- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: September 17, 2024
- Updated: September 17, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
Delves are one of the new big launch features of The War Within and have gotten off to a bit of a rocky start in their balancing. The scaling between group size, role, tier of delve, type of mob, and even your companion has been all over the place.
Blizzard has been hard at work trying to smooth out the difficulty curve of Delves to be fair, challenging, and consistent. That last bit is key as there’s been plenty of bugs and other scaling issues causing drastically different experiences between players. Apparently Brann Bronzebeard, your Delve companion, was sucking all the enemy buffs up in his attempt to gain sentience and break free to become the true carry for your account. It was even more noticeable if you hung back and just let Brann do his thing as he would quickly start essentially clearing the dungeon for you!
This bug has been fixed, but at the same time it did uncover some good feedback that baseline Brann is kind of a wimp. So to compensate for all of this they’ve increased Brann’s damage and healing by 125% to make him contribute a bit more to the team effort (Without straight giving you a piggyback ride through the Delve).
Over the past several days, we’ve heard player reports of much variance in Brann’s performance and contribution in Delves, and we’ve investigated anomalous data along those lines. We recently identified a serious bug that could, under specific circumstances, cause Brann to inherit all the health and damage bonuses meant for enemies in a given difficulty tier. When this bug took effect, the higher the tier of Delve you were running, the stronger Brann would get.
We’ve just deployed a hotfix that will correct this bug. There should now be a consistent baseline of power for Brann, which will increase with your own gear and with his level.
Some specs, whose gameplay tended towards hanging back and letting Brann take the lead, were much more likely to trigger the bug than others, so for those players we understand that this could make Brann feel significantly weaker than he has been, especially in the highest tier delves.
We’ve also seen feedback that “unbugged”, Brann felt much less impactful than we’d hoped. Therefore, along with the bugfix, we’ve hotfixed Brann to increase his damage and healing by 125% across all tiers.
We will continue to monitor feedback and results, and we will make further adjustments as needed.
Thank you for your understanding and feedback!
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