Delvings

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Overview

Introduced with Before the Shadow, Delvings are a way to optionally increase the difficulty of certain Missions and World Instances in order to earn rewards and gear roughly equivalent to tier 3 raids. Delvings can be run with one or two people, the same as regular missions, and are currently only available to characters at their server's Level Cap (150 on non-Legendary servers, 105 on Treebeard, and 60 on Angmar + Mordor). Access to the missions that have Delvings enabled previously required the Before the Shadow expansion, however that expansion is now enabled for all players at no cost.

Starting Out

At level cap, a letter will be sent with a strange gem attached. This gem will start a quest that directs you to a mission-giver. Any of the mission-givers in Swanfleet or Cardolan advance this quest. You will be given a  Delving Zircon, used to change the difficulty of a Delving to tiers 1, 2, or 3.

Advancing Tiers

Delving Stone at the start of a Mission.

There are twelve tiers of Delvings available, each more difficult than the last. To activate a Delving in a mission, locate the Delving Stone near the entrance to the mission and interact with it. Choose the quest that corresponds to your desired Delving tier and accept it. Ten of these delving quests can be completed each day, no matter the tier. Once you have accepted the quest, interact with the Delving Stone again to place the correct Delving gem in the stone and activate the Delving. Complete the mission as normal, and do not leave the instance until you have located the Scout and the Delving quest has advanced to Objective 4: Speak with the mission giver. Leaving the instance at any point before this will fail the Delving quest and reset the mission to base difficulty.

Successfully completing and turning in a Delving quest will reward a Delving gem, one of the same tier and, on tiers 3, 6, and 9, one for the next tier. Leaving the instance early will fail the Delving quest and you will have to try again.

Skipping ahead through tiers is possible. Higher tier Delving gems can be bartered from a Delving Quartermaster for bags of coins purchased from the Delving Quartermaster.

Tiers

Delving tiers become progressively more difficult. Higher tiers inflict passive Dread, have more dangerous Malices active (see below), and give mobs more powerful bonuses through Delving Strength, up to a maximum of +1000% at tier 12.

 Delving Strength
Delving Tier Gem Required Dread Active Malices Delving Strength (Morale) Delving Strength (Damage) Rewards
Tier 1  Delving Zircon +0 1 +20% +120%  Tier 1 Delving Chest 10 Delving Writ
Tier 2  Delving Zircon +1 1, 2 +40% +140%  Tier 2 Delving Chest 10 Delving Writ
Tier 3  Delving Zircon +2 1, 2, 3 +60% +160%  Tier 3 Delving Chest 10 Delving Writ
Tier 4  Delving Garnet +2 1, 2, 3, 4 +100% +200%  Tier 4 Delving Chest 20 Delving Writ
Tier 5  Delving Garnet +3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 +120% +225%  Tier 5 Delving Chest 20 Delving Writ
Tier 6  Delving Garnet +3 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 +140% +250%  Tier 6 Delving Chest 20 Delving Writ
Tier 7  Delving Emerald +4 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 +180% +300%  Tier 7 Delving Chest 30 Delving Writ
Tier 8  Delving Emerald +4 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 +250% +450%  Tier 8 Delving Chest 30 Delving Writ
Tier 9  Delving Emerald +5 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 +320% +600%  Tier 9 Delving Chest 30 Delving Writ
Tier 10  Delving Amethyst +5 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 +390% +800%  Tier 10 Delving Chest 40 Delving Writ
Tier 11  Delving Amethyst +6 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 +450% +900%  Tier 11 Delving Chest 45 Delving Writ
Tier 12  Delving Amethyst +6 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 +500% +1000%  Tier 12 Delving Chest 50 Delving Writ

Malices

Malices are various buffs and extra mechanics present in Delvings, which are organized by type. There will be a maximum of five Malices present in most Delvings, limited by one per type. Tier 10 has six active Malices, and tier 12 has seven. Malices will rotate daily, consisting of six different sets, denoted with numbers.

See the following table with possible variants per tier and Malice types:

Tier Malice Type Variant 1 Variant 2 Variant 3 Variant 4 Variant 5 Variant 6
Tier 1 Environmental  Hampering Miasma  Fire-storm I  Diseased Cloud I  Poison Puddles I  Diseased Cloud I

 Slime Puddles I

Tier 2 On Death  Atrophy  Festering Wound  Explosive Devastation I  Daunting Disease  Stab At Thee  Instilled Panic
Tier 3 Monster Affecting  Sauron's Touch I  For the Warleader  Fear of Death  Variant 4 - Malice 3  Health Poultices I  Glory in Pain
Tier 4 Adaptive & Reactive  Clutch of Flies I  Sauron's Defence I

 Blood Rage High I

 High on Life I  Thick Hide  Physical Adaptation: Melee
Tier 5 Epic Monster Skills  A Thousand Cuts  Sauron's Ire  Variant 3 - Malice 5  Sauron's Word  Variant 5 - Malice 5  Sauron's Wrath
Tier 6 Environmental  Debilitating Miasma  Fire-storm I  Diseased Cloud II  Poison Puddles I  Encroaching Shadow

 Slime Puddles I

Tier 7 Player Affecting Skills  True Face of Fear  Creeping Doom  Explosive Devastation I  Virulent Poison  Lingering Fear  Infested!
Tier 8 Monster Affecting  Glass Cannon  Sauron's Shroud  Deadly at Range  Sauron's Lash  Melee Mastery  Tactical Mastery
Tier 9 Epic

 Epic Fervour

 Orc Tunnels  Epic Tempest  Orc Tunnels

 Epic Fervour

 Epic Tempest
Tier 10 Cursed Hotspots  Twisted Armour I  Twisted Growth I  Twisted Flesh I  Twisted Growth I  Twisted Armour I  Twisted Flesh I
Tier 11 Adaptive & Reactive  Clutch of Flies I  Sauron's Defence I

 Blood Rage High I

 High on Life I  Sauron's Eye III  Physical Adaptation: Melee
Tier 12 On Death Genesis Effect  Variant 1 - Malice 12  Pestilent Discharge  Variant 3 - Malice 12  Variant 4 - Malice 12  Pestilent Discharge  Variant 6 - Malice 12

With U35 new Malices were introduced that give you the ability to counter their effects:

  • Epic Monster Skills (Tier 5)
These are powerful but slow induction enemy Malice skills. Only one attacking enemy will be able to use these skills over the Malice skill's cooldown, that enemy will glow, and you can interrupt its induction. If you don't, the skill will complete!
  • Cursed Hotspots (Tier 10)
These hotspots are cast by enemies on themselves to heal, do more damage, and get other benefits. You will need to move the enemy from its location to lose the effect.

With U39 Epic Malices have been added to Delvings. These are Malices that affect you or the space itself:

  • Epic Fervour (Tier 9)
Your Fervour and intensity grows with each enemy defeated. For each enemy defeated, gain a stacking damage buff. Buff stacks up to 10 times.
  • Epic Tempest (Tier 9)
Storm clouds form in the space, spawning every 2 minutes and roiling through the space for 60 seconds. There are 4 possible storms: Storm of Fire, which does fire damage to you and enemies; Storm of Lightning, which does lightning damage to you and enemies, Storm of Healing, which heals you and enemies, and Storm of Protection, which grants an Armour buff to you and enemies.
  • Orc Tunnels (Tier 9)
Orcs and goblins are digging under your feet! Orc tunnels will pop up in the space every 90 seconds. One tunnel will spawn per player. Destroy the tunnel or it will spawn a random Delving orc or goblin every 30 seconds!

Rewards

Delving quests reward  Delving Writs and chests of random rewards. Delving Writs can be used in barters with the Delving Quartermaster. Delving chests have a chance to drop bundles of crafting materials, equipment that can be worn or disenchanted, character boosts, and more. Higher tier chests are more likely to drop better rewards. Delving chests have a 1 hour expiration delay and are automatically destroyed if they're not opened before the hour is over. There are also several deeds that reward titles, Delving Writs, and Virtue Experience.

Barter


Armour drops

Armour obtained from chests:

Possible Chest Content

Upon opening delving chests, depending on the completed tier
General Items

Barter Items

Crafting Items

Legendary Items

Deeds

Delving Deeds (50 P)

Quests

For more detail, see Mission: Before the Shadow Quests, Mission: Umbar Quests or Mission: War of Three Peaks Quests

Mission: Before the Shadow Quests (41 P)
Mission: Umbar Quests (22 P)
Mission: War of Three Peaks Quests (86 P)
Mission: Ikorbân Valley Quests (28 P)

For more detail, see Delving Quests

Wrapper quests:


Delving Quests:


Titles

Delving Titles (11 P)

See Also

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