Yet another tank brann rant

Tank Brann has a totem that increases your DPS by like 50% and healing by 100% or something but he won’t use it unless you are near him. That said, it isn’t still for DPS and I have no idea if he’ll even use the totem for DPS.

I don’t really care what you do still. I get that you want to be a lazy turret caster and pew pew pew through an instance while Brann holds everything for you…but obviously Blizzard doesn’t want that.

Tanks and melee DPS have to move and push non DPS buttons to delve. Casters prior to tank Brann do too. Kiting mobs around is part of a caster playstyle and sounds like you don’t want to play it.

Tank Brann definitely has what I call stupid AI. I’ve got a newish healer and I been using him instead of just going DPS with healer Brann who is phenomenally consistent. I’ve delved with all the casters and healer Brann is very easy to work alongside with…but yes, you WILL need to do something more than herp a derp tunnel cast but you’re incredibly safe once you understand how to keep stable with pots and which mobs are more trouble than others. Tank Brann is scared as unholy feces of any kind of ground puddle and likes to WAY over move and thinks LOSing behind objects is pro gamer moves (especially in water delves where he is just nigh unusable). You also lack the way to pump his output via whatever mechanic he has that buffs his damage via healing received.

Also you don’t need forum status to post links. You just gotta do something like put a period in the link in an obvious spot which someone can remove. Someone else has another trick that turns it into a formatted piece of text, but I don’t remember what they said but just posting it as a link and putting a period in the HTTP part is good enough. Future reference.

It doesn’t even work like that. There are plenty of secondary-target abilities, area-effect whatevers, unavoidable damage, etc. that players using Tank Brann have to deal with. That’s how he was designed. It’s the same for DPS or healers using Tank Brann.

Also I’m pretty sure this is not what the OP is trying to do. He’s trying to outrange an AoE ability.

Disagree. There’s not much kiting in endgame content, and Delves are intended to be endgame content. There’s really not much “kiting” in leveling either, as things die before they get to you. Kiting is mostly for PvP.

Yeah this is true. Funny since he takes significantly reduced damage from them anyway.

Brann stays near you in case you aggro more stuff. If you get too far away, he will teleport to you. I guess if you go far away, but not THAT far, he’ll just move toward you? He’s not programmed to know specific boss fights AFAIK, so his main job, besides holding threat, is staying close enough to you to protect you.

If you’re talking about Vik’tis and his Stinging Swarm, I don’t think you can outrange it AND still be in range to DPS the boss. If you’re out of DPS range, it does seem like bringing the mobs TO you is the right thing for a tank to do? In any case, try using Alter Time instead of outranging it. It should be up for every Swarm.