Difficulty increase for tier 4+ delves

[Titanspit-stormrage]

I remember ion said 5-10 minutes adventure

[Wårio-area-52]

Oh so itll still be same 616 gear?

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Wårio-area-52

So what lvl will we have to do to get a HIGHEST gear peace from vault now?

Still 8

@Wårio-area-52

and what will the ilvl be?

Dunno what the ilvl for heroic track is but in S2 it will be 1/6 from vault instead of 3/6 like it is now.

It’s a slight nerf to smooth out the crest buffs delves will be getting.

[Wårio-area-52]

@Zitaska-aerie-peak

@Wårio-area-52

So what lvl will we have to do to get a HIGHEST gear peace from vault now?

Still 8

@Wårio-area-52

and what will the ilvl be?

Dunno what the ilvl for heroic track is but in S2 it will be 1/6 from vault instead of 3/6 like it is now.

ahh ok so same 616 gear just quicker thanks

you know what crest reward will be thats what people mostly farm to upgrade gear who do run M+ and Mythic raids and stuff

[Paruru-illidan]

Don’t forget in early S1 they used to have unavoidable 24 million damage skills in around T10 selves. That’s something that skills not helping you getting through even you have S2 top ilvl gears.

Sometimes they just filling numbers without going through their minds.

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Wårio-area-52

you know what crest reward will be thats what people mostly farm to upgrade gear who do run M+ and Mythic raids and stuff

Come again? This really didn’t make any sense.

[Tenzen-silvermoon]

I can’t see myself doing beyond 8 in S2 with or without this change.

Personally, they’d have to add some sort of incentive beyond an achievement for doing 11s or killing whatever S2’s version of Zek will be.

I know some people want to collect those achievement points, but that has zero draw for me.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Tenzen-silvermoon

Personally, they’d have to add some sort of incentive beyond an achievement for doing 11s or killing whatever S2’s version of Zek will be.

They did. We’re getting Gilded Crests from 11s.

Weekly Cap of 18 Gilded Crests from Tier 11 Delves in Season 2

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Tenzen-silvermoon

Personally, they’d have to add some sort of incentive beyond an achievement for doing 11s or killing whatever S2’s version of Zek will be.

I mean there is.

We getting way more Runed Crests the higher we go in tiers and T11 grants a limited amount of gilded that Sendryn has linked.

[Titanspit-stormrage]

The mythic mogs don’t look as enticing to get and I’ll get them in three years farming the raid. I’ll just get my lfr normal heroic through catalyst.

[Althalas-kaelthas]

@Wårio-area-52

you know what crest reward will be

You get extra crests for defeating nemesis packs.
T8 gives up to 4 runed.
T9 gives up to 7 runed.
T10 gives up to 10 runed.
T11 gives up to 13 runed.
T11 also gives up to 31 gilded per week between drops and the map.

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Kaivax

Improving Tier 9+ Rewards

In Season 1, we purposefully did not add extra rewards in Tier 9+ as we wanted to reserve those delves to run just for the challenge and for achievements. We did not want the majority of players to feel like they needed to reach tier 11 levels.

However, players seeking to tackle the higher challenges of delves, such as defeating Zekvir, had a very long road to upgrade their gear due to the availability of Runed and Gilded Crests. We still want the repeatable source of Gilded Crests to come from Mythic+ and Raids, but we also wanted delves to start to reward reliable Gilded Crests at a high level for players who want to push.

In Season 2, tiers 9, 10, and 11 delves will reward more Runed Crests. Tier 11 bountiful delves will reward Gilded Crests up to three times a week. This will be from a separate chest in the bountiful delve, so players will not be required to get a key to acquire the Gilded Crests. We will not change the Great Vault’s requirements in Season 2. Tier 8 will be the highest delve to run to get rewards from the Great Vault.

For those who haven’t been following Delves PTR in feedback

[Tenzen-silvermoon]

Oh. Appreciate the heads up!

I might work on that on at least one character, in that case. I don’t have the energy for that across the warband.

[Titanspit-stormrage]

Wtf is a nemesis pack

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

Influenced enemies

[Titanspit-stormrage]

So the ones like zek vir mobs now?

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

Correct. The ones that drop that nasty AoE on death, the ones that can’t be interrupted, or the ones that drop 3 spiders on death.

[Musclewalrus-dalaran]

So Mythics are getting easier and Delves are getting harder.

Sounds fair.

[Titanspit-stormrage]

Those are too easy

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Linxy

Difficulty levels of tiers 9, 10, and 11 have been lowered.

• Developers’ notes: In season 1, tiers above 8 were meant purely for players who wanted a challenge. Now that we have more desirable rewards such as Gilded Crests on tier 11 we wanted to review the difficulty levels of these tiers along with our philosophy behind them. We had previously balanced them with the thought that tier 11 would be a challenge for all players in the game, even up to the high mythic levels. In season 2 we are changing our philosophy for tier 11 to be the highest challenge for delve players, which means it is balanced around what fully upgraded gear players can get within the delve ecosystem as opposed to the entire game.

Too early to say at this point.