- Author: Luxrah
- Date: March 11, 2025
- Updated: March 11, 2025
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
With the start of Season 2 of The War Within, Blizzard implemented a new tanking specialization for our trusty Delves companion, Brann Bronzebeard, in hopes that healers would be able to experience this new type of content without having to respec. Now it seems that Blizzard has decided that the tank spec was too good, and they’ve posted a lengthy list of changes to bring it more in line with his other builds.
In his tank mode, Brann will now take more damage, deal less damage, and have less health. The nerfs are significant, and it remains to be seen whether the tank version of Brann will still be worth using or whether it’s back to the drawing board for healers.
Over the first few days of Season 2, we’ve noted that Brann’s Tank specialization has been the best choice for completing Delves by a lot. While we’re excited to support a true healing-focused playstyle in Delves for players who prefer that gameplay, Brann’s new Tank specialization has simply proven to be too powerful when players hang back and just focus on healing him.
Our goal is for Brann’s specs to be roughly balanced against each other, and for the difficulty of Delves to offer a satisfying progression whatever a player’s preferred playstyle is.
With this goal in mind, we are making tuning adjustments to Tank Brann with maintenance in each region:
Delves
Brann Bronzebeard
- Electro-Charged Gadgets damage buff now grants 30% increased damage per stack (was 25%).
- Electro-Charged Gadgets damage buff will no longer stack with DPS and Tank specialization heal over time or passive off healing effects.
- Electro-Charged Gadgets damage buff now has a 5 second Heal over Time/Passive healing internal cooldown for Healer specializations. Does not affect beneficial spell casts that are not heal over time or passive.
- Electro-Charged Gadgets damage buff now stacks up to 12 times (was 20).
- Tank Brann Boomstick Blitz damage reduced by 35%.
- Tank Brann Boomstick Blitz deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Tank Brann Electro-Charged Pistol damage reduced by 35%
- Tank Brann Pistol Shot reduced by 15%.
- Tank Brann receives 60% increased damage.
- Tank Brann maximum health has been reduced by 20%.
- Bronzebeard’s Brown Bear melee auto attack damage has been reduced by 80%
- Bronzebeard’s Brown Bear second stomp damage reduced by 25%
- Bronzebeard’s Brown Bear third stomp damage reduced by 35%.
- Bronzebeard’s Brown Bear stomp damage deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Pinged Augment Chip now grants 4%/6%/8%/10% maximum health with respects to its rank.
- Pinged Augment Chip now causes Brann to lose all threat if the bot hits him.
- Pinged Augment Chip fixate debuff will now have a large icon display.
- An issue causing Brann to double dip on the benefits of Bronzebeard’s Brown Bear maximum health and dodge chance has been resolved.
As always, our aim is to provide a more-balanced experience that allows for greater diversity in playstyles and choices. We will be closely following players’ Delve experiences in the coming days and will make offsetting balance changes if needed.
We appreciate your feedback!
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