So I downed Zek’vir on solo ?? this morning!! I thought I’d write some tips and maybe we can share some pointers. I know it may not work for everyone, but this worked for me.
- Make a talent tree JUST for zek’vir. There are some things you’ll need you probably aren’t using at all in your other spec builds.
- of all the important talents, you MUST pick energized barriers - this is how you get rid of the slow debuff spittle
- get a weak auras to warn you when spittle is coming - after the horn - use your barrier and off the debuff comes
- use mass barrier talent - with this you get 2 barrier talents to remove the spittle just in case you make a mistake
- dont use iceblock - use “ice cold” because you’ll want to move around when you need mitigation - iceblock tends to lock you in place and when it ends you’re probably standing in bad.
- use master of time talent - every EVERY every time you blink double click alter time to reset your shimmer. this was a huge improv in the fight for me because i always had shimmer on CD with master of time
ok so thats as far as the must do for talents - here are some battle tips
- do not use touch of the magi on the boss after your opener -with one exception - instead you hold touch of the magi for the add that spawns - have it up when that add spawns and you should be gucci - when the boss is at 2 or 3 percent you can magi on him and he will explode
1.(a) - also stack your arcane missles to 3 and only use arcane missle on zek when you have 3 - save two stacks at all times for the ad - you want to be spamming orb and arcane blast on zek - thats your priority dps use until your closing burst when zekkies is low low health. - make a macro to /target zek’vir and counterspell- that way no matter who you’re currently targeting you can spam that macro and interrupt his heal mechanic - tab right back to the add if that’s who you were on
- use DBM - it tells you very time you have to interrupt zekkie
- during the spikes phase - dont worry about casting - but if you must use your fireblast and orbs dont try to stand and case just MOVE YOUR FEET
- when he is doing his FEAR purple circle - run out of it and use shifting power - its a great time because its a long cast for zekkie and you can reset your abilities
BRAN - use his healing spec and - i used COMBAT curio and UTILITY curio - the speed buff (when you get it) is way OP - you move around like lightning.
I also used bear tartar - idk if it was working but i was hoping when i killed an add that my feets would move faster.
For those of you who downed him at a lower ILVL - let me know what you think . I def think my ILVL pushed me over on this fight.
May Aegwynn be w/ you!!