Brawler's Guild

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For the one-on-one player duels in Battle for Azeroth, see Dueler's Guild.
Bizmo and Boss Bazzelflange, leaders of the Brawler's Guilds

“'The first rule of brawls is you don't talk about the brawls. The second rule...[1]”

The Brawler's Guild puts on (mostly) single-player fights against a wide variety of enemies in Bizmo's Brawlpub under the Stormwind City end of Deeprun Tram, or at Brawl'gar Arena in Orgrimmar. Win fights to gain status within the guild to earn rewards, including mounts, pets, an heirloom fist weapon, housing decor, and shirts. So many shirts. Players can watch the fights at ringside, as they're not instanced, but will not be able to assist whoever's in the arena.

New seasons take place with most expansions, starting in Mists of Pandaria and most recently in The War Within.

New in The War Within

The fifth season of the Brawler's Guild, launched the week of 9 December 2025 during patch 11.2.7, adds four fights, three pieces of housing decor, two mounts, and a series of achievements:

Invitations

Brawl'gar Arena

In patch 5.1, the Brawler's Guild went live, and Blizzard posted how the  [Blood-Soaked Invitation] initially worked:[2]

Brawler's Guild Invitation Update |  Blizzard Entertainment Nethaera

Entry into the brawler's guild is by invitation only. Invitations can be found on the Black Market Auction House, by invitation from somebody within the guild, and occasionally as drops from certain Horde and Alliance NPCs.

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During Mists of Pandaria, invitations dropped from Landfall rare enemies in Krasarang Wilds. In Legion, it dropped after completing dungeons or opening Emissary chests, or from Helarjar elites in Stormheim.[3] During Battle for Azeroth, the invitation was sold by A. Shady at the Brawler's Guilds for 100g or was a drop from enemies of the opposite faction in Kul Tiras and Zandalar.

In The War Within, all players received a breadcrumb from Dornogal in the form of the quest B [80] By Invitation Only?. Players who have not earned an invite since Legion will be offered N [80] Questionable Qualifications to purchase one for 50g. After getting an invite, pick up B [80] The Gloves Are Off from Pick Butterworth in the Deeprun Tram or Alton Philips outside Brawl'gar Arena and head in to the arena to get to fighting!

Players only need to get invited once over the lifetime of their account after Legion. Invites are Warband-wide and are permanent across expansions.

Matches

Some of the gladiators added in patch 5.3

To join the queue, speak with any bouncer at Bizmo's Brawlpub in the Deeprun Tram for the Alliance, or Brawl'gar Arena for the Horde:

You here to fight?

Gossip Yes, sign me up for a fight!

The player's position in queue will be displayed at the top of the screen. Then, wait until the queue pops - a boss emote will display warning that the next turn is the adventurer's: You are next in line!

There is no warning before getting teleported to the arena floor. The fight lasts two minutes before the arena itself will kill adventurers who take too long.

The queue system operates on a first-come, first-served basis, with one exception: the first-daily queue entry for each character will be placed at the front of the line. This rule is applied to all eligible characters individually, not to the account.

After the match, winners will receive a  [Brawler's Purse] and 250 reputation with the Brawler's Guild. Losers will have to resurrect. In The War Within, the graveyard inside the arena is always active, so there's no longer any need to purchase the  [Blood-Soaked Angel Figurine] or run back from Orgrimmar or Stormwind.

Challenge gambits

In the The War Within season, players can speak with special NPCs to add a challenge gambit (affix) to the fight. There are no additional rewards beyond achievements:

Complete all eight to earn  [Brawl Star], awarding the <Brawl Star> title.

Speak with Alliance Challenge Broker Senna at Bizmo's Brawlpub or Horde Challenge Broker Guo at Brawl'gar Arena to begin:

Interested in adding a little extra challenge to your next brawl, <class>?

I may not have an extra reward if you prevail but your peers will surely be impressed and I'm certain the crowd will love it!

  • Gossip Arm the audience with foul fruit!
  • Gossip Please freeze the arena!
  • Gossip Make me a giant!
  • Gossip Literally set me on fire!
  • Gossip I can win without a scratch!
  • Gossip Fill the arena with sticky molten tar!
  • Gossip Make me as light as a feather!
  • Gossip I can win with just my bare hands!

Gladiators

Gladiators (and their order) change from season to season, and challengers will face off against their opponents in order. Challenge Cards give challengers the opportunity to relive earlier fights. In The War Within, all cards require reaching Rank 8 with the guild to purchase.

The War Within This section concerns content related to The War Within.

Four encounters were added this season, marked with a *. Encounters were designed around level 80 players.

Battle for Azeroth This section concerns content related to Battle for Azeroth.

Nine encounters were added this season, marked with a *. Rumbles drag all players in queue into the fight. Encounters were designed around level 120 players.

Legion This section concerns content related to Legion.

Seventeen encounters were added this season, marked with a *. Seven rumbles, which pull all players in queue into the arena, were also added. Encounters were designed around level 110 players.

Warlords of Draenor This section concerns content related to Warlords of Draenor.

No encounters were added this season, though many were reordered from Season 1. Encounters were designed around level 100 players.

Mists of Pandaria This section concerns content related to Mists of Pandaria.

Encounters were designed around level 90 players. Eight encounters were added in patch 5.3: the rank 8 and 9 matches.

Rewards

Rewards are purchased with regular gold or [Brawler's Gold], found in the post-match  [Brawler's Purse] or  [Bulging Brawler's Purse]. If the  [Bag of Chipped Dice] is active, players can win cosmetic shirts by beating the random match.

Past season rewards

Achievements

Achievement Description
B  [The First Rule of Brawler's Guild] Get invited to brawl at AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub in the Deeprun Tram / HordeBrawl'gar Arena in The Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar.
 [A Prime Ordeal] Emerge victorious from a swampy situation.
 [Audience Participation] Fend off foul fruit and fish flung freely.
 [Bare Knuckle Brawl] Win a brawl without a weapon equipped.
 [Brawl Star] Complete all Brawler's Guild Challenge Broker Gambits.
 [Brawler's Chilled] Slip and slide your way to success in a brawl on ice.
 [Brawlzilla] Win while standing head and shoulders over your opponent.
 [Featherweight Brawler] Subdue a rival with a spring in your step.
 [Hot Footed] Can't stop, won't stop. Win a brawl with blazing speed.
 [Let Me Solo It] Dazzle the crowd! Win without a scratch.
 [The Best There Is] Defeat 15 Challenge Card exclusive bosses.
 [I Am Thrall's Complete Lack Of Surprise] Defeat 10 bosses using random brawl mode in the Brawler's Guild. (Season 4+)
 [You Are Not The Contents Of Your Wallet] Obtain 20,000 [Brawler's Gold]. (Season 4+)

Past season achievements

Achievement Description
B  [The First Rule of Brawler's Guild (Season 1 or 2)] Get invited to brawl at AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub in the Deeprun Tram/HordeBrawl'gar Arena in Orgrimmar during the Pandaria/Draenor campaign.
B  [The First Rule of Brawler's Guild (Season 3)] (or 4) Get invited to brawl at AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub in the Deeprun Tram / HordeBrawl'gar Arena in The Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar.
 [You Are Not Your $#*@! Legplates (Season 1)] Win a brawl during the Pandaria campaign.
 [You Are Not Your $#*@! Legplates (Season 2)] Win a brawl during the Draenor campaign.
 [You Are Not Your $#*@! Legplates (Season 3)] Win a brawl during the Broken Isles campaign.
B  [You Are Not Your $#*@! Legplates] (Season 4) Win a brawl.
 [The Second Rule of Brawler's Guild (Season 1)] Reach Rank 4 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Pandaria campaign.
 [The Second Rule of Brawler's Guild (Season 2)] Reach Rank 4 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Draenor campaign.
 [The Second Rule of Brawler's Guild (Season 3)] Reach Rank 4 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Broken Isles campaign.
B  [The Second Rule of Brawler's Guild] (Season 4) Reach Rank 4 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena.
 [Brawlin' and Shot Callin' (Season 1)] Reach Rank 8 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Pandaria campaign.
 [Brawlin' and Shot Callin' (Season 2)] Reach Rank 8 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Draenor campaign.
 [King of the Guild (Season 3)] Reach Rank 8 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Broken Isles campaign.
B  [Brawler for Azeroth] (Season 4) Reach Rank 8 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena.
 [Having a Brawl (Season 1)] Reach Rank 9 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Pandaria campaign.
 [I've Got the Biggest Brawls of Them All (Season 1)] Reach Rank 10 with AllianceBizmo's Brawlpub/HordeBrawl'gar Arena during the Pandaria campaign.
 [Bottle Service (Season 2)] Hit an angry spectator in the head with an  [Expired Blackout Brew].
 [Collect Your Deck (Season 2)] Earn the right to purchase challenge cards for the following Brawler's Guild bosses during the Draenor campaign.
 [Deck Your Collection (Season 1)] Defeat the following Brawler's Guild bosses during the Pandaria campaign.
 [Deck Your Collection (Season 2)] Defeat the following Brawler's Guild bosses during the Draenor campaign.
 [Haters Gonna Hate (Season 2)] Win a brawl with ten stacks of You Stink! during the Draenor campaign.
 [I'm Your Number One Fan (Season 2)] /Cheer a player on after they have won a brawl during the Draenor campaign.
 [Now You're Just Showing Off (Season 1)] Defeat the following rare brawl bosses during the Pandaria campaign.
 [Now You're just Showing Off (Season 2)] Defeat the following rare brawl bosses during the Draenor campaign.
B  [Rabble Rabble Rabble (Season 2)] Take the portal to the other guild during the Draenor campaign.
 [I Am Thrall's Complete Lack Of Surprise (Season 3)] Defeat 10 bosses using random brawl mode in the Brawler's Guild during the Broken Isles campaign.
 [Rumble Club] (Season 3 or 4) Defeat all rumbles in the Brawler's Guild.
 [Educated Guesser] (Season 3 or 4) Obtain 10 stacks of Vested Interest in the Brawler's Guild.

Past-season quests

Murder Mystery

 [Bruce]

During the Battle for Azeroth season, a murder mystery was added alongside the new brawls. This questline rewards  [Bruce]!

  1. A [120] Murder at the Brawlpub / H [120] Murder at the Brawl'gar Arena
  2. B [120] Put Up Your Dukes
  3. A [120] Undercover Agent: Ann Dennyson / H [120] Undercover Agent: Sharisanda
  4. B [120] The Financial Participation Incentive
  5. A [120] A Favor for Your Old Chum Winifred / H [120] A Favor for Your Ol' Pal Buxdoggle
  6. A [120] Lord Browne's Debts / H [120] The Pit Boss's Debts
  7. A [120] Evidence Packet: Lord Winifred Browne / H [120] Evidence Packet: Pit Boss Buxdoggle
  8. A [120] Undercover Agent: Saralara Fizzlesprang / H [120] Undercover Agent: Stone Guard Mollivox
  9. B [120] Soul Splinters
  10. B [120] Super Soul Splinters
  11. B [120] Cause for Concern
  12. B [120] The Precious 13-Tooth Gogglegear
  13. A [120] The Fizzlesprang Goggle Experiment / H [120] The Mollivox Goggle Experiment
  14. A [120] Evidence Packet: Shadowmaster O'Flannerty / H [120] Evidence Packet: Shadowmaster Skrizzik
  15. A [120] Undercover Agent: Silent Jussho / H [120] Undercover Agent: Nugg Lumbo
  16. B [120] Flaunt It If You Got It
  17. B [120] Simply Dying of Boredom
  18. A [120] Evidence Packet: Grant Lazarby / H [120] Evidence Packet: Libbiara Blightrunner
  19. A [120] The Brawlpub Trial / H [120] The Brawl'gar Trial
  20. B [120] A Clue from Area 52
  21. B [120] Solving the Mystery

Challenge cards

For the Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor seasons, players could come across Challenge Cards to add those combatants to the guild. These quests were removed going into Legion.

Item Quest Zone Notes
 [Knockoff Grumplefloot] N [100] A Knockoff Grumplefloot Kun-Lai Summit /dance with Grandpa Grumplefloot at Grummle Bazaar
 [The Bear and the Lady Fair] N [100] A Tale of Romance and Chivalry Shadowmoon Valley Sargerei-affiliated draenei at Socrethar's Rise and Shattrath City
 [Hozen-Fur Fuse] N [100] Boom Boom's Fuse Kun-Lai Summit Kill hozen with Kota Kon on N [20-35 Daily] The Burlap Grind
 [Frost-Tipped Eggshell] N [100] Frost-Tipped Eggshell Icecrown [47.9, 13.7] Win pet battle against Level 25 elite Doopy
 [Dusty Old Robot] N [100] Last Year's Model Anywhere  [Blingtron 4000 Gift Package]
 [Modified Chomping Apparatus] N [100] Modified Chomping Apparatus Brawler's Guilds Buy  [Challenge Card: Bruce] and win
 [Paper-Covered Rock] N [100] Paper-Covered Rock Valley of the Four Winds Gather crops at Sunsong Ranch
 [Raptorhide Boxing Gloves] N [100] Raptorhide Boxing Gloves Northern Barrens Rare drop from level 90 Kor'kron mobs
 [Vial of Reddish Ooze] N [100] Secret of the Ooze Gorgrond Oozes
 [Impeccably Sharp Tooth] N [100] Teeth Like Swords Pandarian fishing pools Fish of the day pools
 [Digmaster's Earthblade] N [100] The Digmaster's Earthblade Uldum (Tol'vir dig sites) Or inside  [Crate of Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments]
 [Well-Worn Blindfold] N [100] Well-Worn Blindfold Darkmoon Faire  [Darkmoon Game Prize]

Trivia

  • During the fourth season, the guild quartermasters, Alliance Quackenbush and Horde Paul North, were killed and replaced by Alliance Dershway the Triggered or Horde "Bad Luck" Symmes. Quackenbush and Paul were reinstated for the fifth season.
  • The concept of the Brawler's Guild appears to be loosely inspired by the film Fight Club. In particular, the introduction lines "The first rule of brawls is you don’t talk about brawls." and "If this is your first night at Brawler's Guild, you have to fight." are taken almost verbatim from the film. The developers have stated that the "Fight Club vibe" was an intended design aspect.[4]
  • Invitation to the Brawler's Guild was initially extremely limited, with invites only available as rare drops or from the Black Market Auction House. Part of the reason for this design was to reduce the rate at which players were able to access the Guild, due to concerns about server stability and the quality of the play experience with very large numbers of players involved. Knowing that the feature was eagerly anticipated, the developers designed the invitation system to allow players to "trickle into" the new content, "a little bit more slowly, a little bit more elegantly".[4] Tom Chilton described the Brawler's Guild design as "a pretty heavy-handed method" of achieving this, although its secondary effect of initially making entry to the guild feel more selective and restricted was considered to be helpful in establishing the Guild's "Fight Club vibe".[4]
  • According to Ion Hazzikostas' speech at the BlizzCon 2016 What's Next Panel, the Brawler's Guild is "100% non-canon".
  • As of patch 5.1, the Deeprun Tram is also the home to the Brawler's Guild for the Alliance, which is located on the Stormwind side of the tram.

Patch changes

  • The War Within Patch 11.2.7 (2025-12-02): Re-introduced starting the week of 9 December 2025.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1.5 (2019-03-12): Re-introduced with new challenges, new currency, new items, and a unique murder questline.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-03-31): The Stranglethorn Streak Brawl is unavailable.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Brawler's Guild re-introduced with new challenges, new currency, and new items. (Offical blog)
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Season 2 ended.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • Season 1 of the Brawler's has come to a close and associated achievements have been converted into Feats of Strength.
    • Fights will be unavailable while the Brawler's Guild is being refitted in preparation for Season 2 (available after Warlords of Draenor has launched.)
    • Account-wide membership in Brawler's Guild will carry over to Season 2. Once a brawler, always a brawler!
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2013-05-23): Challenge Card quests can now be completed while in a raid. Note that credit for defeating a boss will not be shared amongst party or raid members.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Test your might against two new tiers of bosses in the Brawl'gar Arena in Orgrimmar or Bizmo's Brawlpub in Stormwind.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2012-11-29):
    • Disruptron Mk. 3R-Alpha's attacks will no longer sometimes strike spectators in the Brawl'gar Arena. His attacks will now properly strike opponents standing on the grates in this arena.
    • Dark Summoner's health has been reduced by 10%, and his damage reduced by 35%.
    • Certain short-term buffs, such as [Bloodlust], are now cleared when entering the Brawler's Arena. Long term effects, such as [Heart of the Wild], will persist.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): Added.

References

 
  1. ^ Daxxarri and Zarhym 2012-10-05. Patch 5.1 PTR Coming Soon. Archived from the original
  2. ^ Daxxarri 2012-11-09. Let's Talk About Brawler's Guild. Archived from the original on 2012-11-13.
  3. ^ Patch 7.1.5 Preview: The Return of the Brawler's Guild (2016-12-15).
  4. ^ a b c WoW Source: Patch 5.4 Developer Round Table

External links

World of Warcraft Community Site World of Warcraft Community Site Brawler's Guild Updates
World of Warcraft Community Site World of Warcraft Community Site Brawler's Guild Invitation Update
World of Warcraft Community Site World of Warcraft Community Site Let's Talk About Brawler's Guild
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