Fastest Delves in World of Warcraft The War Within

Delves are one of the brand-new, evergreen features introduced in World of Warcraft The War Within. In them, players can tackle smaller-sized dungeons solo or in a group to gain gear, transmogs, currency to spend at renown vendors, and more. If you’re delving alone, you’ll be accompanied by an NPC unique to the current season, and can level them up by completing delves. You’ll want to level your companion as fast as possible to unlock their abilities for higher-tiered delves. The fastest way to go about doing that is finding the quickest delves and running through them repeatedly. Here’s a brief summary of the fastest delves in World of Warcraft: The War Within.

The Waterworks

The Waterworks is one of the few delves where a vast majority of the enemies can be easily avoided. They’re spaced out across wide rooms and hug the walls, giving you plenty of room to walk past them. It also features one of the less threatening hazards you can encounter. The Waterworks features a poison debuff that is kept at bay with a special air totem item you collect in the delve. It’s fairly easy to prevent and doesn’t impede your movement speed like some of the other hazards might. Waxface, the delve’s boss, is isolated in his room as well. It’s possible to run past the rest of the enemies in the delve and defeat him before they catch up. Just be mindful of your air totem charges, and you should have no problem leveling your companion in the Waterworks.

The Underkeep

Despite its seemingly large area, the Underkeep is a quick delve to complete regardless of the active scenario when you enter it. Most of the Underkeep’s scenarios involve brute forcing your way through the area, killing mobs of varying sizes and then confronting a boss at the end. Just like the Waterworks, the zone itself is very spacious, letting you bypass certain enemies. What makes the Underkeep even faster to clear is its lack of area hazards. Whereas other delves will feature a special debuff of some kind, the Underkeep just has easily avoidable traps. Obviously your mileage may vary depending on how fast you can take down enemies, but if you’re looking for a simple delve with minimal worries, use the Underkeep.

Tak-Rethan Abyss

Under the right conditions, you can complete Tak-Rethan Abyss in under two minutes . The delve is incredibly short, featuring a small spiral shape densely packed with easily dispatchable enemies. Tak-Rethan Abyss is an underwater delve; swimming is disabled, but using movement speed buffs like Ghost Wolf or Sprint will leave enemies behind. Look out for the “Pheramone Fury” scenario. It requires you to break open crates as you run towards the boss of the area. The interaction on the crates is instant, meaning you can run past every enemy as you carry out your objective. Then you can focus the boss down before the enemies catch up to you, and finish the delve in record-breaking time! Even without “Pheromone Fury” as the active scenario, you’ll have little trouble completing this delve quickly and efficiently, so make sure to take advantage of it.

Hopefully this guide helps you max out those companion levels quickly, so you can tackle delves at higher tiers sooner rather than later. Season One of The War Within is packed with new content for old and new players alike. You can learn more about The War Within Season One here. Completing Delves will also earn you Weathered Harbinger Crests. For more information on where to trade them in, check out How to Obtain Nascent Weathered Harbinger Crest in World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft and The War Within expansion are available on PC.