翻译自官网https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-guide-to-delvings-en
译注：《指环王》英文原文：“The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin’s Bane.”最近的邓版翻译是：“矮人们对此闭口不言，但秘银既是他们财富的基石，同样也成了他们的祸根——他们挖掘得太贪婪，也太深，惊动了都林的克星，他们因而逃离。”此处“Delve”被翻译成了“挖掘”，因此这个系统的名字看着怪怪的，但应当符合原意。。
“挖掘得太贪婪，也太深”说的摩瑞亚矮人们和他们对秘银的挖掘，这最终导致了他们释放出了都林的死敌和他们自己的最终祸根。托尔金的这句话也为我们的设计师们提供了关于最新的高等级系统的灵感。
Delving too greedily and deep speaks to the Dwarf-folk of Moria and their digging for Mithril, which led to their unleashing of Durin’s Bane and their ultimate destruction. This line from Tolkien also provided the inspiration to our game designers for our newest high-level system!
1、开始Getting Started
挖掘是一个在U34资料片《Before the Shadow（暗影之前）》的Mission中首次亮相的新机制。当你完成你的第一个《Before the Shadow》Mission后，你会得到一个特殊的挖掘宝石[Unnerving Zircon（令人不安的锆石）]，这将引导你踏上更多挑战以获取更多奖励的征程。
Delvings are a new mechanic debuting with Before the Shadow’s Missions. When you complete your first new Before the Shadow Mission you’ll get a special Delving gem called an Unnerving Zircon, which sets you on your path to additional challenge for additional reward!
完成任务将奖励你一个“Delving Zircon（挖掘锆石）”来增加《Before the Shadow》中任意Mission的难度到T1难度。如果你成功了，就会获得下一个等级的Delving宝石，可用于激活下一个Mission到T2难度。完成T2难度的Mission将奖励一个T3宝石，以此类推最高到T10难度。
Completing the quest gets you a Delving Zircon to increase the difficulty of any Mission offered in Before the Shadow to Tier 1 Delving difficulty. If you succeed, you’ll get the next tier of the Delving Gem, which you can use to run your next eligible Mission on Tier 2 difficulty. Completing a Mission on Tier 2 gets you a Tier 3 gem and the process continues up to Tier 10.
2、成功与失败Success and Failure:
在挖掘难度的Mission中失败，将返还你一个“破碎（cracked）”版本的Delving宝石。你可以在Mission兑换商处将此破碎宝石兑换成另一个同级的宝石。玩家如果愿意，永远都可以将高难度的Delving宝石兑换成耕地难度的宝石，同时也可以用低级宝石加上金币换取高级宝石。挖掘系统允许你掌控你自己的难度！
Failing to complete a Mission on a Delving difficulty gets you back a “cracked” version of your Delving Gem. You can trade this cracked gem to a Mission Barterer for another gem of the same level. Players can always barter a higher tier Delving gem for a lower tier gem if they wish as well, and players can trade lesser gems and some coin for higher tier gems. Delvings allow you to set your own difficulty!
完成一个Delving会奖励你宝物、下一难度的Delving宝石和挖掘卷轴（Delving Writ），用于兑换各类奖励。由于Delving系统可能······很困难，Mission发布者也有可能奖励获得他们出售的物品及其弱化版物品的几率！获得完整版级别奖励的几率会随着你完成Delving难度的增加而增加。（译者注：原文很绕，大意就是低级Delving也有概率获得高级Delving的奖励。）
Completing a Delving rewards you with treasure, the next tier of Delving Gem, and Delving Writs, which are used to trade for various rewards. Since Delving difficulty can be…well, difficult, it is also possible for Mission Givers to award chances at getting the items they sell along with reduced versions of those items! The chance to get rewards you would normally purchase from the barter vendors increases with the difficulty of the Delving that you complete.
3、能干什么What they do:
Delving宝石可以放在Delving Stone（挖掘石）里，其位于《Before the Shadow》Mission副本的门口，它会释放恶意（malice）并增强整个Mission空间中的怪物！与普通的Mssion不同的是，恶意会每天变化，因此威胁增强的程度也会随时间增强、减弱和改变。恶意越强敌人越强，奖励和奖励进阶的几率就越大！不过你得小心避免挖得太贪婪、太深，释放出你自己版本的都林死敌。
Delving Gems can be placed into Delving Stones, located at the entrance of new Before the Shadow Missions. This unleashes their malice and enhances the denizens of the Mission throughout the space! Unlike regular Mission Twists, these malices rotate on a daily basis, so the nature of the additional threat can wane, grow, and change over time. The greater the malice, the more potent the enemies are and the greater the chance for immediate rewards and advancement! Be careful, though, lest you too delve too greedily and too deep and unleash your own version of Durin’s Bane.
4、奖励Rewards:
这个系统知道你想要更难的挑战和更好的奖励，因此它为成功者们提供了获得与团本装备相当的装备！Delving奖励目前有2个位置最佳（BIS）的物品、等价于T3团本属性但无套装属性的装备、新的可选传武Tracery配件、新的Tracery配件工匠图纸、强化装备的物品和更多！玩家可以与Mission商人对话以用Delving Writ兑换他们所想要的奖励。
This system understands you want greater challenge for greater reward, and therefore offers the ability to earn gear that is equivalent to raid gear for those able to succeed! Delving rewards currently feature two “best in slot” items, armour equivalent to Tier 3 raid gear without Set Bonuses, new selectable Traceries for your Legendary Items, new Crafting recipes for Craft Traceries, items to enhance your gear, and much more! Players will speak to Mission Barterers to trade their Delving Writs for the rewards they want.
我们也计划更新系统，以后的团本更新到T3难度后我们将引入相应的Delving系统奖励，我们还有意未来把Delving难度引入不仅是Mission还包括副本等其他形式的老内容中去。
We intend to update the system as well so that once future raids are released on Tier 3 difficulty we’ll introduce commensurate Delving system rewards. We also intend to add Delving difficulty to not just Missions but also other forms of previously-released content such as Instances in the future.
你将挖多深？
How deeply will you delve?
