Delves? What is their purpose exactly, what am I missing?

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So like, what is the purpose or reason for existence of Delves?

They give terrible exp, they take a long time, they have like no loot at all, no gold rewards. You can only get an item if you run a Bountiful Delve and use a Key which are limited/time gated.

They are pointless to do while leveling, complete waste of time.

They are more or less annoying to run - DONT STAND IN THE WEBZ!!! - Brann won’t shut up, and it’s just… aggravating more than anything else.

I just don’t understand what the point of them is. Is there something I’ve not unlocked or something I’m missing? I have fully completed most zones so far, have Pathfinder/Loremaster unlocked and this will be my 3rd 80. … I don’t understand.

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Its a solo end-game activity. Rewards will get better at higher levels of difficulty after S1 starts

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you can do solo content and delves for a vault gear
and another way to get gear

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It’s a lockout. This is how they can allow it to give relevant endgame gear (without overshadowing group oriented content).

Yes, grinding Delves outside of Keys isn’t very rewarding. If you’re doing that, it’s mostly just to grind follower EXP to make the harder runs easier later.

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Xp is actually pretty good, specially now that dungeons are dying down

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The purpose of delves is to give a warm and fuzzy feeling to people who loved Torghast and want to feel that feeling again.

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Did they nerf the gold for them at the end?

I could have sworn the first one I ran I was getting 30g+ but now it’s 2-7g.

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Uhhh no it’s not? I got 4% of a level.

Even if it was 700 gold it would still be 1 wq worth…

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Not as far as I’m aware.

This has been my experience since day 1 :person_shrugging:

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Well they’re meant as a solo endgame pillar. Pretty sure they weren’t designed with xp in mind and they are severely limited in drops until S1 starts.

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Don’t know what you’re doing wrong then, I leveled by running a specific delve in the 4th zone, tools like 2 minutes to run was great xp

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They had torghast and wanted to build on it… the people telling you this for the past year havent been trying to trick you.

Some people enjoy it… I think its annoying how they tied story quests to it but overall you can ignore them once the rest of the game unlocks.

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They actually had visions before torghast but maybe you guys where not here

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Bountiful delves with the 4-5 keys you get a week, plus maybe capping out your vault for a 3rd slot of potential heroic ilvl gear to choose from.

Right now though? Absolutely zero point to doing delves. Don’t waste your keys. You’ll have 21~ of them when the season starts and be able to get a bunch of gear across the week.

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Unfortunate.

Was really hoping Blizzard would have done something good here.

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Solo progression that awards gear.

Because they’re not supposed to be for leveling, they will take less time as you get more gear (but are supposed to get more difficult, so… yeah, they’re not going to be ridiculously short), it’s not for farming gold, and we’ll eventually get more keys and items.

Yes…because it’s not a leveling feature… They’re for endgame.

You realize you can turn off game sounds, right? You don’t HAVE to play with sound on at all times. Or at the very least, you can turn dialogue off.

Yes. You are missing something. You missed the entire reason they were made, and every single explanation Blizzard has given. They’re going to scale to Mage Tower difficulty and award Heroic Raid gear.

You should probably read at least one article, or watch one video, to understand what they are before you complain because you’re not using them for their intended purpose.

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Solo world content.

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Visions were different. Close to the same thing but different tech at play.

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Both have mechanics , like vision mechanics and Delves mechanics, both give end game loot, and both need currency to get better loot

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Guessing to prevent delves from being exploited by hack gold farming sellers. was somewhat surprised the amount of gold you could get from those drogonflying wq’s, and opening that chest reward from suffusion camp was over 800 g at one point.