“Once I grind and grind and grind and grind and grind and farm and farm, I will finally have a slightly easier time. Then before I know it, I will have forgotten Delves even exist because they are somehow worse than Island Expeditions”
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I freaking knew it would go this way. Blizz simply either cannot or outright refuses to deliver competitive content that all classes have equal ability to do. A solo caster that isn’t a cheese (priest) for example has approximately a 0% chance of clearing a T8. Meanwhile bear druids will once again be rolling their face on their keyboards and then promptly come to the forum to announce how hilariously easy delves are and that we should all “git gud”, when that they actually mean is “reroll to a cheese class”.
It happened with N’zoth visions, it happened with Torghast and it’s happening yet again.
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do them trio’s, easy free loot. tank, dps, healer. never die. EZ
It’s not that much of a grind–really just playing. I gained 11 or so average item level in 2 days and I still have a bunch of keys. Brann went from 15 to over 20 in that time. Just doing some bountiful delves as I have time will easily get to the point where T8 is relatively easy as a marks hunter. I think I have done 7 bountiful delves so far for reference. Once I use my remaining keys and get a vault reward, I will hopefully be close to 600 after just one week without doing anything other than one LFR, a few heroic dungeons, and weekly world content plus the delves.
There is room for improvement (especially for classes that don’t solo well), but the pace of gearing and leveling Brann doesn’t seem that bad. Only 2 days into the season, and as a mostly solo player, this is my end game content. I don’t want it to be over in a week. And I don’t mind playing it since I find it fun and at most we can only run 4 bountiful delves each day though once I run out of keys I will probably just pause and do something else until I get more keys the following week.
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It wouldn’t be so bad if they took after follower dungeons. If you’re heals/dps, Magni becomes a tank. If you’re a tank he becomes a dps/healer.
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The problem isn’t Delves it’s that the classes are inherently imbalanced when it comes to solo content.
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You’re level 13 in ilvl 66 gear, did you expect to succeed in a t8 delve?
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Making delves run-able with 5 is the biggest problem here. A group of 5 simply has access to way more answers to anything a group of enemies does much more efficiently than a solo player.
Should probably be reduced to a max of 3 for running it, and either have the enemies scale with more health per party member, or give solo-ers a bit more oomph to make up for the lack of utility a full party brings.
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Yup, it’s farce content. Nothing more need to be said. The fact it can be done with 5 invalidates the existence of it and turns it into an inefficient waste of “time”.
What do casuals want with this anyway? To be the King and Queen Delver? Lol.
Why do berry pickers and LFR people care about Delves and gear? They’re not fun or amusing and do nothing new, so it’s for LFR people to test their skill??? I’m at a loss kinda.
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how are the rewards bad? you get champion gear with a chance at a map that gives you a hero piece.
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They’re not bad. This is a relativity thing. M+ exists soon, that’s why it’s “bad” and “obsolete”.
I guarantee if these things didn’t give loot, people would be calling them worse then Islands, because they are.
Agreed. It’s ridiculous that I have to do 5 man groups to clear Tier 8 Delves when the entire point of them was to be viable SOLO content. I’m sick of spamming to try to get into groups. I’m almost ilvl 600 I should be able to do these just fine instead of getting one shot by stupid sharks. At this point it just feels like a slightly modified version of M+…
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DPS magni is hidden tank, you just sit back and chill and let him take the aggro while you do a moderate amount of dps. beat zekvir with that strat solo after i got rolled in a 5 man lol.
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I’ll try that next time. Thanks. 
Yeah I’ll try the DPS wannabe tank Brann, see if that “works”.
Usually I just die instantly, but I’m doing full openers on packs. Imma try just poison knifing one thing and see what happens.
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They need to reduce all damage by 50% and decrease all mob health by 75%. Maybe then it would be fun. They take way too long and are way too punishing for no reason.
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Or completely delete out all of the ground effects, especially the ones that spawns mobs out of thin air directly on top of your head (this has never been fun or good design in any video game for the past 40 years so I’m not sure why it’s in WoW, incompetence or malice.)
Then actually delete all of the casts out of it. Nothing should be casting spells in these.
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I tried this. Zekvir tears through him in about 20 seconds if that. I’m not sure if you have him super levelled or he got nerfed.
Unfortunately, I tried to use Janky’s Finest in a Delve tonight and it just straight doesn’t work.
Wish it said something to that effect on the item, or even in the Delve descriptions. Seems weird to limit items like that.
be careful sounds like a bug. i leveled 2 characters on 2 linked accounts through ahn’kahet like i always do when i level a character, i level 2 at a time. and UNKNOWINGLY gained 2-3 extra renowned. i didnt know anything at the time and nothing seemed out of the ordinary cause all my faction renown’s were close.
council was 12
assembly was 15
hallowfall was 14
threads was 17
suspended. come to find out there was a bug that gives bonus rep from some spaghetti code that would double, triple, quadruple etc… etc… for each linked account that was logged in while you gained rep. and because some players were streaming this and methodically exploiting this bug blizzard suspended each and every person that gained additional rep no matter if they knew about it or not.