Best Brann Curios for Every Role in The War Within Delves

The best Brann curios for Tier 8+ Delves are Quizzical Device (combat) and Tailwind Conduit (utility). That combo works for Tank, DPS, and Healer Brann across all of The War Within, from Season 1 through Season 3 (Patch 11.2.5). If you’re still running TWW Delves after the World of Warcraft Midnight expansion dropped on March 2, 2026, Brann is still your companion there. Valeera took over for Midnight Delves only.

I ran hundreds of Delves across all three TWW seasons testing different loadouts, and the best Brann curios shifted with every major patch. Some that felt broken early on got fixed or replaced entirely. This guide covers the final Season 3 meta (the last curio set Brann will ever get) plus a quick recap of Season 2 loadouts in case you’re still catching up on older content.

Quick Answer: Top Curio Picks at a Glance

Short on time? Here is the cheat sheet. Curio values listed are Rank 4.

Your Spec	Brann Role	Combat Curio	Utility Curio
DPS (Rogue, Mage, Hunter, etc.)	Healer	Quizzical Device	Tailwind Conduit
Tank (Prot Warrior, Blood DK, etc.)	DPS	Hatarang	Tailwind Conduit
Healer (Resto Druid, Holy Paladin, etc.)	Tank	Quizzical Device	Tailwind Conduit
Any spec (universal safe pick)	Any	Quizzical Device	Tailwind Conduit
Ky’veza Nemesis fight	Any	Hatarang	Battered Aegis

If you want the reasoning behind each pick, keep reading. I also ranked every curio and broke down which classes benefit most from each Brann role.

How Curios Work in WoW Delves

Brann Bronzebeard equips two curios per Delve run: one combat curio and one utility curio. You pick both before entering at the Explorers’ League Supplies. They lock in once the run starts, so there is no swapping mid-Delve.

Curios drop from treasure chests at the end of completed Delves. Each curio has four ranks, and you upgrade by finding the same curio at a higher rank from harder tiers. Rank 4 is the cap, and the jump from Rank 1 to Rank 4 is massive. A Rank 1 Quizzical Device gives maybe 10% bonuses where Rank 4 gives a full 20%. Blizzard reset the entire curio pool each season, so you always started from scratch when a new season launched.

One thing that trips people up: curios do not scale with your item level. Your gear affects Brann’s base stats (his health, his damage numbers), but curio effects are rank-dependent only. So a fresh 80 with Rank 4 curios gets the same curio bonuses as someone in full Mythic gear. For a deeper look at Brann’s full ability kit and leveling, Icy Veins has a solid companion guide.

Curio Detail	How It Works
Slots per run	1 combat + 1 utility
Max rank	Rank 4
Source	End-of-Delve treasure chests
Swappable mid-run?	No, locked on entry
Scale with ilvl?	No, rank only
Season-specific?	Yes, each TWW season had different curios

All Season 3 Brann Curios (Patch 11.2.5)

Season 3 introduced 10 curios sourced from K’aresh. All Season 2 curios were wiped when the new season launched, so everyone started fresh. Brann Bronzebeard’s curio pool got smaller compared to Season 2 (10 vs 14), but the individual curios were more impactful. Several of them interact with Brann’s Gathering Tools ability, which triggers automatically when he finds profession nodes. Here is the full list at Rank 4 values.

This video breaks down the new Season 3 curios and how they compare to what we had before.

Combat Curios

• Ethereal Energy Converter – This one saved my life exactly twice in maybe 50 runs. When anyone drops below 60% HP, it spawns a device that taunts for 4 seconds and then heals your party for 20% HP. Sounds great on paper. The problem? A 2-minute cooldown. It goes down by 2 seconds per kill, but you’re still waiting forever between procs. By the time it comes back up, you’ve already handled the situation yourself.
• Hatarang – Brann chucks hats at mobs. Actual hats. It hits 2 targets for decent damage and slaps one of three debuffs on them: +20% damage taken, -20% damage dealt, or -20% cast/attack speed. All three are good, and the key part is this thing works on bosses. Most combat curios don’t. That alone makes it the DPS combat pick.
• Mana-Tinted Glasses – This is the healer tryhard curio. Brann stacks a buff that gives him +5% damage every 5 seconds, up to 10 stacks. The catch is he also takes 5% more damage per stack. You can dispel the buff to heal him for 70% max HP and stun everything nearby for 5 seconds. Or, if you miss the timing and he drops to 30%, it auto-dispels without the stun. I saw a lot of wipes from people who forgot to dispel. If you’re a Resto Druid or Holy Paladin who enjoys micro-managing, this curio slaps. Everyone else should skip it.
• Quizzical Device – The safe pick, and honestly the best one. It gives players a flat +20% to health, damage, or healing for 20 seconds based on whatever role Brann is set to. Tank Brann gives you HP. DPS Brann gives you damage. Healer Brann gives you healing. No downside, no gimmick, just a straight buff. I ran this on probably 80% of my Delves.
• Nether Overlay Matrix – Spawns a weaker clone of Brann that lasts 60 seconds. At Rank 4 the clone is supposed to be at 30% strength, but the scaling felt off for the entire season. Community consensus was that it was bugged and never got fixed. Only grab this if your Quizzical Device is stuck at Rank 1 or 2 and you need something in the combat slot.

Utility Curios

• Audio Amplification Crystal – Brann yells and sometimes your party gets a random buff out of it. That’s basically what this does. The higher rank versions were bugged for most of Season 3 (Rank 3 and 4 gave the same values as Rank 1 according to multiple reports on the forums). Skip this entirely unless Blizzard patches it, which at this point they won’t since Midnight is out.
• Battered Aegis – You get a passive +3% damage and healing just for having this equipped. Every 10 seconds, Brann and your character heal for 5% of damage taken recently. If you die, you revive with extra defense but deal less damage. It’s boring. It’s also really solid for fights where you just want to not think about curios at all. I used this for Ky’veza learning pulls before I had the fight figured out.
• Sands of K’aresh – Every 45 seconds when Brann uses Gathering Tools, sand swirls around and gives your party up to +12% Crit per stack. Critting summons Sand Devils that yank enemies together. In trash-heavy Delves this felt amazing. On bosses with no profession nodes nearby? Literally does nothing. Very map-dependent, which killed it for me as a default pick.
• Tailwind Conduit – This is it. The one. After every combat, you get +100% movement speed that fades over 10 seconds. Pop a defensive cooldown and you get a shield worth 50% of your missing HP for 8 seconds. The speed alone saves 3-4 minutes per Delve run because you’re sprinting between packs instead of walking. The shield is just a bonus on top. I never took this off once I got it to Rank 2, and at Rank 4 it felt mandatory.
• Temporal Decelerator Crystal – Hit an Elite when they’re above 80% or below 20% HP and they get slowed by 50% on attacks and casts for 30 seconds. Kill them while the debuff is active and your whole party gets +8% Haste, permanently (well, for the rest of the run). In Delves with 6-7 elites you can stack 40-50% Haste by the final boss. Insane value in the right Delve, but it does nothing on maps with few elites.

Season 3 Curio Tier List

Not all curios are created equal. I ranked them based on consistency, raw power, and how many Brann roles they fit. Community consensus on r/wow and the official forums mostly lined up with this, though some players swear by Sands of K’aresh for AoE trash (fair point, but it falls off on bosses).

Tier	Curio	Type	Why
S	Quizzical Device	Combat	Universal, +20% to your most needed stat, zero downside
S	Tailwind Conduit	Utility	Speed + defensive shield, best utility slot by far
A	Hatarang	Combat	Works on bosses, strong debuffs, best DPS combat pick
A	Temporal Decelerator Crystal	Utility	Stacking Haste is nuts in elite-heavy runs
B	Mana-Tinted Glasses	Combat	High ceiling but punishes mistakes, healer-only pick
B	Battered Aegis	Utility	Set and forget passive sustain, good for Ky’veza
B	Sands of K’aresh	Utility	Strong AoE Crit stacking but useless without profession nodes
C	Ethereal Energy Converter	Combat	2-min cooldown is too long, outclassed by Quizzical Device
C	Nether Overlay Matrix	Combat	Bugged scaling, weak copy, only use if nothing else is ranked up
C	Audio Amplification Crystal	Utility	Higher ranks bugged, random buffs are unreliable

Best Brann Curios by Role (Season 3)

The right loadout depends on what role Brann fills and what spec you play. These are the best Brann curios setups I found after testing through Tier 8 to Tier 11. If you’re running addons for your Delves, a good WeakAura for tracking curio procs makes a noticeable difference.

Tank Brann: Best Curios for Healer Players

Tank Brann was lowkey the strongest spec in Season 3. He taunts, he takes hits, and he actually deals solid damage while doing it. If your class can heal (Paladin, Druid, Priest, Shaman, even Evoker), Tank Brann turns Tier 8+ Delves into a smooth ride.

Slot	Best Pick	Alternative
Combat	Quizzical Device (+20% HP)	Mana-Tinted Glasses (risky but big heals)
Utility	Tailwind Conduit (speed + shield)	Temporal Decelerator Crystal (Haste stacks)

Quizzical Device on Tank Brann gives him a 20% health boost, which makes him tankier and harder to kill. Tailwind Conduit covers movement between packs and gives you a defensive shield when you pop a cooldown. The Mana-Tinted Glasses alternative is fun if you like timing dispels for the 5-second AoE stun, but it punishes mistakes hard.

DPS Brann: Best Curios for Tank Players

If you’re playing a tank spec (Prot Warrior, Guardian Druid, Blood DK, Brewmaster, etc.), you want Brann pumping damage behind you. DPS Brann’s raw output is solid and the Hatarang debuffs actually work on bosses, which makes a real difference on Tier 11 final bosses.

Slot	Best Pick	Alternative
Combat	Hatarang (damage + boss debuffs)	Quizzical Device (+20% damage)
Utility	Tailwind Conduit (speed + shield)	Temporal Decelerator Crystal (Haste stacks)

Hatarang’s debuffs are random, which is annoying, but all three outcomes are good. The +20% damage taken debuff on a boss is huge. Temporal Decelerator Crystal is a strong alternative for the utility slot if you chain elites quickly, since the Haste stacks are permanent for the rest of the run.

Healer Brann: Best Curios for DPS Players

Most DPS players default to Healer Brann for solo content. It is the safest pick if you lack self-sustain or your ilvl is on the low side. Brann’s healing is not going to carry you through standing in fire, but it smooths out incoming damage enough to keep you alive during trash pulls.

Slot	Best Pick	Alternative
Combat	Quizzical Device (+20% healing)	Hatarang (if you need more DPS)
Utility	Tailwind Conduit (speed + shield)	Battered Aegis (passive regen)

Quizzical Device in Healer mode gives Brann +20% healing, which is a straight throughput increase. If you already heal yourself fine and just want faster clears, swap to Hatarang for the debuffs instead. Battered Aegis works as a backup utility if you want completely passive sustain and don’t care about the movement speed.

Season 2 Loadouts (Undermine Recap)

Season 2 curios came from Undermine and were completely different from both Season 1 and Season 3. The best Brann curios in Season 2 leaned heavily into pet summoning and enemy cloning, which was a wildly different feel from the stat-buffing focus of Season 3. If you’re still running Season 2 content or just want the history, here is what worked.

The universal loadout that most players ran was Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit (combat) and Three Dimensional Bioprinter (utility). The Mechasaur spawned taunting pets from Brann’s egg, and the Bioprinter created copies of elite enemies at 40% HP that fought for you. Together, this combo was borderline broken. You could flood the screen with allies and delete bosses in seconds.

If the Mechasaur + Bioprinter combo felt too chaotic, here were the simpler role-specific picks:

• Tank Brann: Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit + L00T RAID-R
• DPS Brann: Pinged Augment Chip + Biofuel Rocket Gear
• Healer Brann: Pinged Augment Chip + Overdrive Pylon

Pinged Augment Chip was the go-to in Season 2. Flat 20% more health, damage, and healing on Brann. The downside? Random mechanical bots would spawn and try to stun him. Sounds bad, but in my runs the bots died in one or two hits and the 20% buff was just too good to pass up.

Season 1: Where It All Started

Back in Season 1, nobody really knew what they were doing with Delves. Brann didn’t even have a Tank role yet (that came in Patch 11.1). You picked DPS or Healer and worked with a smaller curio pool. Most people landed on Arrowhead Idol for combat and Amorphous Relic or Relic of Sentience for utility.

Arrowhead Idol pumped up Brann’s trap damage. Traps were basically his whole kit in Season 1, so buffing them was a no-brainer. Relic of Sentience was cool because it changed based on his role. DPS Brann got extra traps, Healer Brann got extra potions. Simple, but it worked.

There was also the Rage Filled Idol, which was the “I want Brann to go absolutely feral” option. It cranked his DPS but drained his HP. Paladin and Druid players loved it because they could keep Brann alive with off-heals while he went ham. Blizzard clearly liked that idea, because Mana-Tinted Glasses in Season 3 is basically the same concept with extra steps.

None of these curios exist anymore. The Underpin event at the start of Season 2 wiped all of them. If you joined WoW during Season 2 or later, you never even saw the Season 1 set. Blizzard nuked the curio pool every season and rebuilt it from scratch. Kept things fresh, but the farming at the start of each season was brutal.

Brann vs Valeera: What Changed in Midnight

With World of Warcraft Midnight launching on March 2, 2026, Brann Bronzebeard retired from Delves. Valeera Sanguinar took his place as the companion for all Midnight Delves in Quel’Thalas. Brann is still your companion if you go back and run The War Within Delves, but Midnight content uses Valeera exclusively.

Valeera’s curios are a completely different system. She still has combat and utility slots, but the curios themselves are new. As a Delve companion, Valeera plays more like a Rogue with stealth openers and bleeds, which is a big shift from Brann’s explorer toolkit. The standout pick in Midnight Season 1 is Mandate of Sacred Death (utility), which procs extra Holy damage based on enemy max HP whenever Valeera uses Tools of the Trade near profession nodes. For combat, Porcelain Blade Tip edges out other options in raw throughput.

If you’re looking for gear progression and you own Midnight, running Midnight Delves with Valeera is the better path. But if you’re farming transmog, achievements, or the Delver’s Mana-Skimmer mount from TWW Season 3, knowing the best Brann curios still matters because those Delves haven’t changed.

Tips for Farming and Upgrading Brann Curios

Getting all your curios to Rank 4 takes time. Picking the best Brann curios matters less if everything is still Rank 1, so farming should be your first priority. Here is what I found works best.

1. Run Bountiful Delves daily. The Bountiful Coffer at the end has the best chance of dropping new or upgraded curios. Check your map for the glowing golden door icon.
2. Lower tiers still drop curios. If Tier 8+ feels rough, farming Tier 5-7 still gives curio drops. The rank of the drop is lower on average, but you can still get lucky.
3. Focus on one loadout first. Don’t spread your runs across all three roles. Pick the Brann spec you use most and farm curios for that setup to Rank 4 before branching out.
4. Track Brann’s interrupt. This is not about curios directly, but using a WeakAura to track Brann’s Trusty Whip cooldown helps you time your own interrupts better. Fewer missed kicks means smoother runs and more runs per hour.

Which Brann Role Should You Pick?

This depends on your class, not on which curios look cool. Even the best Brann curios won’t save you if you’re running the wrong role for your spec. The general rule from the Season 3 meta was simple.

Playing Rogue, Mage, Hunter, or Warlock without a drain build? You need Healer Brann. Period. Those classes have zero sustain on their own, and Brann’s healing won’t save you from a one-shot, but it keeps you alive between pulls so you’re not sitting at 40% HP when the next pack aggros.

Tanks and healers have it better. If you’re tanking, set Brann to DPS and let him throw Hatarangs while you hold aggro. If you’re healing, go Tank Brann. That combo was the meta in Season 3 for a reason. Tank Brann taunted everything, did respectable damage, and got stronger the more you healed him. I watched a Resto Druid on my server chain-pull an entire Delve wing without stopping. Zero deaths, Tank Brann just ate everything.

A common mistake I saw on the WoW forums: people running Healer Brann on a Protection Paladin. You don’t need two healers. Set Brann to DPS and let him throw hats at things while you tank everything yourself.

Recommended Brann Role by Class and Spec

This table covers every class. Some specs are flexible, so I listed the safe default plus an alternative if you’re comfortable with higher risk.

Class	Spec(s)	Brann Role	Notes
Death Knight	Blood	DPS	Blood self-heals, Brann adds damage
Death Knight	Frost, Unholy	Healer	Tank Brann also works if you kite well
Demon Hunter	Vengeance	DPS	Vengeance is near unkillable in Delves
Demon Hunter	Havoc	Healer	Leech builds can run Tank Brann instead
Druid	Guardian	DPS	Bear + DPS Brann = fast, safe runs
Druid	Restoration	Tank	Resto + Tank Brann was the S3 meta combo
Druid	Balance, Feral	Healer	Feral can run Tank Brann with Regrowth weaving
Evoker	Preservation	Tank	Strong combo, Brann tanks while you heal and DPS
Evoker	Devastation, Augmentation	Healer	Aug can flex to Tank Brann in organized groups
Hunter	All specs	Healer	Pet tanks, Brann heals. Simple and reliable
Mage	All specs	Healer	Zero self-sustain, Healer Brann is mandatory
Monk	Brewmaster	DPS	Stagger handles incoming, Brann adds output
Monk	Mistweaver	Tank	Strong pairing, very safe at high tiers
Monk	Windwalker	Healer	Touch of Karma helps but isn’t enough alone
Paladin	Protection	DPS	Self-sustain king, Brann purely for damage
Paladin	Holy	Tank	Holy + Tank Brann rivals Resto Druid combo
Paladin	Retribution	Healer	Word of Glory builds can try Tank Brann
Priest	Discipline, Holy	Tank	Healer specs want Tank Brann for damage
Priest	Shadow	Healer	Vampiric Embrace helps but not enough solo
Rogue	All specs	Healer	No self-healing, Healer Brann or suffer
Shaman	Restoration	Tank	Another strong healer + Tank Brann pairing
Shaman	Elemental, Enhancement	Healer	Enhance has some off-healing but not enough
Warlock	All specs	Healer	Drain Life builds can flex to Tank Brann
Warrior	Protection	DPS	Prot Warrior + DPS Brann is a classic
Warrior	Arms, Fury	Healer	Impending Victory helps but isn’t reliable

The pattern is obvious: if you can heal, run Tank Brann. If you can tank, run DPS Brann. If you do neither, Healer Brann keeps you alive. There are edge cases (Feral Druid can weave Regrowth casts to run Tank Brann, Ret Paladin can Word of Glory spam) but those require more effort and game knowledge. The defaults in the table above work for most players pushing Tier 8 through Tier 11.

Curios for Ky’veza (Season 3 Nemesis Boss)

Nexus-Princess Ky’veza was the Season 3 Delve Nemesis. She has specific mechanics that interact poorly with some curios. Sands of K’aresh is useless in the Ky’veza fight because there are no profession nodes in Voidrazor Sanctuary (if you want to know more about how WoW professions interact with Delve curios, we cover that separately). That means the Sand Devils trigger condition never fires.

For Ky’veza specifically, the best loadout was:

Slot	Recommended
Combat	Hatarang or Nether Overlay Matrix
Utility	Audio Amplification Crystal or Battered Aegis

Tailwind Conduit loses value here because the fight is one long combat encounter with minimal downtime between phases. Battered Aegis gives passive sustain through the whole fight, and Audio Amplification Crystal provides random but helpful buffs without requiring any specific triggers.

Useful WeakAuras and Addons for Brann Delves

Curios are only half the equation. Tracking what Brann is doing matters just as much, and the default UI gives you almost nothing. Here are the tools I used across all three seasons.

The Dwarven Medicine Tracker WeakAura monitors Brann’s Dwarven Medicine stacks and tells you when the buff is about to fall off. Keeping 100% uptime on Dwarven Medicine is a free healing increase that most people ignore. A Reddit thread on r/wow from early Season 3 showed that maintaining full stacks added roughly 15-20% more healing from Brann over a full Delve run.

For interrupt tracking, there’s a WeakAura specifically for Brann’s Trusty Whip cooldown. Knowing when Brann will kick means you can hold your own interrupt for overlapping casts instead of wasting both on the same target. In Tier 11 runs, this coordination is the difference between clean pulls and wipes on caster packs.

The Wago.io page for Brann has a solid collection of Season 3 WeakAuras, including a curio proc reminder that flashes when your combat curio activates. Small quality of life, but it adds up over dozens of runs.

Frequently Asked Questions About Best Brann Curios

What are the best Brann curios in The War Within?

Quizzical Device (combat) and Tailwind Conduit (utility) are the strongest all-around picks in TWW Season 3. DPS players can swap Quizzical Device for Hatarang, and Tank Brann users may prefer Mana-Tinted Glasses if they have a healer spec.

Can you swap Brann curios mid-Delve?

No. Curios lock in when you start the Delve run. You need to pick your combat and utility curio before entering. You can change them at the Explorers’ League Supplies before starting.

Do Brann curios scale with item level?

No. Brann curios only scale by rank, from Rank 1 to Rank 4. Your item level affects Brann’s base stats, but curio effects are determined entirely by their rank.

Is Brann still available as a companion in WoW Midnight?

Brann is only available in The War Within Delves. In World of Warcraft Midnight (launched March 2, 2026), Valeera Sanguinar replaced Brann as the Delve companion. Valeera has her own set of curios.

What is the best Brann role for solo Delves?

If you play a DPS spec, Healer Brann is generally the safest pick for solo Delves. If your class has strong self-healing, Tank Brann became the meta pick in Season 3 because his damage output and survivability were both very strong.

How do you upgrade Brann curios to Rank 4?

You upgrade curios by finding the same curio at a higher rank from Delve completion chests. Running higher tier Delves increases the chance of dropping higher ranked curios. You can also farm lower tiers since curios still drop there.

If you’re gearing a fresh WoW account for Delves and want to jump straight into farming the best Brann curios at Tier 8+, check out our WoW accounts page for ready-to-play options. For leveling tips on getting to 80 fast, our WoW leveling guide covers the fastest routes.

Last updated: April 2026