My general impression with all the hotfixes and balancing is that Blizzard does a pretty good job of creating a game that has challenges but not quirks that result in sudden death. There were a lot of complaints about the Zek’vir fight to the contrary, but it’s prety consistent once you understand the dance and plan 10-15 seconds ahead to position yourself.
There’s one thing that has been getting me from time to time ever since 11.0, and that is one air buble in the Sinkhole delve. It sits at the top of the uphill path, after the halfway checkpoint, at the last part of the map where it’s possible to fall off into the abyss and die. Often you need to reach that bubble while fighting one of the nearby packs of multiple small enemies. The touble is, like many of the bubbles in that delve, it’s hidden behind a cluster of rocks that require some sort of jump to surmount. And, with any bubble, acquiring it produces a sudden boost of speed which, if you are jumping to get over the rocks that are in the way, flings you forward and off into the abyss. The effect is likely exaggreated by the reduced gravity effect of the underwater environment.
This has killed me a number of times, always to my frustration because there’s nothing else that’s putting me in grave danger, just the fact that I’m in a relatively involved melee fight and I need to keep a constant supply of bubbles.
I’ll grant that Blizzard has now implemented some sort of purchaseable option for bubbles on demand, and I’ll also grant that the Paladin I’m often running this on has a very high 28% movement speed bonus through gear and gems, which could be further exaggerating the effect. But the “burst of speed” effect that causes you to start flying through the air (water) at a much higher velocity after touching the bubble–contrary to physics and intuition–seems more sadistic than anything else. This spot in the delve should be adjusted so that the bubble can be acquired without jumping.
I always pack water breathing pots so I don’t have to worry about it.
Although… some classes can completely negate breathing.
I think the longest one of my toons went was my war. She was “drowning” for over 4 minutes before I decided to get a bubble.
But its always easier to spend a few gold and grab a pot and completely remove the worry of drowning.
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Could you use a water breathing potion/noggenfoggers and not need to worry about the bubble at all?
I’ll be honest, I’ve never used the bubbles because I have a magic fishing pole.
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or get the fishing pole from one of the rep vendors
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the nogginfogger one can if you get the skeleton one
says 10 min in comments on wowhead for the toy elixir.
if it still has that random thing like the potion then it would not be worth it
I think the appeal is it only takes up no bag slots. But yeah, it’s goblin pricing lol
true rng is rng could hit it on the first 50s or 2-5g in lol
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I use breathing pots, and don’t give the bubbles any thought tbh.
I mean, it’s 50s. I spend 25c just to port from the SW bank to goldshire during dmf.
I only use the air bubbles for the occasional speed boost. Other than that I just equip that Tuskarr fishing pole from WotLK and forget I’m even underwater.
I sit in dolphin form till my cow decides to stop loldrowning (faker) but yeah, the placement of the bubbles could be better. There’s lots of things they could fix.
Like being able to pull the bottom AND TOP levels of Sluice when you don’t expect it. That should be fixed too.
I haven’t fallen to my death when coming thru the door and jumping down the hole in a week so maybe Blizz is looking at our posts. If so: blizz, fix bubble positions for OP thanks. 
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The water ones are the ABSOLUTE WORST but ironically it has NOTHING to do with water breathing…
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You are correct, it has to do with LOS issues and Brann hiding his healing potions underground.
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Talk to the Goblin at the start of the Delve and for 200 gold she’ll sell you an on call air bubble. It makes things a lot easier!
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