Ganth

For enemy, see Ganth.

Ganth
Ganth
Level	Scales (around 34+ on Normal)
Affiliations	None
Class	Melee Miniboss
Location	The Water Chapel
Act	Act III
Skills	Slam attack, heavy melee swings
Spells	Life-stealing slam (spell_ganth_slam_attack)
Resistance	High resistance to control and elemental damage
Loot	High-tier equipment, gold
Respawn	No (quest miniboss)
Creature ID	ganth_stats
Specializes	base_ganth
Template	base_ganth
Regular
Level	Normal ~34 Veteran ~59 Elite ~80
Damage	High melee and AOE slam damage
Health	Normal: 12,500 Veteran: 70,000 Elite: 135,000
Sound
File:S mn gen gnth hit.ogg

Main article: Enemies (Dungeon Siege II)

Ganth is a powerful melee miniboss in Dungeon Siege II, encountered during the Act III primary questline related to the town’s water supply. He is fought in The Water Chapel, where he serves as the main objective of the quest often referred to internally as **Act III PQ1 – Town’s Water**.

In the game data, Ganth is defined by the template base_ganth, which specializes from base_actor_evil_melee_miniboss. His stats template ganth_stats sets him up as a high-level melee miniboss with substantial health and strong resistances.

Description

Ganth appears as a large, heavily built humanoid enemy wielding a massive two-handed axe. The model used for his body is m_c_edm_gan_pos_1, while his weapon is defined as:

• axe_2h_ganth – internally named Ganth Axe (model: m_w_axe_ganth).

He has greatly increased health compared to regular enemies, with life values defined as:

• Normal: 12,500
• Veteran: 70,000
• Elite: 135,000

Those values are explicitly stored in his stats as:

life = (12500 * #is_normal) + (70000 * #is_veteran) + (135000 * #is_elite);

Ganth’s resistances reflect his miniboss status. His template adds elemental resistances to:

• Lightning
• Death
• Fire

with values scaling up by difficulty, and he also inherits strong state resistances (freeze, stun, slow, fear, etc.), making him hard to control.

Mechanics and abilities

In addition to heavy melee strikes, Ganth uses a special area-of-effect attack that is implemented as a spell in the data:

• spell_ganth_slam_attack – defined in spl_ds2_monster_spells.gas.
• Uses a component called ganth_slam_attack.skrit, described as “Faking the Ganth's AOE slam attack with a spell.”

Key properties of the slam:

• Radius: radius = 2.0 (a relatively small but deadly AOE radius).
• Life steal: an enchantment block [ganth_life_steal] applies an alteration ALTER_LIFE_STEAL with

 value = 24 * #src_monster_level, effectively granting him a percentage-based life steal based on his level.

• The slam does not stun by default (the stun_duration property is present but commented as not used).

Internally his state resistances include:

• High resistance to freeze, stun, slow, immobilize, knockback, slide, fear.
• Partial resistance to ignite and silence.
• Reduced damage taken from power-based attacks.

Location

Ganth is fought in:

• The Water Chapel – referenced internally by the tooltip key journal_map_location_a3_01_03_ganthdun = "The Water Chapel".

This area is associated with the Act III water-related questline. The adjacent location “The Chapel Courtyard” is also mentioned in the same tooltip file, indicating the broader area around his encounter.

Quests

Ganth is directly tied to an Act III quest objective. In the game’s macro scripts:

• The task block [a3_pq1_kill_ganth] is labeled under:

 // Quest: Act III PQ1 (Town's Water) – Task: Kill Ganth

The macro sets a journal reward flag local_journal_bool = "reward:a3_pq1_ganth";, confirming him as the target to be defeated for that quest.

He also appears as a leveled arena opponent through arena templates that specialize from Ganth-specific stats, indicating his reuse in arena content.

General stats

Strengths

• Very high health for a miniboss (up to 135,000 on Elite).
• Strong elemental resistances to lightning, death, and fire.
• High resistance to most disabling status effects.
• Dangerous life-stealing slam attack that can quickly undo player progress.

Weaknesses

• Primarily melee and short-range AOE based.
• Slam radius is limited; careful positioning reduces its impact.
• No evident long-range spell arsenal beyond the slam-style attack.

Tactics

• **Keep your distance.** Ganth’s slam AOE radius is relatively small (about 2 units), so stepping back when he begins his slam animation greatly reduces the chance of being hit.
• **Avoid clumping.** Party members grouped close together make the life-stealing slam far more effective for him, allowing him to recover large chunks of health.
• **Use kiting and ranged damage.** Ranged heroes can whittle him down while avoiding both his basic melee swings and the slam zone.
• **Exploit his lack of control tools.** While he resists control effects, he doesn’t inflict many himself, so well-positioned ranged characters and summons can safely pressure him.

In higher difficulties, where his health and resistances are much stronger, sustained damage and careful positioning become crucial to prevent his life-steal from prolonging the fight.

Audio

Ganth’s voice and movement are defined in his base template’s [voice] block and associated sound entries:

• Attack sounds: s_mn_gen_gnth_atk1, s_mn_gen_gnth_atk2, s_mn_gen_gnth_atk3
• Hit sounds: s_mn_gen_gnth_hit
• Death sounds: s_mn_gen_gnth_die1, s_mn_gen_gnth_die2
• Enemy spotted: s_mn_gen_gnth_sgt
• Footstep sounds: s_mn_gen_gnth_mve1, s_mn_gen_gnth_mve2

Example audio references:

File:S mn gen gnth atk1.ogg File:S mn gen gnth die1.ogg File:S mn gen gnth hit.ogg

Gallery

Render

Appearances

• Dungeon Siege II
• Broken World (data and templates present; not a Broken World–exclusive enemy)

Trivia

• Ganth’s slam attack is implemented as a spell rather than a standard melee attack, with custom skrit logic driving its life-steal and effect visuals.
• His unique axe, defined as axe_2h_ganth (Ganth Axe), is used as his monster weapon and has its own model and definition in the monster weapon templates.
• In the arena data, one of the arena bosses is linked to Ganth’s stats, indicating he can appear as a leveled arena challenge in addition to his story encounter.