Nothing to do with difficulty, I’ve got an ilvl 569 Druid and I’m finding the tier 7 delves very difficult but a good challenge, it’s taking roughly 20-30 minutes to clear a tier 7 delve…
And then I use a coffer key, and on 3 successive runs now… it’s given me a piece of loot for a slot which almost every player will have already filled from a rep vendor.
Head, chest and cloak, you have very easy and early access to high ilvl gear and I’ve upgraded all those slots to over ilvl 600 already. Every player will have done this by now, so when a tier 7 delve is giving me an ilvl 597 chest item, it’s a complete waste of every minute of time I’ve put into getting the key, and doing the delve.
I absolutely detest having my time unnecessarily wasted and I feel like the devs should know that these gear slots should be avoided for delve rewards.
This has now happened 3 times in a row and it isn’t an unreasonable reaction to feel like this isn’t worth it. I only do solo content so this kind of becomes a deal breaker.
Mmmm no I’d argue it’s a bit different for delves, or it should be. Raids and dungeons obviously have a loot system to suit a grouped variety of players, so you have to accept that the loot isn’t just for you. But the delves have been designed to cater for solo players. Sorry but it isn’t an unreasonable assumption that almost all players will be going in there already having the rep gear, so giving us lower ilvl gear as delves rewards for those same slots is just frankly stupid. I tried thinking of more appropriate word but no, it’s just flat out stupid. It doesn’t even feel like bad luck, it feels like careless design.
I agree with the loot part, though yes, it’s been like that forever. It’s stupid if you ask me. All you need is an unlucky week, and you lose your interest in the game quickly, seeing yourself with zero progress even if you did challenging content (which happens to me quite often; even if I do everything during the week, I barely find anything that’s an upgrade).
I have more concerns with Delves, though. They can’t decide whether this is solo or group content. It’s filled with trivial encounters to my guardian druid (T8) and almost undoable to my other characters. Not every character has the same defense, self-healing, or defensive cooldowns, and this is clearly designed in a way that you need everything. Damage that you can’t avoid, can’t mitigate, or overheal on many classes. It’s like 3-4 selected classes have an easy time, for the rest is a nightmare.
Also, soulstones are a joke here. I drop the air totem when I die, use a soulstone, and die a second time to poison. Bleh.
I was waiting for this so much, so I finally face challenging solo content, and I don’t have to bear PUGs in M+ to get some loot—but no, it doesn’t fill the gap for me, at least not on all of my alts.
After burning all my relic keys on 21 Tier 8 Delves the first week I am left with only 1 slot not filled with Champion/Hero track gear - boots.
It is just RNG, maybe I was lucky, but for the first week I consider this very good. Hoarding keys before the season helped a lot.
We are now limited to like 5-6 keys per week from now on, so I guess the last 1-2 slots will be easy to complete from bountiful caches and great vault. In a month you get full champ/hero gear toon from a SOLO content, which I consider superior to anything we had before.
If you throw in some M+ there and there, you will fill your item slots even faster with quality items.
The issue might be crests, 2 crests per run (after the fix when they started to drop again) does not seem that much considering you have to run 6-7 T8 delves to get the same result like from a single timed +4.
I would like to see crest gains from delves buffed to maybe 3-5 per run instead of 2-3 we have now.
Also I received roughly 20 crests retroactively after Blizzard fixed the crests bug, but should have received more like 40 for all my T8s completed…
Seriously? I did like 15 delves tier 7/8 with my guardian druid, I got more than 10 trinkets.
RNG. If this is turning you away from this game, pls leave this game or (better) dont write on this forum topic like this. I have read your post thinking there is actually something that matter.
and just wait till you open Great vault