Delves are dehumanizing and emotinally abusive

There was a quest in Fungal Folly where I had to run around in circles, and then the NPC even said, “I can’t believe I made you do that.” This is utterly disrespectful and horrible. I don’t want to play a game that forces me to run in circles, even once, and then explicitly calls me a fool. At that moment, it feels like I’m just a pawn with no self-worth.

Deleves helped gear my main to item level 619, acquire set pieces with that Spidersilk thing, and made me feel genuinely useful in Mythic+. Now I’m about 2.3k IO on my main!

I’m rolling an alt to get some 619 gear and set pieces, but I have to do Delves again. I’m not sure I can handle it. I have about 13 days left on my subscription, and I don’t know if I can go through this hazing by Blizzard’s game designers. I want to enjoy Mythic+ and be useful while having fun, but the Delves make me run in circles.

On the plus side, Delves can teach you interrupts, rotations, and the right abilities to use in various situations—AOE vs. single-target—to maximize damage. That’s what Delves should be: excellent combat simulators, preparing you for higher-end content. They shouldn’t make you run in circles and then comment on how absurd it all is.

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lol

  

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I mean it is funny some world savior was made to run around in circles like a fool

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You willingly made an elf but are upset about being called a fool?

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so soooo MUCH FUN. I love the ones with the gas clouds around them two fungles on mounts a ton of little ones, sporebits and of course the mobs if you don’t silent give mini mobs. What FUN. HAHA…NOT!

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I don’t want to run in circles :frowning:

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Oh, the misery he had to run in circles. lol

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/drags couch into the thread…

/puts on glasses…

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So… they should just snicker quietly to themselves, like the ones who give you poop quests? Or are those not absurd?

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OP probably never played BfA.

No, Delves are dehumanizing and abusive because the trash takes forever and a day to kill.

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Don’t eat the shrooms

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Lol wut /10

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You should see what Blizz made people do to get a puke green motorcycle. Lmao

Humiliation rituals increase player retention, no joke. If you break someone’s spirit, they won’t leave you.

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All the delves put you on a hamster wheel of one sort or another.

Are we talking about the pink elekk again? I love the pink Elekk… I wanted to take it home with me but Brann reminded me I couldn’t… buzz kill.

Don’t break someone’s heart…they only have one of those… break their much much more abundant other breaky bits.

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Wasn’t that circle drawing straight out of legion? I distinctly recall having to run around, tracing increasingly complex designs for a world quest or regular quest at some point.

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Actually that’s hilarious. Need more of that in delves, it even has the appropriate difficulty for a delve player.

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“I just keep going round and round…
And round in circles, keep on tumbling down” - Mariah Carey. 2005.

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