“The War Within Season 2 starts on March 4th - And with it, you will no longer be able to obtain the rewards for completing Zekvir’s Lair, the Challenge Delve of Season 1. Below, we’re reviewing all the rewards going away in Season 2 - If you’re interested in any of these, you do not have much longer to grind them out!” - WoWhead
The literal first thing in the article.
Per Blizzard, those items are not going away.
Ah, last minute changes. Blizzard should really give more than a weeks notice on this.
Last week when i put a few attempts in he dies once from 70%-20% Now he is dying instantly over and over with zero up time and no heal help. Ever video i have watched of a kill he died maybe twice not 40 times with zero up time. This is no working as intended
People did read. They were told for months on X/wowhead/forums that this was a season 1 reward only.
They changed their mind a week before patched dropped.
This is currently a known bug affecting even the Delve Intro Quest and is a HARD BLOCK for The War Within.
Which just went on sale.
lol.
I agree with you in regards to Brann being almost useless after the first phase, I would just say the best approach is to optimize the guides and kite around the middle to the best of your ability.
I will note that prior to the patch my Beast Master Hunter was eternally struggling, and after the patch I beat him 4 tries in so the changes helped a lot for Hunter. For non-ranged classes I could see this being far worse when Brann is dead, as being able to damage the egg while dealing with mechanics and heal is a pain.
Unfortunately, the only thing that got me past the second phase was assuming Brann was dead and preparing for each hit and mechanic because Brann will not dodge the spikes, and I don’t forsee him ever doing it.
Last week i had a few attempts in and he wasnt dying to quick in p2, he died maybe twice from 70% to 20% Today he is dying instantly res’ing and dying again lol
He definitely did not lol
I honestly never saw Brann alive in last phase, even at my poor attempts last week. Best case scenario is making him immune to the spikes lol. I feel ya though cause I used him for 95% of my healing. I rationed any and all potions.
If I saw him die, I would pop my dmg reduction the second I saw Zek go towards me.
The only saving grace I guess I might add for second phase is Zekvir was constantly spamming abilities at me. So I spent more time running around than worrying about a melee hit. That didn’t bother me as much as a hunter, but as a caster I woulda gone nuts.
I just did him. Did not notice any difference in Brann’s survivability.
Did not what?
try reading the post I replied to
I agree. Brann dying as a healer within the first 30 seconds is not how this fight was designed. This is broken.
Brann always dies, you need to rely on your own way of dispelling the poison. It counts as a root/snare so anything that dispels that will work. He does rez but I forget how long it takes
At this point ive watched over 100 videos of people getting the kill. In a few of them he dies once or twice. Never is dead the whole fight, something is broken
I did mine last week, as Ele Farseer too. My Brann was dead most of P2. You just have to be ready to face tank Zekvir a bit in P2 unfortunately. Rotate Astral Shift and Bulwark Totem as best as you can, keep ES on yourself always, keep Healing Stream down, health pot.
My fight with him I had to toss a few Healing Surges on myself when he would charge his slams. It’s a rough grind but Brann sucks.
Eh its fine. Every time ive killed Zekky, Brann has died on P2 (i thought it was scripted as such). He melees a lot less in P2 because of all his casting, so a defensive and self heal will get you through until Brann gets back up
I have been rotating the cd’s etc. Hes dying 3 times in p1 for me and just stays dead in p2 bascically. I havnt seen one kill video where this is the case and no im not doing 200k dps lol. P1 only lasting like 2 minutes and get him to 15-20% in 6-7
Just killed Zekvir a few hours ago and got the seasonal achievement + the zeppeling appearance.
Brann does indeed die every single time the boss casts the spike shower. My advice would be to save lust/pots/full cds for the moment Zekvir goes into phase 2 so you can burst him down in like 2-3 minutes.
You can also try saving some of Brann’s potions for when he inevitably dies, but at the end of the day, the whole fight is just a matter of rng.
It’s hard to really be definitive here because we don’t have any real metrics to compare, but I can tell you I’ve killed Zek dozens of times across 8 chars and I did it again today and it didn’t seem at all different. Brann does die a lot in p2 and you can’t depend on him. Zek also does not do much unavoidable damage, so you should be able to survive almost entirely without Brann.