With Tank Brann? I was thinking this would be a fun spec and class to give a try, but have seen a fair amount of angst about bugs as well as Tank Brann being weak in general.
I enjoy it. You have to be careful not to allow him to overpull, but Tank Brann is fun.
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In delves i run VW not oracle. Ive cleared all 11s i want to do with ease usually around 12 minutes
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Dominate mind on an elite and hold it the whole run, super easymode.
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Interesting. I can’t get Brann to pull enough. I wind up with most of the aggro when I pull everything in a room.
It’s the only spec of priest you should be playing in delves, and I’m not sure if that is a good thing.
Pop Fade and Brann will pick all the aggro up. Just prepared to heal like mad
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I find shadow pretty fun with Brann heals (and Dominate mind). Not saying Disc isn’t way better, since I haven’t tried it, but it seems a bit harsh to say Disc is the only way to go.
There’s 0 reason to waste your time playing a healer spec in delves. I heal almost exclusively in group content and I would never suffer through the 2-3x time sink to heal a delve or vision when shadow is perfectly capable of destroying any solo content. In fact, aside from being slow (which is just a priest thing in general) it’s an insane solo content spec. It’s one of the tankiest specs in the game, it has huge defensives, a mini haste for itself, it has huge cleave and single target damage, and it has tons of utility.
Not even remotely true. I’d be happy to show you how to play shadow in delves. I pull half the dungeon on max rank and pop VE and do my DPS rotation and I barely go under 90% HP.
Imagine assuming that I can’t pull entire rooms as shadow in a max rank delve. But guess what disc can do the same thing and kill it nearly as quickly with less effort.
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Lots of variables come into play - your ilvl and Brann lvl - that can change the experience but I’ve found tank Brann and healing it to be quite fun and refreshing. Brann does good damage and can move at a decent pace.
He doesn’t really do big pulls so you have to help him pull (if you want big pulls to speed it up). You will have aggro for a second but it actually helps if you have some and Brann has some to even out damage for heals. He’ll eventually get aggro on all of it.
You don’t have to pull big though and it’ll still move along.
Try it out and let me know what you think. And you don’t have go disc. Holy works just as good if not better - if Brann doesn’t need healing you can actually do more dps than disc as holy.
Seconding this.
@ op
It is really easy content so you can run with whatever you want tbh. Running delves as disc isnt a bad way to dip your toes into the spec if you plan to play is down the road too. The extra survivability+tank bran means you can run delve levels you are extremely undergeared for too ( as long as you avoid one shot circles ). It also means your brann can pull more than he can normally handle and you can keep him alive with tools like barrier, PSx2, and pumping a full evangelism into him.
Disc is really fun imo for delves. Pull a ton of stuff, fade, heal bran and fire off offensive penances, Uppies on annoying adds, and mind soothe to skip most things is huge QOL too, Life Grip to reposition Brann when he tries to run off due to pathing issues. Pick up Dominate mind for another “friend” too. Usually things die pretty quick and I was able to easily push to max delve levels very early while extremely undergeared.
End of the day it’s solo content, any spec works and it is best to pick whatever is more fun for you. I do recommend disc though for the reasons above or if you are going to main disc and are newer. Oracle or VW, either works tbh. I run my M+ oracle build in delves ( nothing special ) and they are still very fast to complete.
Once you have tons of gear you and brann are gods and cant really be killed, even if you are a healer big pulls tend to work out because Brann does extra damage when you heal him due to his Electro-Charged Shield, and Brann WILL pull more because he has a tendency to run off due to his pathing issues they have not fixed.
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So can holy. Holy aoe damage is very good. Round up a whole room or hallway in a t11, halo, chastise, holy fire, holy nova, etc.
Besides, all three specs can dominate mind and lay waste to any delve. The Web friars in spider delves can hit upwards of 2-3m DPS.
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I enjoy as VW Disc. I know it’s slower that Shadow, but it just feels good and satisfying. Plus if you challenge the required item level, it makes up for a nice stress situation to heal.
Like others said, Dominate Mind can make things MUCH easier than other healer specs.