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Blackrock Foundry

Hans'gar and Franzok Guide

Hans'gar and Franzok in Blackrock Foundry, quoted from the Adventure Guide. Database holds the raw abilities and the full loot table.

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30-second TL;DR

Adventure Guide says

  • The battle against Hans'gar and Franzok takes place amidst an operational Blackrock assembly line.
  • At fixed health thresholds, one of the twin orcs jumps out of the fight space to activate the factory machinery, enabling the conveyor belts that bear plates of molten Blackrock ore, or massive presses that stamp down from overhead.
  • Stages named in the Adventure Guide: Environmental Threats.
  • Tanks: When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and Crippling Suplex them together for high Physical damage.
  • Healers: When either Hans'gar or Franzok land they cause Aftershocks that deal raid-wide damage.
  • Damage dealers: Franzok's Disrupting Roar interrupts spellcasting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.

Overview

Adventure Guide says

The battle against Hans'gar and Franzok takes place amidst an operational Blackrock assembly line. At fixed health thresholds, one of the twin orcs jumps out of the fight space to activate the factory machinery, enabling the conveyor belts that bear plates of molten Blackrock ore, or massive presses that stamp down from overhead.

  • Franzok's Disrupting Roar interrupts spellcasting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
  • Hans'gar and Franzok are Bound by Blood and share a single effective health pool.
  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok land they cause Aftershocks that deal raid-wide damage.
  • Franzok's Disrupting Roar interrupts casting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and Crippling Suplex them together for high Physical damage.
  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and Crippling Suplex them together for high Physical damage.
  • When Hans'gar and Franzok land from jumping they will inflict Shattered Vertebrae, which increases damage taken with each application in an area around them.

Encounter phases

Adventure Guide says

  1. Environmental Threats The battle takes place admist an active Blackrock processing line, which poses many dangers to the unaware player.

Tank mechanics

Adventure Guide says

  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and Crippling Suplex them together for high Physical damage.
  • When Hans'gar and Franzok land from jumping they will inflict Shattered Vertebrae, which increases damage taken with each application in an area around them.

Healer mechanics

Adventure Guide says

  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok land they cause Aftershocks that deal raid-wide damage.
  • Franzok's Disrupting Roar interrupts casting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
  • When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and Crippling Suplex them together for high Physical damage.

DPS mechanics

Adventure Guide says

  • Franzok's Disrupting Roar interrupts spellcasting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
  • Hans'gar and Franzok are Bound by Blood and share a single effective health pool.

Boss abilities

AbilityAdventure GuideNotes
Searing Plates
Scorching Burns
Pulverized
Smart Stampers
Body Slam
Shattered Vertebrae
Aftershock
Bound by Blood
Crippling Suplex
Disrupting Roar
Pumped UpWhen Hans'gar or Franzok take damage, they gain increasing amounts of Rage. As their Rage increases, Pumped Up increases in power and they inflict more melee damage, increase the hammers thrown by Skullcracker, reduce the cast time of Disrupting Roar, and increase the number of jumps performed during Body Slam.
Skullcracker
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Loot

Every name is a TheWoWDB item page. Hover the row for the first-party tooltip.

Blood-Binder ChestguardLFRBrawler Brother's BracersLFRChestguard of Unending RoarsNHMChoker of Infinite DurabilityLFRDrop KickersLFRElbow Drop SpauldersLFREye-Catching Gilded RobeNHMFranzok's HeadsmasherNHMFresh-Face HoodLFRGauntlets of Dramatic BlowsNHMGiant PumpersNHMGirdle of Unconquered GloryNHMHans'gar's ForgehammerNHMHardened GreathelmNHMHeel ProtectorsLFRNeckbreaker ShoulderguardsNHMRazoredge Blade RingNHMScorchburn CloakLFRSix-Eyed BandNHMTablet of Turnbuckle TeamworkNHMVertebrae ProtectorNHM

Mounts, toys, achievements, transmog

Only rows the journal loot table or an achievement title can prove for this encounter.

Mounts

Ironhoof Destroyer

Achievements

Mythic: Beastlord Darmac · Mythic: Flamebender Ka'graz · Mythic: Gruul · Mythic: Hans'gar and Franzok · Mythic: Kromog · Mythic: Operator Thogar · Mythic: Oregorger

Entrance and instance

Blackrock Foundry is a raid in the Adventure Guide. See the Blackrock Foundry database page for the raw journal, map, and loot grid. This guide does not invent coordinates or a walking path.

Blackhand
Beastlord Darmac
Flamebender Ka'graz
Operator Thogar
The Blast Furnace
Gruul
Kromog
Oregorger
The Iron Maidens

Player strategy

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal.

Questions

What does the Adventure Guide say about Hans'gar and Franzok?

The battle against Hans'gar and Franzok takes place amidst an operational Blackrock assembly line.

How many abilities does Hans'gar and Franzok have?

The current datamine lists 11 named abilities on the Hans'gar and Franzok encounter.

What does Hans'gar and Franzok drop?

The Adventure Guide lists 21 drops. Each name links to its TheWoWDB item page. The full table also lives on the Blackrock Foundry database page.

Does Hans'gar and Franzok change on Heroic or Mythic?

The current Adventure Guide text for this encounter does not include separate Heroic or Mythic sentences we can quote. If a later client build adds them, they appear here automatically.

Does Hans'gar and Franzok drop a mount?

The journal loot table includes Ironhoof Destroyer. Each links to its TheWoWDB mount page.

Where does this guide's text come from?

Quoted Adventure Guide sections come from TheWoWDB's retail datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). Player strategy such as positioning, assignments, and cooldown timings is omitted unless that sentence is already in the journal.

Source and build

This page quotes the Adventure Guide. It does not add player strategy such as positioning, assignments, stack or spread calls, or cooldown timings unless that sentence is already in the journal. Quoted sections come from TheWoWDB Adventure Guide datamine (client build 12.1.0.69587, ingested 2026-09-01). Ability names link to first-party spell pages. When a newer retail build is ingested, this page updates with it.