Hi all, decided I’m gonna go for the mount finally. I have all classes at 80 various gear from 595-620 but assuming gear is close which spec is best?
I’m thinking ret pally for good dps, freedom and bubble if I mess up.
Any other thought, hunter maybe?
I didn’t find it too bad as unholy, especially if you’re around the 620 range it’d probably super easy
Ret and Shadow are probably the best 2
Ret for melee. Multiple charges of freedom makes clearing the DoT trivial, + for a melee it has a lot of ranged attacks and ranged is generally easier in this fight because you don’t have to worry as much about mechanics landing on the Egg.
I’ve heard Shadow is pretty good for Ranged. I don’t play that. I play Ele Shaman. Once I realized the cleanse talent was tied to Ghost Wolf it was pretty cake as Ele. Just can’t use Ghost Wolf for mobility because it triggers the cooldown on the cleanse. But you still have Spiritwalker’s Grace and Gust of Wind and Wind Rush if you need movement.
In general, don’t use Tank Pets / Summons.
Hunter Pets will die. Turn off the taunts.
Earth Ele will live for a bit.
In both cases, all it’s going to do for a ranged class is get you into trouble because cones will target the tanky thing and then you’re further out than you meant to be so dodging it is harder. It’s pretty much always best to facetank this guy so you know where the cleaves will go as much as possible and minimal movement is required to get out of them.
Shadow is probably the easiest. Damage is scaled down for them. Their burst with Voidweaver lines up with the eggs well. Interrupt requirements are based on your interrupts cooldown, so he won’t be trying to heal that often and the damage of his casts is reduced. You can use Fade to get out of all the snares.
Thanks I may give it a go as shadow I need to swap her from healer anyways since I don’t do M+
As mentioned, pets are getting 1 shot. Something quick and ranged would be good. Dont stand too far away. The issue is that the cones spread. So the further away you are, the further you have to run to get out of the cone. So anything you can move quickly with and can dps the eggs are vital. In fact, the eggs are more important. So you want to use cooldowns on them. The boss is just 1 big avoid the frontal and be quick to the eggs.
I second this.
I would say ret, I did it at 607. You got to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, pretty much sums up the entire fight.
BM Hunter
Ret Pally
Ele Shaman
SPriest
How did you even do the T11 to unlock the fight at 607? I’m around 600 and T11s murder me quick, fast, and in-a-hurry.
You only have to do T10
I did it on 607 ret and was so bad Zek healed 3 times and i still beat him
Shadow Priest. It’s not close.
The underkeep one with the 3 guys running around instead of a boss is very very easy to do at low ilvl.
Tank spec, just gather everything up, keep Brann as dps, and AoE like it’s world content and ez win
Thanks for the confidence boost, glad to know even a mistake or two isn’t always instant fail
As long as you can kill the eggs consistently and don’t faceplant into a frontal you can fight him forever. That’s why people can do it with extremely low ilvl, or even almost no gear equipped at all. Work out a rotation of cds / damage resources that kills every egg, and then whittle down zekvir whenever you get chance.
This is what I will say:
Regardless the spec you choose, or your skill as a player…
Mentally prepare yourself to put a good amount of wipes on him. And at least half of your wipes will be unavoidable. Just brush it off and go again. It is what it is.
Brann still makes a lot of dumb mistakes, and the speed in which you kill him WILL affect how the attacks line up, so don’t blow Zekvir up. There is a cadence to the fight.
This just isn’t true. You can put yourself in positions where there’s nothing you can do in that moment, but you can play in such a way that you don’t end up in them to begin with.