I did Underpin for the first time last night, and while im still learning - what a fun af fight that is! It was honestly a blast.
I did it as a Prot Warrior and i didnt look up a build or anything. So im doing my research now, but i was thinking to myself, how the heck does a Rogue or Priest do this? It seems like it would be hell.
Which specs do you guys struggle with the most?
I don’t have enough alts to have a comprehensive opinion, but I’ve done it as Resto Druid, Feral, Prot War, Fury, Unholy and Frost Mage. Frost Mage was by far the hardest. I did Prot war at ilvl 641, and Resto and Unholy (rider) around 650. I just beat it on Mage at 670, though I hadn’t tried it in a while and probably could have done it a little lower.
The biggest issue is mobility. Mages have great short-term mobility with 2 shimmers. But Alter Time/Displacement seem really risky to use in this fight. And beyond that, Frost Mages have pretty much nothing (though Ice Block still does great work here).
The second biggest issues is actually DPSing the boss. It’s pretty popular to have the Bioprinters win the fight for you, rather than having to manually DPS the boss yourself between kicking around all the bombs. This isn’t really an option for Casters, as the Bioprinters apparently scale with Attack Power and on my Mage, they do ~24k DPS, so they’re completely unusable. I do think that being a DoT class has some advantages here. You can find whatever time is right for you to DPS and get a lot done. As a Frost Mage, this was a challenge making sure to do enough damage to the boss to actually progress the fight, all while kicking bombs and making sure to save CDs for his shields.
Maybe issue #3 is survivability.
IDK what class/spec would be worst on all these 3 things.
I tried to do it but it’s too hard to kick bombs when he’s on top of me and I don’t know how to make the whole press a button to interact thing work because it was not working with my keybinds. (I thought I just needed to be in the vicinity and press the button it would auto kick the bombs for me?)
that is how it’s supposed to work. maybe you need to be closer. if the blue arrow (that shows which direction the bomb will travel) doesn’t show up, you’re definitely not close enough. but even if the arrow is there, you still might need to be closer.
also keep in mind that the bombs are susceptible to roots, and Brann has a trap that will root them. this was also an issue on mage as some of my cleave abilities will root nearby targets.
I have only done it on BM hunter, but knowing what I know, I would say casters have a harder time right off the bat, so mages, evokers, warlocks, because of how much movement there is.
But honestly? The fact of the boss auto-killing the pet right off the bat made my run hard. I had to weave Play Dead into my rotation, and keep Mend Pet on CD.
Dang dude, I just gotta say it’s impressive to have done it on so many specs
I had been trying on my frost mage but I hope to get my Brewmaster Monk up to 650+ relatively soon and try again and I found a macro that increases the interact range on my interact with object button so maybe I can do it that way?
Shadow isn’t all that bad for it. Prot pally was probably my easiest. I haven’t tried it on my rogue but now I’m kind of curious how it would feel to run it on him. If I try I’ll report back.
I only did it as frost mage (this char), 19 tries.
While it wasn’t easy, the hard part is simply kicking the bombs fast, and they actually hitting the adds, instead of stopping very close to them.
And to do it fast, a keybind is a must.
Other than that, once you “get it”, it’s a pretty chill fight, just don’t mess up.
If you let adds stack, you’re dead though.
The oil drop is very annoying too, but that’s pretty much it.
Zek’vir was cake in comparison.
Hardest is probably healer.
You’d be forced to run tank Brann, tank Brann does middling amounts of ST damage, and a few of the healers have no access to taunt so you can’t really pull Underpin around the ring to get the cronies in good position.
But I think Blizzard has made it clear that designing solo content for healers is a chore they lack interest in doing, and the intended way to do it is as a DPS or tank.
Why? I’d use DPS Brann.
Heck, I’d use DPS Brann with some DPS specs, why use tank brann?
You’d probably want to avoid running tank Brann just because of the positioning issues it would cause. Would recommend using DPS Brann and just healing through his melees. Positioning in the fight is critical so I doubt even healers want to use tank Brann in this case.
I dunno, Frost Mage was pretty hard when I did it. The only healing you get is from Brann.
Aug is probably pretty uniquely terrible but it might be more that the fight is just long.
I have been considering using my own heals and shields as a brewmaster monk and using DPS Brann to hopefully burn him faster and just survive with my own survivability
You can probably do that now. I did it at ilvl 642? 646? Something like that. If I was doing it now at 683 I would have a lot easier time just generally making everything shorter. I did it April 3rd.
I’ve beaten it on a 678 Rogue and a 633 Prot Warrior.
Warrior was a bit easier despite the gigantic gear gap.
It’s insane how much easier this fight is for tanks, Warriors in particular due to Demolish letting dumpster gear smash the shield nice and easy.
I was running it with Mountain Thane and couldn’t figure out how to beat that self-heal.
Someone last night gave me so great info, including Colossus. Giving it another go tonight.
This is my current Brewmaster. I have been trying to replace my shoulder slot and then pump my valorstones into juicing up my ilvl. Also maybe some trinkets from the turbo charged whatever thingy. IDK if I want survivability trinkets or DPS like trinkets.
Prot is cheese mode, I done the double ? ? with a 647 iLVL prot warrior.