Zekvir (?) impossible as a tank

Yeah, but the achievement that hands the void blimp, is meant to be soloable only.

I had lots of fun doing delves with my best friend. If it were possible to do the same for Zek’vir and unlock what he has to give I’d happily have done it with someone else.

Guess it depends on spec and gear aswell. I havent botherd trying lately, but i had 0 chance to kill the eggs in time for ?? as resto. Maybe i’ll give it a try again now when i have more ilvl.

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620 should be more than enough to beat the DPS check on the eggs as blood. Or what tank are you doing it on?

as u can easily certainly as a warrior lol

thats because u only need to deal with Zekvir’s mechanics in mage tower there was alot more going on but it also was a scrypted fights

As DPS I’m having less issues with the eggs, but I still very much die to insane amounts of damage on his auto-attacks. There’s just no way to keep it up whether I’m tank or DPS. The fight is clearly overtuned, as much of the content they released with this expansion.

It’s a shame - the expansion feels great. Having to playtest content as a paying player does not.

do it as blood, swap Branny to dps and have idol of final will and amorphous relic, doesn’t matter if it rolls damage or haste. rotate CDs on eggs, Deathbringer is probably the go to but with the buffs to San’layn it’s a viable option, interrupt the heal and shell every cast possible. If you have a on use damage trinket stack it with Limb and alternate

Dancing Rune Weapon, Bonestorm and Tombstone on first egg, Limb and trinket on second, if you are runnin Deathbringer us it on first and third, fourth egg should hopefully not happen before transition to P2. just rotate cooldowns on eggs, interrupt heal and use shell against the other cast. Just a matter of repeating until he’s dead.

Would only get him to 80% but installed DBM and after a few goes got him. to much to manage without addons = bad design. 613 Ret.

The fight is also RNG hell lol… spawns eggs other side of the room so open to his smash attack or the phase 2 fear orbs hitting you when you can’t see them

Reason why all the dark souls clones fail at difficulty is they don’t get what makes Dark Souls so good :stuck_out_tongue:

Fear orbs come out of the bosses front back and sides every single time. Getting hit by them is completely on you.

What class?

Also when you do it as dps play healer brann his potions will keep you up if you space them out properly.

The thing is, they scaled Tanks to receive a whole lot of extra damage, but not to do extra damage themselves. So when it comes to surviving pressure while doing a DPS race, you’re often at the short end of the stick.

That’s not just with Zik’Vir but everything in general. It takes you a lot more time to kill the mobs, which is bad enough on it’s own. But if Zik’Vir happens to randomly spawn while engaged with a group of mobs, it’s a death sentence.

You can’t kill off the group fast enough to focus on Zek’Vir and stabilize the damage received.

Zek’vir in delves is a harmless elite mob, he does a extremely obvious frontal and a simple interrupt that can be dispelled by a bunch of abilities.

If I go as a Guardian Druid on Ilevel 619, I can manage him on his own if he spawns in an standard 8 but it takes all my defensives. If he happens to spawn while I’m engaged with another mob that’s above 50% I can’t kill it fast enough before the total damage of the mob + Zek’vir overwhelm me.

The mechanics are extremely simple, that’s not the issue. It’s all auto-attack damage that curb stomps me.

Yes, i know that. I just literally said i completed both challenges xd. You don’t need to lecture me about the difference. I am well aware of it. It’s the reason why i commented in the first place. To point out how ridiculous it is to compare them because of how far different they are.

I think its kinda nice challenge, I just did the ? difficulty yesterday on 3 different toons (Note, done the both ? and ?? before on BM monk)

Frost mage (579ilvl)
Destro lock (597ilvl)
Retri pala (577ilvl)

Prolly need to try the ?? on some of these too, monk was way higher when I did the ?? on it, I think around 615-617, cant remember exactly, was some weeks ago

But good fun, requires you to focus quite a bit, ejoyed it a lot

Ive had him spawn in T11, at that point he is no longer harmless😂

I am basically only able to kill the eggs just in time when i use my farseer friend. But i got only to like 80%. On 629 ilvl :grin:

It is a bit not encouraging when you try it for an evening you find out you runned into over a 10k repair bill.

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I think i was around 613 ilvl when i tried, havent bothered after that. 629 ilvl i’ll probably never have :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

The problem with ?? is that Zekvir used to be easier, before Brann was nerfed. Brann did the tanking and a lot more dps. Now, he’s a lot less useful.
As BM its hard to get far, the pet dies instant, you can’t use it for tanking. You have to tank it yourself and can really only take so much. The best I could manage so far was about 70%.

You mean it was exploited… and the ppl should have been reset but that is another story.