Zekvir the Bootyslapper

Anyone else do the Spiral Weave and have Zekvir drop in an slap you like your momma used to?

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It has 90 million health, and if you attempt to fight it in a group, it scales up to 300 million. The add it summons must be killed within seconds before it hatches, and it has nearly 20 million health. Currently, it is comparable to a raid boss encounter, but I suppose that’s the intention since the quest itself says that it’s unlikely we have enough power to defeat it.

At present, it is completely impossible for most classes; apparently, only Beast Mastery hunters have managed to succeed. I don’t think I have the skill to defeat it yet, and I also don’t believe it’s possible with a Shadow Priest due to our cooldown having a 3-expansion cooldown. I’ll try it in the coming days when I have Brann upgraded and better gear, as 585 isn’t enough for me right now.

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Reported. Following the forum crew. Also this triggers my PTSD.

I had it pop in during a lvl 5 (or maybe it was 6, i forget) delve. And it wasn’t too bad. He flees after you get him to ~50%.

I’ve had his shade show up almost every run but I’ve yet to be attacked by him.

We were attacked by him in a 5.

He one shot the retadin but my evoker finished him off(he flees at like 50%).

I actually managed to beat him solo when he popped up randomly. Now when I entered his lair he proceeded to rip my spine out for thirty minutes until I finally won. Delves have been quite fun so far.

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I don’t think I’ll ever get to him. I did a 5 last night and struggled getting through it, lol. I’ll be happy if I ever make it to 8. Since I don’t do raids or M anything, I won’t be getting fantastic gear to battle delves, but I won’t give up on them…yet. :smiley:

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The bug is actually the reverse, he’s SUPPOSED to spawn 100% of the time whenever you don’t clear an empowered pack. The issue is he’s not actually spawning every time whenever the empowered packs aren’t cleared, or will not spawn after a wipe has occurred when he spawns the first time.

The reason why people keep seeing this happen in Spiral Weave is because there’s a few empowered packs that are easy to skip, all other ones are required. There’s a group typically to the left side when going up the second to last flight of stairs, or straight forward before the final boss that’s empowered that groups tend to skip. Just kill them, and you’re fine.

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Had him pull a Disblo style Butcher and show up my first T6 lol. Was super fun and stupid intense. You actually get some goodies for dealing with him/ his shade on those runs.

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At ilvl 598 I can confirm Zekvir is not soloable with any version of Priest. I have tried all specs of Priest in this fight and with Brann as a healer and dps on over 100+ attempts.
Shadow has been the most successful

My strategy as Shadow has been (Brann level 20):

  1. Focus on killing the first 2 egg spawns (reset if you don’t)
  2. Brann needs to land the first kick on spit
  3. Silence the 2nd spit (this will be during 1st egg spawn)
  4. Mass dispel / Purify Disease the 3rd spit (silence on cd)
  5. Brann needs to land the 4th & 5h spit (during 2nd egg spawn and right after its killed)
  6. 3rd egg spawns and all kicks/dispells are on cd & Brann is usually near death if not dead already.
    ** Killing the 3rd egg is impossible without saved CDs. You can Dominate Mind the web terror, if it hatches, to buy 30seconds but Brann will die from aggro while you’re trying to survive.
  7. Dispersion to survive 6th spit
  8. 4th egg spawns, you’re alone and all hope is lost (silence 7th spit during egg spawn)
    Brann always needs a revive here so he will not interrupt the 8th spit and that’s where it ends

I managed to get Zekvir to 25% (23mil hp) yesterday this way but to finish him would require either Brann being much stronger or maybe having an ilvl in the 620-630 range.

After the hotfix today, Brann’s damage is 20% of what it was yesterday. 60% on Zekvir was the best I could get today after the changes

This fight is class specific. I have seen Monks, Death Knights, and Demon Hunters solo him with low 590 ilvls after only few attempts.

My conclusion is that this fight will never be soloable for the Priest class without exceptional gear (620+) and a max Brann. I now am leveling a blood Death Knight specifically for this fight…

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It’s done! I hope this is helpful.