Delves Guide for Midnight

Delves are bite-sized, role-agnostic, repayable world instances that allow you to engage in quick yet rewarding adventures. Delves can be experienced solo or in a group of up to 5 players alongside a customizable NPC companion. In this guide, we will cover everything you need to know about Delves in Midnight.

Delves are short, 10-15 minute scenarios designed to fit into your gameplay schedule and contribute to your character's progression, as they provide credit toward the Great Vault rewards in Midnight.

Unlike dungeons and raids, Delves can be completed solo or with a group of up to 5 players. The flexibility combined with their role-agnostic nature makes Delves accessible to all types of players.

Delves are designed to be replayable, with varying levels of difficulty and rewards. The season companion can be customized to fit your playstyle, whether you need a healer, a damage dealer, or a tank character. Delves have 11 Tiers of difficulty, providing a challenging experience for players of all skill levels.

When exploring Quel'Thalas, you will find each delve marked on your Map with a unique cave icon, making it easier to locate them as you travel through the zones.

As you approach the icon on the Map, check your surroundings for cave openings, ruins, and other visual cues in the environment.

The War Within contains a total of 10 Delves as of Patch 12.0. Below you will find a table with their locations:

Eversong Woods	Zul'Aman	Harandar	Voidstorm	Isle of Quel'Danas
Collegiate Calamity	Atal'Aman	The Grudge Pit	Shadowguard Point	Parhelion Plaza
The Darkway	Twilight Crypts	The Gulf of Memory	Sunkiller Sanctum
The Shadow Enclave

When you approach the entrance to a Delve, you will be greeted by a special User Interface window that provides important information to prepare you for your run.

At the top of the UI, the name of the Delve is displayed. Beneath it, you will find a dropdown menu that lets you select the Tier of difficulty. Higher tiers are more challenging, but also give you better rewards.

The UI also provides a brief description of your main objectives in a Delve. For example, your task is to disrupt the Shadowguard Ethereal operations. Make sure to read this before entering, so you are aware of the primary goals.

On the right side, the UI lists the rewards you will receive upon completing the Delve. Rewards typically include Experience for your companion and the treasure room contains chests that you can open for gear, Voidlight Marls, Midnight profession reagents, and more.

Valeera Sanguinar will be your delve companion throughout the Midnight expansion. Your NPC companion comes with a fully customizable role and curios, allowing you to tailor her abilities to best support your journey through the various Delves in Quel'Thalas.

To make the most of Valeera's abilities, check out our comprehensive guide to Valeera Sanguinar, where we dive deep into her Talent Tree, best curios to equip, and strategies for optimizing her performance in your delve adventures.

Bountiful Delves have glowing icons compared to regular Delves and offer increased rewards because they provide access to Bountiful Coffers found at the end of your run. These special chests can be opened with Restored Coffer Keys that you can get by collecting Coffer Key Shards from world activities and quests.

A timer will be displayed indicating the remaining time before another Delve becomes Bountiful. As a rule, Bountiful Delves are rerolled on the daily reset.

You should always prioritize completing Bountiful Delves over regular Delves to get better loot. Non-Bountiful Delves do not have scaling rewards past Tier 3.

Regular Delves only drop non-upgradeable gear regardless the tier, which is why you should focus on completing Bountiful Delves that offer better gear with increasing difficulty.

Completing 2/4/8 Delves unlocks items in the Great Vault the following week! To maximize your rewards and receive Hero-track gear in your vault, you should complete 8 Tier 8 runs every week. Check out our separate guide for even more information about how the weekly chest works.

Here are the item levels of loot from Delves in The War Within Pre-Patch:

Delve Tier	End of Run Loot Item Level	Great Vault Loot Item Level
1	220 (Adventurer 1/6)	233 (Veteran 1/6)
2	224 (Adventurer 2/6)	237 (Veteran 2/6)
3	227 (Adventurer 3/6)	240 (Veteran 3/6)
4	230 (Adventurer 4/6)	243 (Veteran 4/6)
5	233 (Veteran 1/6)	246 (Champion 1/6)
6	240 (Veteran 2/6)	253 (Champion 3/6)
7	246 (Champion 1/6)	256 (Champion 4/6)
8+	250 (Champion 2/6)	259 (Hero 1/6)

Delves are divided into 11 tiers of difficulty, with Tier 1 being the easiest and Tier 11 the most difficult.

To unlock Tier 4+, you need to earn the Midnight Delves: Endgame achievement on at least 1 character.

You do not need to unlock tiers for each delve separately. When you complete say, The Shadow Enclave on Tier 7, Tier 8 will unlock for all Delves.

It is important to note that loot scales only up to Tier 8. Tiers 9-11 are for crests only and do not offer better loot.

When you hover with your mouse over the delve tiers, you will see the recommended average Item Level of gear you should have to clear that tier comfortably.

• Tier 1: Recommended item level: 170;
• Tier 2: Recommended item level: 187;
• Tier 3: Recommended item level: 200;
• Tier 4: Recommended item level: 213;
• Tier 5: Recommended item level: 222;
• Tier 6: Recommended item level: 229;
• Tier 7: Recommended item level: 242;
• Tier 8: Recommended item level: 255;
• Tier 9: Recommended item level: 261;
• Tier 10: Recommended item level 268;
• Tier 11: Recommended item level 271.

Once per week, you can loot Delver's Bounty from Delves, with the biggest chance coming from Nullaeus, the Delve nemesis for Midnight Season 1. Bringing him down to 50% will spawn a pile of gold with the bounty and other loot. Using a Delver's Bounty map during the same run will provide you with a Hidden Trove at the end of your run a Delve, scaling with the tier of your Delve.

It is recommended to save your Delver's Bounty for Tier 8+ Delves, as this is when you'll get the maximum rewards from it.

Beacon of Hope is an item you can buy from Naleidea Rivergleam at the Delver's Headquarters in Silvermoon for 5,000 Undercoins. With this item, you can summon Nullaeus to your delve after reaching the checkpoint. Here is how to do it.

Enter a delve and reach the delve checkpoint and clear the surrounding area. Then, use Beacon of Hope to summon Nullaeus and bring him down to 50%. Loot the gold pile, get the Delver's Bounty and use it before killing the delve boss.

Delves feature various mechanics that improve the depth and complexity of each run. Below are key elements you will encounter during your runs.

At Tier 4+, Nullaeus's allies will be present in Delves. The mobs will carry the Pactsworn prefix in their name. Watch out for them, as they are more powerful compared to regular mobs you will face during your runs.

Defeating packs of these groups will provide you with better loot inside the Nemesis Strongbox at the end of your run. A message will pop up when your loot in that chest is upgraded.

You can see the locarion of all Nemesis packs on your map. They will be indicated with gray helm icons.

Nemesis Strongboxes mostly contain crafting materials.

Early on in your Midnight Delver's Journey you will unlock boons and blessings. These are temporary buffs to make delve completion easier.

Boons are obtained from looting Mislaid Curiosities through Delves and give you temporary stat buffs for the duration of the Delve you're currently in:

• Boon of Abstinence: Increases your lowest secondary stat.
• Boon of Fortitude: Reduces damage taken.
• Boon of Possibilities: Increases a random secondary stat.
• Boon of Potency: Increases your highest secondary stat.
• Boon of Power: Increases your primary stat.
• Boon of Vigor: Increases your maximum health and movement speed.

Blessings are obtained from looting the end of chest Delves, and grant you a buff that lasts either 24 hours, or until you complete your next delve. These buffs only work inside Delves.

• Blessing of Zeal: Your harmful spells and abilities have a chance to cause an explosion on impact, inflicting moderate Fire damage split evenly between nearby enemies.
• Blessing of Potency: All stats increased by 10%.
• Crimson Blessing: You are granted one additinal Delve life.
• Sentinel's Blessing: Gain 50% of your maximum health as an absorption shield for 1 minute whenever your health falls below 20% during combat. Can only occur once every 5 minutes.
• Veiled Blessing: Knock back surrounding enemies when you get hit in melee range. Can only occur once every minute.

Completing a Tier 11 Bountiful delve with lives remaining will grant you a Gilded Stash, which gives you 7 Myth Dawncrests. You can complete this up to 3 times for a total of 21 Myth Dawncrests from Delves per week. You do not need Restored Coffer Keys to open them.

This is unlocked at Rank 4 of the Midnight Season 1 Delver's Journey.

Here are some basics that apply to all delve runs.

At the beginning of each delve and at its checkpoint, you will find Explorers' League Supplies. This interactive object allows you to repair your gear or set up curios and specializations for your NPC Companion.

Most Delves consist of 2-3 scenario-like objectives that must be completed before you can face the final boss. These objectives will change every day, on the daily reset. There are multiple variations of objectives for each delve.

As an example, in one of the Grudge Pit variants, you need to enter an arena tournament by facing different waves of fungalings as you participate in their championship. Another variants has you helping fungalings against a Lightbloom Rutaani invasion.

Inside Delves, you will come across Sturdy Chests hidden in various locations. These are a one-time chest loot that contains Companion Experience and Voidlight Marl.

Looting all Sturdy Chests inside all Midnight Delves grants the Midnight: Leave No Treasure Unfound achievement, which grants the title Seeker of Loot and is part of the Glory of the Midnight Delver meta achievement.

Mislaid Curiosities are small bags found on the ground that contain Companion Experience, Boons and Delve consumables. These can also sometimes contain Midnight profession reagents. these can also be used to activate certain Curio abilities for your delve companion.

Inside Delves, Rare Elites will be marked on your map with a special icon. Once defeated, they will grant you or Valeera a powerful buff for the rest of your run.

In Midnight Season 1, you can obtain 4 possible powers from Delve Rare Elites:

• Defeating Clever Saptor grants Cleverer Girl: Clever saptors occasionally ambush your foes during combat.
• Defeating Paingolin grants Pan-GO-lin Time: Increases movement speed the longer you keep moving. Breaks when entering combat.
• Defeating Wailing Spirit grants Banshee Wail: Occasionally unleash a banshee wail in combat, freezing nearby targets in fear.
• Defeating Abandoned Sentinel grants Rock'em Sock'em Sentinel Gauntlets: Critical strikes deal double damage and may knock your target into the air.

As you progress through Delves, you will find checkpoints strategically placed close to the final objective before the boss encounter. These checkpoints look like summoning stones.

After you reach a checkpoint, when you die, you will respawn at the checkpoint, instead of the start of the delve. At these checkpoints, you can sell gear, adjust Valeera's abilities, and repair your gear. Reaching the checkpoint will also grant you +1 Revive.

When you enter a delve, you will notice a "Revives Remaining" counter in the Delve UI. The counter shows how many times you and your party members can die and respawn inside the same delve. Every time a player releases their spirit after death, one revive is subtracted from the total.

The number of revives remaining at the end of the delve directly impacts the quality of the rewards you receive at the end of your run, so it is very important to play cautiously. As you progress in Delve tiers, you will receive less revives:

• Tiers 1-3: No death limit.
• Tiers 4-8: 5 Revives.
• Tiers 9: 4 Revives.
• Tiers 10-11: 3 Revives.

When you lose all your revives in a Bountiful Delve, you will not receivea Bountiful Chest at the end of it. It is recommended to zone out and start anew.

At the end of the delve, you must fight a boss to unlock the treasure room and reap rewards. The final boss might change between delve variants, and some delve variants may not have a final boss at all, but a final objective that does reflect a similar difficulty to a final boss.

For each death while facing the final boss, you will receive a stack of Delver's Determination. It increases your health, damage dealt, and healing received by 5% per stack.

When you defeat the final boss, you will reach the Treasure Room, which consists of multiple loot chests. These chests usually are composed of two Delve Trunks, one Bountiful Coffer (if you've completed a Bountiful Delve), a Nemesis Supplies chest (if you've defeated any Nemesis packs in The Delve), and a Gilded Stash (if completing a Delve on Tier 11 after unlockling it in the Delver's Journey.

Found only inside Bountiful Delves, Bountiful Coffer is an epic chest that contains the best loot. It requires Restored Coffer Keys to open.

Completing Bountiful Delves in The War Within Pre-Patch grants credit toward a progression system called Delver's Journey. Upon reaching certain milestones, you will unlock additional rewards for Delves such as improvements and cosmetic rewards.

Check out our Delver's Journey guide for more information about this season's rewards!

Delver's Headquarters is located in central Silvermoon City. Valeera Sanguinar has a base set up here, which serves as the main Delves hub and vendor location in the expansion.

To learn more about the Delver's Headquarters and the vendors you will find there, check out our dedicated guide linked below.

Every once in a while, you will receive a quest from Valeera Sanguinar at the Delver's Headquarters that offers 1 Pinnacle Cache, a weekly cache containing materials for upgrading, gear, gold, and more. To earn the cache, you must complete 3 Delves. Keep in mind this quest is on rotation with other weekly quests and will not be available every week.

Every once in a while, there will be a world event active for one week tied to Delves! For the whole week, the Sign of the Explorer buff will grant you +25% increase to Delver's Journey gains, 25% Valeera XP gains, and 25% Undercoin gains.

The weekly quest offered by Archmage Aethas Sunreaver in Silvermoon is called A Call to Delves and requires you to complete 5 Delves for 1 piece of Item Level 246 Champion 1/6 gear.

Rewards for Delves in Midnight Season 1 include many cosmetics like Sin'dorei Golem mounts and more. Check out our separate guide to learn more about the seasonal rewards that await!