Correct me if i am wrong but as far as i know delves supposed to be a thing in game that you do solo. Unfortunately doing a tier 11 delve solo is too hard for most of the dps specs in the game therefore you are forced to find a group to do it. Forming the group takes forever also.
I strongly believe that tier 8-11 delves needs to be easier for heal and dps specs. Delves should be solo content only and therefore blizzard need to do the proper changes. If you play dps or heal spec delves are widely not fun.
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Which specs do you think are struggling with Tier 11s? Ilvl is a big factor here as well, it’s probably sensible for most players to only start including Tier 11s after a few weeks of 649 Vault Upgrades and upgrading those pieces with Runed Crests.
I’ve played the following DPS specs at Tier 11 this season and found them all to be quite viable:
WW Monk
Frost and Arcane Mage
MM Hunter
Havoc DH
Outlaw Rogue
Fire and arcane mage for starters.
11’s for 650’ish solo… you can do it easily as a group with less, just the scaling is awful with +100% HP per player… with a tank and healer it just takes forever to kill them Underpin mobs.
Wish Blizz would lower it to, at most, 50%.
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Mages require a fair amount of kiting but with two frost nova charges and blink, I tend to find I can keep enough distance to burn down at least a couple of mobs from each pack, greatly reducing the risk of death.
Burning down priority targets is important as a DPS in Delves. Going from 4 > 3 enemies is a significant reduction in incoming damage when you are having to tank it yourself.
That’s what i am talking about mate…
Hard disagree. At 650 item level, T11 Delves are ok. They just require a well-levelled Brann (I recommend 70+), 4/4 Curios of your preference, and making small pulls or even using a bit of CC. For example when you pull the 2 Aggressive Underpin Interns, hard-cc one with Polymorph and reapply it if it breaks, then take the other down on its own.
The only pulls that cause me trouble are the Underpin bomb dudes and the Underpin himself.
Delves taking 30mins to clear is not bad design.
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So you need to wait for your cds to come back in order to kill every pack? Nah, that’s no good mate!
At 645+ ilvl you categorically do not need your damage cooldowns for every pull. It’s just sensible to use them on more dangerous pulls like the Underpin mobs.
That’s not what I said. I said that you can hard-cc a strong enemy in every pull, take down the rest of the group, then take down the strong enemy on their own. Of course it means that this will make the run longer because the time that the strong enemy is cc’ed is time you do not deal damage to it.
If you are struggling doing 11s on multiple specs then you either go in with Brann on a spec that does not complement your spec, you go in undergeared, or you aren’t making full use of your spec’s toolkit.
They were designed with a specific ilvl in mind, and the closer you are to that ilvl the easier it will become.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand completely that not everyone will be able to do 11s and it is perfectly fine, but most of the time it is not the spec design that is at fault.
If we know what the source of the problem is we could give advice on it? Getting meleed for too much? Casts going off?
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Since you asked, it is not solo content, it is flexible group* content that afaik most people choose to solo.
*group content in this context meaning any party up to 5, including just 1 or solo
I remember in s1 doing t11’s on a BM hunter with healing brann, between having a pet to tank, the extra healing from healing brann and hunter dps things were pretty doable even if a little slow.
ilvl also makes a big difference tho, avg. 630ilvl to avg. 640ilvl felt like a massive change to me on this char
I am able to do tier 11 delves but it’s way too time consuming and unnecessary hard. I need to wait for my cds to be back before i pull again. Playing tank on the other hand in tier 11 delve is a peace of cake.
Definitely need them CDs for that PoS Underpin Well Connected mob… 
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I have it easy as a Shaman… I interrupt him every time he tries to call his Agent through double Capacitor Totem, Lightning Lasso, Thunderstorm, Hex and finally this new item with the rock in the bottle. Which means he doesn’t call his Broker, his Friend or his Mom either.
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Wait, isn’t Polymorph spammable? As in you can Polymorph him when he tries to call his Agent, break the Poly, re-poly when he tries to recast etc?
Is there any point in doing tier 11?
Tier 8s give the max gear and fill out the vault for the week.
I tried higher tiers and figured they aren’t worth it at all. The difficulty + the time they take don’t really justify the reward you get at the end.
They give 7 gilded crests 3 times for the week.
So 3 11s 5 8s to max out your vault.
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Aren’t Tier10 giving more runed crests than Tier9, which in turn give more runed crests than Tier8?
tier 11 isnt even hard to solo
just do the objective skip trash ( unless its a " kill % objective " )
easy enough
they should uncap the crests in my opinion
Just use healer brann and step on potions? Idk people were doing T11s on all DPS specs, even without busted tank brann, week 1 before they even had gear from the new season.
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