I’d recommend anyone struggling with this to take any T8-capable alts into delves and spend their keys to secure Amorphous Curio rank 4. I picked that up today and went back in expecting to do a few practice pulls and then pull for a few hours, popping two flasks, and killed him 2 pulls after consumable buffs.
With regards to Amorphous use in particular, I strongly recommend you reset Zekvir immediately on pull if you get the small buff, as the 12% damage increase on the big buff is make-or-break for killing eggs far easier.
The nerfs are in and I’m pleased to report that ?? Zekvir is now very much doable for a 612 WW monk such as myself. Can still pack a punch or catch you with a massive cone aimed at the egg, but the eggs themselves are MUCH more forgiving and dare I say, finally killable for tanks and healers as well.
True, extending the hatch time alone would be more than enough (for dps at least) and I don’t get why they insist on making everything the same for every role, but I’ll take it, considering quite a few people got it with uber Brann. Still think it’s a very unfun fight, best to forget it and hope the next one will be more thought out.
They really like going from 0 to 100 with their changes. It doesn’t feel very satisfying, but this challenge was doomed from the start if you think about the state of it right after release, so whatever I guess
Just completed it as well, and the RNG variance on ?? still is ridiculous, even with the adjustments.
You’re basically praying for a good lineup, on top of needing to move multiple times as melee out of a frontal that casts in less than a second after it turns to you. And Brann, of course, if basically useless beyond 2 interrupt casts. He was dead 60% of the time.
Absolutely infuriating experience, but it’s finally over.
I tried doing it on my fire mage earlier. Zekvir melees me for a quarter of my health in heroic raid/m+ gear. Also fire mage’s damage profile makes it essentially impossible to kill the eggs. You can either use combustion on zekvir and eventually kill him in some pretend hypothetical world where the eggs don’t exist, or save it for the eggs and then still not have a combustion for every egg. Outside of combustion, it isn’t really feasible to kill the eggs, even if you have full phoenix flames + fire blast charges.
I have seen a video of an arcane mage doing it pre brann nerf, and also before arcane got nerved 7 times, so I guess switching arcane won’t do it for me now.
Just for luls I switched to my 570 resto druid to see how far I could get. To my surprise, much farther than my 612 fire mage. Bran just tanks him the entire time. I got him to about 2/3 hp, but then he healed because resto druid doesn’t have an interrupt, and brann likes to interrupt spittle which you can just laugh at and dispell/heal through if you are a healer.
I guess now I need to figure out whether I should just switch specs for this “mage tower style challenge”, or just give up for now and wait for more nerfs.
Agatha from the legion mage tower didn’t have this problem, because surprise surprise, Blizzard actually bothered to make small tweaks to it depending on what spec you were playing. Agatha barely hits you for 1% of your health, because they know mages can’t heal. Instead, all of the difficulty comes from managing the adds, avoiding meteors, and executing your dps rotation.
Zek’vir, on the other hand, just melees you for 2 million damage per hit. At least I can use my barrier, right? No lol. Have to save barrier for spittle, because you can’t interrupt it, because your interrupt is 30 seconds long, and brann has a habit of just not interrupting anything sometimes because he doesn’t feel like it. I don’t know why I bothered spending an hour trying to progress this when I could have instead spent that time gearing up a blood DK to ignore all of the mechanics and faceroll it. Lesson learned.
I’m having issues where i get crit close to 4m on my hunter. Since the pet cannot tank this fight, I have to be constantly in danger of getting two shotted if I get unlucky. I also cannot rely on Roar of Sacrifice to keep that from happening since it’s only up 12 seconds every minute, along with everything else going on in the fight.
Yep, they nerfed it yesterday. Egg only had 3m hp on ? Instead of 6m. Not able to kill it every time, but was able to deal with the spider if 1 spawned.
They also appear to have completely removed Zekvir’s phase 2 for ?, and his heal.
how? Zekvir just 1 taps my pet with an auto. 2 if i spec No Hard Feelings, but that’s not really enough time to do anything. Brann can tank for a little while, but then you don’t have his potions when he dies, and i don’t see how you could possibly live the autos long enough to beat Zekvir without Brann’s potions as a hunter.
Send the pet in with heal already going and keep that up. If you have to, you have COTW x2 and turtle. And you want “no hard feelings” plus the one that heals more
