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Comment by Corvinhead

He only does 1 ability, he summons spikes. Those spikes will oneshot you if you touch them.
The spikes linger once they have spawned and will continue to oneshot you, so never go back towards them and always kite him away.
He will spawn several spikes around him towards the end of the cast, but 3 will always spawn directly under you over the channel period, so keep moving.
He has multiple bodyguards next to him that are a pain to deal with too, however you can single pull them by jumping down the ledge, only one of the mobs will follow you.
If you're cheesing him this way, be careful though since he will still cast his spikes while you're fighting the mobs.

Comment by Siegemaker

This guy just made The Sinkhole impossible for me. He spawned on top of an objective with his gang, so I couldn't avoid fighting him at all. He has several ranged adds that deal a truckload of damage, all standing on top of a void zone that I am not allowed to enter because of the Leviathan, and has an elite caster casting a slow on me that I can't interrupt because as a warrior I can't reach her. The slow is unavoidable for me, making it impossible to dodge this guy's swirlies which 1shot.

Sorry for the rant, but in a nutshell, this is an unbalanced mess and I advise people to just not bother going delves solo, these mobs are not balanced and designed for solo, and it shows.

EDIT: This guy no longer shows up in Tier 8s. Also the recent patch notes say his adds are gone! Yay! A fair fight!

Comment by xLunacyx

Many many brown floor swirlies that will 1shot you. The spikes from the swirlies will continue to 1shot with contact damage.
Sometimes has an add that slows you by 70% while spamming web bolt.

Comment by kalaila

Can show up in tier 9+ delves in a group that includes Nerubian Oracle who continuously heals themself and allies with Zekvir's Verve, and Armored Shellguard who will protect allies with Shellguard, as well as Nerubian Webcaster.

I strongly recommend skipping the group if possible, but otherwise, Nerubian Oracle can be crowd-controlled and Armored Shellguard can be single-pulled, even from the middle of the group.

Comment by Tapyx

How this pack passed any Quality Assurance is beyond me. The two casters alone do about 3 million dps chaincasting Web Bolts while having about 20 million HP. A single crit will go over 4 million on a tank. Interrupt a bolt and they just start casting the next one non stop. Then you've got a 35 million hp tank mob spamming oneshot AoE non stop and a healer that cannot be interrupted along with 3 20 mil hp adds that reduce damage on the rest of the pack by 75%. Oh and you get slowed too. Sometimes you can pull a few from the pack, but most of the time you are hardstuck having to deal with the entire pack on an objective. And most classes have no sap or blind or poly.

So if you cannot pull them one by one, you literally have to kill the three 20 million hp ads first because of their 75% damage reduction on the rest of the pack, while you are dodging oneshot AoE, while slowed, while they are being healed, while taking non stop 3 million dps. If you CAN pull them one by one you have to pull the entire pack one by one by one taking forever regardless. This is the worst balance fumble I've seen in years in this game and sucks all the fun out of a delve.

Comment by Laivel

For all the priests: dominate mind him. He's going to solo the entire delve for you, pulling off 4+mln dps in a delve +11.

Comment by JamesFKirk

As of "today", I do not see how a non-tank might be able to do it.
I managed as a protection paladin ilvl610, with Brann lvl40 set as a healer, T9 Nightfall Sanctum (so, dance around circles included). I pulled the shellguards off one by one and then (they all pulled with the last shellguard), then targetted the Oracles.
If you see Brann use Brann's Epic Egg , BREAK IT IMMEDIATELLY. The Devilsaur's fear makes the fight actually doable.
I still died a few times, but I managed to kill the whole group eventually.
If you see them and can avoid them, save yourself the pain.

EDIT: If you get this group in any delve with nerubian webs on the ground, just don't bother. You will not have enough space to dodge the spikes, you will be slowed and you will be oneshot before you can get any of the mobs down. That's after singlepulling the shield bugs and killing them separately.
Also, for some weird reason, Repentance is supposed to last 1 minute, but here it barely lasted ten seconds.

Comment by AntWow1

Here is a few tips of how to deal with the group.
1. Use your environment. Sometimes there are environmental effects that are affecting the mobs as well. E.g. cart going around dealing damage or stunning. You can try to always position the NPCs on the train track. You can also throw them from cliffs and stuff. I think here Bliz wanted us to use all tools available (although I still think its a bit of a fail).
2. Run! The best way to handle the group is to split them up. Be sure you have cleaned your delve well so far, pull one NPC if it runs alone - good. If not just run. Run until you find good flat big space and until you have e.g. two mobs running. Usually Oracle stays at the beginning, healing nothing if you run away. Most of the time you can either pull only the shell guards or Anub'vir with the caster.
3. You can also kite them if its possilbe for you. Just run all the way to the beginning of delve kiting them and then turn around.

Comment by ziberia

- "Good morning guys", said the Delve designer, "last night I was at the bar, and while I was waiting for my Tinder date, I had an idea. It's about the Delves."

- "Okay man, cool", said one of the colleagues, "let's hear it. Both the idea, and how the date went. You look a bit tired so I'm sure there's some juicy stuff to tell!"

- "Sure... well, at the 9th Tier, I was thinking, what if there's a massively fat Anub spider blob coming down, murdering the player endlessly without them having a fair chance of making it? Like, aaaahh", he continued, "murder, one shot, super slows, Brann's minced to meat, nothing to do, murder and death, and then nothing, and then they leave the Delve and give up. Like, whaaat? Isn't that a good idea?"

The group looked at him.

- "It sounds hilarious", one said to break the silence, "and awesome. But... not to be "that person"... it also sounds a bit risky. What if it makes them frustrated?"

- "You're thinking like, they don't enjoy it?", he replied, visibly displeased.

- "Yeah. I mean, it's a great idea, avant gardistic almost, but I'm worried they will feel like they waste their time going there. I know that WE know it's not a waste of time. But the players are very picky today. I'm just trying to cover the idea from all angles".

- "Honey, the entire game is a waste of time, if you see it like that".

- "I guess you have a point. But how did you come up with that idea? You always think outside the box. Where does it.. "come from"?"

- "If I knew, I'd write it down and become a millionaire. This time, it was just me sitting at the bar, and then they played this song, it was called "Murder on the dance floor". And I thought, what if its "Murder on the Delve Floor"?

The group nodded to each other.

- "That's amazing".

*Computer screen ringing*

- "Hey everyone, it's Bill Gates, I'm calling from South Sudan, I'm here handing out two trillion condoms. I've listened to this discussion. I am ordering the Anub idea to become effective, immediately. I love it. It's great. Kill them all. Thanks".

- "Congratulations man!"

- "Thanks guys".

- "So what about the date?"

- "The date?"

- "You were on a Tinder date?"

- "Yeah. No. She texted me afterwards and said that she wasn't feeling it".

- "I'm sorry to hear. You didn't get any other explanation than that?"

- "Well, she said I came off as insane and delusional".

*Silence*

- "You certainly aren't according to us!"

Comment by salsagev007

The only way to defeat this guy solo is to pull one caster that wander via a body pull when Anub'vir is stopped on the opposite side. You then pull Anub'vir solo at his farthest point he moves away from the other mobs. Make sure you are body puling because if you cast or throw anything, the other mobs will come. You can't stop the oracle from casting and healing so just focus down the other caster then the other melee mobs and then save the oracle for last.

Comment by Lyleash

Had them spawn in the middle of the main objective in Kriegval's Rest. They wouldn't split up because the 3 main ones where glitched on top of the main objective (collect the giant candle).

How to fight them, especially Anub'vir goes against the main mechanic of this delve which is not moving to burn out the candle. They should not be able to spawn in this delve, they should also not be allowed to randomly spawn in any location. My delve after this they where spawn camping the respawn point. If I died, I would of died again. Maybe if they fought the local mobs it could be a moot point to have them ruin your delve.

Edit: It got nerfed to the ground. The threadmasters have been removed and his spike got its damage reduced. Should be manageable now.

Comment by Coorexz

Had this encounter in Fugnal Folly, had one of the spores blow me away after I got hit by ONE spike while trying to avoid the spore.
Got bounced into another group of spikes - absolutely amazing..
Got one-shot right away, not even potion + Healthstone could offset the damage from the spikes.

Comment by Madira

Completed on holy pally with iLevel 570 on Tier 9. Didn't know what to expect the first time and died quickly. Looked here and got him the second time. Kited him back to the level below and got the add separated. Let Bran do most of the dps while i kited and healed. Kited around in a circle up and dropping down. I dps'd when cooldowns were up. Long fight but got him. Edited to add the Oracle stayed behind. Just killed her.

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Anub'vir <Zekvir's Heralds>

This NPC can be found in The Dread Pit (215), Fungal Folly (185), Kriegval's Rest (177), The Spiral Weave (174), Earthcrawl Mines (170), The Underkeep (156), Sidestreet Sluice (69), Nightfall Sanctum (110), The Sinkhole (107), Tak-Rethan Abyss (104), The Waterworks (92), Excavation Site 9 (89), Skittering Breach (89), and Mycomancer Cavern (84).

Anub'vir <Zekvir's Heralds>

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