Feedback: Delves in Season 2

[Althalas-kaelthas]

The single best source of valorstones in the game are the Worldsoul Memories. You can only do Worldsoul Memories with Radiant Echos which are obtained from delves.

[Sunbright-area-52]

I agree.

But then again, this event has lots of RNG and heavily depending on when and where you can find a good and organized group to do so.

If Blizzard is intended to give out the flightstones by such way, then this event should be the MAIN time scheduled event instead of the Theater thing - which is almost pointless after 4 weeks into the expansion.

[Skyslicer-steamwheedle-cartel]

I did it was hard to get enough but i doing it because i only do delve no raid no m+ my only end game is delve. When s2 goes live i will be doing higher delves and upgrade my gear from that.

[Kurtis-stormrage]

I assume these will get reset or else I’ll be perma capped on valorstones since I have tons of the radiant echos currently. Another decent source (if you’ve been hoarding them) is the wax globs you turn in in the ringing deeps.

[Vhx-black-dragonflight]

They changed their mind, something about having to level a new companion in S2 would feel bad for players. Instead they’ll give us new companions each expansion.

At least until they change their minds again.

[Skyslicer-steamwheedle-cartel]

I mean brann has good points he set up food to eat and share what he finds and allways glad to see you.

[Mookosh-ysondre]

@Snapcrack-area-52

Pardon my language here, but I am so fking tired of Brann. I thought we were promised new characters/heroes as the expansion went on. I really don’t want Brann in my delves for another 8 months…

It would feel weird to have a major explortion system in the game that didn’t somehow involve Brann. But they easily could have expanded the roster of Delve followers to have a different ones go with you based on role selection.

Like have Sir Finley or Elise be the healers.
Reno or Mowi could be the tanks
And let Brann and Harrison be DPS

I was expecting at least to get to see more of Harrison.

Heck why isn’t the Reliquary involved. Would have been nice to see Naleidea Rivergleam get some more screen time and more fun with her obvious crush on Dadghar. And there are plenty of other members of the Reliquary we haven’t seen in a long time.

Delves seem like they would be the perfect reason for the combined Explorer’s League and Reliquary team-up that founded the Dragonscale Expedition in DF to continue working together for Delves.

The whole thing just feels like a missed opportunity of continuity and continuing narrative paths.

[Vhx-black-dragonflight]

@Mookosh-ysondre

Like have Sir Finley or Elise be the healers.
Reno or Mowi could be the tanks
And let Brann and Harrison be DPS

Wouldn’t it be weird to have Reno at your side and then run into Reno + Finley for the treasure option?

[Myfwyc-wyrmrest-accord]

Finley + Brann :3

[Vanadorine-illidan]

DPS Brann is currently an useless option and I think the dev really need to address this.

At the current setting (I am mainly referring to devle 8 or above), any DPS will be still better off by pairing with a healer Brann and healers are definitely working well with tank Brann, tanks will fit for either healer or tank Brann.

There is no reason for any spec to group with a DPS Brann at all, except for level 70+ alt running tier 1 delve for leveling purpose.

[Yuzuriha-azshara (Yuzuriha)]

Are undercoins also going to be reset, as most of the items for sale are purely cosmetic?

[Bonaventure-draenor]

Undercoin balances were wiped during character copy, so it’s better to assume those will get wiped at the start of the new season.

Remember that Undercoins can be used to buy a bag of reagents. In case you’re sitting on a hoard at the end of this season.

[Vanadorine-illidan]

I did a lots of testing through out difference phase of PTR to test all the currencies, and I believe below will be the final result :

1. ALL flightstones(valor stones), crests will be gone.
2. Delves keys all gone
3. Blood coins (PVP) gone.
4. Undercoins gone.
5. Radiant Echo - will have new lable : Season 1 - vendor trash, amounts remain the same in your bag.
6. Waxy Lump - remain the same in your bag.
7. Radiant Ramnent - remain the same in your bag.
8. Crystal - remain the same in your currency tab
9. Kej - remain the same in your currency tab
10. Key fragment - remain the same in your bag but clearly labled as Season 1.
11. Treasure Map - remain the same in your bag but clearly labled as Season 1.

[Bonaventure-draenor]

To add to that, Tokens of Merit are removed from your inventory and an amount of gold equal to vendoring them is sent to your mailbox.

[Tyrastae-moon-guard]

I like the changes to give rewards up to tier 11 and allowing delve players to get better gear. However, the difficulty nerf to tiers 9, 10, and 11 creates another problem around the lack of challenge once players get geared enough.

Running tier 11 delves in season 1 around ilvl 600 or 610 provides a unique solo challenge in the game. In season 2, once you catch up to the recommended ilvl for tier 11, then there’s no way to further progress in difficulty.

An easy solution for this new problem is allowing players to progress tiers past 11 for pure achievement. Just continue to scale the enemies and keep the rewards the same as tier 11. As a delve player, this would definitely keep me playing further into the season.

[Zitaska-aerie-peak]

@Tyrastae-moon-guard

An easy solution for this new problem is allowing players to progress tiers past 11 for pure achievement. Just continue to scale the enemies and keep the rewards the same as tier 11. As a delve player, this would definitely keep me playing further into the season.

I wouldn’t be opposed to this but I’m not sure if scaling it more is the right answer. The damage dealt to DPS and healers(Can’t speak on tanks since I don’t play them) currently is very spiky, not even looking at white attacks.

The triple bosses in Nightfall Sanctum would be a legit nightmare if they hit harder anymore than they do now. Maybe adding newer bosses past T11 and more mechanics would seem ideal. I could see Blizzard changing their philosophy to add more tiers after seeing this:

@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

It’s taking delves players into consideration over the other pillars for S2, so that gives me hope that more tiers could be down the pipeline.

[Tyrastae-moon-guard]

@Zitaska-aerie-peak

I wouldn’t be opposed to this but I’m not sure if scaling it more is the right answer. The damage dealt to DPS and healers(Can’t speak on tanks since I don’t play them) currently is very spiky, not even looking at white attacks.

The triple bosses in Nightfall Sanctum would be a legit nightmare if they hit harder anymore than they do now. Maybe adding newer bosses past T11 and more mechanics would seem ideal. I could see Blizzard changing their philosophy to add more tiers after seeing this:

Agreed. The damage gets pretty crazy and is a lot easier for some classes/specs to deal with than others. I think more mechanical difficulty is the best solution long term.

Perhaps tank Brann could also open up some new strategies for non-healers as well.

[Skyslicer-steamwheedle-cartel]

That be good i can do great damage but i suck at taking damage my heal are not strong enough to survive as devastation. If they can make brann keep the threat while not take alot of damage for dps specs that would be great.

[Kastent-blood-furnace]

i really like the buffs to healing brann

[Willferàl-kelthuzad]

What, only one map a week. Wtf kind of jump is that. If you keep trying to push me to do Mythic Raiding to get the best PvE gear then I’m unsubbing by the end of Season 2. I already have all hero gear so why would I keep playing if that’s all that’s going to be rewarded is what I already have. I’ll go to PvP if you ruin what’s good about it. You guys already heavily neglect PvP so I can’t say how long after that but I’ll be gone. Plenty of other games to get into this year anyways.