Garanz

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Garanz is a mechanical monster found in Phantasy Star Online. It is encountered in the Mines as an uncommon enemy in Episode 1. It also appears as a VR simulation inside Spaceship Alpha in Episode 2.

In Ultimate difficulty, it is replaced by the Baranz. It is essentialy the same as the Garanz, except with Blue plating.

General Data[]

The Garanz is a battle-mech, designed by the engineers in Pioneer 1 as an advanced guard for the Mines. However, D-Cell contamination has corrupted it's AI, causing this mech to blindly attack any intruders on sight.

The Garanz is orange-armored with green plating to protect its internal components. It's about double to triple the height of an average human being. It uses it's tripod legs to move about the mines and gains propulsion using an internal engine.

It is armed with missile pods along the top portion of it's body. There are 4 at first (2 on each side). Each missile has homing capabilities and it must stop moving to be able to fire them.

As the Garanz takes damage, sections of it's green plating will start to crack. It will eventually break off and reveal more missile pods, up to 12 when it's completely stripped. It also leaves behind land mines as it moves and moves farther before it needs to fire missiles.

Battle Strategy[]

Garanz are usually a pain to combat, especially in Ultimate. Mainly because of the missile count when the armor is completely stripped. In some cases, it also spawns with more than 1 or on the other side of long hallways.

There are many different strategies to combat it, all of which are effective.

If you are in melee distance, it is prefered you attack with it with your hardest hitting weapons. Multiple hit weapons like Double Sabers or Twin Swords or Daggers are effective, provided they do damage. The Garanz suffers from flinching easily as long as its not doing it's attack animation. HUcasts and caseal|HUcaseals should use thier Freeze Traps to incapacitate them for free hits.

If you are at a distance, either try using your Rifle-class weapons or your hardest hitting Mechguns. The Mechguns can tear it's HP easily and the Rifle can shoot outside the range of the missiles.

Forces should use Barta in Version 3 and Foie in the Dreamcast versions. You may also try Zonde and get a chance to shock it, which will also incapacitate it. Gibarta and Rabarta can also incapacitate Garanz.

If it does fire missiles, you have a few options of avoiding damage. One obvious option is you evade the missiles by running from them or leaving the room and letting the doors block the explosives. The second is to approach the Garanz and circle around it. Although it seems suicidal, some of the missiles will damage itself and other machines around it. The missiles can distinguish friend from foe but they will do whatever it takes to hit you, even if it has to collide with other objects such as other robots. Be sure to have hit the Garanz once in case it kills itself via missile damage. You will recieve no experience if you didnt harm it and you only get 80% of what it's worth if it kills itself.

To avoid the mines, don't trail behind it. It rarely has a chance to drop these as the armor needs to be completely stripped. In most cases, the Garanz is destroyed before it has the chance.

The missiles and mines do preset damage, therefore it is unnecessary to cast Jellen on this enemy. No amount of DFP, EVP or resistances will protect you from damage.

Stats[]

Legend : Offline stat / Online stat

Dreamcast versions (ver. 1 and ver. 2)[]

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
HP	410/506	729/1000	1500/2200	2525/2725
ATP	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
DFP	90/90	188/188	316/316	1850/2215
ATA	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
EVP	80/80	108/108	146/46	900/912
LCK	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
XP	22/22	67/67	124/124	328/328

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
EFR	0/0	20/20	20/20	100/100
EIC	40/40	60/60	60/60	100/100
ETH	90/90	100/100	100/100	75/65
ELT	60/60	60/60	60/60	80/85
EDK	35/38	58/58	73/73	100/108
ESP	20/25	35/35	50/55	50/55

Ep. 1 (Gamecube, Xbox, PC)[]

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
HP	410/698	711/1245	1500/2081	2525/3788
ATP	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
DFP	85/105	200/273	342/437	659/865
ATA	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
EVP	42/60	70/157	112/288	375/564
LCK	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
XP	22/27	67/75	124/140	328/355

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
EFR	50/70	75/75	75/79	100/90
EIC	0/60	0/60	15/75	100/90
ETH	75/85	100/100	100/100	50/69
ELT	75/75	75/80	75/85	100/90
EDK	38/38	58/58	73/73	100/108
ESP	20/25	35/75	50/55	50/55

Technique	Effect	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
Homing Missiles	Non-Elemental	39/48	80/80	124/132	232/250
Land Mines	Non-Elemental, Step-on	53/74	120/140	190/220	190/430

On Ultimate, the missile damage can stack if multiple missiles hit you and you don't get knocked down on the floor.

Ep. 2 (Gamecube, Xbox, PC)[]

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
HP	653/939	1258/1649	1664/2312	3133/4535
ATP	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
DFP	105/139	229/288	383/449	732/856
ATA	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
EVP	70/70	118/133	168/187	449/496
LCK	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
XP	19/19	66/66	123/123	345/384

	Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
EFR	90/90	90/90	90/90	90/95
EIC	20/39	30/50	30/60	49/70
ETH	90/90	90/90	90/90	90/95
ELT	50/50	60/66	75/75	88/88
EDK	38/38	45/60	60/80	79/100
ESP	42/42	35/35	50/50	50/50

Special Drops[]

Dreamcast versions[]

	Items	Drop Rates	Section ID
Normal	Invisible Guard	1/100825
Hard	Double Saber	1/64
	Photon Claw	1/64
V. Hard	Inferno Bazooka	1/964
		1/877
	Flame Visit	1/964

Ep. 1&2 version[]

Mines Area[]

Difficulty	Items	Drop Rates	Section ID
Normal	Trimate	7/8
Hard
V. Hard

VR Spaceship Area[]

	Items	Drop Rates	Section ID
Normal
Hard
V. Hard

Trivia[]

The Phantasy Star Online 2 boss Zeta Guranz is likely a reference to this enemy, featuring a similar design and attacks.

Mines Monsters