As reported on by my fellow PC Gamer writer Tyler Colp yesterday, Delves, which are World of Warcraft's new type of pseudo-dungeon content designed to be completed with one to three players, have been recently.
I'll spare you the full list of details—since we'd be here a while—but the gist of it is, solo players are floundering, teams are flying, and "unavoidable, highly-tuned damage" is commonplace. Well, Blizzard's on the case—with a sort them out. What could possibly go wrong?
This image, shared by unlucky victim Wraithfighter , shows them getting hit for 12,582,896 damage via what appears to be a basic attack for some random bug. Considering the hotfix claims to have "reduced the damage scaling of many enemy abilities in Delves while grouped with other players," I somehow do not think this is intended. Just a hunch.
What's more, the hotfix appears to've simply been rolled out live, leading to some players "absolutely smoked out of nowhere" in the middle of their Delves. "Just went into Waterworks T8 with a group of [item level 590s] and we didn’t even make it out of the first room. It’s definitely scuffed," writes . "If you thought Delve scaling was bad before, it's now utterly cracked," .
The official forums are, as one might imagine, absolutely on fire right now, turning what should just be a straightforward 'hey, I think your tuning's bugged' into discourse: "You didn’t need to change ANYTHING, Blizzard. They were AWESOME as they were. Perhaps you could have NERFED them for soloers. Now they’re impossible," writes a .
Other players report similar instances in a : "Mirror Master Murkna Melee hit You 5,072,064 Physical. (16,918,730 Overkill). Tier ww winner55 8. Solo." Ouch.
In all fairness, Blizzard has responded at a decent pace to . However, scaling's already been a problem in the recently released expansion, with a post-launch tweak to the power of early 70s characters leading to cries of . I don't envy สมัคร winner55 เครดิตฟรี the task of numbers-fiddling, and this whole debacle is clearly not intended, but WoW players in my experience can hold a grudge. Here's hoping Brann's wacky adventures return to normalcy soon.