612 ilvl Fury Warrior - I’m able to solo all of the T11 Delves with no issue, was able to do Zek’vir ? difficulty at ilvl 595, however, even with the hotfixes yesterday it is nearly impossible to solo ?? difficulty as melee due to the eggs spawning and then Zek casting cone effects at max range which means you must have heroic leap up (or other big movement cd) or you die. However, 3/4s of the time, if you have to stop dps on the egg to avoid his cone abilities you miss the dps check and the spider spawns, which still one shots me. The enfeeble spite and bulwark ability timers is a noticeable improvement but personally as a Warrior they still do not have a large enough gap. The only way to counter both is to spec into Charge removing movement imparing effects, heroic leaping out/charging back in, or charging the egg IF its up. Because there’s a 30 second debuff on using this ability, there are times where you do not have a Brann dispell, charge removal, or Pummel unless you want to let Zek get a regeneration off. Either Brann’s dispel cd needs to be lowered, Brann needs to be able to interrupt in healing spec, or Zek’virs timers need to be further adjusted.
Additionally, DPS Brann is broken in this fight, where as I actually experience a dps loss if I change him to dps spec. He literally does nothing. Brann in dps spec should significantly change how quickly the eggs die but that’s not the reality. When “adjusting” Brann’s threat generation on this fight it is my guess that something else was broken.
The fight is tuned for every DPS spec to require Brann in healer spec, so Blizzard isn’t really going to care that DPS Brann feels useless for a DPS spec (though he should be doing more damage for tanks and healers).
It’s definitely not overtuned now. I managed to finish it pre-nerf about 20 minutes before the hotfixes hit last night. All of the points you made are frankly skill issues.
Brann will always get every other dispel as long as you don’t allow yourself to be feared or stunned. Slayer’s 30-second snare removal on Charge is more than enough, but if for whatever reason you get caught out then Avatar via hard-cast or Odyn’s Fury will also remove it. I was able to actually hold Odyn’s Fury for most of the first phase because I didn’t need it for egg DPS and it served as a useful emergency snare removal while DPSing one P1 egg and one P2 egg.
Watch the timers so you know what abilities are queued and don’t just mindlessly rush the egg as it spawns if Claw Smash is available. The web attack on the egg also does nothing because you can just switch sides.
Use Amorphous Curio rank 4. Farm it with alts’ bountiful keys on T8 if you don’t have it. Reset the fight if the small buff procs on pull, as you want the large buff for the 12% damage increase.
EDIT: You may also want to consider changing up your talent build, as the standard raid cleave and m+ builds don’t quite bring enough to the table. Specifically, running a hybrid build of Spear + Onslaught with its capstone + Odyn’s Fury gives you enough on-demand burst to help with eggs, and Anger Management easily beats out Reckless Abandon on this fight due to being able to get Recklessness for nearly every egg (or use it to get additional damage onto Zekvir between eggs). The choice between Frenzied Enrage and Powerful Enrage can normally be a personal one, but Powerful Enrage is superior on this fight due to the egg requirement combined with Amorphous’s additional 12% damage. Loadout 5 on my armory is an example of some of those changes.
Amorphous Curio also boosts Brann’s healing. One could say the fight should be tuned for any curio combination but that’s clearly not the case; Amorphous is a hard requirement for the fight (though resetting to get the large buff is optional depending on the player).
I wish Brann would stop tanking the for every time I pull ?? Zekvir.
Without fail, he’s standing in stuff that is hurting him and I don’t have time to revive him. In the time he’s down, usually taken enough damage to use bubble/LOH, but when he dies a second time, I don’t have CDs to keep myself alive. It’s super frustrating.
After the dps check nerf this is doable on priest with an ilvl as low as 590~, “??” difficulty.
You’d want more than that obviously, but just limit testing it rn that’s as low as I can go and still do it.
The first few days it was bugged and significantly easier than intended. Then it was hard extremely hard but manageable for most dps classes until yesterday, when they nerfed it heavily.
I did it earlier today on my UHDK running with healer Brann. Besides stupid RNG on the egg placements and Brann insta dying over and over in P2, the fight really just boiled down to “can you kill the eggs”. This wasn’t even in the realm is as fun as mage tower was originally.