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Comment by Xozus

Granted after beating Zekvir on ? difficulty in the first season.

Comment by Exiled999

If you're like me and looking around wondering where the Delve for this guy is.

/way #2255 33, 76

Comment by creassrpm

As a 588 Elemental Shaman ->

I just tried couple times to see cast order. As i understand you have to interrupt all casts and burst the spider cacoon.

Also i used flask - leech enchants to make it easier. That was not a "challange" for me. I was in under-recommended gear and i just did it anyway.

At start ; Blood Lust > Storm Elemental > SK > PW > Burst.
-> Keep spamming Lightning Bolt to reduce interrupt CD.
-> Keep your PW & SK only for cacoon after start. (Cocoon has a high HP and you have to melt down it.)
-> Repeat till %50 HP

At %50 HP ; Earth Elemental > Burst
-> You can use your Earth Elemental to take a break. You can spam Lightning Bolt to reduce PW / Interrupt cds.
-> If you understand what's going on first 1 minute, you can chill now.

At %10 HP : Dodge everything > Burst
-> It's ok. Just burst him and take care for interrupts.

Note : People are playing "Farseer" build but i choose "Stormbringer" . It's really useful to destroy cacoons with side buffs.
Note2 : You can easily tank the Zekvir. We have a lot of defensive abilities to tank it.

Comment by Esinar

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 Nemesis achievement is awarded for beating Zekvir on Tier ? difficulty either on your own or in a group.

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.

On Tier ? difficulty, Zekvir has around 90M health 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 dispelled or can be removed by abilities that remove snares.
- Call Web Terror summons a cocoon that will hatch into a spider if not killed in 15 seconds. The spider will repeatedly cast a 5 second stun on you, which is interruptable. The spider spawns with the same percentage the cacoon had, but has more health overall.

The fight is overall relatively simple in concept for Tier ?. Dodge the two frontal cones. Move out of the fear circle. Switch to and kill the cocoon when it appears so spiders don't spawn. Interrupt the Spittle cast, or if unable, dispell/remove it if you can, or pop defensives/healing CDs to get through the DoT. That's it! There's some terrible overlaps of abilities at some point, so some of it is just about positioning and maybe a little RNG.

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.

Comment by ShanicScrolls

Something to note I don't see posted elsewhere: the spider add, after hatching, is fully vulnerable to CC, tested and confirmed as full CC with Hibernate. I suspect they would also be vulnerable to Fear, Polymorph, Traps, etc.

Comment by Gizmatic

Solo'ed as a 594 Spellslinger Frost mage on 14/09/2024.

Mandatory talent's:
- Energized Barriers: This is how you'll cleanse his DoT as it's considered a slow effect, so only apply barrier to counter this if you can't or miss an interrupt. His melee attacks do not hurt with Brann in healer spec. It's probably preferable to just deal with the DoT this way and bank an emergency interrupt for the adds if you need it.
- Cryopathy: This will help with bursting down adds throughout the fight with Ray of Frost and generate 2 finger's of frost charges specifically for the add.
- Alter time and Master of Time: You must always have a Shimmer available, and the speed boost will help you out if caught in a fear circle.
- Glacial Spike: Use on the add into Winter's chill.

Brann in heal spec with the Time lost relic and the Taunt when low hp. Pick up a Brann Interrupt weakaura and track his interrupt cooldown, he'll use it on cooldown when an opportunity to interrupt occurs, so let him use his first. - wago.io/Wrk3YPb8E , i used this one.

Time warp on pull and funnel damage into him, make sure he stands in Frost orb and its proc's all the time if you can, this'll generate splinterstorms and help damage him down overtime. Use a damage pot when first egg appears and nuke it down.

2nd egg use Icy veins and burst it down with Ray of Frost, use Shifting power on cooldown from now on and make sure Zekvir get's hit with the ticks for splinterstorms, you can shimmer and still cast it if caught in a bad spot.

3rd egg, Use Mirror image and hope for procs, if not interrupt add and kill it quick.

4th, icy veins should be back up or close to, use it on the egg.

By this point Zekvir should be low around the 15-10m region, at this point i'd burst him down with mirror image and the rest of icy veins duration.

if you get a 5th add, just sheep it and kill Zekvir before another add shows up.

Don't panic if Brann goes unconscious and don't try to revive him, use coldsnap if you have to for double barrier.

It's worth making a macro for an instant target swap from when the egg appears, and a macro for /tar Zekvir /Counterspell if you can afford to use it. Have him as a focus target so you can see what he's casting while your attention is on the egg/add.

Happy hunting this Butcher wannabe for the Glory of the Delver meta achievement :)

Comment by dudeman2013

Was and to solo him on tier ? as a fury warrior. Ilvl600 only 2 bis item (belt from normal raid and the sacbrood trinket). Brann was lvl 28 set to healer with the idol level 4 and amorphous level 4 abilities.

It's 100% a mechanics fight with some rng. Dodge cones, and fear, interrupt the poison as much as you can, (I think Brann interrupted a couple times I couldn't hit it). Save a big cd for the add either bladestorm or recklessness/avatar. 4 out of 6 adds that spawned I killed before they hatched, the 1 that did spawn was pretty low health (they will heal a bit if the egg was almost dead and they manage to hatch) I used shockwave to stun and was able to kill it quickly. The last spawn the boss was at 3% and I just focused the boss down.

The rng aspect is where the add will spawn (He dropped one
Inside the entrance doorway once and I was stuck in the small hole) the other is if he'll target Brann or you with the cone. It's pretty nice when Brann pulls it away from you.

Brann will keep you alive most of the time, I only has to use an algari potion once. I had flask, and mana oils, Earthen so permanent haste food. No drums but they would have made it easier. Good luck!

Comment by Ravenhair

17/09/2024, solo'd as a 599 ilvl Devastation Evoker (Scalecommander Hero tree), with Brann as a lvl 36 healer with Idol of Final Will and Amorphous Relic curios equipped. Saved defensives for when a boss cast would go off due to interrupt being on cd and Brann's cleanse not being up. Saved Deep Breaths for the eggs to nuke them down asap, otherwise Fury of the Aspects+cds to full blast on pull. Used Hover charges only to get out of fear circles, just walked out of the frontals normally. I had health pots on me but didn't end up using one, no other consumables used either.

Comment by Frillzx

Solo'd on a 598 demo lock, 9/19/2024

A bit brutal, honestly, but mostly because of my own misplays. Having a 30 second kick meant I was relying on Brann to interrupt every second cast, and sometimes he just didn't really feel like it. The DoT hurts pretty bad, and demo isn't great at swapping targets, so the eggs didn't die particularly quickly. I wiped once or twice to just standing too far from the boss and getting hit by the cone while slowed. Whoops!

Otherwise, not too bad of a fight. The mechanics are simple, and if you just take it slow (and ideally have a shorter kick cooldown than mine), it's very doable.

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