I just completed Spiral Weave T7 on my Destro/Hellcaller with a 573 item level. Died twice at the very end trying to sort out CDs and positioning but it was still a good run.
So, I’m curious what any of you have been able to do in terms of item level to delve tier. I know there are people much better than me in this game but I am pretty proud of being able to pull this one off.
Also, I used Brann as a healer and it seemed to help with the increase in content difficulty.
as a tank i do the same thing i tried the dps on tier 6 fungeral one got to check point swaped to healer had more fun with living then relying on DS for my heals
I pull or paralyze the annoying mobs like the slug with AOE fear. Some just hit harder than others. I’ve found focusing on the caster minions to always be best since they have lowest health pools and hit harder. When it comes to bosses I provoke them and then let Bran get agro. I’ll fight the boss but hold off when Bran begins losing agro. He doesn’t taken any damage from boss abilities it feels like compared to us getting one shot.
When it comes to the enhanced mobs I’ve noticed that they all don’t agro if you pull just one so I’ll take them out one by one and not have to worry about just getting DPS’d down in a second depending on the mobs empowered.
Bran DPS is honestly insanely better than heals. There’s a lot of annoying mechanics that do one shot later on that health potions wouldn’t prevent so just bursting down the mobs and having Bran agro is better. IMO.
lol that fear hurts also lol
I cleared 8 on the first try with 582. Haven’t yet failed any.
Yeah I play on a warlock main, and switched him from heals to DPS and it went much more smoothly.
Yeah I actually got one shot by it in t11. Didn’t realize the increase would be THAT much lol.
i notice that on tier 5 lol grub left got hit with the fear got hit for half damage i was like what hit me lol
This appears to be the best strategy, especially if you are going solo DPS. Brann doesn’t fall over to single attacks and does ok damage had he levels. Don’t sleep or using and abusing Brann people!
You just avoid so many mechanics with Bran DPS. Some are unavoidable like the mini Candle King. The hardest part is just getting to the boss in some delves. If Blizzard ever nerfs the damage he can take or agro I think a lot of people are actually going to start struggling in the higher tier ones… like me. Some boss fights are absolutely dumb.
dumb as in easy or as in hard
easy one would be the first delve you ever do
Hard. One mistake and you die. The fungal one is brutal because you pretty much get one shot by every boss ability and spores.
This is just my experience but every class I felt was miserable going through Torghast is kind the same miserable with delves. My experience on DK and Monk is just so much better than my Hunter (pets get wrecked) and Rogue.
i die 2 times to that boss on a tier 6 was my bad got hit with the bombs lol
i had to kit him to the edge and fight there much easy then dodging 2 things at once
The thing is Bran doesn’t activate the spores so you just… don’t fight besides pull the boss.
at first i thought he did while running in the middle of that spores lol
I’ve cleared through 6 so far, just haven’t felt compelled to try further yet. Also I feel like tanks get different scaling, I was taking quite a bit of damage as unholy, then swapped to blood and set it up, and was somehow taking like twice the amount of damage from the same abilities, swapped back to unholy and cleared through the rest fine.
I’m actually trying to clear tier 2 of Zekvir right now and yeah there is no cheesing it. Bran is not as helpful in it and it seems only tanks can actually do it for now until higher level gear.
I managed to clear T8 Fungal Folly at item level 577 as prot. I wiped on the boss 3 times and had to get smart with kiting him back and forth on the top platform.
I keep bran as a healer because if i miss interupting a spellcast I get chunked for half my health most of the time. It has helped me learn to alternate pummel and spell reflect better though.
I cleared to 7 at 589ilvl augmentation/chrono spec then my raid started so didn’t get to try an 8 yet.
Had no real issues at all, the only time I almost died was when my engineer tinker backfired and dropped my health to like 1%.
Damage feels super overtuned in T8 Delves. I’m 597 enhance and I struggle to kill a lot of enemies without Brann tanking and a lot of CC/kiting. Stuff just hits so damn hard, one mob will crit melee for 40% of my HP so it’s a tedious process of single pulling enemies, having Brann take initial aggro and hope he does enough damage to hold it long enough for me to survive fighting it. I don’t know how a DPS class with minimal self healing would ever get through some of these mobs.
Cleared a 7 nightfall sanctum as a 567ilvl havoc DH, but I died 6 times before I cleared it and got no reward.
3 of the deaths were to this same caster mob that crit me 