WoW TWW: Tank Brann Nerfs Announced

With Season 2 of The War Within, Blizzard announced that Brann will be getting a tank spec to help out healers looking to do delves solo. At first the community was happy to hear that the devs are adding more variety to gameplay, allowing players to experience the game however they choose.

However, the typical fun detected moment might dissuade the community from doing delves as a healer with these upcoming nerfs to Tank Brann. 

The War Within Tank Brann Changes

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:

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.

And that covers all of the adjustments coming with the weekly reset. You can check out the official changes, here.