they aren’t
we can’t get enough maps to get them in quantities required to cap our gear.
with a large amount of luck, one might acquire enough to craft a single weapon.
I have 24 so far this season, I’ve run well over 100 delves (around 140).
I always get my 8 per week for may vault
I’m averaging 1 map every 2-3 weeks.
4 gilded crests every 2-3 weeks isn’t enough to cap our gear during season.
The mushroom yell is adorable lol.
When I’m fighting the Mushroom Speartender(The one that rides the lizards) I like to polymorph them for the lols and when the cc breaks the lizard mount is all of a sudden gone.
I mean, pretty clear they’re at least adding goblins to the new delves and probably some of the older ones as well cuz they talked about new variants for older delves.
Really weird that Skardyn aren’t present in delves either. Outside of one variant of one delve, that is.
I agree with you. I probably have a similar figure and have run many, many delves.
At the risk of repeating myself, that’s one of the two main reasons I don’t think you should EXPECT to get all your hero gear capped. The other is that you don’t need capped hero gear to beat ALL delve content. I fully agree that the delve ecosystem should be self-sufficient, and I think it is. I think 619 (max champ) is totally sufficient to beat all content. I suspect the existence of Hero gear + a few Gilded crests is just a little nicety to get a few pieces up to a higher level. I dumped all my crests into my tier pants and got them to 623, but I’m not expecting to all my stuff up like that.
IMO people just like delves for the loots. It’s crappy gameplay that over rewards for how easy it is.
It’s by far the best solo content in the game. It does get a little old after a while, but when you’re leveling Brann, and figuring it out, it’s pretty challening. The level of loot within delves is appropriate to the progression path within delves, which is how it should be.
Farmable mythic track gear on my 538 ilev alt
Probably the same reason spending 2hrs braindead yoloing through a M+, failing to even met the timer rewarded mythic raid loot from the vault?
Good luck finding people that want to sit for an hour or two for a single vault now.
high ilvl gear, basically
It is how it works. If you want Delves to have parity with other [be equal], then Delve rewards would have to be nerfed or other end game rewards would need to be buffed.
Difficulty:reward ratio
You’re not just wrong, you’re delusional.
My dream delves would be no brann, no RP, and the sense I’m choosing to explore somewhere dangerous and mysterious just to see what the hell is in there.
I highly doubt delves will go that direction though. The brann-led theme park rides will continue.
I think tier 11 could probably drop hero and have maps give mythic.
I’d also like to see the vendor stuff expanded. Delves are honestly great.
I don’t think delves need to drop mythic track at all, hero is plenty good enough. I DO think they need to drop gilded crests (from bountifuls) though; you should be able to fully upgrade the gear you get FROM delves by DOING delves. Limit the number by requiring a key, and that would be good.
As for your last paragraph, that’s exactly what raiders said about M+ when it came out. If it applies to delves it would also apply to M+ then, if M+ is OK then delves should be also. 
You need 900 gilded to cap all 15 slots at 626. So 300 maps. At maybe 10% drop rate that’s 3000 delves. Just using the runed to gilded conversion is 5400 delves. Over 15 hours of delves a week (assuming you get a T8 to 10 mins) for the entire season to max 1 toon. Also assumes you get all slots filled with heroic track via the vault. Hardly a screaming threat to M+, don’t ya think??
Me too, until this past week, where I got 3. RNG is a cruel mistress.
I also thought that converting runed crests to gilded was great, until I realized you can only do it once a week with a runed crest cap. I would be fine with the gilded we get now, if the runed cap was raised more than 90 per week. I cap on runed crests mostly with heroic raiding alone, so it makes delve crests pointless.
I still run them past cap because I enjoy them with Zekvir randomly spawning, playing a holy priest is tons of fun solo (mc’d weeping shades doing 2m+ DPS is neat) and the repetition doesn’t bother me. I just want a way to trickle farm gilded crests and I’d be happy. I don’t really care about the next track of gear, as I was content trying to cap heroic gear in DF. I simply do not find m+ fun and my life is too random to commit to a mythic raiding guild.
Honestly, i got high explorer title from doing a t11 and now im just trying to get zekvir hardmode down before blizzard caves to the m+ folks and nerfs delves into oblivion. Would like to get this and maybe glory of the delver done while it still matters.
Was fun while it lasted, honestly. Content that was difficult and engaging for me, alone. Even made me wanna do more of the game…but itll just be gutted so that m plus progression is smoother i guess.
I want delves to be completable using only delves to get there. I want higher than +8 to offer some rewards to offset their existence, since right now there is no reason to. More crests, more gold, etc.
I do think that the main thing for delves should be that if you dont want to, you can complete all the capstone challenges wothout leaving delves. Zekvir hard ahould be reachable and beatable with only delve gear, as should tier 11s. Right now that is mostly true, and its in a good spot. Would that it could stay in that spot.