Can someone explain Delver's Bountys?

what i know:

  • you’ll only start getting them after reaching stage 2 of Delver’s Journey.
  • they can only be looted from Bountiful Delves.
  • you can only use 1 per week.

what i don’t know:

  • can you loot more than 1 a week?
  • do they have to be used in a Bountiful Delve?
  • do they have to be used at a specific point in the Delve?
  • if you use it in a T8+, are you guaranteed Hero gear?
  • how many Gilded Crests should you get for each Tier?

and how do you check if you’ve used your Bounty for the week? i’ve seen people say to use this:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(86371)

… but it returns TRUE on a toon that definitely didn’t use a Bounty. although it did loot a Bounty.

and then Shrieking Quartzes!

  • do they need to be used in a Bountiful Delve?
  • do you need to kill the Nemesis, or just get it down to a certain % to get the cache? i think i read 50% somewhere?
  • is the cache guaranteed to contain a Delver’s Bounty? (assuming there’s no weekly limit, and assuming you haven’t looted one already.)

and why doesn’t Blizz explain this clearly somewhere?!?!?!

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-one per character per week
-yes in bountiful only
-no you can even use them out of the bountiful delve
-yes

Easiest way to know if you used it is if you walk up to a delve that is bountiful before you enter you’ll see it as an option to still receive. If it’s not there you claimed it this week

-shrieking quartz use inside the bountiful at the save stone
-no
-yes

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For the Bounty I have only ever had 1 in a bag at a time, so I don’t recall the ability to acquire more than one at a time.

I only ever used it before entering a Delve, so I am unsure if you can just slap it on to get it to work.

It does not need to be a Bountiful Delve, just 4 and above.

The gear is Hero regardless of delve level. There are no gilded crests, that is only for 11s and only 3 a week.

For the Shrieking Quartz it has to be used at one of the spawn stones. With that said I only tried during a bountiful. The loot only appears if she is defeated. If you are killed, she will just disappear to my knowledge.

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No you can also loot it from that princess boss, u can buy the item to summon her

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No

Yes

As long as used before final boss or gathering of treasures. Unclear on that.

Yes, once a week.

No

No, you can die right off the bat and they leave the stuff.

As far as I can tell, yes.

And thats all I know or have gathered.

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Wowhead says 4-5 is veteran 6-7 is champion and 8+ is hero.

Never used one below 8 to check though.

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I found out if you use the bounty before you fight end boss it works for that delve.

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this only shows if you’ve looted one, not used one. i guess if you have one in your bag and you can only loot one per week (and can’t loot one if you already have one in your bag), you can assume you haven’t used one.

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You can use them and then do a non-bountiful.

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Ah, yea, I was mistaken on that bit. Thanks for the correction.

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You can use more than one per week, but you can only loot 1 per week.
Using a delver’s bounty gives you a permanent buff until you loot the hidden chest in a delve.

Before the final boss is dead. Or before objective complete, if in a hidden room.

I’ll verify, but I’m pretty sure 86371 is for delver’s bounty usage (you used the item and got the permanent buff).

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You want to use it in an 11, it gives 10 Gilded Crests in an 11. You only get 6 in an 8/9 and 8 in a 10.

You can also force the bounty to drop by using the Summon Item (that can drop from the misc things around the delve or bought for 2000 Undercoins each) at a summon stone in a delve, to summon Ky’veza to fight you. Win or lose, she’ll drop one.

Can only loot 1 a week though.

Together with running 3 11s and using the map in an 11, you get 31 crests a week. Which means every 2 weeks (AKA when you get a full spark), you’ll get 62 crests, enough to fully empower a Spark Crafted Item.

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to cap your weekly crests, do you use the map in one of the 3 T11’s, or do you use it in a 4th T11?

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I use it in one of the 3, cause I hate running 11s lol.

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They do not require bountiful. I did one today that was not.

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It’s fairly binary. If you don’t see the Bounty notation at the start of the Delve then you’ve either used it or you have it in your bag. You can’t have more than one ever so that pretty much covers it all.

You don’t even need to time a delve to get the “Hidden Chest”. All you have to do is finish the Delve. Bountiful or not. You will still get 10 guilded for a T11 and a Hero drop.

No point in doing 4 T11s. You get the same rewards in doing 3 T11s and a T8. The only reason to do a 4th T11 is if you got unlucky and only got the Delver’s Bounty on the 3rd T11 you did.

I keep a Quartz in my Warbank. If by the near end of the 3rd T11 Delve, and I still haven’t got a Delvers Bounty, I will summon the Princess (and die) and then get it. Remember to USE IT IMMEDIATELY. :stuck_out_tongue:

so run three T11’s, one of them with a Bounty/Quartz to cap crests, and 1 or 5 more T8’s if you still need Hero gear. got it!

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my weekly delve routine

  1. DO A t11 Bountiful - if map drops from chests then good ( or if Ky’v shows up ) I use teh map before entering my next T11 . If not then

  2. do another t11 - same as above except

  3. teh 3rd delve i do if i dont get map is a T8 and i use the device to summon ky’v at the check point to get a bountiful map . If map did drop from second t11 I skip this step and then go straight to 4

  4. do my third T11 ( all bountiful ) -I havve now got my 31 Guilded crests . the rest of teh eight for the week are t8s , dont have to be bountiful to fill vault row with heroic gear .

couple of hints :

do not waste map on anything but an T11.

When summoning Ky’V make sure there are no nemisis enemys close ( same when opening flicker gates ) because these inevitably get pulled as well and that makes for a very difficult fight ( flicker gate , if it summons teh lesser K , it doesnt go away if you die so your are repeatably fighting her and teh nem mobs)

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