just nuke but can be need healing pots.

Comment by xemega

Best way to solo him as any lvl 80 Class is to pull him inside the water, basicaly he dosent hit that hard, tho his knock back into the air will case big fall damage ( about 16k on icc25 hc gear feral druid ).

Comment by takakenji

his name is very similiar to gah'rilla

Comment by osyrez

Hmm... you can still buy Mudskunk Lures from Nat Pangle in Dustwallow Marsh, I wonder if this was an oversight.

Comment by Thottbot

So this guy is a spawn in Zul'Gurub who you can only raise with a fishing specific quest that you get there. Past the tiger boss and down by the water you can get a quest (Nat Pagle's measuring tape) that starts a line that eventually will allow you to spawn this boss. Kind of funny that they included a quest that only high level fishing (requires over 300 to even cast inside instance) can start.

Comment by Thottbot

Worth killing every time, because he drops 2 green items and either a (crappy) blue item or an epic one. Loot worth 8+ gold, for a 3 minute easy kill not bad.

Abilities
- Knocks all melee-range units high into the sky, temporarily removing them from the hate list
- Creates a geyser under a random secondary target, knocking back everyone near

Tactics
- Main tank and all melee units except 1 warrior melees him
- Casters stand at max range, off tank stands 5 yards in front
- When main tank is flying, offtank intercepts Gahz'ranka and draws him back to the main tank
- Repeat

Comment by Thottbot

so you have to summon him with a fishing quest, where do you get it?
whats the fishing skill and can someone post a link to the quest or something?

EDIT: i found out, you go to where the boss is supposed to be and you get the quest from a box lying there somewhere:
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=8227/nats-measuring-tape

and i think you need lvl 300 fishing

Comment by Thottbot

Is this quest repeatable? Would suck if the first time I did it what I want doesn't drop. Then I would have wasted 1000 hours getting fishing up and then persuading my group to try this fish boss.

Comment by Thottbot

Could anyone with the Thottbot mod try killing Gahz'ranka a couple times and record it? I heard a rumor that the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle drops off him, and it'd be nice to have a confirmation of this.

Comment by Thottbot

He does in fact drop the book for Polymorph: Turtle. We just downed him and it dropped for us.

Comment by Thottbot

Ok, so Poly Turtle drops off him, and I want it so much for my mage! Sadly my mage doesn't have the fishing skill, BUT she did retrieve Nat Pagles tape on a previous run, and can buy the lures. With no fishing she can't fish up mudskunks, however I have purchased some on the AH (and friends could always get them for me too, if they have the ways and means); they're not soulbound.

So, I have the lures, and the mudskunks; is there anything preventing me from summoning him? (such as does it take 300 fishing to use the lure or something).

Now I just have to convince my GM that he who summons Ghaz'ranka should get the book if it drops ;)

Thanks!

Comment by Thottbot

He's very easy. We would have got him on the first try, but at 8%ish he bugged and got back to 50% of his health. Second try we did it tho, and now a mage can polymorph peeps into a turtle! =D

Comment by Thottbot

Multiple summons: No, you can only summon him once per saved instance. My raid summoned him and we had the entire core 8 people DCed at once and caused a wipe(all raiding from one guys house and the cable modem burped). When we got back and rezed we tried again and it failed. After a petition to a GM I was told that he can only be summoned once per instance.

Tactic: We go in, clear the fish out and spread out casters along the walls. MT fights him in the deep water near pagel's point. Works like a charm.

Poly Turtle: Yes he drops polymorph turtle.

Lure & Fish: You can buy the lures and fish from the AH. You need 300 fishing to do the lure quest. You need a composit of a 365 fishing skill to fish up the fish (Skill + Pole bonus + Lure + Gloves must be >=365). You don't need fishing to spawn him so long as you have the fish and lure.

Comment by Thottbot

One you fished up 5 Mudskunks and loaded the barrel-looking thingy. And summon the Fish boss. Is the Lure used up? Or is it repeatable like the brazier for completing the Tier.5 set?

Comment by Thottbot

The easiest way we have found to kill him is to have warlocks give everyone underwater breathing and get under the water, then we summon him and tanks keep him away from group and you get no damage from him booting you.

Comment by Thottbot

My guild ran it last night, took less than 4 horus to kill every boss and Hakkar. Our lowest was a 62 and we had about 16 68+. It was the guilds first run and my 6th, it was so easy we didnt even have to use any CC or anything like that. It shouldnt take too long to do since you can pass by the other bosses if the sole purpose is to get the tome. Im gonna have to get my fishing up now so that i can got get that tome too. Ive heard about 10man lvl 70 groups doing ZG sucessfuly (they had T4/T5) on my server so it really shouldnt be too hard to do with however many you get.

Comment by Thottbot

This is for all mages who are looking to get their "Polymorph: Turtle" off of Gahz'ranka in Zul'Gurub and nothing more.

After I searched almost every "WoW notes" site I could find, nothing explained this questline properly. So I will:

1- In order to get Gahz'ranka to appear, you need Mudskunk Lures and a minimum of 300 fishing. You know how to get 300 fishing, and to get the Mudskunk Lures, you need to complete "Nat's Measuring Tape".

2- You get this quest FROM the tacklebox inside Zul'Gurub, and NOT from Nat Pagle. So, the first step is to go into ZG, open the tacklebox (at Pagle's Point - look it up) and accept the quest.

3- Then get your butt down to Nat Pagle, located at 59,60 in Dustwallow Marsh, SW of Theramore. Hand in the quest, and then you will have access to the Mudskunk Lures.

4- Go back to ZG, back to Pagle's Point, and attach a lure, then cast away (this is the point where you need 300 fishing). Gahz'ranka will appear after a short period, then you have fun hacking away at him.

I wish I knew all this beforehand, since I really pissed off my raid group. I hope it helps someone out there.

Comment by Thottbot

He's easy :P... it took me 15 min of fighting but eventually me and a friend killed him ^^ drood n shammy ftw !

Comment by Thottbot

Killed the big green sucker today 2 man! Wasnt to hard for a tier 4 drood tank and holy priest. Basicly tank and heal from below the overhang on the voodoo head statue. The tank will need to taunt each time Gahz drops agro and looks at the healer as we found he can still 2 shot kill on cloth. 15mins of beating on him and all going well u will be looting a turtle poly book. :D Gudluck all

Comment by Thottbot

umm....why does thottbot show him sometimes in silithus? o.O

Comment by Thottbot

Gahz'ranka, Gahz'rilla, notice the similarity? Gahz'ranka is the mother of Gahz'rilla

Comment by Thottbot

How long does it take him to despawn?

Comment by Allakhazam

Due west of the Tiger boss is the quest & spawn point for him.

Comment by Allakhazam

He has alot of health...

Comment by Allakhazam

Essentially duoed him with rogue/priest. The mage we were there for died in the first 15 seconds. Rogue (me) sub specced, badge/kara gear (and I wore some PvP gear for extra health). Priest mostly kara gear. It was pretty amazing. Not sure how he kept me alive but when the turtle tome dropped we were ecstatic.

Comment by Allakhazam

I can solo at 80. resets every 3 days

Comment by Allakhazam

u dont need a full group just a good group i've done with a 15 man just kinda hard to get to him yet my group is mostly full teir 2 or random other gear thats better and we have 2 warrior with legendary (tank with Thunderfury and fury dps with Thunderfury) so its really a r=pretty elite group =I also had a couple of deaths becuz the lack of healers (3) but in the end i got the helm and my druid friend got the staff so not that bad of try but be warned u need to be a very very very good group where a guild that can 17 man Onixya so u gotta be very skilled.

Comment by Allakhazam

Should note: to summon him, you need fish. The fish can rather easily be gotten by fishing in the "Churning Muddy Water" or whatever it's called scattered around Hakkar's Altar. This is actually easier than it sounds because the satanfish are incredibly easy to duo with a good tank and some DPS, and the beaches with crocs can be done with that plus another good DPSer. Just bring along a good fisher with some lures, and fish in between. (Also handy for rep, since it's almost impossible to do a group of crocs without getting at least one bijou/coin.)

Comment by Allakhazam

You have to summon him..

Comment by Allakhazam

There's a lot of water in ZG. Can you possibly be more specific? A map would be sweet, though I realize there isn't a ZG map up yet. Maybe some directions with respect to a boss? Thanks a ton!

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone know if you can abandon this quest after killing him, in case the awesome Fishing Terminator doesnt drop the first time?

Comment by Allakhazam

This is for all mages who are looking to get their "Polymorph: Turtle" off of Gahz'ranka in Zul'Gurub and nothing more.

After I searched almost every "WoW notes" site I could find, nothing explained this questline properly. So I will:

1- In order to get Gahz'ranka to appear, you need Mudskunk Lures and a minimum of 300 fishing. You know how to get 300 fishing, and to get the Mudskunk Lures, you need to complete "Nat's Measuring Tape".

2- You get this quest FROM the tacklebox inside Zul'Gurub, and NOT from Nat Pagle. So, the first step is to go into ZG, open the tacklebox (at Pagle's Point - look it up) and accept the quest.

3- Then get your butt down to Nat Pagle, located at 59,60 in Dustwallow Marsh, SW of Theramore. Hand in the quest, and then you will have access to the Mudskunk Lures from Nat Pagle. Buy a bunch from him before leaving.

4- Go back to ZG, back to Pagle's Point, and attach a lure, then cast away (this is the point where you need 300 fishing). Gahz'ranka will appear after a short period, then you have fun hacking away at him.

I wish I knew all this beforehand, since I really pissed off my raid group. I hope it helps someone out there.

Comment by Allakhazam

you summon him by doing a quest for nat pagle that begins in zg. down by the waters there is an abandoned camp with a clickable box which gives ya the quest, then you need to go to duskwallow and chat with nattie, come back and do some fishing and then you get to summon the bossie.

Comment by Allakhazam

This guy's a barrel of laughs. He's very similar to Gahz'rilla in Zul'farrak. His biggest weapon is a toss attack-- he throws the entire raid very high into the air. We prefer to fight him in the water so we don't take fall damage. Be sure to clear the area of satanfish (as our GM affectionately calls them) before summoning Gahz.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ugh, why does the turtle book have to be such a low drop? It's already next to impossible to get your group to summon him, the least they could do is make it like 50-100%. I've seen his epics drop more often than the book!

Comment by Allakhazam

Ha, I love level 70. Got him with a 5 man and got my turtle book :P

Comment by Allakhazam

Is there any specific way in which you need to summon him?

Comment by Allakhazam

Here's how you spawn him, w/ screenshot to show you where to go to pick up the quest:
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6703

Comment by Allakhazam

This boss is weak you can tank him into the water (but it's annoying when he throws you in the air to take the aggro back ) but i prefer tanking him out of the water after cleaning all the area around then everybody can be far away from him and only one tank on him then if he knock back the tank the other may take the boss untill the MT is back

Comment by Allakhazam

U have to fih inside the small circle in the water next to where u get the quest

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone seen him? Where is he?

Comment by Allakhazam

Did Nat Pagle got eaten by him ? :)

Comment by Allakhazam

lol tigule and Foror make another reference in WoW items... so full of themselves :P

Comment by Allakhazam

Ridiculously easy. If your guild can't down him, there's something wrong.

Comment by Rothia

Originally posted by Kaivax, Community Manager - Blizzard Forums | 2020-05-05

"Players will now receive a raid lockout warning instead of immediately accepting a raid lockout when entering Zul'Gurub with a party member who has defeated Gahz'ranka."

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Gahz'ranka

This NPC can be found in Zul'Gurub .

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After killing this NPC you will gain:

100 reputation with Zandalar Tribe

Gahz'ranka

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