Delves are NOT FUN in One Tamriel

GrumpyDuckling · October 2016

When I enter delves, most of the enemies are defeated and there are groups of people standing around the boss spawn waiting to nuke it down. Delves use to be fun. Now they're just empty walkways that lead to standing around and waiting get a touch of damage before a boss is melted.

Surely this can't be the intended way to experience delves, right ZOS?

Glaiceana · October 2016

It will calm down on the 1st, the halloween bonus XP and drops is causing most of it I think

Every boss drops a skull.

threefarms · October 2016

Its only One-tamriel in part. Though many delves are crowded because people want specific sets, the number of people farming will go down when the holiday event is over.

Bossdonut · October 2016

It's because of the event. After its over everyone will go back to sitting in capital cities trash talking each other and looking down upon people below CP cap.

Reverb · October 2016

This is only because of the holiday event. Once everyone is done farming skulls after this month ends, you will likely only run into an handful of players moving through each delve.

tinythinker · October 2016

Sounds like PC launch in spring 2014, but back then it was a horde of bots camping the bosses.

Memories...

Unsent.Soul · October 2016

You do realize there is a major event taking place till Nov. 1st, right?

Just wait till next month, then you can spend 30 minutes plus exploring delves, again.

Cazic · October 2016

Hahahaha! Exactly how I felt.

But yeah, it's mostly due to the holiday event right now.

ArchMikem · October 2016

Give it time, when the fancy update has run its course and the Halloween event ends everyone will go back to PvP land and or elsewhere. No not Elsweyr.

Majic · October 2016

My first thoughts as well.

It triggers me.

Solid_Metal · October 2016

its not because 1 tamriel, its because witches festival, next month it should be back to normal

P3ZZL3 · October 2016

Not sure why they didn't leave the delves alone, make it world bosses dropping, increase the size of the loot table winners and add another 10m health onto the world bosses.

Would have preserved the delves for all the players who are not wanting to grind.

I still think that a random, super large boss, dropping into the world at random times of the day would be awesome. Mega loot table, massive war where everyone has to come together.

Granted lag and fps would drop to 1 - but it would be awesome

Mandragora · October 2016

Wasn't in Guild Wars a better system of group defence? I think it was stacking the both - the defence and offence, so with a group of players at one spot, you did bigger damage and you wasn't just 1 shot dead.
Well better system for the world bosses, it was worse in some other areas.

Malmai · October 2016

People were saying oh i cant get past dungeons there is nobody there now its opposite haha.

TheShadowScout · October 2016

What they said. The current event has everyone and their skeletal granny farming the dwelve bosses for plunder skulls. It'll calm down after halloween...

altemriel · October 2016

it is not because of 1T, but because of Witches Festival, people are farming bosses for Plunder Skulls. Wait until 1st of November when the festival will be over, all will get to normal again

Elsonso · October 2016

Well,for starters, usually only the most direct path between the entrance and the boss is cleared. In some delves, this is one of only a couple ways to get to the boss.

Some delves are better for Plunder farming than others. This means that there are delves (PC NA) where there are not a lot of people around. If you are looking for help, you might have to wait for someone to show up.

the_man_of_steal · October 2016

I have not noticed this kind of saturation on PS4... I have basically been doing the undaunted dailies, daily pledges, and mage's guild daily... which I would assume are the most frequented of the day.

Brrrofski · October 2016

Ah, the good old days.

LaiTash · October 2016

I'm not sure where all these people who blame it's the witches festival for this were before it. Because it was nearly the same back then. And after all, doing delves is probably the least effective way to farm skulls.

Cherryblossom · October 2016

I enjoy this still.

Elsonso · October 2016

Except for the 4 minute wait, there is at least one Delve that is pretty effective.

Danksta · October 2016

People that think this will go back to normal must be forgetting that people are also camping these bosses for set pieces. I do think it will cool down a bit after the event, but there will certainly be people camping bosses still.

DurzoBlint13 · October 2016

delves used to be pointless. Now they have decent drops and people want to actually do them. Why would you complain about something useful dropping now? And, like other have said, it will calm down once the Plunder Skulls are gone

cpuScientist · October 2016

That and delves are stupid easy

AshTal · October 2016

Right now it sucks but once everyone has their insane proc sets and goes back to murdering the new players who join PvP with a crafted set they will go back to being fun.

I like them more just wish I could actually fight the boss without having to camp him and get a single light attack off to get the completion credit.

raidentenshu_ESO · October 2016

I think you're just a tad bit.......

Grumpy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTQi5UsEZk

Enemies spawns back in due time so be patient.

idk · October 2016

@GrumpyDuckling

My guess is your newer to the game. What you have explained is exactly how this game was at launch.

Delves were busy and bustling and your basically saying Zos did a great job at breathing life into them once again.

Graydon · October 2016

Let me be the first one here to suggest it's the Witches Festival event that's causing the crowded delves.

Stardark · October 2016

Lots of people suggesting why this is a problem, but nobody really acknowledging that it is a problem in need of a solution.

Events like this draw people to the game and should be extra fun, not less fun.

Yes it will settle down in time but they could and should have predicted this and done something to prevent it.

ItsGlaive · November 2016

Delves would be much more fun if they were instanced imo. Even since the event concluded, they're still packed and it completely ruins the experience of stealthily exploring and clearing a delve.