Hi, I would like to sound my frustration with Bountiful Delves. As much as I enjoy doing delves as a solo player, I have a huge problem with getting keys to unlock a chest reward after completing bountiful delve. You get about 2-3 keys from weekly caches and then you have to farm Azeroth’s echos for 25 key fragments. Why do we need these keys in a first place? I’d like to see them keys go. There is no need for them because they are a chore to acquire. I’d like to enter a bountiful delve, complete it, and reep rewards for my time/effort. It feels awful when you finish your delve and can’t open a final chest with rewards in it just because you don’t have a key. Please get rid of key requirement and let us enjoy delves. One more thing about Brann tanking. I’d like him to move out of bad mechanics, instead of standing in fire and die quickly, and maybe give him a self heal once in a while. Other then that, I enjoy delves very much, and I find them to be a great way to gear as a solo player.
It’s time gating, otherwise people would have seasonal max gear within a couple of weeks, then someone would be making a thread to complain about that.
Also, you get 4 keys from weekly caches.
I want Brann to stand in fire, because my healing to him gets turned into damage on mobs. The activities that award you keys give you thousands of gold, so it’s not without benefit. Those same activities also award gear. I’d go insane if all there was to do in current content was delves. They’re not all that fun. Save up your Radiant Echoes, and burn 5 at a time to get a lot of key shards. Late in S1, I was swimming in Echoes, and doing one worldsoul event would net me 2 keys worth of shards.
Because there has to be some meaningful throttle on the gear from delves. 28 champion pieces a week from content that falls over, plus the chance of underpin pieces? You’re not getting that much from the normal raid over the course of multiple full clears.
Yeah, it’s so people don’t gear up too fast through delves, but I also agree with OP. Going after caches for keys gets really old really fast, especially on multiple alts. Running bountifuls without keys when there are keys available feels like a waste, though.
I’d almost rather they simply told me that I get four bountiful chests per character per week, plus the usual coffer keys and undercoin purchases. They sort of did it already with delve maps by capping them at one per week.
Caches aren’t going anywhere. If I want mounts, rep, gold, gear or whatever, I can still do them.
And once again I have to ask this question, are you in DPS role or healer role for him to die?
I’m dps. It just sucks on delve 11 when he stands in bad, his health drops fast. I usually use defensive and channel to bring him back. But the damage from bosses or elites is just way too high. That’s why I need Brann to be smart on his positioning.
If they are dead set on keeping keys I think the max should be increased to 8 to match the vault max.
They also need to buff world soul fragments acquisition by 50%. It’s terrible content but if the reward were better I could slog through it.
Handing in 5 world soul fragments in a raid group is 225 key shards. Every 5 bountiful delves you do basically gives you 2 more keys…
Between that and world quests it’s not hard to get 8-9 a week.
Delves are part of world content and for world content players. So it makes sense to link them to world content.
And there’s your problem, Brann’s tank spec was meant to support healers more over DPS specs. If it was made to support DPS players, you would’ve just been encouraged not to use any defensives.
4 keys, 2 useless trinkets and 2 cloaks. RNGesus can eat a d%€k
Don’t forget the two keys you can eventually from the Delver’s Journey.
People whining about the key limit really don’t want to take the time to understand the system.
The old bug is back that Brann sometimes forgets all his talents and his role (this was eventually fixed in TWW S1).
Again now you you need to check on starting a delve that Brann has his skills and knows what to do.
I had this happen to me in The Underkeep one day. I had pulled something and wondered why Brann wasn’t throwing potions on the ground lol.
First time it happened but hopefully the last.
I use my defensives to rush in and rescue Brann once he’s K.O.'d. That or to survive for 20 seconds when he pops back up, right as rain and ready for another go.
If you can make it work then great. I genuinely support that.
Him going down usually isn’t a problem. Especially on trash. Just kite everything, his unconscious body follows you (lol) and eventually he eats his spinach and gets up.
Its on bosses where it can get fun. Mirror image+group shield gives the boss something to chew on while I take 5 seconds to convince him hes fine
I’ve gotten 6 keys this week. One extra key was from the Cartel Reputation at Rank 9. Realistically, you can obtain 5 per week.
4 total possibly from Weekly META Chests (blue quests) and Special Assignment Caches
1 from Cartel Reputation (Renown Rank 9)
1 from Worldsoul Echo (x5 Echo Scenario)
Ideally, you can obtain 5 per week.
Also, you do have a chance to obtain a Bountiful Map per character per week. You don’t have to use a Bountiful Key on a Bountiful Delve for The Underpin to show up. He can show up from non-Bountiful Delves and reward a Bountiful Map. Ensure you try to use your Bountiful Map on a Tier 8 Bountiful Delve to maximize the gear reward which would be 649 Hero quality piece of gear.
You can also search google for “Brann best curio setup for Season 2”. There are plenty of set ups for Brann for Tank, Healer and DPS.
Personally, I’m mainly DPS and use Brann as a Healer. My Healer curio is as follows:
- Best Healer Brann curios: Pinged Augment Chip and Overdrive Pylon
Now if you want, try these for Brann’s Tank and DPS curio set ups:
- Best Tank Brann curios: Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit and Pacifist Rig
- Best DPS Brann curios: Pinged Augment Chip and Biofuel Rocket Gear
Good luck and enjoy! 
I can’t believe people are actually complaining about delve gear lol. As a filthy casual I capped runed crests and had 31 gilded on day two. We will be getting enough gilded to keep up with sparks and be able to craft 675 gear every other week, and swimming in runed to upgrade tier gear and such from the vault or bounties.
Just take the win, good lord.