Delves need a rework on progression

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So as a player who was excited for delves and looking forward to making them my main play style and progression this expansion…

I am feeling very doubtful that I will enjoy these long term.

Delves were marketed to the solo community as bite-sized adventures that could be completed quickly and gave some gear/progression.

However this was before they “changed” how progression works yesterday and dropped the info that progression for Brann was locked solely to bountiful delves. Meaning that all regular delves throughout the world are 100% useless.

So they are intentionally gating progression behind bountiful delves, which each character can do 4 per day. With no ability to bank/hold onto missed ones throughout the week. So if a player can’t get to all 4 bountiful delves in 1 day on their character, they are completely missing out on all that experience/progression for Brann, the undermine coins, the delve journey experience, etc.

After doing 4 delves, my journey bar has barely moved at all. If players consistently are unable to complete all 4 delves daily, are they even going to be able to complete the seasonal journey bar?

On my Prot paladin, the highest tier I can get is 6 before tier 7 just straight up 1 shots me on the first mob group. So I’ll come back later with better gear, no big deal.

But even tier 6 takes me anywhere between 30 minutes to 1 hour based on the delve because of the extreme health bloat of the enemies.

There’s no way I am going to be able to complete all 4 delves daily at this rate

Why can’t the delves have some type of re-tune to reduce the health bloat

Or at least allow players to bank their missed bountiful delves throughout the week (7x4=28 weekly)

Where it keeps track of how many delves you’ve done weekly and after the 28th that week, it turns them all back to normal delves?

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Fear of Missing Out or FOMO

You don’t need to be afraid, it’s actually ok.

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that is only for lvls 15 and up you can do req delves to get to that point

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They aren’t useless. And Bountifuls aren’t any more difficult. They just require a key.

Use the normals to level alts. Use them to unlock the higher tiers before you walk in on Bountiful.

Yeah. Because this lasts the entire season.

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You can do infinite bountiful delves per day. Just don’t use the key at the end and Brann still gets the experience.

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Delves have turned into overtuned ______. What was fun, is no longer.

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Can’t you do them again on alts?

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Maybe because you are trying to push max tier delves on week 1 while being what I assume 40 ilvls below the rewards. It is solo-able and designed to be. I also don’t recall Blizzard saying it would be “quick”.

You are essentially upset that you can’t get Heroic raid equivalent loot on day 1 without taking time to work towards it.

How easy did you think it would be if there’s no timer to add difficulty, affixes to add complexity, and solo-able where you can’t just be dead weight. Again, for Heroic Raid equivalent loot.

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Not really looking for easy here, just looking more at the imbalance between classes. Even specs within the same class

I was hard-stopped on tier 6 on my Prot spec but as soon as I switched to Ret I was able to push through tier 7 and tier 8 without any issues

It just seems like delves are inconsistent with balance. Which may have very well been the intention. Where each delve is intentionally balanced differently which makes each one more or less difficult based on your spec.

But that makes it feel less “solo oriented” and more “group oriented” because if you get a bountiful delve and your class/spec just doesn’t work well in it… it just feels bad

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I may be wrong here but as soon as you do the bountiful delve it loses the bountiful status, doesn’t matter if you use the key or not.

You get 4 bountiful delves a day.

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Are you sure?

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I am pretty sure
Because I did some testing earlier on an alt
Even after completing the bountiful delve and not using the key, the status still went away

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Like, not enough to bet on but enough to post it as a forum reply. Lol

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As with all solo content, once it’s figured out it gets very boring on subsequent replays.

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don’t complete the delve. Curios etc give exp.

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Simple solution: Join groups. They steamroll tier 8s in like 10-15mins.

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You can do bountiful without a key, you just don’t get the bonus chest.

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Bountiful resets on completion not key use, accidentally did one last night while progressing to T8, can confirm it was no longer bountiful once completed.

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Right, The question is whether the bountiful status clears if you don’t use the key.

Can you keep running the delve as bountiful and not using the key?

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So, get up to the last boss and loot all the trinkets on the way then exit and reenter?

Those trinket bags will have exp and the bountiful status remains?