Delves...still doing them?

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Honestly, being slammed with gear I can’t upgrade further, content that doesn’t get easier because I can’t get better gear… turned me off. If 9+ had better rewards, I’d probably do them still but you can’t cut into the goose that lays the golden egg - Mythic+

I’m sitting on 30 coffer keys and half a dozen Radiant Echoes. If it wasn’t for the rep, I wouldn’t bother doing the weeklies at all.

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Nope, i just farm pvp crates all day since the horde have no chance of ever getting one on Tich :joy::joy:

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Fear not! Blizzard plans to make delves less rewarding in season 2.

Which means we’ll be more interested in them, and for longer.

…Right?

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Oh, boy.

Silence is golden … unless you have a puppy. Then it’s suspicious. VERY suspicious.

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Still missing the chest to complete the the plate tmog set. After that idk.

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Yes, Delves are perfect for me.

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If hes doing delves every week till the last few weeks, he likely had more enchanted crests for 619 gear than he has sparks already from level 24 rep from each faction and the one from queen. Thats 5 total if you have all the factions at 24, its really nice for alts since the moment you hit 80 you can craft them to boost your item lv.

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if you want one extra heroic slot in vault just do one really low m+ key its the only vault slot that starts at one you can even skip the extra four delves to save time instead

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If Remix has taught me anything, it’s that gear can always be better and it’s never enough. Even if you’re burning through bosses already, burning through them faster is more fun. There is no ‘enough’.

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Remix was timed and meant to be overpowered, can’t be sustained.

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Like any content, once it’s done, it’s done. Even the 616 vault gear is irrelevant. That’s not a bad thing, just means I used the content to it’s fullest. Heroic dungeons lasted 2 weeks at best and are only done by alts or those doing the weekly quest. Same with raids. That last ones doing normal or pushing heroics.

There isnt anything out there that would last forever. You finish them. That’s why we have S2, S3 and probably a S4. More added to be done. Those will be finished too throughout 2025 and into 2026.

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I only relax when he’s asleep LOL

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yep, I am.

Jut got my first t10 done yesterday :cat:

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I don’t even really do them on alts that actually need them.

They’re fine for what they are, but they’re repetitive trivial junk to me, so it’s boring. Dungeons would be the same if we only had Normal Dungeons too.

Blizzard messed up in two ways:

  1. The tuning started too low and didn’t increase enough between tiers, so every single tier up to and including T8 is trivial and the difference between them is largely just how fast you can take it without playing well. Lesser geared or skilled players are largely still fully capable of clearing T8 with little issue as long as they pull slower. T9-T11 get significantly harder but have zero meaningful rewards, and therefore are pointless to pursue more than once for achievements.
  2. The difficulty is largely composed of mobs simply hitting hard and scaling up to hit harder in higher Tiers (health scaling too, of course). You almost never have to dance. You never have to really learn anything about that particular delve and it never changes between Tiers. It’s like clearing trash in a Classic dungeon but with fewer things randomly stunning you. The whole way through. This keeps it boring and unengaging no matter how much health the mobs have or how hard they hit. You never really have to be aware of anything other than just interrupt whatever.

The difficulty should have had a broader range with larger jumps between tiers. There should have been more mechanics built into the trash / objectives portion of every delve. DPS checks should exist outside of the Season Boss (even if not frustratingly hard until the upper end). Maybe there should just straight up be affixes every few tiers like M+. They have the 1 singular affix in the Zekviir packs at T3+, and that’s it. That’s nothing.

I’m down for a world-content adjacent piece of content sticking around. I’m down for a form of role-agnostic content sticking around. We keep getting it piecemeal every couple expansions as one-time trial runs. If they stick with delves, awesome. But they need work.

Rewards Balancing is rough too, regardless of how they end up designed and tuned. Solo Content is inherently easier for a somewhat competent player to be successful in than group content. It’s only worse-than-average players who will struggle more without other people to carry them. But I’ll back off that topic for now, that’s not really what this thread is about, I don’t think.

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I’m still doing them on my alts but it’s not a must-do for me.

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I’ll get back to them after I level up a bunch of characters in anniversary events.

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I’m doing them a lot less on my main now that i can’t really get any upgrades from the 616 vault rewards, but i do enjoy when an alt gets to 80 and the gearing up starts, Delves are a great place to gain experience and learn how to play a class/spec along the way, plus you get really decent gear when the higher level ones start :slightly_smiling_face:

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Nearly 80 on each class. Delves and more are a quick route to 600 ilvl while learning the basics

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I disagree. I believe that for those who do group content and get better gear they probably are easy but for those of us who don’t do group activity they are more difficult.

Right now my main is at 599 because the best gear I get is not much higher than that. I can do Tier 7 but it’s a long slog. Tier 6 is about what I’m comfortable with at this level.

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I just no-death’d an 11, so Delves are gonna be put on a suppression.