Would love more delve guides for specific classes. The stuff you’ve covered so far has already helped us out (me and my husband) tremendously. We are pretty bad players because we’ve always kept it relatively casual. The delves are excellent practice for us and we’re loving it.
the Kalu'ak fishing pole gives water breathing. tbh i forgot i had it equipped on my fishing page, hopped into the underwater delve and it worked like a charm. but indeed, strategic pulls, CC, interrupts and defensive cooldowns on rotation will usually see you through. although you've got to be situationally aware and not stand in the 1 shot abilities, of which there are many and some are hard to see. class/spec also makes a big difference as have had a much easier time running T8 delves on my ret paladin than i ever have on my arms warrior, to the point where my pala has now out-geared my warrior, even though i have twice as much max level playtime on my warrior compared to my pala. stepped straight into T6 delves on my paladin in greens, whereas i had to build up through earlier tiers of delves on my warrior to get into T8. self heals, potions and Branns food buff all add towards success. i play pretty much exclusively delves, haven't stepped foot in a heroic dungeon, M+ or raid, other than the 1 time i tried out LFR on my warrior and joined on the last boss of the wing. have only run follower dungeons to complete quests so far, but once i've got a full set of gear, likely to branch out a bit. but for now, thoroughly enjoying delves - just got my 2 piece set bonus and it's making a huge difference, whilst i could self heal and avoid standing in fire, it was taking ages to kill anything, but now my gear is around 590, mobs are starting to go down a bit quicker. by the time people are in 610+ gear, they should be absolutely smashing through T8 delves. honestly, i like this new progression path. i've been out of the game for about 5 years (i have a 5 year old) and haven't raided since legion, came back about 2 weeks before TWW pre-patch and just dont have time to do anything more involved. only have a couple of hours from 10pm onwards 4 nights a week to play, so organised raids and heroic dungeons are basically a no go for me these days, so feel like delves were targeted at people like me, who still love the game, have played since TBC launch, but just dont have the time or level of commitment i used to (used to be a raid + guild leader), but still perfectly capable of challenging content and i'm sure there are plenty of others that fit that situation.
Sad part is the rep isn't Warbound... >.< I have exalted on a few toons but not on all. >.< Crafting Draenor water breathing pots is a good alternative.
A combo that's bread and butter to classic-tbc players but probably foreign to newer ones is *combining the crowd control with the line of sight.* You don't have to worry about Brann breaking your CC's if you pull the others away from the CC'd one, so you CC one, then pull the rest close to you with line of sight. This is particularly good for classes like rogues whose CC's can't all be used mid-combat.
I'll add some tips regarding healer brann that helped me use it a lot better: *the healing potion gives you a small heal, coupled with about 10 seconds of a heal-over-time THAT STACKS UP TO FOUR.* So the best way to use the potions is to stagger them out and keep that powerful heal-over-time at multiple stacks. This is easiest with the "drinking a potion can proc another potion" ability. If you're like me and were still using level 1 curios, *it seems like every 2 delve levels gives curios of another tier.* So tier 7-8 delves will be needed to get a tier 4 curio, but a 5-6 delve (significantly easier!) will still get you tier 3 curios for a powerful upgrade. (great use for alts, as them doing bountiful delves also means shared Brann leveling progress too!)
A little late, but if you can get ahold of "The Mad Queen's Mandate" trinket...even from Raid Finder...hang on to it. It does 3 million damage (maxed out Raid Finder) and a small heal...But the Egg Cocoons in Zekvir's Lair only have 5 million health. And the CD for the trinket goes from 2 minutes down to 1 if it kills the mob. I've started referring to it as the egg beater trinket.
Hey dude I've capped at t8s just simply bc I chase the rewards not the challenge necessarily. Just wanted to say this was a great video for newer players, didnt really need a ton of help just watched it see what you'd say and it was solid :3
dropping the candle helped so much, even as a warrior, not that I had much problem with that delve. Just made it less worrisome. I've also made quiet a bit of gold making old water breathing potions.
Yeah that was a great gold boost, I had 6 alts all maxed out on the warlords currency (dont remember the name now) and bought mats from the vendor at the trading post, 500 potions sold for 150 gold each lol
Taunts work great from pets, if you're on your hunter/ lock. And I usually clear the entire dungeon before actually doing the requirements of the delve. That way, the delve is cleared of mobs that would otherwise be around when you're required to "save" npc's or collect items.
I'm sure others have mentioned this - the Kalu'ak fishing rod from LK allows under water breathing. Place it in the fishing profession gear slot. No need to worry about bubbles or breathing elixirs.
Warlocks can take a talent that makes the mob stand still instead of running around while feared. Also fear is the only interrupt apart from a stun with cd that warlocks can use because the "kick" silence/interrupt is tied to a specific pet (felhunter) and when solo most warlocks want to use voiswalker because they don't wanna face tank the mobs themselves.
I’m using Howl of Terror a lot as an aoe stop and cc. It works great and has a reduced cd and increased radius with a Diabolist hero talent. I still then have fear and shadowfury as back up.
@@mirandelf Y that's good use of warlock utility right there. Just gotta be careful where one howls so that you don't end up pulling more mobs because you can't talent howl to not make mobs run to random directions like you can fear.
@@SplitpersonalityGaming well there's also Affliction and Destro and they don't have Felguard. Howl isn't baseline also but ofc one can talent into it just like the "stand still" fear
My rogue still has Leatherworking from BFA so I've been making the diving helmet and suits to use in the water delves. I stocked up on mats cheap at the end of that expansion so I didn't even need to buy any.
I was wondering what those curios were for. Not sure if I can change out Bran as he is my healer. That monkey curio drives me nuts...but as you pointed out, it is fun
I'm really liking delves on my Demon Hunter. I'm consistently doing level 8's on her and not really having a problem. I've even gotten all of the level 8 achievements bagged. The casters haven't progressed as far but they also have lower iLevels. You basically have to get the rhythm of when to cast and when to move.
Note on minor misinfo on noggenfogger elixir: Not AH-able, but still sold in Tanaris just a portal to the Caverns of Time in your capital city away. *Unlike in vanilla, no quest requirements whatsoever to access the vendor.* Still 35 silver for 5. Goblins may have a reputation for greed but this one has never raised his prices! And it now stacks to 200! *I believe the slowfall effect on it is still a thing,* I'll have to see if that allows for some clever trash skips in the more vertical delves.
I had a lot of success solo leveling a monk, but they have like 287 buttons. So the cc and utility stuff got bumped because i never used them. Maybe that's why i suck at delves lol
Can confirm on my monk using the whole kit they are one of the best delve classes I've tried. Make sure you've got that instant cast vivify talent. That is mighty powerful for enduring the bosses.
Brann: Those webs summon nerubians, don't stand in 'em! Me: Pff, this game is handholding me too much. I'm not an idiot. * is standing in the webs, the nerubians hit like tanks * Brann: _I warned ye, champion!_ Good call teaching things like remembering we can swap talents mid run and pick ones that might not be in the icyveins "best talent" guides for specific solo-applicable utility, and just remembering especially for dps or tanks used to facerolling that we can control a lot of difficulty with proper pulling. Just today I was doing a delve and realized i could use Ring of Peace to push enemies apart from each other then CC one with paralysis on my monk so that it wouldn't be nearly as much of a risk to be hit with aoe attacks. On my rogue I had practically forgotten Tricks of the Trade existed, but in delves it's absolutely a hard requirement to use or you'll be flattened!
Use ALL of your talents/abilities. Delve will make you play the game. Really a good training ground) better than mage tower, proving grounds, awakening the machi..... .we all loved those, didn't we? Use a water breathing potion. I'm using a stack from WOTLK. Use 2 candles or air filers hopping around each other. Iminutes of glorious air. I'm on tier 10. Yeah, an interrupt...Wait, was that a clip from LEEEEROYYYY JENKINS from black rock? The original one? Great section on old school pulling Try that mega pull in ICC when current endgame, wipe you like the charman bear.I'm a fury warrior mele so their in my face but still have ranged abilities. Great content here. Yeah. Squirrel. You should see my quest log.. damnit, I just finished hunting and pecking all of that and the video covers it embarrassment. Took too long to type so here it stays fungal folly sucks hard for mele
I have several very similar champion track trinkets ilvl 603. Clear a tier 9, and the great vault reward will give you hero 3/8 ilvl 616. I got a tier piece helm on Hero Track. The benefit of soloing high tier delves is that you will find out fast if you are leaving anything on the table. Stuns interrupt, movement nerf, Mele, etc, COOLDOWN maintenance and rotation and proc order.
I play warlock and i have cruised through delves and soloed all of them to T11 except for zekvir ?? difficulty. I have never been a M+ player thinking it's probably a bit too hardcore for me but after seeing the amount of people that already have KSM saying how they can't complete the higher tier delves I'm thinking i might try for KSM for the mount cause it can't be that hard.
I would do mythics if i could find a guild that actually did them regularly and didnt just claim it in their recruitment message. Or even i could get in some pugs. But its damn near impossible to do either. I had purple logs in dragonflight, but havent been able to even get in any in war within.
@@vobic13 cope & seeth that you have no idea how to play your class. Self healing with 2 defensive cooldowns and an earth elemental and you still can't do delves? LOL
Specifically waxface tips? Well from what I can tell the AoE he casts doesn't drop off with distance, so save defensive abilities for it instead. The fire swirlies just dodge (this may wear down your candle) and when he clobbers you into the ground you can still cast so I just spam my self healing abilities during it.
By the end of week two I was doing t8s. Delves are not fun. The player base in WOW is shrinking. Rather than admit it WOW needs to pretend they are adding solo content. In reality the truth there just is not enough of us to maintain group stuff...
Heey soul, no one wants the first 10 seconds of a video to just be your logo, when your name is stated at 11 seconds, and we are watching a youtube video where your name is prominently shown. Food for thought, I took the time to comment before i left without watching your entire video. 4 minutes in to a 14 minute video and you haven't said anything that wasn't a recap of the info every wow player already knows.
Would love more delve guides for specific classes. The stuff you’ve covered so far has already helped us out (me and my husband) tremendously.
We are pretty bad players because we’ve always kept it relatively casual. The delves are excellent practice for us and we’re loving it.
the Kalu'ak fishing pole gives water breathing. tbh i forgot i had it equipped on my fishing page, hopped into the underwater delve and it worked like a charm.
but indeed, strategic pulls, CC, interrupts and defensive cooldowns on rotation will usually see you through. although you've got to be situationally aware and not stand in the 1 shot abilities, of which there are many and some are hard to see.
class/spec also makes a big difference as have had a much easier time running T8 delves on my ret paladin than i ever have on my arms warrior, to the point where my pala has now out-geared my warrior, even though i have twice as much max level playtime on my warrior compared to my pala. stepped straight into T6 delves on my paladin in greens, whereas i had to build up through earlier tiers of delves on my warrior to get into T8.
self heals, potions and Branns food buff all add towards success.
i play pretty much exclusively delves, haven't stepped foot in a heroic dungeon, M+ or raid, other than the 1 time i tried out LFR on my warrior and joined on the last boss of the wing. have only run follower dungeons to complete quests so far, but once i've got a full set of gear, likely to branch out a bit.
but for now, thoroughly enjoying delves - just got my 2 piece set bonus and it's making a huge difference, whilst i could self heal and avoid standing in fire, it was taking ages to kill anything, but now my gear is around 590, mobs are starting to go down a bit quicker. by the time people are in 610+ gear, they should be absolutely smashing through T8 delves.
honestly, i like this new progression path. i've been out of the game for about 5 years (i have a 5 year old) and haven't raided since legion, came back about 2 weeks before TWW pre-patch and just dont have time to do anything more involved. only have a couple of hours from 10pm onwards 4 nights a week to play, so organised raids and heroic dungeons are basically a no go for me these days, so feel like delves were targeted at people like me, who still love the game, have played since TBC launch, but just dont have the time or level of commitment i used to (used to be a raid + guild leader), but still perfectly capable of challenging content and i'm sure there are plenty of others that fit that situation.
Sad part is the rep isn't Warbound... >.< I have exalted on a few toons but not on all. >.< Crafting Draenor water breathing pots is a good alternative.
A combo that's bread and butter to classic-tbc players but probably foreign to newer ones is *combining the crowd control with the line of sight.* You don't have to worry about Brann breaking your CC's if you pull the others away from the CC'd one, so you CC one, then pull the rest close to you with line of sight. This is particularly good for classes like rogues whose CC's can't all be used mid-combat.
I'll add some tips regarding healer brann that helped me use it a lot better: *the healing potion gives you a small heal, coupled with about 10 seconds of a heal-over-time THAT STACKS UP TO FOUR.* So the best way to use the potions is to stagger them out and keep that powerful heal-over-time at multiple stacks. This is easiest with the "drinking a potion can proc another potion" ability. If you're like me and were still using level 1 curios, *it seems like every 2 delve levels gives curios of another tier.* So tier 7-8 delves will be needed to get a tier 4 curio, but a 5-6 delve (significantly easier!) will still get you tier 3 curios for a powerful upgrade. (great use for alts, as them doing bountiful delves also means shared Brann leveling progress too!)
Those where some great tips. Didn't know I wouldn't lose the candle when I dropped it . Great work.
'Hard pulls in vanilla'......I was there 3000 years ago.
@@Echo22WC no soft pulls like ICC.. if you go in 20 ilvl below recommended . Wait.
A little late, but if you can get ahold of "The Mad Queen's Mandate" trinket...even from Raid Finder...hang on to it. It does 3 million damage (maxed out Raid Finder) and a small heal...But the Egg Cocoons in Zekvir's Lair only have 5 million health. And the CD for the trinket goes from 2 minutes down to 1 if it kills the mob. I've started referring to it as the egg beater trinket.
Thanks for the guide Soul!
I have the fishing pole with water breathing baked in, so I didn't even realize that was a restriction on those delves x.x
I just got that two days ago. Completely forgot about it.
Awesome guide! Delves are definitely one of my favorite features in tww.
Hey dude I've capped at t8s just simply bc I chase the rewards not the challenge necessarily. Just wanted to say this was a great video for newer players, didnt really need a ton of help just watched it see what you'd say and it was solid :3
You can run away from encounters and they don't chase you the entire delve instance-style? I actually had no idea! Great tip!
Increaced my solo motivation lot thx bro :)
Great guide! Looking forward to more!
Awesome video and Info!
This reminds me of the stuff you had to learn to get the Hunter legendary in Vanilla. I only got 2/3 of that successfully completed.
Thanks for the content, very useful
dropping the candle helped so much, even as a warrior, not that I had much problem with that delve. Just made it less worrisome.
I've also made quiet a bit of gold making old water breathing potions.
Yeah that was a great gold boost, I had 6 alts all maxed out on the warlords currency (dont remember the name now) and bought mats from the vendor at the trading post, 500 potions sold for 150 gold each lol
Well done!
Very good video 👍🏻
I've really enjoyed them, maxed out on a hunter and warlock so far via them and about 2/3 way through the season bar.
I really hate the underwater levels, not because of the breathing but because of the perspective difficulties.
Look up your favorite alchemist 😊
Taunts work great from pets, if you're on your hunter/ lock. And I usually clear the entire dungeon before actually doing the requirements of the delve. That way, the delve is cleared of mobs that would otherwise be around when you're required to "save" npc's or collect items.
I'm sure others have mentioned this - the Kalu'ak fishing rod from LK allows under water breathing. Place it in the fishing profession gear slot. No need to worry about bubbles or breathing elixirs.
It's a good tip if you already have it but not something I want to tell players to go out and do
Warlocks can take a talent that makes the mob stand still instead of running around while feared. Also fear is the only interrupt apart from a stun with cd that warlocks can use because the "kick" silence/interrupt is tied to a specific pet (felhunter) and when solo most warlocks want to use voiswalker because they don't wanna face tank the mobs themselves.
I’m using Howl of Terror a lot as an aoe stop and cc. It works great and has a reduced cd and increased radius with a Diabolist hero talent. I still then have fear and shadowfury as back up.
@@mirandelf Y that's good use of warlock utility right there. Just gotta be careful where one howls so that you don't end up pulling more mobs because you can't talent howl to not make mobs run to random directions like you can fear.
Huh? I play Demo and you have axe toss, the temporary felguard stun, shadowfury, fear and howl of terror.
@@SplitpersonalityGaming well there's also Affliction and Destro and they don't have Felguard. Howl isn't baseline also but ofc one can talent into it just like the "stand still" fear
My rogue still has Leatherworking from BFA so I've been making the diving helmet and suits to use in the water delves. I stocked up on mats cheap at the end of that expansion so I didn't even need to buy any.
Thank you
I was wondering what those curios were for. Not sure if I can change out Bran as he is my healer. That monkey curio drives me nuts...but as you pointed out, it is fun
if you're a BM hunter keep Brann as a healer, Clefthooves is the best tank pet, always keep mend pet up, you can clear 11 easy
I'm really liking delves on my Demon Hunter. I'm consistently doing level 8's on her and not really having a problem. I've even gotten all of the level 8 achievements bagged. The casters haven't progressed as far but they also have lower iLevels. You basically have to get the rhythm of when to cast and when to move.
Note on minor misinfo on noggenfogger elixir: Not AH-able, but still sold in Tanaris just a portal to the Caverns of Time in your capital city away. *Unlike in vanilla, no quest requirements whatsoever to access the vendor.* Still 35 silver for 5. Goblins may have a reputation for greed but this one has never raised his prices! And it now stacks to 200!
*I believe the slowfall effect on it is still a thing,* I'll have to see if that allows for some clever trash skips in the more vertical delves.
Delves as an undead monk are just a breeze lol i love Delves
Yes, class guides. But DK & Lock first😂😂😂Great work, Soul!
Warlock was much easier for level 8 at 570 than my 605 demon hunter because of my demon tanking.
Don't be afraid to Heal - you can "tank" the boss damage and keep you and Brann alive.
Slow and steady win the race.
I had a lot of success solo leveling a monk, but they have like 287 buttons. So the cc and utility stuff got bumped because i never used them. Maybe that's why i suck at delves lol
Can confirm on my monk using the whole kit they are one of the best delve classes I've tried. Make sure you've got that instant cast vivify talent. That is mighty powerful for enduring the bosses.
When you are running in a group with others, whose Brann is the one that runs with you? To make sure you have the right set up.
Should be party leader
Brann: Those webs summon nerubians, don't stand in 'em!
Me: Pff, this game is handholding me too much. I'm not an idiot. * is standing in the webs, the nerubians hit like tanks *
Brann: _I warned ye, champion!_
Good call teaching things like remembering we can swap talents mid run and pick ones that might not be in the icyveins "best talent" guides for specific solo-applicable utility, and just remembering especially for dps or tanks used to facerolling that we can control a lot of difficulty with proper pulling. Just today I was doing a delve and realized i could use Ring of Peace to push enemies apart from each other then CC one with paralysis on my monk so that it wouldn't be nearly as much of a risk to be hit with aoe attacks. On my rogue I had practically forgotten Tricks of the Trade existed, but in delves it's absolutely a hard requirement to use or you'll be flattened!
Id like to see a more in-depth video on relics.
This video is equivalent to the"here's your sign" meme. Even beginners would wonder who it's for.
Can solo lvl 9 if I do smart vanilla pulls on my fury warrior at ilvl 607. 30 min runs 😢
Use ALL of your talents/abilities. Delve will make you play the game. Really a good training ground) better than mage tower, proving grounds, awakening the machi..... .we all loved those, didn't we?
Use a water breathing potion. I'm using a stack from WOTLK. Use 2 candles or air filers hopping around each other. Iminutes of glorious air. I'm on tier 10. Yeah, an interrupt...Wait, was that a clip from LEEEEROYYYY JENKINS from black rock? The original one?
Great section on old school pulling
Try that mega pull in ICC when current endgame, wipe you like the charman bear.I'm a fury warrior mele so their in my face but still have ranged abilities.
Great content here.
Yeah. Squirrel. You should see my quest log.. damnit, I just finished hunting and pecking all of that and the video covers it embarrassment. Took too long to type so here it stays fungal folly sucks hard for mele
Is there any benefit going above tier 8?
I have several very similar champion track trinkets ilvl 603. Clear a tier 9, and the great vault reward will give you hero 3/8 ilvl 616. I got a tier piece helm on Hero Track. The benefit of soloing high tier delves is that you will find out fast if you are leaving anything on the table. Stuns interrupt, movement nerf, Mele, etc, COOLDOWN maintenance and rotation and proc order.
I play warlock and i have cruised through delves and soloed all of them to T11 except for zekvir ?? difficulty.
I have never been a M+ player thinking it's probably a bit too hardcore for me but after seeing the amount of people that already have KSM saying how they can't complete the higher tier delves I'm thinking i might try for KSM for the mount cause it can't be that hard.
The dungeons themselves aren’t hard, no. Getting a group of 5 people to coordinate pulls, kicks, and cooldowns… that, is a challenge.
I would do mythics if i could find a guild that actually did them regularly and didnt just claim it in their recruitment message. Or even i could get in some pugs. But its damn near impossible to do either. I had purple logs in dragonflight, but havent been able to even get in any in war within.
I have done 10 delves so far...I am dying less.....
Hunter guide please 😅
Delves as a shaman will always suck. they have been squishy since forever and thats never going to change.
I have solo'd level 10 delves as enhancement shaman, get good
@@holbroal sure you have champ. i bet you also think billie eilish knows who you are and loves you. get a real profile
@@vobic13 cope & seeth that you have no idea how to play your class. Self healing with 2 defensive cooldowns and an earth elemental and you still can't do delves? LOL
@@vobic13 just solo'd level 11 fungal folly, stick that in your pipe and smoke it 😘
@@holbroal it's easy to shit talk and give no proof of anything. i also remember being 12 talking shit online. someday youll grow up
McGlynn Haven
Be a Prot Warrior then funnel warband gear to alts.
Brahn
Wait what if brann is my guide who else do we get
Hot take: I miss Horrific Visions
WAXFACE PRETTY PLEASE!! 😢
Specifically waxface tips? Well from what I can tell the AoE he casts doesn't drop off with distance, so save defensive abilities for it instead. The fire swirlies just dodge (this may wear down your candle) and when he clobbers you into the ground you can still cast so I just spam my self healing abilities during it.
still won't and refuse to touch them except when they are required in a questline.. just not interested
Imagine having to make a video to teach the gaming community how they have been carried by ppl doing these things for them for years...
@@jamescampbell496 was not intended to be helpful
By the end of week two I was doing t8s. Delves are not fun. The player base in WOW is shrinking. Rather than admit it WOW needs to pretend they are adding solo content. In reality the truth there just is not enough of us to maintain group stuff...
Heey soul, no one wants the first 10 seconds of a video to just be your logo, when your name is stated at 11 seconds, and we are watching a youtube video where your name is prominently shown. Food for thought, I took the time to comment before i left without watching your entire video. 4 minutes in to a 14 minute video and you haven't said anything that wasn't a recap of the info every wow player already knows.
"Solo Delves for Beginners!" is the first thing you see before even clicking on the video. Not sure how to better get your attention.
Who does delves anymore?
lol I needed this two weeks ago!! Ty sir! 🫡