Zekvir's Lair Delve Tuning: Nerfs to Health, Damage, and Adds

Live Posted 1 day ago by iMX3

With hotfixes that have just gone live on all realms, we’ve adjusted the difficulty of the Zekvir Delve.

Delves

Zekvir’s Lair
Zekvir’s damage and health has been reduced for both difficulties.
Horrendous Roar is now a 2.5 second cast time for both difficulties (was 2.4 seconds and 2.25 seconds).
Web Terror’s hatch time increased.
Web Terror’s Web Blast cast time increased.
Web Terrors now spawn randomly in the room rather than based off of Zek’vir’s current position.
Spittle and Regenerating Carapace’s recast times now change while solo to better match each specialization’s interrupt cooldowns.
Fixed an issue where Web Terrors would not despawn when the encounter ended.

We’ll include these changes in our next hotfixes update.

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Comment by AkukaThis is nice but just like delves it's so ass for some classes/specs. Why as a FDK do I just have to eat every other poison? I would kick it or ams it if I could but timer is shorter than my ams and I have to save kick for the heal. I can't purge the snare in literally anyway, my damage outside pillars is laughable so I HAVE to save them for eggs which is fine cause realistically it's just a mech and survival fight but when I also have to bait his entire list of abilities to have a decent pillar window without losing gobals it's %^&*. The roof is too low so I have webs in my face instead of mechanics, the portals he drops in P2 block the swirlies they spawn and brann dies because he just will not move. Got it 2% after hours and a 20k repair bill but lost because of a bad fear placement cause yeah he will most likely fear on top of the egg as well since you HAVE to drag him there. Wish I could at least lichborne some of them but no the fear also does damage and my dot I can't clear 50% of the time is hitting for mega damage and slowing the $%^& outta me and he's swinging on plate for 2-4 million.Comment by YoterI am 100 % sure that this is not live.Comment by Jaker139A few things i have noticed trying to do this as warlock.

1 = Your interrupt window is only long enough at 24 seconds to get his carapace interrupt's only, and brans can get the spittle but only one as his next interrupt is on cooldown before the next spittle gets off ( even with curse of tongues).

2 If bran goes healer he can for the most part cleanse every spittle however sometimes his cleanse is still on cooldown and he wont cast the cleanse if you already have the debuff (sometimes he does sometimes he doesn't).

3 = Bran just sits in aoes and fears and that either kill him or prevent him from doing his cleanses or interrupts same goes for in dps spec when he goes on top of his griffin he will not do his interrupt.

So far my only frustration is having to rely on brann for the mechanics however he is inconsistent and is either sometimes helpful or not at all.
This has been my experience as a warlock.Comment by p00pyjoelAt 610, WW Monk, 45 Brann, I was not able to do this today. The problem is the interrupts. With Brann as a DPS he will interrupt sometimes, and not others. Leaving me to handle the heal, or enfeeble, both ultimately ending the encounter for me. It’s more possible now once I get more gear, and level Brann up, but still overturned in my opinion.

I’ll have to try with Brann as a healer and change up my build to reflect the enfeeble when Brann misses a dispel.Comment by BadmooddudeThese nerfs still don't feel like enough... a couple of times he pulled me in for a KILL! I even tried playing tank spec Guardian Druid, nope, even in a tank spec dude trucks you! On the "?" setting is fine, was able to do it before nerfs, but the "?" just feel's impossible... even now, just got done with 30+ attempts, taking a break before I go bald pulling my hair out. Malenia is even more possible to solo with no gear than this guy. Maybe at 620 I would have a fighting chance, but wow this dude is still quite over scaled for soloing. In Bear with all defenses up was getting it for 3.9m per normal hit of his, as dps its 1.9m, why is his dmg scaling to your spec? It was same for resto.Comment by Skyreaver817? Difficulty is doable. But for ? Brann just shouldn't be in the fight at this point. He is more trouble than he is worth and relying on his dps skills which is laughable or his healing which is right now the only way to stay alive half the time considering ? Difficulty is doing 1.2 mil a smack minus the one shots is ridiculous. Id rather this be completely balanced around solo play no bran then whatever this is. He as dumb as a bag of bricks and he is dead or feared well over half the fight and next to never focuses the add. This mode shouldn't be something to out gear to kill him it should be (somewhat) balanced to you as a character (class,spec,ilvl something) with challenging mechanics that reward the player for knowing them. I have faith they will tune this more but at the moment it's not worth my repair bills.Comment by FeralsoulKudos to Blizzard for making this doable for many more specializations.

This is now very doable solo as a Feral druid in ~600 item level gear versus where it was when I posted about it just a few days ago. This very much feels like a Tier 8 delve end boss, which is probably what it should have been (if not, a Tier 9 on his "Normal" setting). The difference is night and day.

He is 100% a fight you - yes you, that is you, the player - can control now and you do not have to lean so hard into hoping Brann A) interrupts and B) target switches. The egg spawns are absolutely killable in a reasonable time now even if you get very unlucky on critical hits or your cooldowns. And better still, they no longer spawn in Narnia or in places that are death sentences (the entrance tunnel), and Convoke the Spirits now actually seems like it wants to target the eggs too.

I attempted him a few times both with Brann DPSing and healing just to see how things would go post nerf. Having Brann heal you is by far the safest method since Zekvir can no longer clobber you down with good RNG. Brann actually now also seems to properly dispel you if you let a magic debuff go off (but his interrupting skills still need work if he is DPSing for you).

I'll give "Heroic" a few pokes later on down the line but this is a good change. All the things you couldn't control for are basically fixed, at least for cats.Comment by PeacemoonMy experience of ? Zekvir as a guardian Druid -
Not enough dps to kill the eggs before they hatch.
Not enough interrupts to get both spittle and carapace.
Not really sure what Brann is doing but he always runs into the first fear.

611 ilevel

Seems to require healer Brann as Zekvir does too much consistent dmg otherwise.
I feel like this is going to be a 15 minute fight for my Druid. Maybe doing it as Feral would be better, at the moment there is no benefit from going Guardian. No extra survive and just lack the dps.Comment by lelailanow ? is easier than any t8 Delve in week 1.. 611 assa rogue. you dont need to play any mechanic. just run out ouf fear lol.. (bran heal with shield)Comment by MixineBrann is issue here not Zevkir he is kinda semi afk as bad pug.Comment by sesoniCalling BS on that dmg nerf lul. Dude just auto'd me for 3.4m, and then auto'd me again for another 2.5m. Which just so happens to be how hard he was hitting me before the "nerf". I can to the mechanics, I can dodge the things, I can kill the eggs, I cannot live through his auto's, even with Brann's useless @ss healing. The problem isn't the boss, it's Brann. The auto's would be doable on a dps if he consistently healed instead of whenever he feels like it, or not at all. Tank spec would be manageable if he wasn't gray parsing on a good day and made up for the dmg you no longer do. He's supposed to be your wingman in this fight to make it possible and he's the exact opposite of that. He's a stereotypical bad pug.Comment by lovelywazJust beat it on Tier2 difficulty as enh sham (611)....Wind ShearCounterspellComment by losingfaithstill dog crap on tank why not scale the eggs for tank and heals waste of timeComment by lelailaon double ? he hits like a truck for rogue. normal auto attack/hit for 4 mio (have 5mio hp with 611/12 gs). can only survie with 20% hp buff from bran and a good shield (70% of missing live).. evasion, feint, phial is to less healing. and bran dies to often. everytime if i mange to 60% (2nd phase) he dies and when i try to rez him egg spawns or one shot ae into my direction. here is no time to rez bran. maybe i have to take some +hp flasks/food and try again, but bran is really annoying. he takes > 90% of fears..Comment by BaitedAt 610, WW Monk, 45 Brann, I was not able to do this today. The problem is the interrupts. With Brann as a DPS he will interrupt sometimes, and not others. Leaving me to handle the heal, or enfeeble, both ultimately ending the encounter for me. It’s more possible now once I get more gear, and level Brann up, but still overturned in my opinion.

I’ll have to try with Brann as a healer and change up my build to reflect the enfeeble when Brann misses a dispel.

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