Delves Season 1: Best Loadouts for Brann Bronzebeard

Live Posted 7 days ago by iMX3

General Notes/Disclaimer on Creating Brann Loadoutsno one size fits all solution

Select Rank 4 Curios When Possible: Rank 4 Curios can drop out of higher Tier Delves and often give players the most benefits up-front.

Build Brann Based on Roles/Composition: Brann can be very flexible as both a strong damage dealer or an incredibly strong healer once he reaches higher level. Look to fill in weaknesses in party composition with Brann. If players are struggling to deal damage, optimize Brann as a DPS. If a certain Delve deals hefty amounts of damage, optimize Brann as a Healer.

Make Note of Delve Tier Difficulty: As players climb higher in Delve Tiers, the item level requirement jumps with it. If players are falling behind in item level on higher Delve Tiers, it is generally recommended to have Brann as a Healer to keep up with increasing damage intake.

DPS-Focused Build

Porcelain Arrowhead Idol: At Rank 4, this gives players an additional 50% Crit Chance on enemies struck by the Porcelain Arrow.

Amorphous Relic: This Relic gives players different stat bonuses based on if the player receives Massive or Miniature:

Massive: At Rank 4, increases your size by 20%, maximum health by 20%, and damage and healing done by 12%.

Miniature: At Rank 4, Reduces your size by 20%, increases movement speed by 20%, and your haste by 12%.

Healer/Taunt Build

Unbreakable Iron Idol: At Rank 4, this Curio activates when a player reaches 40% Health dealing damage to enemies and taunting them for 10 seconds. This can save players in a quick pinch from threat and allow them a chance to heal.

Miniature: At Rank 4, Reduces your size by 20%, increases movement speed by 20%, and your haste by 12%.

Pure Healing Output Builddefensive abilitiesLight-Touched Idol

Light-Touched Idol: At Rank 4, this Curio heals the player for 4% of their maximum health every second for 10 seconds whenever a defensive ability with a cooldown of 30 seconds or longer is used. With most defensives reducing damage taken, the passive healing provided from this Curio pairs nicely to allow players to live through high damage intake.

Miniature: At Rank 4, Reduces your size by 20%, increases movement speed by 20%, and your haste by 12%.

Hybrid Build

Porcelain Arrowhead Idol: At Rank 4, this gives players an additional 50% Crit Chance on enemies struck by the Porcelain Arrow.

Miniature: At Rank 4, Reduces your size by 20%, increases movement speed by 20%, and your haste by 12%.

Why Amorphous Relic?

Comment by LeucienWeavrIf solo as tank, your DPS won't benefit much from Porcelain Arrow. Better to go Idol of Final Will, with a cancelaura macro to cause Hunting Scope to trigger early. This also increases Brann's uptime, as he will immediately queue his next attack, instead of a 4 second delay before doing more damage.

Sentience is also really strong with DPS brann, as you can get up to 10 stacks of the trap ticking, which at 620 is ticking for about 700k. That gets the job done a lot better than having 12% more haste.Comment by AstriconTo me, the ultimate defensive combo is actually earthmother and sentience with healer brann. Earthmother feels like it much more reliably saves me on all classes, giving me time to grab health potions. And the more health potions you get from brann, the more sturdy you are. As my character gets stronger, I will swap out sentience for amorphous and eventually earthmother for porcelain. Then on MOST classes you can swap to damage brann, like paladin, dk, priest, warlock, dh, warrior and hunter. Others I'll probably always stay healer brann: mage, evoker, rogue. Shaman druid and monk are kinda in the middle. This doesn't include any tanks or healers because that just slows you down in my opinion.Comment by joshwontwonAmorphous relic confirmed best relic.Comment by ChaxtonNot really a pure healer. Pure healing would use Relic of Sentience instead of Amorphous. Sentience's extra potion chance kind of sucks and DESPERATELY needs improvement, but rolling with 4 stacks of Brann's potion is wonderful when you can space out the collection of those potions. Light-Touched and Sentience is what I've been using in my attempts against ? tier Zekvir, as I saw some guy complaining about Brann being useless, and while that guy isn't wrong, the extra heals are absolutely clutch.Comment by IianaNot sure why we needed a whole article just to say "Use Porcelain Arrowhead Idol and Amorphous Relic"Comment by LostartesAt the top it says "based on class and spec", yet fail to say which of these is best for which class/spec. Maybe an oversight, but who knows.Comment by kalykatIf solo as tank, your DPS won't benefit much from Porcelain Arrow. Better to go Idol of Final Will, with a cancelaura macro to cause Hunting Scope to trigger early. This also increases Brann's uptime, as he will immediately queue his next attack, instead of a 4 second delay before doing more damage.

Sentience is also really strong with DPS brann, as you can get up to 10 stacks of the trap ticking, which at 620 is ticking for about 700k. That gets the job done a lot better than having 12% more haste.Comment by ExasinIf solo as tank, your DPS won't benefit much from Porcelain Arrow. Better to go Idol of Final Will, with a cancelaura macro to cause Hunting Scope to trigger early. This also increases Brann's uptime, as he will immediately queue his next attack, instead of a 4 second delay before doing more damage.

Sentience is also really strong with DPS brann, as you can get up to 10 stacks of the trap ticking, which at 620 is ticking for about 700k. That gets the job done a lot better than having 12% more haste.Comment by Miral007With how nerf happy bliz is, how have they not nerfed amorphous?Comment by markdallThe Amorphous Relic will _not_ drop for me. I've got literally every other relic in all three slots at 4/4 and at this point I only run tier 8s (as I'm going for vault filling + Bran XP) and just... nothing. My Amorphous Relic remains at 1/1. I'm not sure if it's a bug or an RNG curse.Comment by selkie47I use Hybrid and it works greatComment by nerfhuntersAs a Fury war I used Idol of the Earthmother Rank 4 for hardmode Zekvir and it made a huge difference in smoothing out the damage spikes from his melee attacks and the general unpredictability of the damage intake. I will agree though that for just farming 8's Arrowhead is probably better.Comment by KryplixxDoes Porcelain Arrowhead Idol also affect Brann's crit chance on the target?Comment by SharkTribe...can it really be called a "build" when it's a choice between 2 options?Comment by 7upyourzYall are sleeping on Relic of Sentience, objectively the best for healing.Comment by RavenhideThe Amorphous Relic will _not_ drop for me. I've got literally every other relic in all three slots at 4/4 and at this point I only run tier 8s (as I'm going for vault filling + Bran XP) and just... nothing. My Amorphous Relic remains at 1/1. I'm not sure if it's a bug or an RNG curse.Comment by TorvorthLight-Touched Idol is super buggy and bad. Rank 4 only heals 1% per tick, just the same as Rank 1. And by "defensives with cooldowns longer than 30 seconds" it really means "your spec's 1-2 biggest CDs that probably have a cooldown of 2 minute or more." And it seems to have a long internal cooldown that isn't mentioned in the tooltip.Comment by Wartorious925article writer's Brann is only 44, how cute.Comment by DianoraThe Amorphous Relic will _not_ drop for me. I've got literally every other relic in all three slots at 4/4 and at this point I only run tier 8s (as I'm going for vault filling + Bran XP) and just... nothing. My Amorphous Relic remains at 1/1. I'm not sure if it's a bug or an RNG curse.Comment by avatarofshadowi haven't played in a few weeks. Is he not useless anymore ?