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Comment by Gilganesth

Definitely a reference to the legendary Elden Ring player Let Me Solo Her.

Comment by kjn2day1

If I don't get a Jar helmet, I will be IMMENSELY disappointed.

Comment by kasekuchen

Ok... an achievement with this name better be hard. really, REALLY hard

Comment by Gwyned92

Can We do it now ? or we have to wait for season 1 ?

Comment by Dennen89

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.

Comment by 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.cuckhead.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).

Comment by 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 =)

Comment by 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.

Comment by 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.

Comment by 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!

Comment by 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...

Comment by 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!

Comment by Exiled999

Delve location since no one else has said.

/way #2255 33, 76

Comment by 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.

Comment by Scythe101

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

Comment by 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.

Comment by Rechy

Where is the summon sign! i cant summon him!

Comment by 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.cuckhead.com/news/delve-hotfixes-september-12th-damage-and-health-scaling-while-in-a-group-346643

Comment by 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 Let Me Solo Him 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!

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 Let Me Solo Him achievement is awarded for beating Zekvir on Tier ?-? difficulty whilst solo.

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 cocoon had, but has more health overall.

On Tier ?-? difficulty, Zekvir is juiced. He now has 195M health and his abilities from Tier ? have been tweaked to make them more difficult.
- Angler's Web cast time is significantly reduced and this will now one-shot.
- Claw Smash cast time is significantly reduced and this will now one-shot.
- Horrendous Roar cast time is significantly reduced and 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 immediately removed.
- Call Web Terror's cocoon has has significantly more 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 (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).

Edit: As of the hotfixes on Sept 12/13th, Brann seems to deal significantly reduced damage in this delve and there seems to be some weird scaling and damage issues, making Tier ?-? exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, at this time.

Comment by 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.

Comment by 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.

Comment by 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.

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