Enfeebling Spittle is impossible to avoid

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I’m trying to beat Zekvir’s Lair (?? level) with my mage and I’m doing fairly well with all mechanics, EXCEPT the ES (Enfeebling Spittle) debuff. Every single time I die because I cannot dispell this debuff. If I counterspell Zekvir’s self heal, then I cannot interrupt ES (as Counterspell has a 24 sec cooldown). I have Brann as a healer, so he manages to dispell the first ES cast on me. But he doesn’t seem to dispell it anymore after that (not sure if this is a bug ?). So I chose other talents, and now I have Ice Block, which removes the second ES debuff. For the third ES debuff, I use Cold Snap to reset the CD on Ice Block and use it again. After the third debuff… I can’t do anything. Shifting Power doesn’t reduce my cooldowns fast enough, so I end up getting killed by ES in 2-3 seconds.

Any advice? This is literally the only mechanic I’m dying to, and it seems practically unavoidable to me. Not sure if I should continue or if I should wait until they change this.

EDIT: Actually, not even Cold Snap is helping me now that I tried it again, since I have the Hypthermia debuff that prevents me from using Ice Block ina 30 second window. I got two ES in less than 30 seconds, this is insane.

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Rumor has it “Energized Barriers” talent removes spittle, since it’s a snare. So if you save your barrier to deploy just after you’re spat on, the spit is removed.

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Oh! Going to try that right away, thank you!

EDIT: OMG it does!!! I feel so stupid, thank you so much!

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Yeah, several specs have to use snare removals to counter the debuff since they can’t interrupt both it and the heal. Shadow’s another one that handles it like that.

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Anything that removes slows/snares will remove spittle and it won’t even do damage to you.

I play a ret pally, i use freedom when he’s casting it and it doesn’t touch me. It’s great.

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Didn’t even think of this, life saver. Once I saw this and realized Odyn’s Fury removed the debuff I one shot it, after many attempts with not knowing lol.

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