Delves Guide for Midnight - Season 1

Delves Guide for Midnight Quick Summary:

• Valeera Sanguinar replaces Brann as your Delve companion, and you can swap her between Tank, Healer, or DPS depending on what your spec needs.
• Nullaeus is the Season 1 Delve Nemesis, fought in Torment’s Rise, with a quest toy reward and a big flex mount tied to the “Let Me Solo Him” achievement.
• Coffer Key Shards are now a currency with a weekly cap, and they auto-convert into Restored Coffer Keys when you enter a Delve.
• Delver’s Journey is your seasonal Delves “track” with 10 ranks, and it’s where boons, blessings, extra rewards, vendors, and late-season Tier 11 stuff are unlocked.

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What Are Delves in Midnight?

Delves appeared back in The War Within as a completely new mode. It’s been successfully transferred to Midnight because players mainly like it. The idea hasn’t changed, and Delves are still short, instanced adventures you can easily fit into your real-life schedules. They don’t require much grinding. Instead, you just walk in, do a few scenario-style objectives, and fight the final boss to claim your well-deserved rewards.

In this table, I’ve gathered the basics of Delve for you to know if you haven’t played this activity yet:

Delve Feature	Description
Short Runs	Your average Delve run will last around 10-15 minutes
Flexible Group Size	You can do Delves solo, duo, or in a group of up to 5 players
Role-Agnostic	No required roles, your setup can be whatever
Scalable Difficulty	Progress through difficulty tiers to climb all the way up to tier 11
Seasonal Progression	Delver’s Journey track, seasonal rewards, seasonal nemesis, and a variety of achievements make Delves a season-based activity
Companion System	Valeera Sanguinaar is your Delve companion to aid you in runs. She can be a DPS, Healer, or Tank to fit your preference

Personally, I enjoy playing Delves when I get tired of grinding M+ and Raids. This usually happens around mid-season when you’ve already tested all the newest dungeons and tried to beat all the bosses. And I also like that Delves don’t put too much pressure on you. It is, of course, a seasonal activity, but you don’t feel like you’re losing too much if you don’t achieve a specific point when playing it.

I would say Delves are a great pick for solo WoW players or for those who PUG occasionally, but are tired of comp headaches. You should also give this activity a try if you’re returning to Midnight and haven’t played the game before for a long time. This will be a great way to get catch-up gear and exclusive seasonal rewards.

Delves Release Schedule for Midnight

Not all content in Delves has been unlocked once Midnight launched. The developers stick to the format of the “comfortable” windows. This means you can run the newest Delves only from tier 1 to 7, and it will remain so until March 17th. Then, you’ve also got two extra Delves arriving much later. This is how a full Delves release schedule in Midnight looks:

• February 26 – Early Access starts, and you can already play most Delves and progress from tier 1 to 7.
• March 2 – Midnight officially launches, but you still get the same experience in Delves.
• March 17 – Season 1 begins and tier 4-11 go live. You can now access Bountiful Delves, Nulleaus, the newest nemesis boss, and progress through Delver’s Journey.
• March 24 – The Darkway becomes available.
• March 31 – Parhelion Plaza becomes available.

Splitting the content like this might be annoying if you’re playing Delves too much, but it actually works best for most players who jump into this activity only after they’re full with M+ and Raid runs. You will have enough time within Season 1 to experience everything prepared for you, including new Delve locations, bosses, seasonal rewards, and more.

Delves Changes in Midnight

Delves in Midnight remains the same activity in terms of the basic concept, but you’ll notice certain changes as well. I’ve gathered the most important changes in this section of the guide for you:

1. New Delves + a Season 1 Nemesis Delve tied to the new Nemesis boss.
2. Valeera Sanguinar replaces Brann as your Delve companion, with DPS/Healer/Tank role options.
3. Boons now come from Mislaid Curiosities and stack stats during the run.
4. Blessings can drop at the end of a Delve and buff your next run. This rewards chaining Delves back-to-back.
5. Delver’s Journey returns with 10 ranks to progress through that unlock power, rewards, and vendors over time.
6. Rewards now focus more on cosmetics, toys, and housing decor, not just gear.
7. Specific Delves are bigger, and you can mount in certain ones. This should make long layouts less annoying.

For me, the biggest changes concern how Coffer Keys work, but I’ll get to this in a separate section of the guide. Also, I like that we’re now getting more cosmetics and decor rewards, not just gear. Because let’s be honest, not many players complete Delves for the sake of gearing. This is a mere midpoint to higher-level gear in most cases.

All Delves Locations in Midnight

WoW Delves are spread across the new zones, plus Silvermoon City itself. I’ve prepared this list to help you save time and stop flying aimlessly when looking for the entrance you need. Check out all Delves locations in Midnight, including both instances that will arrive later:

Later, your rotation between these Delves will largely depend on which ones are bountiful, and which ones you need for achievements. You’ll also discover the best instances in terms of completion time to clear them up and farm without dying too much in boss fights.

Coffer Keys Changes Explained

Coffer Keys still serve the same purpose, and you’ll need them to open high-loot treasure chests when you finish Bountiful Delves. But the developers changed the concept and turned them into currency. You’ll no longer have bag-space nightmares, and you’ll have the option to auto-convert the new shards into whole keys. See the table below to find out about the Coffer Keys changes in Midnight:

The War Within - Old Version	Midnight - New Version
You obtained Restored Coffer Keys directly from the content as actual items	You mainly earn Coffer Key Shards from most activities
Keys were physical items that could take up bag space	Shards are a currency, so they don’t clutter your inventory
Key handling was more “loot it, store it, remember you have it”	Key progress is more visible and trackable through a shard count
You used a Restored Coffer Key to open the Bountiful Coffer at the end	You still use Restored Coffer Keys to open Bountiful Coffers
Getting more keys depended on what content you did and how often it dropped	Shards come steadily, then you convert them into keys at a fixed rate
No shard conversion step	100 Shards = 1 Restored Coffer Key
No auto-conversion behavior	Auto-conversion can happen when you enter a Delve
Bag management mattered more if you stacked keys	Weekly planning matters more because Shards have a weekly cap of 600

Valeera Sanguinaar - New Delve Companion

Valeera Sanguinar is your new Delve buddy in Midnight, and yeah, she’s basically the “Brann replacement,” but with a totally different vibe. You unlock her early, she lives at the Delver’s Headquarters in Silvermoon. Having a companion like her is what makes Delve the type of content I like: solo-friendly, pug-friendly, and never forcing you to wait on a perfect comp just to get your weekly progress done.

The big thing is you can set Valeera as Tank, Healer, or DPS depending on what your spec lacks. If you’re squishy and hate getting sat on by random elites, put her on Tank and let her hold threat while you do your job. If you’re playing something that can’t self-sustain well, swap her to Healer. And her healing style is simple and familiar: she spawns Blood Orbs, and you just run through them to get some healing.

I don’t want to overcomplicate it for you, and this is how I see Valeera can be used in your Delves:

• Make Valeera a Tank if your spec struggles when mobs stick to you. Or you just want safer runs with less stress.
• Set her to Healer if your spec’s sustain is not enough. Blood Orbs can help you stabilize fights and keep you alive much longer. This is what you need since you have a limited number of deaths allowed in Delves.
• Let Valeera be a DPS if you’re already durable and just want the run to end faster. This can be especially nice in lower tiers where speed matters more than perfection.

She’s also got that companion personality thing going on. She has voice lines, she yaps a bit while you’re clearing, not as iconic as Brann, but she’s not silent either. One more nice detail if you’re sentimental about Brann: he’s not deleted from existence.

You can still go back to The War Within Delves and run with Brann there, and those Delves scale to level 80. If you’re level 90 later and you want to clean up achievements or just mess around, it’s basically the easiest time ever to go back and steamroll that older Delve content.

 

Nulleaus - New Delve Nemesis

Nulleaus is Midnight’s new Delve Nemesis for Season 1, and this is where you’ll start feeling like you’re signing up for a real fight. You’ll find him in Torment’s Rise, the Nemesis Delve in Voidstorm. There’s a quest tied to beating him that rewards the Dominating Victory toy, and then you’ve got the big flex achievement angle too, with “Let Me Solo Him” rewarding the Arcanovoid Construct mount.

This is a list of achievements you can get by defeating Nulleaus, the Season 1 Delve nemesis:

• Fabled Let Me Solo Him: Nullaeus
• Let Me Solo Him: Nullaeus 
• Lighting the Dark
• My Shady Nemesis

I’ll prepare a separate guide on how to beat Nulleaus with all the detailed tactics and strategy descriptions. But it’s already clear that this nemesis is as strong as all the others we’ve seen back in The War Within.

Delver’s Journey for Season 1 Explained

Delver’s Journey is the way you can track your progression through Delves during Season 1. It works like a sort of battle pass to me: you reach a specific point and get rewarded for it. This can make you stay and run Delve for a longer time than you might think because you’re not just getting useless gear, but you get exclusive stuff.

I’m talking about Delves-specific buffs, vendor options, and this is also Warband-friendly. This will help you speed up alt leveling and gearing in the future, too. But keep in mind that you only progress through Delver’s Journey by completing Bountiful Delves, not usual ones.

Delver’s Journey Ranks and Rewards

You progress through the Delver’s Journey ranks and earn rewards by collecting points. You’ll need 4200 points to finish one rank on the track. Doing simple maths: you’ll have to collect 42000 points to complete all ten levels and earn all the rewards. I’ve gathered a complete list of rewards you can earn in Delver’s Journey and what rank they’re tied to:

Rank	What You Unlock
Rank 1	Mislaid Curiosities and Heavy Trunks start giving short, run-to-run power boosts. You also get access to the Twilight Tabernacle decor purchase from Telemancer Astrandis.
Rank 2	Tier 11 completions can spawn a Gilded Stash that pays out 7 Myth Dawncrests, with up to 3 stashes available per week. Fungal Chest decor becomes purchasable from Telemancer Astrandis.
Rank 3	A Sanctified Banner can randomly show up inside a Bountiful Delve and cash out extra rewards when you find it. Amani Strongbox decor is added to Telemancer Astrandis’ shop.
Rank 4	Gilded Stashes get upgraded value by including Myth Crests. Ancient Kaldorei Coffer decor becomes available from Telemancer Astrandis.
Rank 5	Zah’ran starts appearing at the end of Tier 6+ Delves with a rotating stock of gear. Silvermoon’s Arcane Defender mount can be purchased from Telemancer Astrandis.
Rank 6	You can buy 2 Restored Coffer Keys per week from Naleidea Rivergleam. Sin’dorei Gravestone unlocks as a purchase from Telemancer Astrandis, and you can swap gravestones in the Delver’s HQ basement.
Rank 7	Midnight Delver’s Flare Gun toy becomes available, plus Root-Wrapped Reliquary decor can be purchased from Telemancer Astrandis.
Rank 8	Tier 9+ Delves can drop Champion Warbound gear. Corewarden’s Spoils decor is added to Telemancer Astrandis’ shop.
Rank 9	Tier 11 Bountiful Coffers can roll either a Hero-track piece or Untainted Mana-Crystals, which you use to buy stronger items from Zah’ran. Tier 8-10 Bountiful Coffers can also drop smaller amounts of those crystals.
Rank 10	You earn the Void Breacher title, and your overall Coffer Key Shard gains go up across the board. Delver’s Bountiful Coffer decor and the Corewarden’s Hearthstone become purchasable from Telemancer Astrandis.

Boons vs Blessings in Delves

Now, this section can be useful for those who always mix up boons and blessings when running Delves. I was one of them back in TWW, but they actually serve different purposes. This is how you split them in your head:

• Boons = picked up during the Delve and stack over the run
• Blessings = looted at the end, buffs your next Delve, and basically gives free consistency

You can also find a full list of Boons you can loot from Mislaid Curiosities in Midnight Delves:

1. Boon of Abstinence
2. Boon of Fortitude
3. Boon of Possibilities
4. Boon of Potency
5. Boon of Power
6. Boon of Vigor

And I’ve also got a list of Blessings to check out to see how different they actually are and what purpose each one serves:

1. Blessing of Zeal
2. Blessing of Potency
3. Crimson Blessing
4. Sentinel's Blessing
5. Veiled Blessing

How Gearing Works in Midnight Delves

Gearing in Midnight Delves works very similarly to how it did in The War Within. Champion gear continues to come from Tier 7+, and the Great Vault works the same way, still providing the maximum of Hero-track gear. The main seasonal difference is tied to Delver’s Journey progression, because later ranks start upgrading what you can get out of higher-tier bountiful runs.

After Rank 9 of the Delver’s Journey, Tier 11 Bountiful Coffers gain a chance to reward either a piece of Hero equipment or Untainted Mana-Crystals. Those crystals are used to purchase powerful gear from Zah’ran, and Tier 8-10 Bountiful Coffers can also reward smaller quantities of Untainted Mana-Crystals. This makes Tier 11 bountiful delves much more valuable later in the track, especially for players gearing mainly through delves.

Bounty maps are still part of the system too, but they’re now called Trove Hunter’s Bounty. Functionally, it works the same way as before and rewards one Hero-track item per week.

 

 

Delves Rewards: Gear, Cosmetics, Decor, and Toys

You’ve got plenty of rewards waiting for you to unlock them in Midnight Delves. They include everything from what you can remember back in TWW, but the list has only become larger with decor items added this time. You can practically live in Delves if your goal is to collect everything the activity has to offer. Visit these vendors to buy unique Midnight Delves rewards:

• Telemancer Astrandis - Cosmetics, toys, and housing décor. Voidlight Marl currency is used to trade with this NPC
• Naleidea Rivergleam - Cosmetics, toys, and housing décor. Undercoin currency is used to buy the rewards from this NPC
• Dip Stickshift - Delver’s memories, Silver currency

I’ve got a few examples of what unique rewards you can get from Delves, but I recommend checking out a full list in the game itself:

Item Name	Price	Vendor
Delver's Cosmetic Surprise Bag	10 Voidlight Marl	Telemancer Astrandis
Sin'dorei Gravestone	10 Voidlight Marl	Telemancer Astrandis
Silvermoon's Arcane Defender	10 Voidlight Marl	Telemancer Astrandis
Midnight Delver's Flare Gun	10 Voidlight Marl	Telemancer Astrandis
Coffer Key Glue	250 Undercoin	Naleidea Rivergleam
Beacon of Hope	5000 Undercoin	Naleidea Rivergleam
L00T RAID-R Mini	1000 Undercoin	Naleidea Rivergleam
Reliquary Expedition Bag	2500 Undercoin	Naleidea Rivergleam
Sin'dorei Arcane Manuscript	2500 Undercoin	Naleidea Rivergleam

Delves Achievements

Apart from the rewards, you’ve got a list of achievements to claim when playing Delves in Midnight. They’re mainly connected with completing the instances, but some of them are tied to Valeera Sanguinar, too.

Achievement Name	How to Get
Midnight Delver	Clear every Midnight Delve on Tier 4+ with revives left, once as DPS, once as Healer, and once as Tank
Midnight Delver II	Finish every Midnight Delve on Tier 8+ with lives remaining across all three roles
Midnight Delver III	Beat every Midnight Delve on Tier 11+ without running out of revives on any of the three roles
Delver of the Depths: Midnight	Complete the full list of Midnight Delves at least once
Delver of the Depths II: Midnight	Complete all Midnight Delves on Tier 4+ while keeping at least one life at the end
Delver of the Depths III: Midnight	Complete all Midnight Delves on Tier 8+ with revives still available
Delver of the Depths IV: Midnight	Complete all Midnight Delves on Tier 11 and finish each run with lives remaining
Glory of the Midnight Delver	Earn every achievement required by the Midnight Delves meta achievement set
Delve Loremaster: Midnight	Wrap up the story-focused achievement chain tied to Midnight Delves
Midnight: Leave No Treasure Unfound	Track down and loot every Sturdy Chest hidden across all Midnight Delves
Curio Enthusiast: Midnight	Collect every curio option available for Valeera Sanguinar
Curio Fanatic: Midnight	Upgrade your collection by obtaining every Rank 4 curio for Valeera Sanguinar

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