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I soloed this 4-5 hours ago as a 590 Brewmaster Monk, on live servers post Season 1 starting.

I pushed one delve up to level 11 and after completing it, did the T12 and T13 Zekvir fights - it took me 4-5 attempts solo, but i've since tried it again a few minutes ago and it took 10-11 tries, mainly due to RNG on ability queing and Brann targeting.

The delve chest at the end also dropped a Void Skin unlock item for the Delve Dirigible.

At 590 ilvl, the boss 1-2 shots most tanks, and Brann does most of your damage, but as a Brewmaster with some good RNG it is definitely possible.

I've added a screenshot of the mount skin and achievement.

Комментарий от MistwalkerAkuji

UPDATE - 13.09.2024 - Post Hotfix
A recent hotfix to delves has suddenly made this fight insanely out of reach for me. Zekvir now slaps Brann into another plane of existence almost immediately with me shortly behind! The scaling on delves in general is strange and this hotfix doesn't feel quite right either, so right now I'm convinced there will be further adjustments or this boss isn't supposed to be possible until Brann hits max level. I will keep updating with further attempts!

If you want to just see the boss's abilities, then my video is still useful. The general tactics will remain the same, it's just very very hard to survive his damage when Brann isn't tanking it all for you.

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OLD - 11.09.2024 - Pre-hotfix

Earned this today as an ilvl 596 Unholy DK, my strategy was to let my level 18 Brann (4/4 Idol of Final Will + 4/4 Amorphous Relic) solo the boss while I stayed alive. That's not even exaggerating too much either, Brann did 64% of the damage and his devilsaur did 14% - so I contributed the remaining 22%.

With such low gear the fight is quite RNG dependent, Brann's Final Will timings had to line up with the eggs spawning or I would not be able to kill them and it would be really hard to recover. If you're struggling with this fight I recommend taking the first phase slow and saving your CDs for immediately after he finishes channeling "Black Blood" at around 50-60% HP.

Unholy DK is great for this fight because as long as you kick his heal you can always use Anti-Magic Shell to prevent his poison from applying. Brann will sometimes use his kick too and I always saw him use it very quickly, so if the cast gets to the half way point you can assume he isn't kicking the cast. If an add did spawn I tried to use stuns and death grips to stop its casts, however if the add got a cast off in the second phase I would almost certainly die.

EDIT: Something I forgot to add, I have /petattack bound to my Scourge Strike and this seemed to help with getting Brann to hit the eggs (might have just been the devilsaurs) so if you are a non-pet class maybe using a /petattack macro could be useful!

What is the strategy to beat Zekvir?
Unfortunately my recording software was disabled for my first kill, but I did it again and recorded a much cleaner attempt. The only consumables I used were Flask of Alchemical Chaos and an Algari Healing Potion (both silver quality). The video shows the strategy better than I could write out in a comment. It is honestly very simple when compared to the Mage Tower fights in Legion and Shadowlands, it is just gear checked pretty hard especially at this point in the season. If you really want the void skin for the delver's dirigible I think this is going to be quite easy to do late into the season.

Added a video of my second kill with highlighted strategies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh47N9tHWqk&ab_channel=NoHanzo

How do I unlock this delve?
I believe it was officially announced (or it's at least listed on WoWhead's guide here: https://www.wowhead.com/guide/the-war-within/achievements/glory-of-the-delver) that you have to clear every delve on T11 to unlock this one. I can confirm that is definitely not true. I cleared every delve on T3 and only Earthcrawler Mines up to T11 as I believe it is the easiest one. No shade to the author of that WoWhead guide, that was written with the information we had at the time of its publication and it's clear Blizzard has changed their minds or there is some sort of bug.

What Brann build did you use?
DPS Brann with 4/4 Idol of Final Will and 4/4 Amorphous Relic. These were the only 4/4 curios that I had going into the fight and I think I got very lucky because they feel incredibly strong. I thought you could upgrade the curios by collecting multiple lower level tiers, but I now don't think this is true. I got both of my 4/4 curios from T8 bountiful delves (Zekvir dropped another on the first kill).

Комментарий от Tmyx

Killed it after 18 attempts as Fury warrior, Let Brann do most the stuff and then just kick the heal.
Never kick spittle, You can use any spell that removes movement impairing effects to remove the debuff.

Brann is a bit annoying when he gets feared out of the room and he resets the boss =)

Комментарий от NokoFace

Strats using Brann as a DPS and Idol of Final Will are very accurate, but if you're here wondering if you're doing something wrong: Very likely no. It is still EXCEPTIONALLY RNG reliant. All the way down to even Brann and the boss's positioning. If Brann doesn't cast idol during the egg sack? Death. If Brann is standing out of LoS of the egg and he casts idol? Death. If the Boss is standing between Brann and the egg? Death. If Brann gets feared during the idol cast? Death. Hell, I've had Brann - for some reason - disengage to the side mid-cast and COMPLETELY whiff it when it would have hit dead on. Success or failure relies on Brann's positioning. It's also entirely possible for his AI to flip out during phase 2 and *repeatedly* run into multiple brown swirls on the ground and kill himself.

Комментарий от Kayzon22

Solo'd today as a 602 at the time hunter. Had my level 24 Brann as DPS with Unbreakable Iron Idol (1/4) and the Amorphous Idol (1/4). As every above is saying it was VERY RNG dependent. I always opened with misdirecting to Brann, and about 10% of the time it worked. After that then I just started my DPS rotation. The claw slam DOES go through turtle, so just have to save move speed CDs for that. Once I got to the 15% to 20% HP range was when Brann on bad RNG would die, but my pet would be able to tank using the defensives I'd been able to save with Brann tanking, otherwise a base auto would 1 shot my pet for typically over 5 million damage. Even with the RNG dependent runs, it was still a blast.

Комментарий от Lemayu

Here is my POV of soloing this on my 598 Brewmaster monk with Level 24 Brann

youtube.com/watch?v=XF-YeXXmYBc&feature=youtu.be
(I can't link the video because I'm a new account)

Main strategy I used was kiting the boss away from Brann to not get him feared. Diffuse Magic myself and Tiger's Lust Brann to dispel him. While spam healing him. It took me 30-40 attempts and a bit of good rng to get. Don't give up!

Комментарий от Nightrez13

Ummmm... i just solo'd this dude in his lair and killed him. I did NOT give me the let me solo achievement it just gave me the defeat him in his lair feat of strength... not exactly sure what i did wrong here...

Комментарий от Tandefelt

This achievement is much harder for certain classes. I did mine as a 594 evoker, and it was really painful (12/09/2024)

the fight with zekvir is higly dependent on rng (brann is a !@#$%) and you need a way to dispel the dot.
For Evokers. deep breath was my only option.

Tanks, dks and some classes with immunities make this fight much easier, altough still really really hard. With my evoker, it was super hard and felt really good to beat.

Use final will for brann, it does big dmg to adds.
Save bloodlust and big cds for phase 2. Dodge everything. Interrupt the heal and burst down the adds. Do that over and over, and you'll eventually luck out!

Комментарий от Exiled999

Delve location since no one else has said.

/way #2255 33, 76

Комментарий от Tristepin

Just did this as a 598 Herald of the Sun Ret paladin with a 33 Brann using 4/4 Final Will and 2/4 Amorphous.

Just wanna reiterate what other people have already said, this is a very RNG reliant fight, hardest part being the adds if one of them spawns it makes it significantly harder to recover and kill the boss.
Brann does great dps but you can't really count on him targeting the eggs, sometimes he pretty much kills them solo, sometimes he never hits them.
Final will does a lot of damage but in my experience, most of the time Brann will either get feared before getting it off or he'll jump on his gryphon before the cast ends causing him to almost always miss the shot.
The dot is quite easy to deal with as a paladin, you can just remove it with freedom and if you precast it, it prevents the debuff from being applied, made a /target Brann macro to cleanse him as well and have him take less damage.

Also, the void dirigible drops from one the chests in the end, not from the boss or the achievement, so don't be an idiot like me and hearthstone out immediately after killing the boss or you'll have to do it again.

Комментарий от Scythe101

Just completed this, unlocked all the achievements while solo... And the Void mount hasn't unlocked :(

Комментарий от Trapalt

Whatever hotfix was implemented tonight has made this boss entirely undoable now. Prior to 9 pm est he was tankable through Brann and mechanics could be done. He is now 1-2 shotting Brann. Not sure if this was intended but that's pretty horrible feeling.

Комментарий от Rechy

Where is the summon sign! i cant summon him!

Комментарий от kardinal

I think the most important aspect of this which should be known is that this required you to do the Zekvir's Lair at level thirteen. This is not explicitly stated in the description but it appears to be the case.

After the hotfix changes below, this appears to be much much more difficult than before. It is said that Blizzard intended this achievement to be of similar difficulty to the Mage Tower in Legion, which means it is intended to be very very difficult and require relatively high gearing.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/delve-hotfixes-september-12th-damage-and-health-scaling-while-in-a-group-346643

Комментарий от Callmetog

This short guide was made by me before the September 12th hotfixes making this fight much harder currently. Brann is either bugged or nerfed in this delve and is doing considerably less damage to the point he will not tank Zekvir for you if you are trying to do this as dps. That being said, this guide should still work as a general strategy when either you have high enough gear to attempt it OR Blizzard makes the fight doable with lower ilvl again.

BOSS ABILITIES IN P1-

Claw Smash- Frontal Cone, long range, targets either you or Brann, one shot kill.
Horrendous Roar- AOE fear around the boss, does massive damage, can survive with large defensives but if you have reaction time it's always dodgeable.
Enfeebling Spittle- Interruptable cast, does enough DOT damage to kill you but with a large defensive + offhealing yourself you can maybe survive.
Regenerating Carapace- Interruptable cast, heals the boss for 10% of his HP.
Angler's Web- Straight line frontal, if it hits you the boss sucks you in and hits for a massive amount of damage.
Call Web Terror- Spawns a cocoon along the outer walls of the arena that begins a timer, if the cocoon does not die before the timer hits 0, a spider spawns.

Spider Ability-
Web Blast- Interruptable cast, stuns you for 4 seconds and hits for a large chunk of damage.
Spider is vulnerable to all forms of CC.

BOSS ABILITIES IN P2-

EVERYTHING FROM BEFORE
Unending Spines- rocks will begin falling from the ceiling.
The boss will open void portals that teleport you to a different void portal if you walk through one. Easy enough to avoid these, but if you are trapped damaging a cocoon near a few of these and a frontal comes up, it can get hectic.
Blood infused carapace- Interruptable cast, heals the boss for 25% health.

How I did Да я его в одиночку!.. on day 1 of Zekvir's Lair release.

Ilvl 591 Unh DK, my exact strat was this-

Go full ST spec, this makes it much easier to nuke down the cocoons before they produce any problematic spiders. I started the fight doing a normal, non-cooldown rotation to the boss letting Brann build aggro. When the boss summons the very first cocoon, send everything on it. When the cocoon dies, try to use the rest of your damage to nuke the boss to phase 2 before he spawns another cocoon. The boss will get a 99% damage taken debuff, so as your cooldowns wear off this is a good time to regenerate some resources. Upon phasing, the boss will gain the abilities listed above in p2, and it's basically the same gameplay as P1 except there's more things to dodge. Kill the cocoons, if you fail to and a spider comes out, try to kill the spider. You can choose to ignore a cocoon and burn the boss at the end. Just make sure you don't get stunned by a web blast because it can easily end your attempt. You can use AMS as a dk to soak web blast damage + negate the stun, or use AMS on enfeebling spittle when you don't have an interrupt available. Other classes will know how to use their immunities and utility better than me.

This is all I have to add, hopefully this helps you prep for soloing Zekvir and getting your Void schematic, good luck!

Комментарий от Esinar

Edit: As of the hotfixes on Sept 13th, Brann seems to deal significantly reduced damage in this delve and there seems to be some weird scaling and damage issues, making this solo achievement seemingly impossible at this time.
Edit 2: As of the hotfixes on Sept 26th, Zekvir's lair has had significant nerfs. I have updated the info below for accuracy, but the solo achievement is once again doable.

Thought I'd write a bit of a guide/info thread for those who are looking to attempt this.

Zekvir is a pseudo end-boss for season 1 of the new Delves feature introduced in The War Within. He is located in the 'hidden' 13th Delve called Zekvir's Lair, which is found in the western-most section of the City of Threads in Azj'Kahet.

There are two modes for Zekvir. A normal mode, called Tier ? and a hard mode, called Tier ?-?. To unlock Tier ? and access to the delve, you need to beat any delve on tier 8 with lives remaining. To unlock Tier ?-? you need to beat any delve on tier 10 with lives remaining. The Заклятый враг achievement is awarded for beating Zekvir in the normal mode Tier ? difficulty, either on your own or in a group. The Охота на охотника is awarded for beating Zekvir on the hard mode Tier ?-? difficulty, either on your own or in a group. The Да я его в одиночку!.. is awarded for beating Zekvir on the hard mode Tier ?-? difficulty whilst solo only.

The delve itself has no trash or other enemies whatsoever. You walk in, there's a room to prepare Brann, then you unlock a door and Zekvir is right in front of you in the next room.

For reference, on Tier ? difficulty, Zekvir has around 81M health (when solo) and has 5 abilities.
- Angler's Web is a narrow frontal cone aimed at his current target that grips you in and deals damage (can be dodged)
- Claw Smash is a wide frontal cone aimed a you or Brann that deals massive damage (can be dodged)
- Horrendous Roar is 15 yard AoE around the boss that deals damage and fears you for 4 seconds if you are in the circle when the cast finishes (move out)
- Enfeebling Spittle is an interruptable cast that puts a 20 second DoT and slow on you that trucks your health. Note - this is a magic effect and a snare, so can be magic-dispelled or can be removed by abilities that remove snares (eg: Warlock Teleport).
- Call Web Terror summons a cocoon with 4.3M health (when solo) that will hatch into a spider if not killed in 20 seconds. The spider will repeatedly cast a 5 second stun on you, which is interruptable/cc-able. The spider spawns with the same percentage the cacoon had, but has more health overall.

On Tier ?-? difficulty, Zekvir is juiced. He now has 182M health (when solo) and his abilities from Tier ? have been tweaked to make them more difficult.
- Angler's Web cast time is reduced and this will now one-shot.
- Claw Smash cast time is reduced and this will now one-shot.
- Horrendous Roar now deals a significant amount of damage, most-likely one-shotting you.
- Enfeebling Spittle damage is significantly increased and will most-likely kill you if not removed or a defensives rotated.
- Call Web Terror's cocoon has has significantly more health (9.8M health when solo) and spiders now spawn at full health.
As well as the above, Zekvir gains one new ability in Tier ?-?
- Regenerating Carapace heals Zekvir for 10% of his maximum health if not interrupted.

On Tier ?-?, Zekvir now has a phase 2 at 60%. He will run to the centre of the room and start a 10 second cast which also makes him take 99% reduced damage. Once this cast finishes, 2 of his abilities are empowered and he gains 2 new abilities.
- Horrendous Roar becomes Infinite Horror and if hit will fear you indefinitely (you will probably die to the damage anyway).
- Regenerating Carapace becomes Blood-Infused Carapace and now heals Zekvir for 25% of his maximum health if not interrupted.
- Unending Spines is a new ability that causes spines to erupt from swirlies on the ground dealing massive damage, most-likely one-shotting you (keep moving and dodge them).
- Void Portals is a new ability that creates 4 void portals in the room. Travelling into one will teleport you randomly to another (don't get caught out teleporting into a frontal).

-- Note - When solo, the cooldowns of Enfeebling Spittle, Renenerating Carapace and Blood-Infused Carapace are altered to better match available class interrupts.

Good luck!

Комментарий от Xylion3290

Seemed doable but difficult before the delves hotfixes came in. After the delve hotfixes impossible/near impossible, time to wait for another round of "fixes" before attempting this again.

Комментарий от MerokoGaming

So it appears Blizzard really didn't want this to be done yet as the recent hotfixes have made this guy absolutely impossible to solo. I imagine it was intended he only be doable in higher end gear with Bran being max level. So those that got the achievement in before the hotfix, grats on this but for those that didn't it's gonna be a bit of a wait unless they nerf this again.

Комментарий от WillowFae

Honestly with the reactions the team seems to have with successful runs, Blizzard either doesn't play its own game or it bait-and-switched about the entire purpose of Delves and offering a system that casual players could enjoy apart from Mythic and Keystones. That, and offering one NPC that gets nerfed to the floor that holds no aggro for non-tank players is a bit of an oversight and should be addressed (but probably won't be until after Season 1 and the associated rewards become unavailable). This achievement also is a huge imbalanced mess in terms of what class to play and encourages players to play the absolute meta, which is unappealing to a casual and the family-man who has to work to feed his family and still wants to give Delves a try as a means of peace, quiet, and reward. I could be entirely wrong about the purpose of Delves, but the aforementioned was my impression when I saw them.

Комментарий от pens

Hey Blizzard, Let Me Solo Him.

Комментарий от Swordy

Seems kind of #$%^ty that this isn't possible even with full heroic level gear. If you save interrupt for the dot, he full heals. If you interrupt the heal, he dots you which eventually eats through all your defensives.

Комментарий от fscar86

the fact that most classes can not solo him not with max gear is crazy

Комментарий от zapurr

Did Zekvir today after the nerfs. The biggest change being the the webs health was nerfed from 11m and the cast time was doubled. This lowered the needed dps from 1m/dps burst to ~500k dps.
Another big impact is that his kicks are now separated on solo (Poison and Heal).
The other big changes were his health was reduced from 195m to 182m (probably has minimal impact).

The heal is the interrupt. You have to hard kick this, Brann seems to refuse to even was i was trying him as dps. There is no better workaround, this is where your kick goes
However , most classes won't have the ability to kick the spittle afterward. The way to deal with this is use anything that can break you free of snares/movement speed slows (Warlock Teleport, for example) when Brann doesn't dispel it off of you.

Once I got that part down, the rest of it became a dance.

Hug his ass till he casts the fear, go in to avoid the cones. Interrupt Heal. Hard focus the webs. Snare removal. Repeat.

Some stuff can help, anything that can slow his casts (amplified curse + curse of tongues) this gave a brief burst window for a late interrupt.

The phase change has minimal actual impact as the abilities are just as punishing as before, what until he's done casting to pop any cd's.
The thing the 60% 10s intermission does allows you to clean up any webs and build any resources.

I tanked him right in the middle of the room, and continued the dance

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Other things: Brann will almost certainly die--tbh don't worry about him unless you need the health pots he throws. Somehow he can recover himself. In P2, there are some windows you can use to heal him (if you're able to do it while he's out of the fear circle/while he's casting the cone) otherwise, focus up your rotation and win.

I used the porcelain arrow and amorphous relic (both rank 4) -- Brann Lv.42 Healer
iLvl: 615 - destro warlock
Fight Length: 4m 33s
Sustained Damage: 775k/dps (211m damage) (Brann did 44k - 12mil damage)
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Комментарий от Marhault

612 BM Hunter with 4 piece tier and he immediately one shots my tank pet as I walk in. LIke WTF is this, I can't even start the fight.

Комментарий от Nemij

Just did it on Enh Shaman, ilvl 611, 2 tier pieces, @#$% trinkets. Healer Brann, lvl 49, Idol of the Earthmother + Amorphous (it was lvl 1, but still). CcQA6DE2ZxOD3n18X41tWLU5RNzMzyMzMYmZMzwsNsMDAAAAAAAAAAsBwYGDDZBWGN0gFAYbyMYWWMzMzYGzMbYZmZCMWGzMAAzA is the build, standard ST raid. Thunderous Paws is your main save against the Spittle debuff. As we save our kicks for the heal, going into wolf is your main way to cleanse it. Spirit Walk and Wind Rush totem with talented Jet Stream are there for backup.

Concentrate on dodging and baiting his cleaves and fear aoe, especially when the egg is up. You don't want to bait it into the egg (sometimes that still happens cuz Brann) or get locked in a corner with the egg, Zekvir and fear aoe. I've also noticed that the pattern aoe -> cleave causes a bug when the animation for the cleave will not show until very late, keep your eyes on his cast bar and always be prepared to dodge. Your Brann will die, sometimes randomly. DO NOT try to rez him even with Earth Elem, just play safe and wait for him to rez himself back. I honestly think Enh is a very good pick to try this achiv on. Gl!

Комментарий от Smrnd117

Just soloed at 611 as a Windwalker monk, lvl 37 bran as healer with porcelain arrowhead idol 1/4 and time lost relic 1/4.
Biggest piece of advise is waiting to see if bran dispells you or not so you can save whatever you were using to get rid of spittle. Tigers lust and diffuse magic are monks two best friends here. there seems to have been some nerfs to the spider spawns because they were not even close to hatching especially with CDs. If you can make it to 60% for P2 you basically have the fight its just a matter of learning "the dance" and having no unlucky placements on his casts.
4pc and intelect healing trinkets (that did a lil dmg but not much).
Talents for those curious.
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Комментарий от Medolinette

Tips for mages:
ONLY kick the heal, you can remove the magic dot with your Energized Barriers
I did it as arcane with Bran healer (you dont lack damages), porcelain & amorphous

Everything is one shoting so dodge, try to adapt ur defensives
I recommend lusting pot CDs etc during P2 (P1 is kinda easy now, so burn the boss in P2)

And that's it, good luck !

Комментарий от Dahid

Very easy now, did it as a fire mage after the super nerfs. Doing ? mode was harder than ? :D

Комментарий от Poggywoggy

If you didn't loot the Чертеж дирижабля для вылазок: Бездна from chests after defeating Zekvir, it should be in your mailbox after few minutes.

Комментарий от Orthane

This fight is now impossible for nearly every spec unless you're in full Mythic Raid gear with full BiS. He hits way too hard and there are too many interrupts. Since they nerfed Brann's Interrupt CD a while back he only interrupts once every ~45 seconds meaning even as a melee class it is impossible to hit both the Enfeebling Spittle which deals over 1 million damage a second for 13 seconds, and his massive heal. This company is so bad at balance, Delves in general are still poorly tuned and way too hard for most classes because of how much health and damage everything does, but this achievement is now impossible for everyone unless again you have full BiS Mythic Raid Gear. Gj Blizzard. "Solo content" btw.

Комментарий от Eloderung

Downed him after the nerf/buffs/whatever state he's in now (9/27/24). Here's a video of the kill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbEuyDHUme8

Definitely doable, at least for classes that have a toolkit well-suited for his abilities.

Some information about the kill:

-My Brann was lvl48 heal-spec, using a maxed Porcelain Arrowhead Idol and Amorphous Relic. I liked the +health proc from Amorphous to lessen the RNG from melee crits, but I didn't intentionally wipe it if it rolled the wrong way.

-100% of my gear is from Delves / crafting, so you don't need to over-gear it to down it (at least on a paladin). I am not wearing any crafted gear higher than 606, nor am I using any crafting embellishments.

-Herald of the Sun Retribution spec, ilvl609 average (talents and gear are shown toward end of the video).

-It took less than two hours to kill him. There is some RNG involved, but between Sun Templar's ranged capabilities, burst mobility, and utility it wasn't too bad. Positioning to try and avoid a wide cone on the hatching eggs was a big part of getting it consistent. Occasionally he would start healing at the same time as eggs, but that only seemed to happen certain attempts.

-Melee crit RNG was probably the worst, but it was extremely rare that I'd run out of Brann potions. Especially in phase two, Zekvir spends a lot less time doing melee so it's much easier to survive in case that helps anyone plan out a kill.

-I'm guessing it might be extremely hard for certain classes/specs to tackle him. Paladins have a really strong toolkit for it right now. But on the other hand, there's a ton more optimization from gear possible before this season ends from Delves/crafting/crests alone.

Комментарий от Stabber7777

Finished this today as a Archon SPriest at 613 ilvl. Have a few tips for you fellow priests that might be having problems or might think its still impossible. Took me about 40 tries and my final kill end dps was 760k and a 19 MINUTE FIGHT

Both Phantasm (freedom from snares upon using Fade) and Last Word (15 Second CD reduction on Silence) are almost required as you will run out of ways to dispel the dot and not have your CD up fast enough to kick the heal. Other than that I would recommend a more ST build with access to MD and Disperse (obviously) as they can be used in an emergency to dispel the dot incase you use fade incorrectly. I would also say stay closer to the boss most of the time if you can as since you are slow you will die a ton from waves if you arent in the right place. If you can survive otherwise I'd also say to use VE over the leech option as it will help keep Brann up a lot however he bugs a lot after dying and insta respawns at full HP which helps a lot however he isn't necessarily needed especially in the 2nd phase.

Комментарий от FlasKamel

I got it on my fury warrior today! ilvl 613!
I used rank 2 potions, weapon oil, and ate some food.

My tactic was basically this:
- Only interrupt his healing ability.
- To get rid of the poison you can use Escape Artist, Charge, Heroic Leap - a lot of stuff!
- Save CDs for the webs you can attack.
- And probably the one that saved me: Don't go to those webs before he's cast that huge white spell. You barely have time to get out of it if you're far away from the boss, so if he's far from the web mobs, just let him cast it before you nuke them.

It has a second phase where you basically just have to avoid standing in stuff. It doesn't fill the whole room, so you can get away from it to get a better overview.

There's still some RNG. Brann can be super usefull, or super useless. And while the boss usually casts the same spells in a specific order that's not always the case.

Bonus: This is easily the best feeling I've had in WoW, my first "accomplishment."

Комментарий от irishcoffee

Got it tonight after a good few hours at it as a Frost DK. 608 ilvl with 4 set and @#$%ty trinkets. Bran was set to healer with porcelain and amorphous just as others suggested.

Went with Obliteration build and Rider of the Apocalypse hero talents.
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Picked up strangulation for a back up stun on the spiders if one broke out.

Made sure to alternate anti-magic shell to avoid the dot (praying Brann would remove the other) and interrupted only the heal. I'm sure you could use death charge to remove the dot as well but i saved it to make sure I got out of cleaves and fears. Focused webs and if one happened to get out made sure to have icebound available. I also used strangulate and death grip to delay the cast as long as possible, especially if they were low enough to cleave down.
If you use frostwrym's fury at the start, it should come up at good times to get the webs. I'm sure you could greed with lichborne for fears but I played hella safe since with my ilvl he chunked me pretty hard.

It does sometimes feel like this fight comes down to good RNG (what with Brann sometimes being useful or useless) but keep persevering!

Комментарий от Heishin

Did it with 610 ilvl , 2 tier pcs Windwalker Monk (Shado Pan hero talent) with lvl 47 Brann on DPS after the nerfs.
For me it was way easier with Brann being a DPS because I didn't depend on being lucky getting dispelled by him instead of his monkey, rather I could depend on him interrupting the dot cast when his interrupt was not on CD (also he did a bunch of damage).
Note: Brann WILL NOT interrupt Zekvir's self-healing cast, so you have to do that.

Комментарий от DreadMesh

Just did it as a ret paladin 613 ilvl with 4 piece, took me 7:30 mins

brann at level 46 as healer with porcelain arrow and amorphous

most important thing is only use CDs to kill the add, interrupt his heal only and you can dispel his poison with freedom every single time. Good luck!

Комментарий от Exiguss

For any tanks struggling with this, there is a way to cheese it.

If you tank him at the entrance, inside that little space right by the door, you don't get any adds at all, he tries to spawn them but because of LoS it doesn't actually work.

Guessing if this gets known enough it'll be hotfixed asap, but right now it works. Gotta keep the target circle behind the "tip" of the triangle of the floor ornament by the entrance of the room.
Takes some patience to learn how to deal with all attacks with him stuck in there, and to not have him sneak out when you dodge stuff. Phase 1 is super easy this way, phase 2 takes some practice.

I did it this way at 607 ilevel Guardian, with a level 45 Brann as DPS with Earthmother and Amorphous both 4/4 (Reset until you get the haste/movement speed from Amorphous, the movement speed helps A LOT)
Any poison Brann failed to interrupt I just popped a few CDs and went kitty and back to bear quickly, and just kept my own interrupt for the regenerative carapace spell.

Комментарий от Skjaldarwulf

Just cleared it as a 611ilvl 2pc Arms Warrior with 25% haste (I main Prot), wielding a 619 Befouler's Syringe. Final attempt took 6 minutes 57 seconds, and healer Brann died twice.
Once I found out that the Poison DoT can be removed with Bladestorm and Avatar, I saved both of those skills for that purpose, as Brann's cleanse has a 1 minute cooldown, and interrupting both it AND the heal is impossible. Other than that, I focused the egg when I could, using Sweeping Strikes for a bit of extra damage on Zekvir, spell reflected as many fears as I could in phase 2 (can't reflect the fears in phase 1) and tried to keep the potion HoT at 4 stacks as much as possible by staggering when I picked them up. Brann dying was a scary part, but using Die by the Sword when he starts meleeing and otherwise just avoiding his attacks kept me alive until Brann came back by himself, trying to rez him was a complete no-go as the cast time is waaaay too long.

Комментарий от Monarchopsis

General guide to beating Zek'vir on ? difficulty:

1. ALL your DPS cooldowns should be on the cocoons, if you are not comfortable with being able to kill them quickly enough. Try to get a feel for how much you need to kill them, so you can split your cooldowns to deal with alternating adds. Zek'vir does not have an enrage timer, so slow and steady DPS on him will still work. Cocoons/adds MUST be killed. Number 1 priority.

2. Do not interrupt Enfeebling Spittle. If you can dispel Magic effects, then dispel it - MUST be able to dispel Magic. It is NOT a poison. Enfeebling Spittle is also a snare effect, so if you have skills or talents that remove snares, use them after he hits you with it, to remove it completely.

3. Interrupt Regenerative Carapace/Black Blood Carapace to prevent him healing. This is a must. If it goes off, it's not a wipe - But he will heal 20 Mil+ health.

4. If using Brann as a healer, time your potions. You want to try and remain at around 3/4ths HP minimum, to give you room if you need to alter your rotation on GCD.

Beyond this, it's just dodging his 'Skills'. Good luck.

Комментарий от JimboJamboJombo

I just did this on my 613 survival hunter.

Just a tip for any mages;/hunters (and anyone else who can lust and reset), I noticed that if you reset zek'vir and use bl while you're resetting him then when he comes back you'll still have 20-24ish seconds of lust left and your lust will be reset to use again.

Gl on your kills! c:

Комментарий от Espheros

IM VERY PROUD OF MYSELF!
I did today 29/9 NO BRAN cheese strats and as marksman hunter with ilv 609.
Nothing extra .. just paying attention to everything.. took me like 16 attempts... Because sometimes its just unfair how you get double critted for 3.5m health..

Комментарий от CreativeName

Just did it as 600 ilvl Retri after 50 attempts. Blessing of Freedom is pretty op in this one though the hitboxes and Zervik's 180 spin casts caught me off guard so many times. So happy rn

Комментарий от Jaywalker5266

Completed as a 607 frost mage with the hotfixes. Did try as arcane but found theres way too much moving in P2 for it to be "viable". Did have 4 piece, but have terrible trinkets for a little insight on gear. Some tips:
-Orb with veins on pull, you'll get the most bang for your buck on pull when theres not much going on. He'll always do a frontal followed by the fear at the start so you can plan that for big damage at the start
-Obvious one, but don't forget to eat branns buff food, it stacks with your own food
-Only interrupt heal
-Dispel the dot with Energized Barriers talent/Mass Barrier (Only used barrier to dispel when dot was on me)
-P1 I'm basically on top of Zekvir the entire time, makes moving way easier, just sidestepping his two frontals to avoid using blinks when possible, to save blink for emergency frontals that I can't sidestep (like eggs spawning not next to him)
-If you ever don't think you'll have the damage for an egg I.E. no flurrys, not a glacial ready, no ray you can mirror image so you can full focus an egg or full focus on boss

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-I only used Ray of frost on eggs with a flurry debuff. It will do ALOT of damage to the egg, varied between 30-60%. You will have Ray for every other egg if I recall. Otherwise glacial spiking shattering them.

-I personally saved lust and pot for second phase. If you need lust to burn get through P1 I wouldn't bother because, debatably, you'll have less time and less movement to damage eggs or even hit the boss in general with the three added mechanics being the shadow orbs, moving out of swirlies, and avoiding void gates.
-Many wipes happened on P3 due to dieing to the shadow orbs, my advice is just stay focused and look for the 4 shadow orbs that will spawn next to him. It's a visual at the corners of his model.

-Can completely ignore a spider by sheeping it if you're close to the kill, just know Ice lance might break it with cleave as I don't think the game smart checks CC targets with ice lance cleave.

- Can also try invising/shadowmelding to despawn a spider as I heard that works, but be warned I never tested myself

Brann was level 40 (Used Healer with Rank 4 Porcelain Arrow and Rank 1 Amorphous Relic)

-Used Alchemical Chaos flask, Tempered Potion, Mana Oil and some cheap buff food I had from leveling cooking.

- Took 70ish attempts to get down, a lot of deaths at the beginning of learning how much damage I needed for eggs and then ALOT of sub 20% deaths dieing to the shadow orbs because of not paying attention

As of today they may have fixed the scaling of Zekvir but now the void skin for the mount is bugged, says I need the achievement still. *shrugs*
*Edit: Was supposed to loot the void schematic off his corpse, appeared in my mailbox after awhile*

Комментарий от Sharyat

Completed as a 612 Survival Hunter after the hotfixes to make it so Brann can't tank him anymore. I used buff food, weightstones and flask but all low rank ones.

Used 4/4 Amorphous Relic and 4/4 Porcelain Arrowhead Idol and a level 33 Brann as healer. Had 4 piece tier and used single target talents.

Main strategy I used was to use a misdirect focus macro on Brann on pull, though only hitting it after I had pulled Zekvir with at least one ability myself. Using Misdirect before pull will just cause him to reset the second Brann has aggro. After my opener and Misdirect ended I tended to aggro for the rest of the fight. The most important thing to do as a hunter is know that Disengage cleanses the spittle dot effect, so save Disengage for after he casts that. Interrupt his heal and focus the eggs as soon as they spawn, dodge everything else.

I had my pet taunt off most of the time as Zekvir killed my pet very quickly. I still had the taunt keybound in case I needed it to tank an autoattack to give me time to heal up with Brann's potions.

One specifically weird thing I did by complete accident was nerf his self heal from his carapace ability by half, by using a Bee pet. Any Wasp pet should do as they have an anti heal ability that is always up. It cuts his self heal from 25% to 12.5%. While I still tried to kick every carapace cast I could, I did let one go off by mistake when I switched targets to an egg, but thanks to the random chance I was using a Bee pet the heal was pretty easy to recover from. 10/10, recommend Bee.

Комментарий от Zaarok

Done as ele with this talent setup :
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4p tier 610 ilevel

post hotfix
Most important thing, you can remove the strong dot using the ghost wolf talent Thunderous Paw Громоподобные лапы

Комментарий от jeepguyx

Completed today a Ret. iLVL 608, Level 38 Brann. Took me about 2 hours of attempts. Saved basically everything for eggs, usually even banking some holy power right before just in case I had to move and couldn't get the damage on the egg at first. Fight took a little over 12 minutes with that slow and steady approach. Burned some holy power on Word of Glory for the healing whenever brann got himself murdered or I took a bad couple hits.

Gear : ilvl 608. 2 Piece set, one trinket and weapon are not great.

Brann : lvl 38 Healer. Porcelain Arrowhead Idol and Amorphous Relic

No boss addons / timers. Just have a dps meater, default UI, and technically VuhDo installed for healing but not really in use here. I did this partially because I am stubborn and believe the game shouldn't need addons like this and also to prove you didn't need it.

Before nerfs, I had a hard time even dropping eggs below 20-30%. Now, I was able to do it in a couple hours, which I honestly found disappointing. I had hoped that it would be something I needed to keep gearing to take down. Figured a better weapon, 4 piece bonus, and raising ilvl would get me to a place where I could do it pre nerf. Oh well.

Комментарий от firefly1103

Little tip for bm hunters who want to actually get to use their pets in the fight, get a clefthoof and precast survival of the fittest, this will allow your pet to avoid the one shot and activate their passive, once your pet is hit cast exhiliration to get it back up to full and (at least for me) at this point zevkir will aggro onto you, from this point on it's the same dance on repeat, stay close to him to avoid the cone, run from fear, disengage the dot, interrupt the heal, and use all cooldowns on the egg (you can get away with casting dire beast or black arrow on zevkir every now and then cause of the short cooldown), phase 2 just make sure you stay close to him at all costs, most of my deaths were from just barely failing to outrun the cone or the fear. if your pet dies during phase 2 pray it died right before he casts his channel cause you can revive it towards the end of the channel

Edit: may as well throw in this info. Completed at Ilvl 610, had 2 piece set, lfr sureki zealots insignia and normal wings of shattered sorrow, heroic shade-touched silencer, 2 crit embellished, and 606 sacbrood. Had healer brann at level 27 with rank 4 arrow and rank 2 amorphous

Комментарий от moldgrim

Soloed the ?.? version today as mountain thane protection warrior @620 ilvl. Brann as dps with the aim shot and grow larger/smaller curious.

As a lot of others have said, never kick the dot he casts. Only kick the heals. Should the spider spawn, have CC for it. As prot warrior I had aoe silence, storm bolt, shockwave and aoe fear.

Took approximately 30 pulls. No BL or combat potion used, but it would help shorten p2 (it's intense).

EDIT:
Killed it again, since I forgot to record the first one. Will upload kill video as soon as I am allowed to. https://youtu.be/XCmzoUw4NUE

Комментарий от Kaiyon

Soloed as 617 WW (although it's my offspec) with 4 set, no embellishments, etc.
I think it can probably be done as much lower item level as WW as the spec kind of soft counters the fight.
Talent Diffuse Magic and Meridian Strikes so you have ToD for every other egg, and keep dpsing during the 60% shield to get the CDR from Meridian, otherwise just standard ST build.
Brann is level 33 & healer with R4 Porcelain & R1 Amorpheus. I did try with him as DPS with Final Will instead (this idol does a LOT of damage) but it's not as consistent imo, and playing DPS you should already have the damage for the eggs, which is the only "hard" part of the fight. Well, that and also the boss may decide to randomly crit you for 3.5-4mil melee in a row (I've had my tempo ruined by on some pulls, just RNG). Every time you have to move to dodge abilities, try to take the boss back to where Brann's potions are afterwards. WW also has a lot of self-healing so his melee attacks shouldn't largely bother you unless you're unlucky.

The biggest piece of advice is to honestly be patient & play it safe. If you have ToD then you can just get near the egg and wait out his frontals and then dps it within range.
Save a SEF for every egg you don't have ToD for. I didn't save Xuen for any of them, but I did save SotW & WDP. If you SEF -> SotW -> RSK the egg is at 50% and then you can just dps it while dodging abilities.

The hardest part of the fight is around 30% where he has some really tricky overlaps, so you need to be careful but also don't mess about with the egg spawns. In the last part of the fight you regularly get Spike & Egg spawn overlaps, but there's no need to panic with the Spikes just move around the egg where possible or go out and then back in.

The worst overlap is probably where he spawns the Egg, then uses Spikes, then Fears (watch the orbs they spawn in P2) and then casts his heal. You really need to get the heal. As others have said - don't interrupt the dot, just Tiger's Lust or Diffuse. Brann will often dispel it off you too. I actually ended up missing an egg in the end but I did enough damage that I could just stun the add and kill it before it casts the stun.

The fight lasted 6:41 and I did about 650k DPS in the end, but 12% of that was ToD.

Good luck!

Комментарий от Wowvocate

Not a terrible encounter for warlocks at all.

First, go destruction. Hero talents are dealers choice, but diabolist seemed to have more 'oomph', plus it gives soulburn circle for free (important). You dont need anything fancy in the spec tree, standard left-side build. Shadowburn is your best friend here.

Healer brann obviously, and use felhunter. Porcelain and amorphous for brann's skills worked just fine.

Take amplify curse. This gives an essentially permanent -70% casting speed debuff - tongues lasts for one minute, amplify curse is a 1min cd. Easy math.

If spittle goes out and brann doesn't dispel within two seconds, pop soulburn circle to remove the debuff.

Set a warning for when he's casting his carapace heal and you may be distracted with a cocoon so you can spell lock it.

Last, havoc on the boss when you're burning down the cocoon is literally free damage.

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