Delves are getting good

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I really didn’t like Tier 1 Delves. I was bored and really sad that this is what I was getting.

But level 2 and 3 have been great, and I’m really excited to try these with groups. The candle delve wasn’t my favorite, but the other two I’ve done have been super.

I’m also really excited to try leveling through delves with some alts once I cap this guy. Just some feedback I’d give:

  1. Don’t put the curios in my bag. Just give them to me. I’m assuming they’re WB wide.

  2. Diversify the mobs. Maybe this happens but so far it’s a lot of melee. I really did like the spider delve. That felt better, I’ve just had to do Kreivgers Rest (or whatever it’s called) twice.

  3. The major issue with Delves vis a vis Torghast is that Torghast had a waiting area that we could all /y in and ask for friends. Delves don’t have that. You might want to consider a LFD option or something like it. If there was a Delve portal room, that might also resolve this issue. PVP also has this problem, a central area for interested people to congregate is a massive advantage for a game mode to take off.

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The fact there’s no score/timer is all I needed, was my only issue with torghast

So they’re fine so far, bit easy, but hopefully the “extra” tiers above 8 solve that

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Score? Like to get to the bonus level?

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Yea, the fact you needed to rush it to get into those extra floors in torghast sucked cuz you could never just take your time and enjoy stuff

Delves are way nicer in that aspect, just wander around and try to find all the hidden treasures

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I haven’t done them all yet, but I will say the ones I have done I have enjoyed. I like that they are not very long, but not too short. The problem with Torghast for me is it became a slog after awhile. I prefer a short jog over a marathon.

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I hate those elite Abobo size Kolbolds.

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I won’t be doing them until next week outside of the ones I did to level up to 3

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I’m of mixed feeling about delves, some are fun but some such as the one that needs the candle or the gas mask I dislike. I’ve only really run my BM hunter and a few on my leveling prot pally so it’s too early to say if I like or hate them. Something I’d like to see is perhaps a longer candle timer or a candle station for the more mobile class/specs. I REALLY HATE the Sporbit as they’ll often ignore pet aggro and charge faster than I can move. On higher difficulties I can imagine this being a major source of frustration.

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The delves also change at level 80. That is, if you go back into that very first delve in Dorn at level 80, even set at level 1, it’s different from what you were doing in that early quest version of the delve.

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That’s because each delve has 3 stories that rotate each week, but the intro one in the campaign is always the same.

It’s the one with the runaway minecarts atm. Last week it was the grappling hooks.

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I was able to complete a level 1 bountiful delve, but it took a very long time, and the reward was not an upgrade. At level 2 the same bountiful delve flat out wrecked me.

If these are supposed to actually be solo content, they are overtuned for people with questing gear at the moment.

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I am looking forward to the higher tiers, seems fun in a similar way to torghast but not as grueling. I wouldn’t mind a mode similar to twisting corridors or something though

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Yes, they are meant to be challenging, I think, for the average solo player with quest greens. But really I think mostly they are an endgame activity, which is meant to scale like the other ones do in difficulty and reward, but doable solo and in small groups.

At level cap, the rewards scale – so tiers 5-6 at cap drop same as heroic/M0, and the vault items are same as those for lower level M+. So it’s intended to be similar in difficulty when you get to those levels, at cap, and, as we know, for the average fresh 80 player with average skills (not M 15+ type players), the tier 3 at level 80 in questing greens will be quite challenging I think, depending on class.

Ah – thanks for the explanation. I wasn’t aware of that. Good to know, so it’s less repetitive than it would otherwise be.