Is it stupid to attempt lvl 9 as 600 ilvl, or I’m terrible as rogue?
As long as I have stuns available and do 1v1 in delve, I’m fine. Soon my stuns go on CD and I run out of defensives I’m dead in 4 hits.
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Pretty much. I got smashed at 610.
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I guess nice tuned solo content that requires a group
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Run Healer specced Brann and use Tricks of the Trade on him on sketchy pulls, he’ll hold most of the aggro while you take down enemies one at a time. Enemies will still randomly target you with some attacks even if you don’t have aggro but it makes it more than manageable.
Even if you’re at full health, grab one of his thrown health potions every like 8 seconds or so, they give a stacking periodic heal that helps a ton.
Sap the strongest enemy per group so hopefully you can deal with them in 1v1.
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This.
I have done T9 as Sin with 591. Tricks onto Brann. Sometimes it might not work. Suggest speccing into double Vanish, Atrophic Poison if you have Dragon Tempered Blades, and Elusiveness with double Feint charge.
Expect to have to use ALL your CDs often. Evasion, Deathmark, Cloak, Blind, etc. May have to wait to get them back before your next pull. Watch a youtube video or something. You don’t get punished for taking your time.
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The only t9 i tried, i spent quite a while on back when delves were new at around 600 ilvl. I made it to the final boss with 3 revives remaining. I realized I couldn’t open from stealth or the boss would reset. I managed to get him to 1% once before dying, and called it a day when I ran out of revives. I haven’t been back in one since.
the incidental AOE from many mobs and the bosses in a 9+ will be very tough to manage at 600 ilvl, even with good staggering of the vials.
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I think this tends to happen if you have tricks active from stealth. Since you’re not on the threat table the boss thinks it’s only fighting Brann and triggers a reset. Use tricks after your opening attack to prevent this.
It’s actually because Brann isn’t on the threat table yet because he stealths when you do. So if you Tricks onto him while in Stealth it confuses the boss who resets and often aggro back onto you.
Also don’t be afraid to just range pull individual mobs and sap and bind enemies in groups to pick off. You can also just bypass no objective mobs via stealth. Even those with true sight. The trick is to use Distract first then approach while spamming sap. Once sapped you can bypass and they won’t aggro.
i think delves are supposed to be the big puzzle to solve throughout this expansion.
there’s no timer on a delve, so patiently waiting and looking for opportunities to peel enemies away from groups is an option, as well as crowd control.
waiting for cooldowns is also normal, though a bit boring. it’d be nice if brann’s potions or campfire refreshed cooldowns or made them count down a little faster.
in some cases - and this is where a rogue shines - almost all of the delve’s mobs can be skipped. a nicely timed distract, sap, blind, and vanish, and you can grab what you need and get out before stealth breaks again on its own!
as for the fights themselves: feint forever. chug brann’s potions like an alcoholic. focus on thing down at a time if you can, and let brann’s aoe get aggro on him. tricks on brann all the time- ALL THE TIME.
boss fights seem to be way easier than the regular groups. mechanically speaking.
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