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.

Outlines

00:00

💡 Introduction to Changes in Delves

The speaker introduces themselves and discusses how recent changes have affected delves, with buffs, nerfs, and shifting strategies. They promise 13 tips for improving delve runs, especially in tier 8 delves, and encourage viewers to subscribe for more content. The first tip is about enhancing Bran’s performance by upgrading and selecting the right curios for combat and utility, as these can significantly impact delve success.

05:00

🔥 Using Bran's Abilities Wisely

The focus is on Bran’s campfire ability, which can provide a 5% primary stat boost if utilized effectively. The speaker advises making sure to grab the buff when it appears, as it can significantly enhance performance during difficult pulls. They also highlight that not every enemy in delves needs to be killed and that objectives often provide more than enough opportunities, allowing players to avoid unnecessary fights.

10:02

🎯 Maximizing Utility in Delves

Here, the speaker emphasizes using utility skills like crowd control (CC) that often go unused in raids or dungeons. These abilities, such as fears, stuns, and silences, can make delves easier by allowing players to avoid or neutralize dangerous mobs. They encourage players to explore their talent trees and think creatively in challenging delve situations. Group play is also suggested as a viable alternative if soloing becomes too difficult.

15:03

🔄 Restarting Delve Runs and Adjusting Difficulty

This paragraph explains how players can reset delves to preserve Bountiful loot and retry after failures. It also suggests that dropping from tier 8 to tier 7 delves may be beneficial for players struggling with difficulty. The rewards in tier 7 delves still offer good potential, despite being slightly lower in item level, and can be upgraded with minimal cost.

Keywords

💡Delves

Delves are a key part of the video, referring to dungeon-like instances where players fight enemies and collect rewards. The main focus of the video is on Tier 8 delves, which are more difficult but offer high-level gear and rewards. Players are advised to adjust their strategies, such as changing curios or role setups, to successfully navigate these delves.

💡Bran

Bran is a character or companion that assists the player in delves, offering both damage (DPS) and healing roles. The video explains that recent updates have fixed bugs that affected Bran’s damage output and health, and now suggest that players might find it more effective to use Bran as a healer to improve survival during challenging encounters.

💡Curios

Curios are special items that players can equip to enhance their abilities in combat or utility within delves. The video highlights the importance of choosing the right curio for the situation, such as the 'Porcelain Arrowhead Idol' for increased damage or the 'Unbreakable Iron Idol' for better survival, emphasizing that curios can dramatically affect the ease of completing delves.

💡Potion Staggering

Potion staggering refers to a technique where players pick up healing potions in a delayed, strategic manner to maximize the healing effects over time. This tactic is recommended in the video to help players stay alive longer during tough fights, especially when Bran is used as a healer in delves.

💡Bountiful Delves

Bountiful Delves are special instances of delves that offer increased rewards, such as higher-level gear. The video explains that Bountiful Delves can be reset under certain conditions to maximize loot collection, and they remain an important part of the game, even without special keys to unlock all the chests inside.

💡Tier 8 Gear

Tier 8 Gear refers to high-level equipment that players can obtain from completing Tier 8 delves. The video mentions that this gear is item level 603, and while players can downgrade to Tier 7 for slightly easier content, they will miss out on the best possible loot. The gear is a core incentive for players tackling high-difficulty delves.

💡Campfire Buff

The Campfire Buff is a 5% primary stat boost that Bran grants when he sets up a campfire during delves. Players are encouraged to make use of this buff whenever it appears, as it can make a significant difference in their performance. The video advises ensuring the buff is refreshed, as it only lasts 10 minutes.

💡Underwater Delves

Underwater Delves are a specific type of delve where players need to manage their breath while fighting enemies. The video suggests using water-breathing potions or other mechanics to bypass the breath bar, making these delves easier to complete. The use of items like Draic Water Breathing Potions can eliminate the underwater breath mechanic entirely.

💡Gathering Nodes

Gathering nodes are spots within delves where players can collect resources like herbs or ore. The video points out that Bran can gather these materials for players, even if they don’t have the appropriate gathering professions, providing extra rewards such as valuable materials to sell for gold.

💡Key Shards

Key shards are items that players can collect and combine to create full keys, which are used to unlock chests in delves. The video explains that key shards can be obtained from world quests and radiant echoes, and it encourages players to keep an eye out for opportunities to gather them, as having more keys allows for more loot during delve runs.

Highlights

Delves have undergone significant changes with buffs, nerfs, and shifting strategies. Initial tactics may no longer be effective, but players can still acquire high-level gear with some adjustments.

Players can collect and upgrade curios to enhance Brand’s combat abilities. The Porcelain Arrowhead Idol boosts crit chance, while the Unbreakable Iron Idol helps with survival by taunting enemies when health is low.

Using the Amorphous Relic as a utility curio can provide a significant boost to health, damage, healing, and movement speed, offering flexibility for different challenges.

Switching Brand from DPS to healing can be more effective for survival in delves, especially after recent bug fixes that reduced his overall damage output.

Players can utilize checkpoints within delves to swap Brand’s role or adjust curios, providing strategic flexibility during runs.

Brand’s campfire ability grants a 5% primary stat boost, which can be crucial in tight situations. This buff should be maintained throughout the delve.

Players don’t need to kill all enemies in delves. Objectives are often more plentiful than required, so choosing safer targets can streamline the process.

Utility abilities like crowd control, stealth, and aggro management can be extremely useful in delves, encouraging players to explore their full talent tree.

Group play remains viable despite recent changes, with tank-DPS or healer-DPS combinations being effective for smoother delve runs.

If a delve becomes too difficult, players can reset the instance to attempt it again, retaining its bountiful loot status.

Tier 7 delves offer slightly lower gear than Tier 8 but are significantly easier. This trade-off can be beneficial for players struggling with higher-tier content.

Underwater delves can be made easier by using water-breathing potions or buffs, eliminating the need to manage breath bars.

Players can earn additional delve keys each week by completing world quests that reward key shards and by participating in world soul events.

Delves often contain gathering nodes for additional resources. Brand can automatically collect materials if brought close to these nodes, providing extra income.

Bountiful delve chests have a chance to contain maps that guarantee high-level loot in future delve runs, making them valuable even without a coffer key.

Transcripts

hey folks this is Kanani delves have

changed quite a lot in such a short

amount of time things have been buffed

things have been nerfed and some

strategies that folks were using at the

start of the Season don't really hold up

too well anymore but all is not lost you

can still get your 603 and 610 gear from

tier 8 delves without too much extra

hassle we're going to go through 13

super useful tips and tricks that can

help make your delve run smoother and

more reliable to help you clear the

those tier eight delves and Beyond now

before we jump in be sure to hit up that

like button and subscribe so you never

miss another video one of the best ways

you can boost Brand's overall power and

Effectiveness besides leveling him up is

to collect upgrade and swap around your

equipped curios you can equip one combat

curio and one utility curio and these

can actually make a huge difference some

of these curios are just really bad and

not worth using at all some of them can

even make your dels harder or get in the

way or just kill bran every pole which

isn't ideal so play around with them

maybe think about what you've been

struggling with the most and pick a

curio that would help with that

specifically if you're looking for some

general advice some of the best ones I

found are the porcelain Arrowhead Idol

this one increases the chance to crit

mobs when it procs which is just a huge

chunk of extra damage that can help you

kill stuff really quickly if you're

dying a lot the unbreakable iron Idol

can be a good pickup too it will spawn

and taunt every everything when you drop

to low Health giving you some time to

either finish off the pack or heal

yourself up a bit if you're struggling

with a specific pack you can also just

wait for this to come off cool down to

give yourself better chances of success

and then for utility the Amorphis Relic

is really strong this one either

increases your max Health damage and

healing or increases your movement speed

and haste it's a big damage buff no

matter what and can give you the extra

Health you need to survive or the extra

speed you need to kite there's no

downsides here only sweet Buffs to enjoy

you can get more relics by completing

delves they're found inside the chests

at the end something else that you

should keep in mind is that taking bran

as DPS all the time might not

necessarily be the best option anymore

doing a bit more damage doesn't really

mean that much if you are dying in 10

seconds opting for brand to go healing

might give you enough leeway to actually

kill the trash packs instead of it being

a race of trying to kill the trash

before it kills you healing lets you

play a bit slower and safer so it's

definitely worth considering if you're

struggling through your delves this

option is even more important now due to

some of the most recent bug fixes

apparently bran was bugged and could

have massively increased damage in

health allowing him to carry your delve

entirely by himself that bug has

apparently been fixed so if your brand

suddenly feels less powerful and seems

to die more often that's actually

intended that's the bug getting fixed

but in addition to that bug being

addressed Bran's damage and healing was

buffed up by

125% that's not enough damage to make up

for those huge bugs but buffing his

healing as well makes that option more

viable so at the very least bran will be

more reliable now but this does leave

his potential damage quite a bit lower

than before but his healing is now

basically twice as good so if you

haven't played with bran as a Healer

recently maybe give it a try it may make

your run smoother and allow you to pull

a bit more or let you take down a boss

that was killing you too fast previously

if bran isn't going to be pumping those

damage numbers like he was before well

at least he can keep you alive much

better now personally I actually prefer

to run with bran as a Healer when I go

into solo delves now the real trick here

seems to be staggering the potion

pickups Bran's main heal is a red potion

he throws on the floor he'll throw three

at a time and it's not just an instant

heal when you pick it up it's also a

decently long heal of a Time effect that

Stacks up so if you pick up one potion

then wait a little bit pick up the next

potion wait a bit then pick up the third

potion you'll spread that healing out

further and you should be able to stay

alive much longer if you spread your

potions out enough you can even keep

your Stacks when the next round of

potions comes out so if you play this

perfectly you can run around with a

massive heal overtime effect and become

almost invincible so if you're

struggling after the changes try bran as

a Healer it's also very important to

remember that you can swap things up

halfway through you can change anything

related to Brand the checkpoints found

about halfway through each delve so if

you want to swap him from DPS to heal to

try and survive through a boss fight for

longer or swap him back to DPS to try

and nuke down an annoying pack you can

do that if your curios don't seem to be

helping or you want the taunt one or

some more damage or some more healing

change things up don't bash your head

against a wall without trying to change

things up at least a little bit the

checkpoint gives you that opt option so

make good use of it I've also seen some

folks mocking bran for popping down his

campfire whenever he needs a little

break but you actually want Bran's

campfire to go down sometimes I always

try to finish the first pull of a delve

on decently low health so the campfire

comes out if you eat at the campfire for

long enough you'll get a 5% primary stat

boost that Stacks with all other food

Buffs 5% primary stat is a significant

buff and could make the difference

between a close pull and being able to

destroy your foes so whenever that

campfire goes down make sure you grab

the buff or renew it it only lasts for

10 minutes so you may have to renew it

at least once during your delve run now

something that may seem kind of obvious

is that you don't have to kill

everything in your delve runs I run a

couple of pugs where they pull

everything in sight and sure you can

kill everything but you don't always

have to there are a lot of delves where

you can zoom through by killing very few

packs which not only make your delve

much faster there but it's also just

much easier the same thing goes for

objectives usually there are more

available objectives than what you

actually need to do so if you need to

kill five things there are usually seven

or eight of them if you need to collect

six things you'll usually have about

nine scattered around the place so take

a peek at how many objectives you need

and how many are available to you you

might not need that one surrounded by

Angry Elites and monsters you could just

finish off your run with a nice easy

single mob that won't send you into a

crazy Panic as brand runs off and leaves

you to your sad fate the next one might

also seem obvious but I'm going to throw

it in here for the folks who may be a

little rusty delves are the perfect

place to whip out that utility you never

get to use in dungeons or raids I'm

talking every kind of CC you have fears

stuns slows Roots blinds knockbacks

knockups silences dispels all of it dig

through your talents for anything that

could help most raid builds or even

dungeon builds from places like Wowhead

often don't include a lot of Niche

utility options because you don't really

get a chance to use them in those

situations but almost anything goes in

delves priests can mind control or

dominate mind and they can use mind

sooth to skip packs super easily Mages

can use invis to skip trash packs or

drop aggro Hunters can charge through

packs of monsters with turtle and Fain

death on the other side there's a lot of

extra utility hiding in your talent

trees so don't just pull a group and

face tank them for the entire time be

tricky be sneaky use every tool at your

disposal who knows struggling through

dels might just make everyone a much

better player at their class and spec

because we have to think outside of the

box for once now even with all of the

recent tuning and changes playing in a

group is still a viable option you don't

have to struggle through by yourself

bran can't carry a delve by himself

anymore so you're probably going to have

a harder time solo when compared to the

start of the Season he Liv seem to get

the short end of the stick here because

while healing brand might be a better

option now that doesn't really help you

out if you're wanting to roll as a

Healer yourself I guess you could double

heal and never die but that would take a

very long time I know a lot of folks are

still grouping bya the group find a tool

so if you're struggling to finish your

Del solo it might be worth popping into

a group to see if that's any better

right now group delves do seem to take a

little bit longer because everything has

a lot of Health but it might still be

the safer option for some folks

personally I think duoing as a tank in

DPS or as a Healer in DPS is the best

middle ground right now that's how

nadara and I have been doing our Dells

and they've been pretty smooth overall

so if you're really struggling groups

are still an option now something that I

don't think a lot of folks seem to know

is that you can restart your delve run

if you finish a bountiful delve you've

probably noticed that the delve is no

longer Bountiful you can only do them

once per day after that it's just a

normal delve until the daily reset comes

around and makes four New delves

Bountiful but you can back out of a

delve if you haven't finished it yet

reset the instance and it will still be

bountiful so if you run out a live so

there's a really nasty zeia pack you

can't avoid and can't seem to kill you

can reset your delve to try again all

you have to do is run outside rightclick

your portrait reset all instances and

head back in it's like it never happened

and the delve will still have all of its

wonderful Bountiful loot waiting for you

at the end and if tier eight is still

proving to be too difficult despite all

of these other tips you can knock it

down to tier 7 and not lose too much in

terms of rewards the delve will be quite

a bit easier when compared to tier eight

so you may be able to push through the

stuff that was killing you on tier eight

but I know you're probably worried about

the rewards and losing out on the maxed

out tier eight gear tier eight delves

drop item level 603 gear which is three

of eight on the champion upgrade track

tier 7 delves drop that down to 950

seven gear so you do lose six item

levels but the loot is still on the

champion upgrade track it drops as one

of eight Champion so the upgrade

potential between these two drops is the

exact same they can both go up to a

ofate champion and item level 619 the

only difference is you're going to have

to spend some more carved crests and

some more Valor stones to get those tier

7 or 597 rewards upgraded to the same

level so this is going to be up to you

and how hard the tier eight dels

currently are for you if tier tier 7 is

easier and you have plenty of spare

crests for the extra upgrades running

the lower tier Del might not be such a

bad idea this next one is a little

specific but it could make all the

difference in some of your delve runs

there are quite a few delves which are

underwater and you may have found

yourself fall victim to the good old

underwater breath boss you're supposed

to gather the air bubbles to keep your

breath bar up but there's a much easier

way to just remove the entire mechanic

there are various ways to breathe

underwater one of the cheaper options

right now in the auction house are the

draic water breathing potions they last

for an hour so you can clear your delve

easily in that time and you won't have

to worry about your breath at all pretty

much any way to breathe underwater will

work here so if you find another

consumable or you have the fishing rods

that Grant underwater breathing or if

there's a friendly warlock outside the

delve you can get the underwater

breathing buff instead there are plenty

of ways to remove that particular

mechanic from the underwater delves if

those potions are too expensive you can

Al pop down to Taris and buy up some

good old nog and foger elixir you can

spend a couple of gold for a whole bunch

of this stuff and there's a chance when

Ed to turn you into a skeleton which

grants underwater breathing it only

lasts for 10 minutes so you might have

to use a few for each delve depending on

how fast you're going but it is a very

cheap underwater breathing option you

may have forgotten about another very

useful tip is to look out for the

Gathering notes in delves even if you

don't have the Gathering professions

yourself bran will mine he can herb but

can even fish in spots like Bridges or

just anywhere near water so you can walk

away with some extra materials that you

can pop up on the auction house for an

extra few gold but bran will only gather

this stuff if you run him pretty close

so keep your eyes peeled for some

Gathering nodes and bran will give you

some free mats that you can sell you

also have a chance to get some rare

materials when bran gathers including

the profaned Tinder boxes this is one of

the methods people have been using to

farm them and with them selling for a

very pretty penny you could potenti make

some good gold out of Dells as well but

only if you keep an eye out for those

Gathering nodes and take brand over to

them so you can get some free materials

now as folks are starting to run out of

their saved up Coffer keys I think it's

also important to note that it can still

be worth running the Bountiful Dells

each day even if you don't have a relic

Coffer key to open the special chest at

the end the normal Bountiful delve

chests have a chance to contain one of

the delve maps that guarantee you 610

loot in your next delve run and you

don't need a key to get that chest or to

open it so it's totally worth doing them

even if you can't open the lock chest at

the end due to running out of Coffer

Keys Maps do seem to be very RNG based

though some folks have managed to get

their hands on five or more this past

week While others still haven't seen a

single one so keep trying you'll get

your Maps eventually and then you can

look forward to that 610 gear bran will

also continue to earn massive chunks of

experience for every Bountiful Del you

complete so he'll get some extra levels

more Stacks ofies Buffs and he'll be

able to help you out more in the future

future which should make your dels

easier and easier as he continues to

level up so even if you don't get any

loot or Maps leveling bran will always

be worth it if you want to go even

further than that some players have even

been farming regular delves just for the

chance for Zia to spawn zackia can drop

gear radiant Echoes and maps and it

seems like there's no limit on how many

times you can see them so they should

have a chance to spawn in any delves you

do so if you have a bunch of time you

can Farm zeia endlessly as well now the

last tip I have for you is that you can

actually get more than four Keys per

week you probably know about the four

restored Coffer keys from the weekly

cashes and events but you can also

combine key shards together to get even

more keys to get even more loot from

dels there are two main sources of these

key shards the first is just random

World quests sometimes A world quest

will offer you 25 key shards for

completing it so keep your eyes on your

world quests I check the world quest

every day when I log in just to make

sure nothing is sneaking by and I'll

complete any that reward the key shards

for every four World quests you complete

you'll get an extra key to use in your

Dells the other source comes from your

radiant Echoes which you'll be

collecting from Bountiful delves in the

Coffer chests you get one radiant Echo

per chest you unlock so one Echo per key

spent essentially you can use radiant

Echoes to power the world Soul events

that you'll be able to see on your map

when you have radiant echoes in your bag

to start the event you can spend one

echo or five Echoes to get five times

the rewards so usually it's a good idea

to do the five times Echoes it's the

same thing as doing it five times with a

single Echo but instead of spending 25

minutes killing random stuff it's just 5

minutes all you have to do is kill as

much stuff as you can in the 5 minutes

given to you everything you kill

increases your score at the top of your

screen and the higher your score the

more key shards and Valor Stones you're

going to get the rewards seem to cap out

at about 400 Valor stones and 225 key

shards when spending five echoes so if

you can get your score high enough

you'll get two more keys to run your

Dells so for every five Bountiful Dells

you run and every five Echoes you get

you can get another two keys which means

our weekly key earnings should be around

seven per week if you do everything on

offer I would also recommend you do the

radiant Echoes events in a group if you

can maybe drag a couple of guildies in

or rope in some friends or just create a

group in the group finder you share your

score across your group so the more

people you have the higher score you're

going to get things can get a bit weird

sometimes if you do this in a raid I've

seen some folks say their rewards were

bugged and they got a lot less than they

expected so I personally stick to

parties of five as the max you might not

get as high a score as a raid but the

rewards seem to cap out pretty quickly

anyway so I don't think the raid really

offers much and raids are always a bit

weird with this kind of thing making a

raid or party will be up to you though

but that's all the tips and tricks we

have to make your dels more Bountiful

and more comfortable as you work on

clearing through those tier eight delves

and collecting all of that wonderful

loot how do you feel about the delve

system with all of these changes in

place and are there any tips you would

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