Why does DPS brann suck so much?

Playing on an alt and doing delves.

I make brann damage dealer.

He’s pulling off an “amazing” 60k dps when I pulled mobs and the boss in kriegval’s rest. Bro? What? Why is he doing 60k dps and that’s with the augment chip increasing his damage by 35%.

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That doesn’t look right at all, that’s his damage breakdown for that fight. Is that all he has as damage dealer?

my dps bran crits for 10mil with the right curio
and my bran is level 77

so maybe you need to level it up

try the Gyro grenades at a high level and he will throw multiple grenades that hit for 3-10mil

Sometimes my Brann has no role or abilities selected when I enter a Delve. He does almost zero DPS when it happens.

What is your alt spec?
Brann dps is intended to pair with tank spec character.
Brann healer with dps spec character.

Guardian druid.

I did like 500k dps while he did 60k.

I play as tank. Sometimes he just has no role when I enter a Delve, now I just always check at the stone that he has a role selected.

I respeced him from tank to damage dealer when I entered because I had done delves with him as tank prior.

What level is he? I’ve done them as Guardian and he usually does similar damage to me.

In the times he has had no role he doesn’t do any of his attacks where he yells stuff like “I’m going all out!”

Level 54, I don’t really do much delves outside of lowly geared alts. When I did delves on alts in season 1 he was pulling way more dps than I was on alts but now he just seems to be like a fish.

He seems to be behaving how he does when he doesn’t have a role selected. If he does, I don’t know what’s wrong. Details does shows his abilities when he is using them.

From playing a lot of different classes and specs in delves I have come to the conclusion that I still have no clue how Brann’s DPS actually works.

Sometimes he’ll do 4million DPS, then the next he’ll be literally doing 50k DPS. Even at level 80 Brann.

I think his main dps comes from the bombs and the occasional executes.

You need to “set” him after every weekly reset. On all characters to be precise.

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I have noticed that Brann sometimes stops dealing damage or outright starts running back and forth, as if somehow his AI hasn’t recognized he should be in battle. It’s probably tied to this.

Brann is a pacifist. He doesnot like hurting things

I have seen this issue too. Some pulls he does 2M dps with volley and the next he’s afk waiting in the corner. I’m running the bioprinter and pocket factory so the dps for me is the most below 40% and the pocket factory can be very random. Seems like you just need to level brand a bit and change up some curios and be ready for him to be totally afk once in a while.

because blizzard loves your participation.

I’ve heard something about him representing the average hunter

He does high burst damage with his cooldowns, if you want him to do high sustain damage you need to kite mobs through the traps he leaves on the ground. They apply a stacking dot that can be stacked to 5 and maintained indefinitely, dealing extremely high damage.

IIRC branns roles shouldn’t perform better or worse by itself depending on your spec unless they changed that in S2
Beastmaster hunter with pet to tank and brann on DPS could get you very fast runs.

He’s supposed to do way more abilities they volley and autoshot
maybe change his role and change it back to force his damage profile to load properly?