Delve Scaling

I’m not sure of this is still under review or subject to tweaking, but scaling feels way off.

A DPS friend and me (healer) ran 2 8s yesterday and wow it was hard. The mob HP was way too high and they hit a bit too hard imo. To the point where I told him I was probably done with delves until that gets fixed.

Just let it be fun, Blizzard. We all play games for fun. I don’t want more work.

People who want a serious challenge have mythic raiding, zekvir’s delve, and high end m+.

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The gear you’re trying to get is m+ tier. Dont expect to get amazing gear with world quest difficulty, stick to 6 and below if you’re looking to chill.

Delves are supposed to be easy. Not sure why they did this…

Nah, people are going to tell you to get gud. Heroic gear shouldn’t come from easy mode content.

Imo, the more people that enjoy the game, the better. I raid for my gear and don’t care how another player earns theirs. :woman_shrugging:

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They’re pretty easy if you solo them. I noticed once you join a group it becomes crazy hard. You just have to go slow when you solo and try not to pull too many mobs at once. Preferably one at a time.

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Try with one tank bud. For the final boss your gonna need one.

Uh… no. When you’re getting Heroic ilevel gear from 8s, there should be a challenge to it.

You aren’t supposed to be getting free gear handed to you. You and I are both undergeared trying to do the top tier.

Absolutely false. Delves were specifically labeled as seasonal content to earn higher rewards as the challenge increased.

Yea, I do expect that some to say that. All I know is that they were fun, then after the changes, they were not fun anymore.

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I agree!

10 characters

So you go in on a tier 10, die repeatedly for gear that is below 600…how the great vault reward scales is as much a mystery as the heath and damage. What are the rules to this game? Some smug Professional WoW Player (PWP ™) says, “Well, you should be raiding with the REAL players.” This is a game? This is fun? This is World of Pointless Frustration.

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Pretty straightforward. At T8 you’ll get a 610 heroic track option for two delves, a second 610 for four delves, and a third 610 option for eight delves assuming all are completed at T8.

T9, T10, T11 do not increase your vault reward but will contribute toward the 610 rewards as above.

As game play, delves are some of the worst content they’ve made.

They make Horrific visions look like a master class, and that’s where they brought in massive visual and cognitive overload when you got up to 3-5 masks.

Just so weird how how you’ll be fine and then 100 to 0 in the blink of an eye. And it’s not something you really see happen to you. You have to rapidly keep switching from focusing on environment to run out of fire, mob to interrupt, interface to manage rotations and CD’s, and now your health bar which suddenly disappears in the blink of an eye with no other indication as to where it went.

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It’s pretty easy for hunter if you’re running a pet. At 11 I take it slower but for 8 you can just MD and barrage onto your pet with reckless abandon

That said when mobs to get to you the damage is very spikey. 100-10% health, brann heals and I usually fd but I can see how non tank classes might find it rough

I was trying to do the Sinkhole delve (on my main) with Ilvl of 580, on delve level 6. It says Ilvl 574+ BS. I could not make it to the last boss it was so difficult. The scaling IS way off, I will never do that delve again… on a 80 orc warrior tank.

Later, I did the waterworks delve lvl6, got through it but got a staff(?) Ilvl below mine. That is not fun anymore, its a chore and it shouldn’t be.