Many Brann Bronzebeard Adjustments are Now Live - March 14

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Since our previous set of changes to Brann with maintenance earlier this week, we’ve continued to dig into his performance in different situations, and addressed several issues that needed attention. With hotfixes that have all gone live over the last day or so, we’ve now made the following improvements:

Delves

  • Brann Bronzebeard
    • Tank Brann now receives 13% reduced damage overall.
    • Tank Brann now receives 5% reduced damage while using his shotgun.
    • Tank Brann now receives 20% increased healing while using his shotgun.
    • Tank Brann maximum health increased by 10%.
    • The following spells now have a special internal cooldown for Electro-Charged Weapons stacks when healing Tank Brann.
      • Soothing Mists
      • Ultimate Penitence
      • Penance
      • Eternal Flame
      • Nourish
      • Rejuvenation
      • Riptide
      • Atonement
      • Ancient Teachings
    • All versions of Brann now take 50% reduced damage from AoE damage.
    • Fixed a bug where Healer Brann’s damage taken was not being reduced as expected.
      • Developers’ notes: Bottom line here is that Season 2 Healer Brann now has a reduction of damage taken that is similar to Season 1 Healer Brann.
    • Healer and Damage Brann’s Aspect of the Turtle cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
    • Healer and Damage Brann’s The Bronzebeard Spirit self-heal cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
    • Healer and Damage Brann’s The Bronzebeard Spirit self-heal effect increased to 30% of Brann’s health (was 15%).
    • An issue causing Tank Brann’s level to not properly increase beyond 50 has been resolved.
  • A particularly nasty trio of Hobgoblins appearing in Delves is now a duo of Hobgoblins. The other one went for a swim.

As always, thank you for your feedback on this and all concerns. We’ll keep monitoring and playtesting and working on it.

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Fiiiiinnnnnnallly.

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so is he worse now than a week ago before the nerfbat, or better

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That’s funny. These guys were a pain to deal with, but it was fun blowing all cooldowns and utility to take them down before they could one-shot.

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Thank you!! <3

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He didn’t remember to look for a bubble to get some air.

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Looks much better. In the future if you want to avoid upsetting players, try a more gradual adjustment, rather than a huge overcorrection that disrupts everything, followed by walking it back later.

It’s the shock of a sudden huge change that gets people upset more than anything.

Thank you though for keeping us updated.

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Can we get some actual class tuning too?

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YaY!!! Thank you :slight_smile:

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Figured they walked back some of the changes, also is Guardian Spirit interaction with Brann working as intended? Because it doesn’t bring him back up from 0%.

Also, not really too crazy about the hobgoblin change.

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still worse but thats not a bad thing he was broken before.

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Favorite part is the “buffs” to Brann wont be noticable in day to day gameplay but because its a “buff” people will rejoice lol

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I’m a rage filled mut, i’m always angry

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What if, hear me, we buffed his damage done in his damage spec so that it’s comparable to using him in healing spec.

Literally 90%+ of delves run in Season 1 were healer brann for a reason, his damage spec is terrible. Same with now in season 2.

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Now, if you could stop Healer Brann throwing his healing pots high out of reach in underwater Delves, things would be golden!

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Im a bit busy but im gonna try to hop on and see if Ancient Teachings is registering properly as well.

I can do it without the heal from Crackling Jade Lightning, as i have been, but if it works it means i can take more risks!

Didnt think the hobgobs change was necessary either

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Thanks Kaivax.

:+1:

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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good, no more brann tank bad posts.

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This is a big one.

This helps a lot.

:+1:

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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I hope you replaced him with more Friend of a Friend goblins. Those are so fun.

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