I recently cleared up to t11 delves on a Brewmaster. I was wondering is it easier to do t11 delves with lower ilevels on a tank class than it is DPS?
yes it is easier for tank classes.
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What about healer? Should I run Delves as my healer spec over my DPS spec?
probably harder as a healer than a dps…
but ive never done delves as a healer, so i wouldn’t know from personal experience.
Healer Delves are annoying, imo. I stopped doing them. I’ve never done them as a tank. Some DPS specs have it easier in t11s than others.
I assume DPS with pets to tank are the ideal like Hunter or Warlock?
Depends on the healer class.
I’ve run delves on most healers and the problem wasn’t the healing, it was the dps. Without good dps it just takes forever (can’t rely on Brann to do much damage)
Druid and Disc Priest were easiest because they heal by dps’ing.
Gonna depend on how much you can handle, you can pull the whole room if you’re confident in keeping Brann alive. Healer priests can take advantage Dominate Mind and blast through Delves
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It’s significantly easier to do delves as a tank than it is as a dps. Still better than healers teamed up with tank Brann as well.
Problem with Brann is that he’s kind of a paper tank. I have way less success pulling entire rooms with tank Brann (since he grabs aggro and doesn’t really follow well) than I do as a tank myself.
By the time I’ve rounded up a big pull as heals he’s about to keel over or already dead.
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I find this to be the case. I can clear Delves way easier and faster on my Warrior in Prot spec than this Hunter; and my Warrior is like 30 - 40 iLvls lower. Delves just don’t seem to present all that much of a threat to Tank specs.
If he was as sturdy as a player tank you may as well not even spec healer. As for him dying during pulls, I don’t know what to say. I do mass pulls most of my runs in a Delve since one pack or two packs isn’t threatening to me.
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Been that way since day 1. Healers are right up near them now with tank Brann in the picture. DPS are kind of lagging but with the nerfs to delves at the start of the season they aren’t nearly as far behind tanks as they were in S1.
I do as well it just takes that one lapse in attention to put Brann on the floor and now I have the entire delve coming for me 
I still do it but whoopsies do occur.
The way he takes damage is just odd to me as well. Don’t know if I’m not paying attention to his defensives, if he has defensives, but occasionally I’ll just see him getting chunked, put a pain supp on him, and it’s almost like it does nothing at all. He’s still just getting eaten and I’m tunneling into him.
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Comically Large Magnet (I think that’s the name) helps when going for setup pulls. He doesn’t lose any HP for a brief period allowing you to pull as much as you desire.
My Brann at my ilvl has 30m HP, he can take the hits lol.
Yeah, I do see this myself at times.
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How mang? At 676 my priest’s Brann is still 3m shy of that.
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Are you using Pinged Curio Chip?
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Usually either the footbomb dispenser or the mechasaur egg.
That makes the difference though. Kinda forgot about that one.
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Not necessarily. I don’t even use a pet on my Warlock and he was melting things in t11s at 630ish ilevel. My Evoker couldn’t do that. lol
Dps that have too burst damage is better than per class ie HDH or ret pally or Fury warrior even FDK in a sense
It also increases his dmg by 35%. If you’re pulling big, that does make a noticeable difference.
His Boomstick does a lot of damage. Basically he starts with 4 charges of his Shield, and loses one every 3.5 seconds (though he loses the first immediately), so after about ~12 seconds he loses his shield entirely and has a Boomstick for ~15 sec (until he gets his shield back). That’s when he’s squishiest, but also when he does the most damage. Especially so because if you pump him full of heals, that does damage too.
It’s pretty weird because his shield stacks apparently only each give 3% damage reduction, but I swear it’s more than that. He also takes damage weirdly. He seems to take a lot of melee damage from casters, and certain single-target dots. He takes virtually no damage from anything AoE, which is super dumb because he frantically runs from any swirlie, as if it can do anything to him.
I you want the Achievments, then yes.
Be sure to use DPS Brann for Tanking (make use of the traps he drops).
Tank Brann had a glitch when it came to the Undersea Abomination and would only taunt but not attack it. I don’t know if that’s been fixed or not.