I’ll do you one better, here’s the full rundown:
First of all, destruction. You could theoretically do it as any spec, but this is the most reliable for getting the cocoons down in time. Felhunter for interrupt - only ever interrupt the heal, not spittle.
Why not interrupt spittle? Because either brann dispels you, or if he doesnt within about two seconds, use soulburn + circle to clear the debuff (hint: diabolist gets soulburned circles for free!)
In the class tree, take amplify curse. Bind this together with curse of tongues for a permanent 70% reduced casting speed on spittle and the heal, which buys you precious extra time.
In the rare instances zekvir isn’t casting something and pops you once or twice in the jaw, healer brann will provide the necessary healing to top yourself.
There’s zero dps check except for destroying the cocoons each time he spawns one. Everything else in the fight is well avoidable and manageable, so its just a marathon of not making a critical mistake like getting caught at the far end of his cone attack.
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Yeah that’s fair, I didn’t think there were as many as there are
I tried it earlier as fury on ??, was getting hit for huge chunks of my health at ilvl 613 by his melee
Mechanics are simple enough, phase 2 fear orbs can be immuned by spell reflect and slayer has a snare removal on 30s cd as well as my gnome racial so the dot is no issue. Got him to 35% but its completely down to RNG it seems having to balance interrupt his heal and killing the web while he puts his one shot on the web like every single time.
Looks like troll mechanics to me 
clearly intended to rage you so I would suggest giving it a few tries and then going to do something else for a while, maybe a few attempts a day. Eventually the RNG should favor you I would imagine. I think this fight would be far easier as ranged because you can actually see what’s going on.
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The biggest offenders for me is the melee crits, repeated frontals on the egg, and the DoT could stand to have a little nerf as well.
I cleared it already, so it’s not holding me back per se, but the melee crit following a dot tick or just a lull in Bran dropping potions to top you up can 1 shot squishy specs. Feels crappy to get deleted on a dice roll. Again, I cleared it, so I’m not really worried about doing ?? difficulty again. I just clear ? diff for some valorstones as I need em.
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Yup sounds about right. Can you farm ? difficulty repeatedly for valorstones or just once a week?
Idk. His second phase basically everything 1 shots you. I wouldn’t call that easy mechanics. That’s like heroic/mythic raiding territory difficulty.
First phase is easier but it’s still very punishing if you don’t know how to avoid his traps. I think it’s more difficult for melee, because you have to race to him to interrupt his heal. Even if he spawns the egg across the room.
Yeah thats what sucks bout being melee, I mean the mechanics are very obvious and easy to understand - they are just BS lol
Oh hell yea they are bs lol.
I lost to ?? Yesterday at 1% because of those damn orbs he fires during the fear, and my camera was messed up from being close to the wall. I couldn’t believe it.
Luckily the next fight I got him as a 509ilvl pally. Many of ret pally’s abilities can be used at mid range, so that helped a lot, but classes that have to be right next to enemies to dps it would probably be even tougher.
You can farm it repeatedly. It also goes toward your vault slots if you need to unlock any of those.
I had that happen a few times too. So close and then catch an orb and you’re done.
Being pinned against the wall makes the fight stupid though. Not being able to see the mechanics happen, but you HAVE to kill the egg. Just a dumb part of the fight.
Dudebro melee’s me like I’m a tank when in dps spec wearing leather. The next worse would be being a clothie due to even less melee dmg reduction. Those 1.8m and 3.8m hits kinda suck… it’s doable but it still sucks.
I mean I am a Tower Ranger so yeah, but most aren’t sooo yeah… ya’know Blizz?
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Did they remove the felhunter?
After they halved the DPS check you can mitigate against this by focusing on dragging Zekvir towards each egg (You see the animation of where it’s going to spawn) and instead of swapping instantly you can pool some CDs / damage then swap once he’s closer so you can still dodge frontals and maintain uptime.
If delves “amaze” you…
what will you call it when the
Venusians make contact?
Quiche is not “amazing”…
and neither are wow delves.
They COULD have been…but they’re not.
I beg to differ
I love delves
Best thing to happen to WoW since remix
You are free to not like them
We all have our own likes and dislikes
The stairs bug out Brann a lot, he will be unable to use his abilities (and curios) if he’s trying to target something up there, which can happen frequently with random egg placements. When using the Final Will curio I got spammed in chat with the “I won’t miss…” because he kept queueing up his ability but couldn’t find the target.
Also when Brann being DPS adds HP to the eggs, can we please work on his AI to actually target the eggs every time? It’s quite frustrating to know eggs wouldn’t be as much of an issue if he just switched targets. I had him on one attempt tunneling the boss during his transition when he takes less damage and there was an egg up. Thanks Brann :*(
Unsure if intended also but I think the eggs and spiders count as bosses because his execute does not trigger until the very low boss threshold 3%.
There’s a lot of RNG in the fight, and while there is a level of skill and perhaps I just need to get better, it feels almost hopeless when it seems like you were doomed if you don’t get decent RNG in regards to - egg placement, if Brann switches DPS, if Brann can target things properly, if Brann can stay out (and not run RIGHT into) fear circles, if he reliably interrupts/dispels when it’s off CD.
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So I took your advice, and did the ? version, which obviously isn’t the hardest version, but I wanted to try it out. Long story short, it made the fight so incredibly easy. It was insanely easier than my previous attempts.
Again, thanks for the information it was really helpful. Eventually when I can solo a 10 I’ll go for the ??.
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That’s impressive, but so? I shouldn’t have to be playing ? Zekvir like it’s mage tower while every other dps or tank is playing it like it’s freaking story mode Ansurek.
I just killed them post nerf. It was much more reasonable than before.
not even close to enough. Lets talk about the horrible AI of Bran constantly standing in things, dying, going down the tunnel and having zekvir reset because of it. Then lets talk about how Zekvir spins while placing cones and the casting time starts right away on it. Then lets talk about the horrible camera angles within the room. This is the most disgustingly undertested and horribly designed fight in maybe all of WoW history. If youre not going to do anything about the things i just mentioned than you damn sure need to do some more nerfs like maybe another .5 second cast time on his frontals.
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Zekvir needs more improvement. My issue with the fight: 1) Acid Spray happens too fast when it procs between all of his abilities; 2) The spider that hatches from the web cocoon has tended to be out of line of sight to notice it. Because the boss is big - obscured it, and in between all other boss attacks that you have to avoid/interrupt. Sure part of the training is awareness and prioritizing attack/defense.
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On a Shadow priest the fight is brokenly easy. That’s not condescending it’s the truth. I beat Zekvir?? with minimal time working on the encounter.