Blizzard Responds to Delve Feedback - Difficulty & Reward Tuning
Blizzard has responded to feedback on Delves announcing difficulty and reward tuning that is partially in today's build but will likely be ongoing.
Tuning and Experience
Across the board we’ve increased the XP rewards from delves during level up as they felt a bit too low.
We’ve also done a general tuning pass across all tiers and will continue to monitor difficulty for all specs and classes.
From your feedback and from our testing we saw that delves became particularly punishing throughout level up, and that many specs felt like they had to be several item levels higher than the recommended item level to survive.
We’re continuing to review the tuning for classes that are struggling in delves. We’ve seen your feedback on which classes are having a hard time.
We also have our own data that shows performance in each delve by class and spec. We’ll be using your feedback and our data points to help improve the experience for players that are struggling.
Keep it coming and we’ll keep you updated!
Bountiful Delves
We are in the middle of reviewing how we want bountiful delves to work at max level. Here’s what we’ll be rolling out:
- Bountiful Delves will be consumed upon completion.
- Bountiful Delves base chests are upgraded in quality.
- Locked chests are still there, but will go away if you lose all of your lives.
Our goal with Bountiful Delves being consumed is to encourage players to see more delves and their variants.
We’re modifying how many keys players can get per week while also increasing the base rewards from Bountiful Delves so they’re still worth running even without any keys.
We’re still working on balancing these numbers so please give us feedback as these new systems come online!
Brann Bronzebeard
We’re continuing to do work to tweak Brann and improve the experience with him and understanding what he’s doing from the moment to moment gameplay. These will be rolled out throughout. Read more on wowhead.com
