You can use Velens orbs to interrupt any of his abilitys if you don't have a proper answer to them, whether it be a Drain Life or an Annihilate. Stay calm it is easy to make a mistake that instantly kills you especially at lower percentages. Killing Nether Horror should be your highest priority when they are out.
Was actually doing it on my bear alt, and wasn't so bad because he's 940ish. Not claiming any bragging rights; mad kudos to those who did it back when. This was my first toon to do it on, so I still had to learn the mechanics and deal with some bad RNG. Had one wipe at 3%, and was annoyed Velen and Kor'vas couldn't finish him off for me. But I got it after 50 or so attempts.Werebear was the main appearance I cared about getting before Legion was over, but now that I've got a handle on the fight, maybe I will do my other tanks. Keep at it you’ll get there. I found Brew pretty difficult due to no real self heals.
I went full DPS, Niuzao pet on pull and again on Kruul when it comes back up (tanks a lot of dmg for you and does good DPS). I used healing orbs pretty much as they came up, or near enough.Keep your head on in phase 2. Get the interrupt on Twisted Reflections, stun (leg sweep or orb) as many annihilates as you can, get Niuzao out again as soon as you can.This is true, healing was a pain as Brewmaster. And I should know.On Thursday evening I sat down and began work on my Brewmaster challenge. It was the ninth challenge I had done and the second time I had done Kruul (after my Blood Death Knight).I also, for some mad reason, had decided to attempt to do the Kruul challenge on a spec I had never played and I began on Thursday. I decided I needed to learn how to play Brewmaster, and thought learning to do so while attempting the challenge made a crazy kind of sense. Like learning to drive whilst doing a formula one race.On Saturday evening, on my one hundredth attempt, I beat the challenge.I learned a few things.One, I massively prefer Blood Death Knight tanking to Brewmaster tanking.Two, I am NEVER, EVER doing Kruul again.And three.I'm insane for doing a challenge that took one hundred goes on a spec I will almost certainly never play again?But I might play it again, so not doing it would have bugged me.
And it's a cool look. Keep your head on in phase 2.
Get the interrupt on Twisted Reflections, stun (leg sweep or orb) as many annihilates as you can, get Niuzao out again as soon as you can.This is good advice for any spec doing Kruul. I wiped more than once by letting other mechanics distract me from interrupting Twisted Reflection.
That's essentially the fight - mechanic overload, so you get distracted by one threat and let another kill you. My best advice to anyone just learning it is just relax and keep doing it until you can do most of the mechanics without thinking about them. That way you can focus on the 1 or 2 most important.-Updated -. This is true, healing was a pain as Brewmaster.
And I should know.On Thursday evening I sat down and began work on my Brewmaster challenge. It was the ninth challenge I had done and the second time I had done Kruul (after my Blood Death Knight).I also, for some mad reason, had decided to attempt to do the Kruul challenge on a spec I had never played and I began on Thursday. I decided I needed to learn how to play Brewmaster, and thought learning to do so while attempting the challenge made a crazy kind of sense.
Like learning to drive whilst doing a formula one race.On Saturday evening, on my one hundredth attempt, I beat the challenge.I learned a few things.One, I massively prefer Blood Death Knight tanking to Brewmaster tanking.Two, I am NEVER, EVER doing Kruul again.And three.I'm insane for doing a challenge that took one hundred goes on a spec I will almost certainly never play again?But I might play it again, so not doing it would have bugged me. And it's a cool look.lol I wouldn't judge any spec by how it felt to play it on Kruul, especially when you didn't have experience with it going in.I play all the tanks; they all have pros and cons. Brewmaster is my favorite atm; good mobility, amazing snap aoe-agro, easy peasy 100% uptime on active mitigation, and impossible to one shot so you always have a chance to recover a situation. Plus anything you're tanking is snared by Keg Smash (50% slow) so you never have to let the mobs hit you if you don't want. And we get to drink a lot of beer.
It's, you know, role play. Brewmaster is the last tank I did Kruul on, just this weekend. It felt weird in that it felt like I was keeping everything under control.until I suddenly didn't.
And I honestly felt my dps as Brewmaster sucked, on the other specs it was much more comfortable. Btw Niuzao seems to die at the pull for some reason when I use him.I only did it somewhat early on my main though (My Paladin did it as soon as I got 4t20 and Tyelca, about a month after ToS release).Imo I had the most fun doing it on Prot Warrior, it felt far more frantic on that spec than on anything else because everything could collapse so fast. Brewmaster is the last tank I did Kruul on, just this weekend. It felt weird in that it felt like I was keeping everything under control.until I suddenly didn't. And I honestly felt my dps as Brewmaster sucked, on the other specs it was much more comfortable. Btw Niuzao seems to die at the pull for some reason when I use him.I only did it somewhat early on my main though (My Paladin did it as soon as I got 4t20 and Tyelca, about a month after ToS release).Imo I had the most fun doing it on Prot Warrior, it felt far more frantic on that spec than on anything else because everything could collapse so fast.Did you use Niuzao statue?
Lol I wouldn't judge any spec by how it felt to play it on Kruul, especially when you didn't have experience with it going in.I play all the tanks; they all have pros and cons. Brewmaster is my favorite atm; good mobility, amazing snap aoe-agro, easy peasy 100% uptime on active mitigation, and impossible to one shot so you always have a chance to recover a situation. Plus anything you're tanking is snared by Keg Smash (50% slow) so you never have to let the mobs hit you if you don't want. And we get to drink a lot of beer.
It's, you know, role play. A fair enough observation.
Hole punch in an id card. But it wasn't just Kruul. The stagger mechanic I will admit is a very interesting way to tank, but it is just not one I enjoy. The mobility is fun, but I can't force enemy movement the way I can with my DK.The self healing, theme and Death grip combine to make blood dk my preferred tanking spec.But I am glad I did the BrM challenge. Frustrating at the time, but I have the cool staff now if I ever change my mind.
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And I did learn BrM in the end. Was actually doing it on my bear alt, and wasn't so bad because he's 940ish. Not claiming any bragging rights; mad kudos to those who did it back when. This was my first toon to do it on, so I still had to learn the mechanics and deal with some bad RNG.
Had one wipe at 3%, and was annoyed Velen and Kor'vas couldn't finish him off for me. But I got it after 50 or so attempts.Werebear was the main appearance I cared about getting before Legion was over, but now that I've got a handle on the fight, maybe I will do my other tanks.I did mine at 907 on brewmaster, legit took around 100 attempts.
I only say around because I actually lost count. It was good fun x). Wow, that's incredible. Monk was my 2nd last tank to do the challenge, I had an item level of about 920 and Summon Niuzao did the trick for me. I like the monk tank, though I did not run many challenging things with that character, and I am probably not that good with Brewmaster. Easiest run was Protection Paladin for me, because I got good legendaries and some experience from previous DK and DH kills. And I tank with the Paladin and DK since Wrath (and these are also my favorite tank characters).
Most annoying was Bear tank encounter without Luffa / Ekowraith, so I went the overgearing route. But I am only a casual tank, anyway.