The abject failure that are delves

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Delves weren’t good, even in the old iteration.

  • Gear drops outside bountifuls capped at 554.
  • Brann’s entire toolkit being gutted.
  • Brann currently capped at level 38.
  • Brann not getting exp above 15 unless bountiful.
  • Hard limit on Restored Coffer Keys.
  • Way fewer powers and unique abilities than Torghast.
  • Most powers are single-use or short-term gains that don’t last the instance.
  • Major scaling issues including DPS, healers, and tanks taking wildly differing amounts of damage.
  • Having a few chests in each that are a one-time lootable.
  • Group scaling completely borked and too easy, so they swing it into the unfun.
  • 2 Runed Crests per week.
  • Loot tables with 35 cloaks.

These were supposed to be a solo staple; “Endgame for everyone!”.

Instead, we get Torghast2.0 with less powers and rewards, somehow.

What the hell is going on?

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There were amazing before this nerf, I was able to get multiple characters over 600ilvl without using any upgrade materials with almost no effort, now it’s all over :frowning:

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Even before the nerf, tanks were taking insane damage.

I was getting hit by melee for 4.2m-4.4m by Zekvir on the higher difficulty.

That isn’t survivable with this season’s gear.

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Why not just let brann tank?

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Because tanks cause a ton of aggro and this doesn’t work for us?

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then dont hit it and let brann solo. Anytime i ripped aggro off him i had to kite for my life.

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Brann now does 5% the damage he used to.

That Strat is long gone.

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then wait to outgear it.

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There is no gear this season that makes taking 4m melee hits possible, champ.

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Before s1 delves where fun. Now they are the worse thing Blizzard made with the scaling.

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I wouldn’t even compare this dumpster fire to Torghast. Torghast was fantastic (initially, at least, until they put in that stupid timed/score system crap). Torghast’s issue was 1. tying legendaries to it and 2. not giving more cosmetcs/mounts rewards.

I had the time of my life in S1 getting all 8 Twisting Corridors done at a 184 ilvl on day two of it being out. I then proceeded to spend the rest of S1 leveling each class and taking each one through all of Twisting Corridors. It was the only part of Shadowlands that I enjoyed.

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I had a blast with Torghast too. I actually quit the game after they destroyed it. It was the only thing that kept me playing SL.

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I had no issues on my prot pally and guardian Druid.

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Which is fine. 554 gear is enough to do all world content and start your progression through Delves. World content will also reward you higher ilvl gear.

His toolkit honestly works fine for every delve I run, I don’t see the problem. He provides healing or damage depending on what role I need him to fill.

This is 100% fine. A complete non-issue. It will take an extremely long time to get Brann up to level 38. It’s not like you’re going to reach the cap in a day and get annoyed.

This is fine. Level 15 is enough to do most delves and you should only be doing bountiful delves anyway once your ilvl is over 554.

100% fine. It wouldn’t be fair for open world players to have more opportunities to get high end gear while players who focus on other types of content (especially raiders) are far more limited. Especially since in the case of Delves it’s guaranteed loot, where as in other forms of content there’s no guarantee you get anything.

Non-issue. Delves are not Torghast, expecting it to be similar is stupid. They’re not supposed to be a form of content where you get super OP level after level until you face a big bad at the end of your run.

Every power I’ve attained has either been permanent for the entire delve, or it has had a health requirement where the effect drops off if you go below a certain health percentage. As long as you’re careful and have reliable self-healing, you shouldn’t have too many issues keeping the temporary effects active.

That’s because they’re for an achievement, not there as a form of treasure that you get over and over.

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Yeah, they need to fix Brann’s throughput. Delves were only functional because you could level him up with buffs

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It’s seasonal content. I am hesitant to say we’ll be able to even outgear it next season with how much Brann was an essential part of the delve kit. Those auto attacks might well flatten folks until level 90 with how busted they are atm.

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im sure theyll nerf it.

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Have you played since the hotfix?

Brann’s damage is horrible now, like my level 55 puts out more DPS.

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I love the idiots who vomit out “let brann solo it” lol you need an NPC to hold your hand so you can cross the street?

Also at that point why not just pay for a carry? You’re not playing the game anyways…

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Yep, he still executes enemies that I’m fighting and helps me deal more damage.

Haven’t had any issues.