13 Tips & Tricks You NEED To Know to Make Tier 8 Delves Easier After The Changes

Summary

This video provides 13 useful tips and tricks for improving your performance in Tier 8 delves, particularly after recent updates have nerfed certain strategies. It covers optimizing the use of curios, switching roles mid-delves, leveraging utility skills, and the importance of healing with Bran. Additional tips include using gathering nodes for extra materials, resetting delves for bountiful rewards, and gathering key shards to maximize loot. The video encourages players to be flexible with their strategies, offers advice for both solo and group play, and emphasizes adapting to the recent changes for a smoother experience.

Takeaways

• 🛠️ Delve changes: Recent buffs and nerfs have affected strategies, requiring new approaches for success in Tier 8 delves.
• 🎯 Equip curios: Choose your combat and utility curios wisely, as they can significantly impact your delve performance.
• 💪 Porcelain Arrowhead Idol: This curio boosts crit chance and helps deal more damage quickly, making it a strong choice.
• 🛡️ Unbreakable Iron Idol: For survivability, this curio taunts enemies when your health is low, giving you time to recover.
• 🚶 Amorphis Relic: Provides a useful buff to health, damage, healing, movement speed, and haste, enhancing overall performance.
• 🩹 Brand as a Healer: Switching Brand to a healer role can increase survivability and make delves more manageable post-bug fix.
• ⏳ Potion strategy: Stagger potion pickups to maximize healing over time, increasing your survival rate.
• 🛑 Don't fight everything: You don't need to kill every enemy in delves; sometimes, avoiding mobs can make runs faster and easier.
• 🧠 Utility usage: Use all available crowd control and utility skills like stuns, roots, and silences to manage difficult packs more efficiently.
• 🔄 Reset delves: If a delve becomes too difficult, reset the instance to try again without losing Bountiful loot opportunities.

Q & A

What is one of the best ways to boost Brand's overall power?

One of the best ways to boost Brand's overall power is by collecting, upgrading, and swapping curios. Equipping the right combat and utility curios can significantly enhance Brand's effectiveness.

What are some of the best curios for boosting damage and survival?

The Porcelain Arrowhead Idol boosts critical hit chances, offering significant damage, while the Unbreakable Iron Idol taunts enemies when Brand's health drops, helping to survive dangerous encounters.

What is an important healing strategy when playing with Brand?

A key healing strategy is staggering potion pickups. Brand throws red healing potions that provide heal-over-time effects. Picking up each potion after short intervals maximizes healing duration.

Can you change Brand’s role during a delve?

Yes, you can change Brand's role between DPS and healer mid-delve at checkpoints. This flexibility can help you adapt to different challenges during the run.

What is the advantage of using Brand’s campfire in delves?

Brand’s campfire grants a 5% primary stat boost when rested at, stacking with other food buffs. This can be a key advantage in tougher fights.

Do you need to kill all enemies during delves?

No, you don’t have to kill everything. Skipping unnecessary packs can make delve runs faster and easier, especially when dealing with more difficult enemies.

What utility abilities are useful in delves?

Abilities like fears, stuns, slows, and invisibility are useful in delves. Many of these aren’t often used in raids or dungeons but can be game-changers in delves.

How does grouping affect delve runs?

Playing in a group can still be a viable option, even though enemies may have more health. Duoing as a tank and DPS or healer and DPS is often a good balance for smoother runs.

Can you reset a delve if you are struggling?

Yes, you can reset a delve if it becomes too difficult. Running outside, resetting the instance, and returning will give you another chance without losing the bountiful rewards.

What is the difference between Tier 7 and Tier 8 delves in terms of rewards?

Tier 8 delves drop item level 603 gear, while Tier 7 delves drop 597 gear. Both can be upgraded to the same maximum level, but upgrading Tier 7 gear requires more carved crests and Valor stones.