Seriously, why would you design a boss where some classes can just go and faceroll it, while other classes struggle to barely make it through his mechanics?
I’ve tried this fight as Warrior and Warlock, both at item level 620. And I’m struggling to be able to keep up CDs to burst down his egg, while also needing to save cooldowns to remove his debuffs.
Meanwhile, my friend goes in an tries him with a 602 Paladin and gets him to nearly 30% on his first attempt, because he is able to basically ignore all the mechanics, because he can simply remove it with either Hand of Freedom, or mounting up or using his bubble, or simply dispelling.
The eggs he basically instant kill, because Retribution paladin does some crazy 10m burst by simply looking at things.
Do I really have to level up a Paladin, just so I can also faceroll this content, because Blizzard couldn’t be bothered to add individual mechanics for each class, so that it was actually fair and balanced?
Watched that video earlier. And I concluded that Zekvir must be bugged at the moment.
In his video, he is reliably able to remove Enfeebling Sprittle every time with his Teleport spell, but for my last few attempts, he will use it much more frequently than every 30 seconds. So eventually, I just have no way to avoid the DoT and it will kill me.
Which for me, personally, seems to be the only thing that is keeping me back.
Gate can only be used once every 90 seconds.
Circle has a 30 seconds CD.
So his first DoT, I can remove with Gate.
Second DoT, I can remove with Circle.
Third DoT, I can remove with Circle. (after using Shield to avoid 1-2 ticks)
Fourth DoT, I still have 30 seconds left before I can use the Gate, and 5-6 seconds till I can use circle. In which time the DoT kills me.
Shadow is uniquely EXTREMELY well positioned for this fight, so much so that inspired by that video I decided to do it almost completely naked.
However yes. Every DPS (Except Evoker) and most tanks have recorded kills around 600-605. After the nerfs the DPS check no longer matters, you just have to hold resources for eggs, use whatever class tools you have to handle spittle, and grind the fight down.
Ret is easier because Ret has better CDs for the egg, meaning you can kill it with less ilvl cuz you’re burstier, and also do a bit more damage from range.
At 620+ the fight feels very different because you no longer need CDs for eggs, you just kinda hit them and they die in time.
The easiest specs for it are shadow and ele, then the 3 plate melee + monk, then dh + hunter + feral, then idk they’re all kinda the same except rogue and Evoker.
I never understood this thing from wow players…
You did not beat it on your first try ok?
so try it more time make some adjustments on talents on your rotation plan you CDS interupts
think about what is more worht interupting or dispeling if you can etc etc
Zekvir is great solo boss fight
If you unable to do it on your class because you think it HARD
do it on something that is EASY
I hope next season there is another SOLO boss that is like zekvir so not everyone is going to be able to beat it just by showing up
And i hope highest tier of delves is going to also give something cool cause right now beating them is just a ACHIEVEMENT
Easy to say for a Paladin, who is one of the most easy mode characters to play for this fight. I literally have no talents or changes I can make, which would reduce the Cooldown of my Circle to allow me to reliably remove the DoT that is killing me.
Unlike, a Paladin who has a 25 seconds cooldown on their Blessing of Freedom, with 2 charges and it lasts for several seconds, so you can activate it already when he starts casting, where as I need to wait for it to be applied to remove it with Teleport.
If he couldn’t use Spittle more than once every 30 seconds, it wouldn’t be an issue. But it seems to have only like 25 seconds cooldown.
