Sloot Tests Delve Scaling - Two Player Delves Have Less Health & Deal Less Damage Than Solo

Posted 2024/09/12 at 2:35 PM by Squishei

an article earlier today

Sloot

Decided to do a little more Delve scaling testing... here are the amazing results (on a Tier 8):
Tested on various damage intake types, settled on "Web Bolt" just as a standard for consistency for these values.

1 Tank: 2.5M
1 Tank + 1 DPS: 1M
2 Tanks + 1 DPS: 1.5M
2 Tanks: 1.5M
1 Tank + 1 Healer: 1.3M
1 Healer: 2M
2 Healers: 1.3M
1 DPS + 1 Healer: 1.3M
1 DPS: 1.3M
2 DPS: 1M
1 Tank + 1 DPS + 1 Healer: 1.3M

But wait! There's more! Let's talk about health values, these seem to be independent of Role, tested 1-3 player, let's refer to "Nerubian Threadmancer" just as a constant again (every mob's HP scaled accordingly)

1 Player: 4.62M
2 Player: 3.47M
3 Player 4.31M

Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk, enjoy the new solo content!4 Players - ~1.5x Solo
5 Players - ~2x SoloCrazed Abomination

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Comments

Comment by TyraelPla

We were 1 tank 1 dd plus 1 heal seems since this morning the tuning of debuss is scuffed. there is quite less incoming damage 90% of the delve than there is one mob with group debuff and the debuff ticks 40% of the player life per second.

Comment by spacespike

Good that I only did them solo and even selected waterworks as my lvl 8 delve 😂

Comment by Gothieboy

It's actually broken now. Good job Blizzard. As a tank. I take 4 million damage hits from mobs.

Comment by Oundy

Feels like they've totally gutted Brann too. Just re-tried some solo ? difficulty Zekvir and Brann wasn't hitting at all as DD. Took my 15% PB right back to 80% now. Thanks for the wasted time Blizz.

Comment by Arkis

Non Melee DPS not only STILL have 22+ sec interrupt CD but if they doing this solo, they get to face spammable bolts casted by mobs that hit HARDER than if they bring a buddy along which means they will also have 2x interrupts, CC etc..

Well Done Blizz! 👌👍

ranged specs usually have more cc. most melee have a kick, stun, and a CC with a long CD.
Both type of dps have their tradeoffs

Comment by Tecuer9

Delve scaling is a complete joke. Less HP for mobs with a group of 2 DPS vs 1 DPS? This is what I call the anti-solo content. Numbers go up cause you are solo. It makes sense cause you have a lot more tools available when you are alone /s.

Just solo’d delves 8-11 to see how it feels to do it alone. Perfectly fine runs, just very challenging. It’s a skill issue.

This is a stupid response. Regardless of whether its easy for you going solo or not, doesn't mean that mobs should hit less hard and have less health when there are MORE people in the delve.

I am personally of the opinion that the solo delves are not overturned nor are M0s, and that everyone and their mom shouldn't be able to do T8 week 1. This provides nice progression for people through the expansion that don't want to commit to progressing through raids.

Comment by dewd

'the most solo friendly expansion ever'

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