How do YOU get into a delve 8 when YOU cant beat a delve 6? You can’t. The game is gatekeeping you in delves because you lack the experience just as players gatekeep other players in m+ (which is folly because i can start my own group).
So long as you start at the bottom and work your way up to prove to the game youre ready. Just like proving to players in m+
Wish you would
Its just level 80 and to be good enough. I could have ilvl 619 and still not have access to tier 8 delves. Game is gatekeeping
You HAVE to prove to the game youre competant enough to complete a tier 6 before you can apply to a 7. Same thing applies to players in m+. Except players can make exceptions. Game will not
Ah yeah, sure, don’t really recall anyone saying to skip all content and just jump into a heroic raid or +5. If only they learned ‘standing in the obvious bad is bad’
You could be a player who COULD do a +10 but you didn’t have some special AddOn or something, and won’t get invited.
Proving to players involves messing with AddOns and stupid junk, though. And I’m pretty sure that Raider io looks at more than “highest m+ you ever cleared”, lol. Pretty sure it also records stuff like your DPS, and other metrics to determine the score it gives you.
Meanwhile, Delves are a “You cleared +6? Ok you’re ready to try +7.”
65 is the cap and I remember some people talking about the prepatch and how they were excited to finally get their multiple accounts full of characters leveled up.
As I already said, I have a ton of champion gear in my bags already. I am only wearing veteran because they’re tier set pieces or have BiS stats. The veteran vs champion gear argument is also completely irrelevant right now because no one has the valorstones or crests to full upgrade it.
That’s obviously untrue, because everybody insists on using it. They insist on its use for a reason, so obviously stuff WOULD change if it disappeared.
Actually this was true around the end of DF but that’s because everyone running M+ was either spamming +16’s and +17’s or stopped playing M+ because it was so late in the season everyone was already geared. Same with mythic raids lol
They said to skip into world content and delves as a fresh 80 to get gear up to 590.
They definitely didn’t say heroic raid. But it is often said in the forums that normal and heroic dungeons shouldn’t exist, and are a waste of time. And people should skip them and start with the hardest content they can get into.
No, it would not.
Again, i have been playing this game, in a raiding environment for 20 years now, and i have seen every single iteration of metric used to quantify the quality of a player, and it simply changes name.
now its raider IO
Before raider IO it was your ilvl
before it was you ilvl, it was Achievements.
Before Achivements it was based on your gear score
Before gear score it was based on the guild on the server you were on
Before it was based on the guild you in, it was based on if you had a piece of gear to prove you had done it.
Before you had to have a piece of gear to prove you had done it, well, the game was new and no one knew anything.
No matter what you do, players will find a way to quickly quantify your capabilities as a player with out seeing you play.
So you would have then completely uproot the lfg system which would kill this game in a heart beat because no would want to use taht random tool for end game content.
AND here is a spoiler for you, back in the days of flex raiding they had addons that were basically prototype LFG systems that used battle net accounts to link people to search which is what would happen again.
You are quite literally trying to fight the wind here, it would not fix it, blizzard would not, and will not ever remove the ability to pick who and what you wanna take to a piece of content.