Will delves still be capped to 3 gilded stashes a week?
With extra ilevel ranks on all gear and uncapped crest count we’re going to be farming hundreds of crests to upgrade our myth, crafted and hero gear.
At this point in the season farming M+7s for crests is about as trivial as farming T11 delves with the only real additional hurdle being sitting around and waiting for groups to fill.
Will turbocharged delves have a crest farming alternative? Or is it back to lawn mowering +7s
From what I can see on ptr, overcharged delves’ stash has 10 gilded rather than 7. That’s the only difference I’m aware of at this point.
Runed are uncapped. Depending on your spec, find whatever delve is the fastest for you, spam it for runed and turn those into gilded.
They said they are increasing the amount of runed you get, but I don’t know yet by how much. If it went up to even 15 per delve from 11, three delves to get 45 runed to turn into 15 gilded will prob be faster than an average M+ pug.
What about Delver’s Bounty?
Technically, yeah, but if you have transmutation unlocked you can convert all the Runed crests to Gilded for infinite crests. They don’t even have to be Bountiful.
It’ll take a hot minute but some stories can be cleared in 7-10 minutes, some even faster depending on your gear and spec. That’s a lot of crests in a relatively short timespan.
It’s at least less mind numbing than gobbling Worldsoul orbs for crests like Pac Man.
Oh, this is a good idea! I always forget about the crest transmute thing.
Runed cap being gone finally is a blessing.
They need to drop key requirements for bountiful at this point too. I can’t bring myself to go do that stupid theater troupe or torch lighting anymore. No it’s not hard or much time but it’s been almost a year of it
Yep…the Underkeep gauntlet can be run in under 5 minutes depending on what level delve or your iLvl. Sidestreet is also fast with the transporter run. And any of the delves with mechanics that can be turned against the mobs (spores, or those purple lines) can be done quickly if you use the mechanics against the mobs.
I know newer characters need champ gear from bountiful delves, but if you are past that point and just need crests, you don’t need to bother with keys. You can spam your fastest delve over and over.
No difference, unfortunately.
I think the gilded in delves was a reluctant concession. The best gear has always come from group content.
Doesn’t the bountiful cache have more currency
Undercoin, resonant crystals, radiant echo, Spec-appropriate equipment, Unlearned curios, but no crests
Ok, but you do get gilded crests from the first few bountiful. So it’s not like people are going to skip that? The key is just an annoyance atp like resonance crystals
Well, that’s strange after they dropped this article.
Delve Improvements
Get a leg up on adventure with a boost to Brann’s experience, Delver’s Journey progress, and improvements to rewards from the Delver’s Bounty.
Delver’s Journey progress earned per week is significantly increased from Bountiful Coffers, Hidden Troves, Nemesis Strongboxes, and end-of-run grants. You’ll earn more Crests, Valorstones, and an increase to repeatable earnable Crests across Delve tiers.
Bolded part claimed it was getting a buff(Couldn’t be referring to gear) but maybe it hasn’t been adjusted in PTR yet.
You don’t need a key to get the gilded. Its still a bountiful delve without a key.
The key = one piece of random champ gear. If you don’t need random champ gear or the oddballs listed above, there’s no particular reason you need a key.
The bountiful chest doesn’t contain the gilded crests. That’s separate. You don’t need a key to complete a bountiful delve only to open the bountiful chest.
Ok, I was not aware of that part. Thanks for the info. No more keys for me lol.
Honestly I didn’t look at everything in the trove, but I do recall it had 5 or 6 things. Maybe that’s more than on live? Also yeah maybe not updated on PTR… that’s probably an easy thing to change at the last second. But definitely 1 piece of 1/6 Hero and 10 Gilded crests.
Edit: I’ll also say that the Overcharged delves seem a lot easier than they were a week or two ago. I think they reduced the mob count… like originally the “new” mobs were all in addition to existing mobs, but now they seem to have replaced some, so pulls are smaller.
Definitely agree with this.
Earlier in the season, I would struggle to get 2 vault slots done on all my chars (4). Now that I don’t need keys anymore, I’m pretty consistently getting all 3 slots… 3 T11s and 5 T8s… takes less than 1 hour per toon (significantly less since mine are pretty geared now).