The Delve standard item drop I think caps at 603? And this is from level 8 delves on. Level 9 delves have a recommended ilvl of around 614~ (going off memory), and it only goes up from there. They also never drop the higher level crests.
I was kind of thinking that Delves would be able to be ‘self contained’ where you could only do them to around the highest level. But the way gear and crests seem to drop seem to make Mythic+ or higher level raids a soft requirement.
Am I missing something? Or is this just kind of how it is. I’m a little stupid, so keep that in mind.
To not hurt mythic+ and raiders feelings. 9+ delves are useless lol
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Because its not a replacement for M+/raiding, only to get your toes wet then jump into the pool that is M+/raiding scene.
One of my character that mainly did delves managed to get to 615 so it’s not like it’s impossible. You can get runed crests over time and you can transfer carved to rune once you’re fully 606 and renown with campain can let you craft 5x 619 items.
But yea like others have said delves were made so people pushing endgame wouldn’t have to do them. They are still already very rewarding.
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Because the difficulty of delves as a content type cannot be made comparable to higher Mythic+ or Mythic raiding, and those 606s you loot and the 616s from vault can be upgraded to 619.
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the simple reason why nothing soloable is ever really completely rewarding. its just enough of a bone they hope that solo players accept the scraps with a smile and piss off. the top players feelings are too fragile to allow someone to get the best or even remotely close to the best without having to be forced into their presence for judgment.
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Thanks for the response, yeah I’ve managed to get the ilvl up a bit just through vaults and such, but I do still wish delves dropped enough where I could reasonably complete all the delves with their own gear.
Just curious where you gradually get runed crests from if not M+ and such? I have like 14 after quite a while haha.
runed harbinger crests are from heroic raiding and m+ 4-7 and equivalent content. so if you are not doing that, then no crests for you.
Well that’s kind of the problem, I don’t think you can upgrade the gear. Runed crests don’t seem to drop from solo content like world quests or delves (I don’t think, at least).
Thats cuz you gota upgrade your gear from delves like they drop ruined that up to 619 and gilded that up to 623
It’s just kind of odd that delves are the only non “self sufficient” part of gameplay. Everything else (PvP, world content, M+, raids) you can get gear to progress through that content purely by doing that content. Only delves would you have to do Delves to a pretty arbitrary point (T8), then run a bunch of other content before returning to Delves to finish all of them.
they have to add in extra hoops or a certain subsection of the community will complain, which they already do. Ive heard enough of people wanting the vault track to be nerfed because its too lucrative for the unwashed heathens to enjoy.
this is also why LFR has been buffed and nerfed when it came to gear over the years.
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It drops hero track, are we calling that so low now?
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Gearing through delves is a slow and steady process. You get 2 runed crests per t8 delve. If you do eight t8 delves each week, you’ll get one 616 item from the vault and have the crests to upgrade it to 619. If the vault doesn’t have anything you want, you can get tokens that can be exchanged for 45 runed crests. Either way you’re more or less guaranteed one 619 upgrade per week. That means it should only take 15-16 weeks to reach 619. You can reduce that to 10-11 weeks by crafting using the enchanted runed crests you get from renown/quests. That’s perfectly fine for solo content.
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Unless you can get crests from raiding or M+ that Champion track gear is basically equal to 8/8 Veteran gear, which crests are far more abundant.
simply from doing my 8 delves every week it will stack up and turning carved to runed from doing weekly content. You can also pick runed crest from the vault if the items in it aren’t good for you.
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Runed crests drop 2 from each +8 (Bountiful or not).
Thank you (and others who have said similar). This makes a little more sense, and tracks with other content a bit better.
I do still wish delves had a bit more longevity to them, but it is what it is
I don’t know that I’d say TOP players’ feelings are too fragile. Top players don’t care. It’s the guys on the lower end of mid that get really riled up when those dirty casuls get anything of note. You know the ones - they endlessly chase the meta and spew vitriol at anyone who even so much as questions the status quo.
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