Where are you getting your data? Did you try a tier 11 with Brann as Tank??? This is ridiculous.
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The data was Tank Brann (when used by healer) was incredibly broken and trivialized 11s for even characters at 600 ilvl. Brann scaled by being healed and didn’t take enough dmg to make it hard for healers to keep alive.
Tank Brann for dps was never intended and sucked. Nerfs aren’t targeted at that.
So why not nerf player tanks in Delves ?.?.? It was way easier, faster, and more trivial to do a T11 on my 610 prot warrior then on my 622 Pre- Evoker…
What’s more, my tank characters performed that well in delves last season too, my healer got a week.
The real problem is they tuned delves to be too easy this season. This season started with it being trivial to do T11 Delves with Tanks, Healers, and DPS who were all way below the recommended level.
But only the healers get nerfed…… Too many people having fun playing a healer I guess. Can’t have that.!.!
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Making healer life difficult is always the goal for bliz, for some reason bliz hate healer…
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Just attempted a T8 Mycromancer, I’m ilvl 636ish, and well versed in my toolset. Brann is constantly getting chunked, and then constantly getting knocked out/dazed/stun. You have to click him to get him to wake up, but its a channeled spell, which I can’t complete because of mobs interrupting me. Blew all lives, after 29 minutes of wrestling with this. It was fun for a week, now I’ll just go wash socks.
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As a healer, Tank Brann feels absolutely f—ing awful now. His dps is less than 1/3 of what it was last week. This isn’t a nerf, this is ethnic cleansing. He’s so much weaker now, and takes far more damage. Do you actually intend for healers to do nothing the entire run but cast heals on Brann? Is this the vision for solo healer content, doing zero dps while healing Brann fulltime to watch him still do pathetic dmg? Even if you fully devote yourself to healing Brann nonstop, his dmg is still weaker than it was last week, and you have to sacrifice all your own personal dps to do it.
This is not fun. Seriously. That’s it. It’s not fun. Doing Delves now as a healer is not fun gameplay. It’s a boring slog. It took me over twice as long to run a T11 delve today as it did yesterday. Explain to me where the fun of this is?
If the problem is undergeared healers doing this content, why not nerf it by having Brann’s stats scale with player ilvl? Wow that was tough. Now 600 ilvl healers will have a weak Brann, and properly geared players don’t get screwed because of people abusing mechanics.
I’m so damn pissed about this. This f—ing sucks. It ruined what was a fun source of solo content for me. Thanks for nothing.
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I play all healers. I had a single week of being able to do delves in my chosen playstyle, and now I am forced to play either tank or dps to do casual solo player content because why? Yes Brann needed to take more damage, no Brann didn’t need to get nerfed dps wise into the ground. Did any dev even TRY doing 11’s and adjust the numbers, or did you all throw a dart at a board and picked whatever it landed on? Last week was the most fun in Delves I ever had, and one of the most fun weeks in WoW - now I don’t even want to play anymore. I want to play as a HEALER - not anything else. A HEALER. Y’all said nope, go tank or dps or GTFO
Y’all need to do a better job picking your numbers, flat out. Terrible balance pass. Completely took any enjoyment I was having. Thanks!
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Just did an 11 with tank Brann as a healer. He got 1 shot by non elite mobs. Literally 100-0. We have the terrible delve balance swings of s1 all over again. 
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These interns don’t playtest their changes
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Ran several 11s today on two healers.
My disc priest tanks better than Brann. I switched Brann from tank to dps on my disc cause then neither of us really take any damage, whereas Brann dies so fast as tank. Ran excavation site fully with Brann as dps, and he tanks better as dps than tank (thank you fade). Brann required way less healing as dps than tank, and he did a tad more damage, though its still garbage.
Underkeep story today with Brann as tank is awful. Researcher Ven’kex, of course has that interupt, which useless tank Brann can’t interrupt, and as a disc priest… I just have to heal through those massive encasing web blasts, each doing about 1.2million, and throw in a dispel. I switched Brann to healer and it became easy mode, because Brann required zero heals as dps.
A little later in the day I also ran as my mistweaver with Brann again as tank. He is again a paper doll and dies to any group of more than 2 enemies. Those 3 undermine thugs that dash around kill him instantly. And of course, he is again useless on ven’kex, which this time I at least had an interrupt, but had to run into the middle of the void nova circle thing, since Brann DOES NOT MOVE OUT OF BAD, EVER. So again, switched Brann to DPS and just face-tanked ven’kex myself, and only nearly died when standing in wrong place for those frost beams.
This nerf is ridiculous! I actually hate running as a DPS and had a blast last week finally getting able to run through all the delves on my Resto Druid and still occasionally on my Prot Pally.
My Prot Pally is basically unchanged but with the nerf I’m sweating in T11’s with Brann, as many people have said his health drops like a rock and on top of that does not move out of damage mechanics! Was so annoying when I was fighting the Aggressively Lost Hobgoblin’s I think it was, Brann never moved out of their charge ability which was taking him to around 20% health.
Holy crap Blizz. Fix Tank Brann already for crying out loud.
He’s softer than a Fanny Pack full of cotton balls, You should consider changing Brann’s name to Charmin cuz he’s not even 1 ply man!
Seriously
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He’s sturdy enough to handle 11s if you can heal him, if you can’t heal him then use healer Brann as intended.
I was running a tier 7 with a tank brann. he died to the first pull of two enemies while being healed constantly…I wiped, decided to swap him to dps and then i got him to pull the same pull as a dps. he didnt even need healing. he took so much less damage and did so much more damage…they didnt nerf tank brann they literally just made it a bugged unusable choice.
which makes me sad because i already geared all my tanks and wanna delve as healer but until they realize the error it’s just not happening. gonna make less people play healer and make queues go up for everything. its a tumbling wall of an effect. not really solo friendly content if it’s got a massive * on it that is attached to the statement “healers need not apply”.
I don’t want OP, but I DO expect functional…
I guess it might also depend on what level Brann is. I’m running him level 80 and he survives, as Tank, fine at tier 8.
What really needs to be fixed is the love affair between Tank Brann and the Undersea Abomination in Tak Rethan Abyss!
Brann runs around taunting but refusing to attack, and the Abomination (albeit fortunately) does little to no damage to Brann. If you don’t have the Mechasaur EZ Build Kit and the Pacifist Rig (or they don’t trigger) then it’s a long fight of Healer damage and dodging mushrooms.
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So I heal him on my warlock exactly how?
Or perhaps my rogue can bandage him?
Tank Brann is soft dude, it’s a fact! My BM Hunter can handle tanking with pets and using Brann as DPS however such as not the case with my warlock and his pet. Tank Brann got spanked on multiple times on an 11 I ran the other day, and had I used him as a healer I fairly certain I would’ve wiped my first three lives in a heartbeat at the front of the instance.
But I’ll give it a go and report back…
*edit great point on the level of your Brann.
Currently mines at level 60…
You don’t…
Tank Brann is intended for healers. Your warlock and rogue need to use him as a healer or dps. He’s soft with no heals because part of his tankiness is based on incoming heals.
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that’s how the Holy Trinity works.
tank brings the Effective Health.
healer brings the Actual Health.
dps is also there, doing dps stuff or something.
I dont do 11s yet , but I feel tank brann dps is nerfed when he tanks for DPS, not healers.
I think this is intentional.
I do not need him to dps for me , I just need him to hold the mobs for me, so this works out great for me.
I usually clear the delve , then go back and switch to healer for the last boss as I think his dps is even more reduced on elite boss mobs, which I also think is intentional
Tank Brann also has a bad habit of bringing the bosses AOE towards the dps, no Idea why he is programmed to do this, it’s an annoying flaw.
If i am doing awesome dps, I might leave him on tank, but usually switching to healer is the rule for me
Tank Brann’s damage is directly related to how much healing he is receiving, it’s on the tooltip.