Why is Delve tier 9 so much harder than tier 8?

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Just took our first step into tier 9 and the difficulty jump is insane. As a bear tank blowing all cooldowns, I’m getting 3 shot, how are we suppose to survive these exactly?

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9s are purely for the challenge, so the jump in difficulty goes up dramatically. They dont give any extra rewards.

There’s no timer, so smart pulls with CC (hiberbate, entangling roots) and popping cooldown liberally is the way to go.

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Found the same thing on my Pally… huge jump in difficulty from 8 to 9.

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I like that

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9s are purely for the challenge…They dont give any extra rewards.

Understood, I can safely ignore them then. lol

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The question you should really ask yourself is the difference between 9 & 10… that’s the magic difference number.

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Gear, and smarter play. I was able to complete tiers 7-10 roughly 20 ilvls lower than what’s recommended. They weren’t all a walk in the park, and I did die. Some packs I needed better CD management, others I needed to frontload my defensives until the pack was thinned and more survivable. But they are certainly doable.

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I did a 9 and didn’t really notice a difference

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Just have to pull smart and utilize your kit.

Root melee units to prevent being overran and use tornado on range to lessen damage output between pulls.

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We’re not doing these for the challenge, my wife and I are fairly anti social outside of ourselves so delves have been a great way for us to gear. If tier 9s and up are for the challenge, we can accept that they’re beyond our level of play.

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I did a 9 before i didnt see any difference really from 8

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They want you to do a T10 for attempting zekvir ?? I can imagine people willing to try the next one will experience this.

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Tier 10 is when I started to feel the difference, but it still wasn’t too bad. Kinda silly for it not give rewards, though. I feel like T11, at the very least, should give you myth track gear from maps.

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having a difficult being “??” is probably the dumbest thing I’ve seen blizz do in a while. Like, why not skulls instead of “?”

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That was my experience too. I didn’t notice it to be any harder then an 8. Died 0 times. I had Brann set to healer