Is it possible to currently beat Zekvir as Evoker? I don’t have much issue with the rest of the mechanics but the poison keeps killing me. Brann will get rid of the first one and I can get rid of the second with Deep Breath, but the third time it happens I guess Branns ability is still on CD and so is my Deep Breath. Occasionally Brann seems to get it the third time but its really inconsistent.
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Are you not using your own cleanse or caut flame, or do they not work?
It is not a posion, it is magic effect…
You can kick it.
Deep Breath removes it.
The main thing you just need to do, destroy egg as fast as it possible and ezpz.
Both zekvir difficulties have been killed by evokers.
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Hmm, ty, will kill Zekvir on lvl 10 difficulty in the next few days, is good idea for my new video, hope he isn’t that hard as I thinnk on lvl 10, easily killed him on level 8 difficulty a couple of weeks ago.
Does he have a faster ability pacing on ??, because on ? with 20sec Quell talent I just interrupted it every time.
On level 10 he has an ability that will heal him 10% of his health, and 25% of his health in phase two, that you have to save your kicks for. You can’t just kick the poison or he’s impossible to kill.
The way I did it on hard mode was hold deep breath specifically for every other spittle cast. If you are in the air with deep breath as the cast finishes you won’t be affected at all. When you cannot clear it with deep breath, stand close to the little dwarf because his dispel apparently has a short range and if you aren’t certain, pop renewing Blaze so that the ticks before he dispels won’t be too much of a problem.
Oh, and primarily save hover charges for when you have to dodge rather than being greedy. Time spiral is a nice emergency button for it as well.
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Yea most of the issues I have are with the poison dot. Brann just doesn’t seem to remove it even if I am standing on stop of him. I took to using the PVP trinket so that I could remove it when he failed and got to second phase relatively often, now my issue is that Brann dies in the second phase and just stops healing altogether.
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Him dying seems to be RNG. I had one time where he died three times in phase two where he would die get up and instantly die again for no reason. The attempt after that he didn’t randomly die and I managed to clear it.
Fighting his AI seems to be the biggest hurdle on the fight because we have no control over it and it can make or break an entire attempt.
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The spittle requires a specific rotation for interrupts / cleanses.
I can’t remember the exact timing but it’s something like this:
Brann DPSing: #1 - Brann interrupts. #2 - You interrupt. #3 - Deep Breath or Cauterize. #4 - You interrupt. #5 - Repeat.
Brann Healing: #1 - You interrupt. #2 - Brann cleanses you. #3 - You interrupt. #4 - Deep Breath or Cauterize. #5 - Repeat.
The problem starts with ?? Zekvir where you can’t really afford to interrupt his self-heal with your cooldowns, and Brann’s interrupt becomes unreliable because he may target the wrong spell. I haven’t beat ?? yet.
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Brann has roughly a minute cooldown and a relatively short range on his clense. I did the same thing you did for my kill. He clenses the first and I deep breath the second. Most attempts was rinse and repeat after that.
But for the third its a bit up in the air as to what happens. Either Brann will clense it right away or im forced to use Obsidian Scales and wait for his clense. It will be delayed if he’s feared, so something to keep an eye on.
I would advise against that on tier ?? because the heal comes shortly after. Otherwise your interrupt would still be on cooldown and the fight is borked.
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Brann dispels spittle with his 30 yards of rope which has a 40 yard range (???) And a 1 minute cooldown. The only other way to remove it as evoker is deep breath, meaning that on ?? difficulty you must hold deep breath for every other spittle and hope brann gets the rest.
Few things.
Cauterize doesn’t work for it (it doesn’t dispel magic).
You can’t afford DPS Brann as an Evoker in ??, you need Healer Brann.
Never interrupt Spittle in ?? Zekvir, outracing the heal would need a lot more gear than most, if not everyone, has at the moment.
Interrupt every heal, deep breath every other spittle, let Brann dispel the ones you can’t breath.
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Just use dps brann so you die to the first 2 melee swings critting you, releasing you from your mortal shell
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Yes, today I fought him in ??, I left the boss with 30% health and Brann died.
I lowered his health into the second phase, he only left 1 egg, apparently ilvl matters a lot.
So, this is how I get it.
- Don’t interrupt the first cast.
- Use Deep Breath on the second Cast.
- If Deep Breath isn’t up, (which it won’t always be) use Obsidian Scales and Renewing Blaze. Hopefully you can survive it or Brann’s dispel cools down.
- Cycle between using Deep Breath to avoid the DoT, letting Brann Dispel dispel it instantly, and using your defensives until Brann’s dispel cools down.
Although, after the third cast, I’m not sure what order you should do what’s described in number four. The order I wrote it in sounds like it won’t work. Idk if Brann’s dispel will be cooled down by then.
The only way to get around having to use defensives is switching to a pvp trinket, right?
I’ve done a few attempts on ?? now and the spittle is cast just often enough to screw you over.
1 Brann Dispel, 2 Deep Breath, 3 CDs and pray for Brann, 4 Deep Breath, 5 You die. And it’s hard to even hold CDs with Zekvir meleeing for 1/3 of your health bar, and you can’t really kite him because the frontal cones will annihilate you unless you’re close enough to dodge.
Unfortunately playing well isn’t enough. Evokers are just not capable.