The depths in World of Warcraft open “correctly”. Starting today, you can face the new challenges.
In World of Warcraft, today, on September 11, 2024, the first season of The War Within begins. Even though “Mythic+” and the mythic raid won’t start until next week, many contents are already active – including the significantly tougher depths (“Delves”). We will tell you what changes for you starting today and what loot you can grab.
What changes with the depths? From now on, you can unlock depths that exceed level 3. You can unlock depths up to level 11, making the challenge – and the reward – significantly better each time. This is a great opportunity, especially for solo players, to get good to very good equipment.
What’s new from level 4 of the depths: When you enter a depth of level 4 or higher, you have – similar to back then in Torghast – a quota of “lives”. You can therefore only die a few times during your visit to the depth before it is considered failed. You can also continue a depth, even if you have failed too often – however, you will not unlock the next higher difficulty upon completion and the quality of your loot at the end will be reduced.
You need the keys for this: The “Restored Chest Key” can be used in the “generous” depths to open a bonus chest. You can only receive a limited number of keys per week – so you should try to master a depth as difficult as possible to obtain the best rewards.
Only by using a chest key will you receive truly good loot from the depths. Otherwise, your reward has a maximum item level of 554 – regardless of the difficulty of the depth.
What rewards are there? Depending on how tough the depths you face are, better rewards await. This applies both to the final chest of a depth and to the weekly reward box in Dornogal. You can see what item level your reward can have in the table below:
| Depth Level | Generous Reward | Weekly Box |
| 1 | 561 | 584 |
| 2 | 564 | 584 |
| 3 | 571 | 587 |
| 4 | 577 | 597 |
| 5 | 584 | 603 |
| 6 | 590 | 606 |
| 7 | 597 | 610 |
| 8 | 603 | 616 |
| 9 | 603 | 616 |
| 10 | 603 | 616 |
| 11 | 603 | 616 |
How can you further level Brann? Brann Bronzebeard is your companion in the depths of the first season of The War Within. However, many have already noticed that he no longer gains experience points starting at level 15. His further progress was previously blocked, but now he can collect XP again. However, this is only possible in the “generous” depths. So you should prioritize visiting these if you want to provide Brann with new levels – regardless of whether you actually open the final generous box or not.
Will you check out the tougher depths starting today? Will you go as a group or prefer solo? Or is this type of endgame not for you, and would you rather dive into dungeons and the raid? It’s also a good time to start with WoW – because currently, more people could be playing WoW than ever before.
