Brann's Ultimate Companion Guide to Delves in the War Within Season 3

Brann Bronzebeard is your Delve companion in the War Within expansion. He will automatically join your run when you are alone or in a group of 4 players However, he will not join when you have a full party. Your companion grows in power and gains Experience as you clear more delves. You can set him up as a healer or a DPS.

Here is an overview of all the changes for Brann in Season 3.

• New curios are available for Brann in Season 3.
• Brann's level cap has increased to 100.

When you interact with the Explorers' League Supplies at the beginning of each delve or at any checkpoint or bring up the Delves tab by pressing "H", you can set Brann's role to Damage Dealer, Healer, or Tank (new in Patch 11.1). Brann gains access to a different set of abilities in each role.

The Damage Dealer role focuses primarily on dealing damage. It is Brann's DPS specialization.

In the DPS role, Brann will gain access to the following abilities:

• Steel Traps — Brann hurls steel traps that snap shut on the first enemy that approaches, wounding them for moderate Physical damage instantly and additional Bleed damage over time. (25 second cooldown)
• Gryphadin's Battle Harness — After any player uses a major cooldown ability, Brann summons his loyal gryphon companion to bombard nearby enemies for significant damage every 1 second for 10 seconds. Can only occur once every minute.
• Trusty Whip — Brann uses his whip to lash the enemy, interrupting enemy spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 3 seconds.
• Brann's Epic Egg — Brann summons a devilsaur egg. Hopefully it hatches. (Instant, 1.5 minute recharge)
• Gathering Tools — Brann uses his gathering tools to help players find additional gold, ore, herbs, fish, leathers, and treasures.
• Ice Trap — After 3 or more enemies attack a player, Brann will hurl an ice trap at them, reducing their movement speed by 50% and occasionally freezing them in place for 3 seconds. Trap lasts for 15 seconds. (Instant, 1 minute cooldown)
• Kill Shot — Brann will finish off wounded targets, executing enemies that have less than 30% health. The health threshold for this effect is reduced to 5% for boss creatures. (Instant, 1 minute cooldown)
• Ancient Weapon Oil — Brann temporarily enchants a nearby player's weapon for 10 seconds, causing their spells and abilities to deal additional damage as fire, provided they remain in combat. When the enchantment is removed, the effect jumps to a nearby ally.
• Monkey Leash — Your spells and abilities have a chance to call Brann's pet monkey, Glibb, to your side for 15 seconds, bananas in hand.
  • Aspect of the Monkey — Glibb's presence empowers you, increasing Speed, Avoidance, and Leech by 100.
  • Bad Monkey — Glibb throws a temper tantrum, inflicting tremendous Physical damage to nearby enemies with a chance to stun them for 3 seconds.
  • Explorer's Ammunition Journal (Paragon Ability) — Brann's combat mastery grants him 5% increased damage done by his spells and abilities.

The Healer role focuses primarily on healing, but Brann still deals some damage, but the output is not as high as in his Combat DPS role.

Brann gains access to the following abilities when in the Healing role:

• Dwarven Medicine — Brann throws healing potions near injured players that restore a moderate amount of health upon walking through them. (Instant, 25 second cooldown)
• Relic of Uldum — Brann brandishes a powerful ancient relic that radiates Holy energy, healing allies for a tremendous amount every 1 second for 20 seconds.
• Thirty Yards of Rope — Brann throws his rope to free players from stuns, bonds, and snares, and grants immunity to all such effects for 4 seconds. (Instant, 30 second cooldown)
• Brann's Epic Egg — Brann summons a devilsaur egg. Hopefully it hatches. (Instant, 1.5 minute recharge)
• Gathering Tools — Brann uses his gathering tools to help players find additional gold, ore, herbs, fish, leathers, and treasures.
• Cleansing Salve — Brann cures an infected player, removing all Poison and Disease effects or purges an enemy target, removing 1 beneficial magic effect. (Instant, 1 minute cooldown)
• Emergency Supplies — When any player falls below 30% health, Brann will instantly heal them for 25% of their maximum health. Can only occur once every 3 minutes.
• Aegis of Ironforge — Brann hurls a shield at all players, reducing their damage taken by 20% and preventing loss of control effects for 12 seconds.
• Aspect of the Monkey — Glibb's presence empowers you, increasing Speed, Avoidance, and Leech by 100.
• Bad Monkey — Glibb throws a temper tantrum, inflicting tremendous Physical damage to nearby enemies with a chance to stun them for 3 seconds.
• Explorer's Ammunition Journal — Brann's combat mastery grants him 5% increased damage done by his spells and abilities.
• Explorer's Medical Journal (Paragon Ability) — Brann's combat mastery grants him 5% increased healing done by his spells and abilities.

New in Patch 11.1 is Brann's tank role. Brann relies on his allies, scavenged advanced technology, and his trusty shogun to charge into the front lines.

While Brann is set up as Tank, he gains access to the following abilities:

• Veteran of Ironforge: Brann wields a pistol and a shield that wears down in battle, providing damage reduction per stack. As the shields gets damaged, Brann’s survival instincts kick in, increasing his damage dealt, and when the shield gets worn-out, he switches to his trusty shotgun.
• Bronzebeard's Brown Bear:Brann summons the family bear, which charges into battle, launching enemies up into the air. The bear then prepares for a series of massive stomps, dealing damage, forming an area that increases dodge chance, and increasing maximum health.
• Electro-Charged Gadgets: Brann’s equipment is enhanced with cutting-edge tech upgrades.
  • Electro-Charged Shield: Effective healing done to Brann pulsates as Nature damage to nearby enemies.
  • Electro-Charged Pistol: Each shot discharges and electrical current, arcing through nearby enemies and reducing their attack speed. Healing Brann super-charges his pistol to deal more damage.
  • Electro-Charged Shotgun: Each enemy hit has a chance to be knocked down. Healing Brann super-charges his shotgun to deal more damage.
• Neat Rope Trick: When an enemy attacks a player, Brann throws his trusty lasso, pulling the enemy back to him. The same enemy cannot be lassoed more than once within 10 seconds.
• Sentry Totem: Brann deploys an electrifying totem, nullifying up to 3 harmful spells and boosting combat capabilities of allies within the area.
• Grand Brann Slam: Brann leaps into battle with concussive force, dealing damage and taunting enemies nearby.
• Lightning Link: Brann generates an electro link that transfers damage done to nearby allies to himself.
• Explorer's Survival Journal (paragon Ability): Brann’s combat mastery grants him increased maximum health and healing received.

Curios are special items looted from chests at the end of a delve run. They further improve Brann's combat capabilities.

Curios have four ranks, and you can improve the rank of a curio by looting the same curio of a higher rank at higher tiers.

The following Combat Curios are available in Season 3:

• Ethereal Energy Converter — When a party member drops below 60% health, an Ethereal Energy Converter materializes, dealing moderate damage to nearby enemies and taunting them for 4 seconds. Once the taunt expires, the Converter releases an Etherwave healing nearby allies for 20% of their health. Can be triggered every 2 minutes. Killing enemies reduces the cooldown of this effect by 2 seconds.
• Hatarang — Brann has a chance to pull out random hats and throw them at his enemies, dealing moderate damage and applying 1 debuff(s) to 2 targets. Possible debuffs include a 20% damage taken increase, 20% damage dealt decrease, and 20% attack and cast speed decrease.
• Mana-Tinted Glasses — Brann dons mana-tinted glasses while in combat, periodically increasing his damage done by 5% and damage taken by 5% every 5 seconds up to 10 times. Dispelling the glasses will heal Brann for 70% of his maximum health and stun nearby enemies for 5 seconds. Otherwise this effect is automatically dispelled when Brann drops below 30% health which prevents the stun from occurring.
• Nether Overlay Matrix — During combat, Brann has a chance to manifest a 60% weaker ethereal copy of himself to fight by your side for 1 minute.
• Quizzical Device — Brann has a chance to grant players a 20% bonus to health, damage, or healing for 20 seconds based on his selected Combat Role. Players have a chance to grant Brann a 20% bonus to health, damage, or healing for 20 seconds based on their selected role.

The following Utility Curios are available in Season 3:

• Audio Amplification Crystal — Brann's voice is tremendously amplified with Arcane magic causing his words to potentially grant the party a buff based on what was spoken.
• Battered Aegis — While the Aegis is equipped, all party members deal 3% increased damage and healing. Every 10 seconds during combat, you and Brann heal for 5% of the damage you've taken during that time. When a player dies, the Aegis grants them 1% damage reduction and 2% increased healing received upon revival, but reduces their damage and healing dealt by 1% stacking up to 3 times.
• Sands of K'aresh — When Brann uses Gathering Tools, sands begin swirling around party members, granting 12% Critical Strike up to 10 times and slowing nearby enemies by 12%. Dealing a Critical Strike creates a Sand Devil at the target's location for 6 seconds that periodically pulls enemies to its center. Can only occur every 45 seconds.
• Tailwind Conduit — Generates a burst of speed on exiting combat, increasing your Movement Speed by 100% for 10 seconds decaying over time. Using a defensive cooldown while in combat has gusts of wind surround you, applying a shield for 8 seconds equal to 50% of your missing health.
• Temporal Decelerator Crystal — Damaging an Elite at 80% or above and at 20% or below health causes Brann to trigger the crystal's energies, reducing the Elite's attack and cast speed by 50% for 30 seconds. Killing the targeted Elite while the debuff is active grants the party an 8% stacking Haste buff.

Here are the best curio recommendations for Brann depending on his role:

• Tank: Mana-Tinted Glasses + Battered Aegis.
• Healer: Hatarang + Temporal Decelerator Crystal.
• DPS: Hatarang + Temporal Decelerator Crystal.

When doing Delves, maximizing Brann's DPS is essential to efficiently killing enemies. Below are some steps to help you improve Brann's effectiveness in combat.

Brann's strength scales directly with your item level. Therefore, try bringing your average Item Level to 700 when he hits like a wet noodle.

The following section will be updated with powerful curio combos when we figure them out!

In addition to maximizing DPS, timing interrupts is key to maintaining control during fights. Therefore, tracking Brann's interrupt is crucial and helps you avoid wasting your own. You can find it here .

Download the Dwarven Medicine Tracker to ensure 100% uptime on Dwarven Medicine to build stacks indefinitely.

If Brann’s health drops to 0 in his Tank Role, he will become Unconscious, taking 50% reduced healing. It is crucial to bring him back quickly. On higher difficulties, reviving him can be challenging. When he becomes Unconscious, turn around and head back immediately. Brann will eventually respawn nearby, giving you a brief window to revive him before enemy mobs close in.

Check out what's new for Delves in Season 3 in our general guide.