Everything About Delves in World of Warcraft

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Companions have abilities, and they gain more as they level up.

Companions can use Curios, which are Companion-specific Combat and Utility trinkets. These are looted from the end chests when completing a delve.

Companion Experience allows your Companion to learn new abilities and use higher-level Curios. Companions gain Companion Experience in the following ways:

defeating mobs inside a delve.

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To unlock Bountiful Delves, pick upBountiful Delves from the Delver's Journal.

Every day, four of the expansion delves gain the Bountiful affix.

Bountiful delves include an extra treasure chest at the end, a Bountiful Coffer.

Opening a Bountiful Coffer requires a .

Bounty Restored Coffer Keys

The first 4 weekly caches you earn from World Events will grant Restored Coffer Keys.

Collect and combine 100 Coffer Key Shards to create a Restored Coffer Key. Coffer Key Shards drop from World Quests and outdoor events.

Specific Renown thresholds grant you a Restored Coffer Key.

Progressing through the Delver's Journey Track allows you to purchase a limited number of Restored Coffer Keys from the delves vendor.

Labyrinth Delves in World of Warcraft

Labyrinths are always Bountiful

Labyrinths have no story variations

Labyrinth rewards are scaled up

Labyrinths include their own Nemesis Boss and mount reward

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There is an overarching goal, such as killing a percentage of mobs, following a short series of tasks, or finding/rescuing a set number of items or NPCs. This is usually spread over several rooms or levels.

There may be objects such as ropes or bouncy mushrooms you'll need to use to get from level to level. Pay attention because backtracking under these circumstances is a pain.

There are hazards, such as ground effects, items you need to carry that protect you for a limited time, area-of-effect traps, etc. The vast majority of hazards in delves can be summed up in four words: don't stand in it.

Once this goal is complete, there is an end boss or end encounter such as a series of ambushes that need to be defeated.

All hazards are removed and you can enter the Treasure Room to reap the rewards!

There are common encounters—mostly silver elites or special treasures marked on your map—that will award Boons to your entire party for the duration of the delve.

Sturdy Chests do not appear on the map but can still contain valuable items. There is an achievement for looting all Sturdy Chests in each delve. Each Sturdy Chest can only be looted once per Warband.

Sometimes small Mislaid Curiosity items may appear. These are small items like a little jar or mushroom with a purple glow that, when clicked, can give varying amounts of Companion experience: Chunk of Companion Experience (100), Chunk of Companion Experience (250), or Chunk of Companion Experience (525).

Delves can have Herbalism and Ore nodes, as well as Fishing pools. Some of these can be rare versions. Once your Companion has the ability Gathering Tools, you'll get ore, herbs, skins, and fish whether you know those skills or not.

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Memory of Arthas - "Hope Wanes."

Memory of Gul'dan - "Let the endgame begin!"

Memory of Putricide - "Great news, everyone!"

Memory of Suramar - "An illusion! What are you hiding?"

Memory of Theotar - "Would you care for a spot of tea?"

Memory of Garrosh - "I cannot be defeated."

Memory of Illidan - "You are not prepared!"

Memory of Saurfang - "I'm too old for this nonsense."

Memory of Sylvanas - "Too easy."

Memory of Thrall - "Lok'tar ogar!"

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Each delve ends in a treasure room, with Heavy Trunks that offer personal loot tuned to your class and level, Undercoin, expansion currencies, Companion upgrades, quest items, cosmetics, and more.

Tier reward levels improve through Tier 8. While Tiers 9-11 will offer the same item level gear as Tier 8, they also reward Crests.

Tier 11 delves completed with lives remaining will also feature an additional chest, the Gilded Stash, in their treasure room. This can be looted 3 times a week and rewards 7 max level Crests per chest.

Gear rewards from Bountiful Delve chests will scale based on difficulty level.

A weekly world event, the Delves Bonus Event, promises increased rewards for completing delves!

Delvers Call quests reward a small amount of gold for completing specific delves each week.

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Comments

Comment by Frostybolts

Need the quest start locations, this is the top google result for "wow delve quests", no quests listed ;_;

4 days later still no locations here (just a wrong comment, sorry to call you out)

Ripping off GeorgMaUIWurf's comment from Delver's Call: The Grudge Pit :

all delvers bounty quests - you might not see the exclamation mark, you need to click the thing tho it gives you the quest

silvermoon
/way #2393 41.66, 61.41 delve quest - collegiate calamity
voidspire
/way #2405 42.66, 70.70 delve quest - sunkiller sanctum
/way #2405 37.60, 51.87 delve quest - shadowguard point
harandir
/way #2413 71.17 52.06 delve quest - the grudge pit
/way #2413 52.87 51.71 delve quest - gulf (campaign)
zulaman
/way #2437 39.78, 38.38 delve quest - atal'aman
/way #2437 43.70, 67.29 delve quest - twilight crypts (campaign)
eversong
(in delve, might not have a marker)

Comment by Cadswaine

My wife and I always play together. Does it matter who the leader is in delves? When the leader is a tank then Valeera has a lot more health, but when the leader is the DPS she has less (equal to the leader). Does anyone know if any other of her stats change with the change in leader?

Everything About Delves in World of Warcraft

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