The core of this strategy revolves around carving efficient paths with the delve minecart, creating opportunities for high-yield darkness running (costing zero sulphite) for fractured walls at depth ~400. Here are some timestamps for major topics! 0:48 - Loot and Profit Review 2:37 - General Strategy 5:09 - Min-Maxing Currency Gain 7:32 - Selling Loot for Max Profits 7:51 - Farming Sulphite & Sulphite Rotations 10:19 - Build Choice 11:09 - Concluding Thoughts
I would say I have a quite a bit experience in delve, so if you guys want to do this method on delve, there are a few things you need to note 1. Monster scaling Monster level scaling caps at depth 170, which is ilvl 83 area. They will NOT start scaling until around 230 depth. As you go deeper, the more sulphite you need to route to a node, it caps out at 1.1k minimum at certain depth (around 900 I think). The monster scaling actually STOPS at 6k depth, but that is pretty much out of most people's reach. Note that monsters have a hidden scaling, which is curse effectiveness, I don't know when the curse effectiveness starts, but just avoid using builds like bane on delve cus they will just render your curses useless. 2. Loot scaling City spawn frequency will be capped at 600 depth, the deeper you go, the spawn rate will not change. The only thing that scales with depth is azurite amount from both azurite nodes and those azurite stones you find in the side depths. Oh and I think above about first 150 depth, fractured walls spawn frequency is reduced. So there is no point in farming high depths, recommended starting at 200 depth. Rare fossils like Mirror Fossil can't be found behind fractured walls (I believe it is either impossible to find or it's just super rare, did you know you can get a uzaza's ring from city chest? But it is insanely rare). Rare fossils can be found in high depths (even 90 from what I heard) but are super rare, their spawn rate will gradually increase when you go deeper. His faceted fossil is found in the molten cavity, not behind walls. Faceted fossil is the most expensive fossil currently available, which is used on crafting +5 lvl bow. Notable rare fossils that are worth something [Fossil name] (Node name) - Biome : [what the fossil does] ========================================================== 1. Faceted Fossil (Molten Cavity) - Magma Fissure : +lvl modifiers. 2. Fractured Fossil (Humid Fissure ) - Sulphur vents : creates mirrored copy 3. Hollowed Fossil (Crystal Spire) - Abyssal Depths : have abyssal socket 4. Bloodstained Fossil (Stonewood Hollow) - Petrified Forest : have vaal modifiers (20% reduce cost of vaal souls, etc) Note that if you actually got killed when the node finishes, you actually lose the fossil, when I mean by lose the fossil, like the fossil is deleted in front of you. But don't worry, you can ask for fossil pickup if you need, recommended asking a deep delving streamer or a friend of yours or... me? Well if you trust me tho... Other rare fossils are pretty much worthless. Like Glyphic Fossil, which gives corrupted essence modifiers. Edit : forgot to clarify this, rare fossils have their own node with the name i listed on top and have a boss on the nodes respectively. So if you found molten cavity, gratz u found 1ex fossil. 3. Builds As OP say, most builds can play at 300 depth, but some of them just feels damn bad on delve like exploding arrow. But I highly suggest playing tanky builds that are quite speedy. Here's a suggested build you can use. Brittleknee's Darkness Farmer : www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2721239 4. Sulphite rotation Sulphite rotations saves A LOT of money, but if you don't have a potato pc or internet, feel free to join em because most people in those rotas hate you for being slow. Usually they look for 90+ Quan, a good map layout, T15 map, no boss kill and no reflect. Good map layout including : Reef, Desert Spring, Promenade, Summit, Lava Lake, or any open map layout. I like to farm sulphite my own because of uh, lemme show you this screenshot, it gives me ptsd cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/261793168066871306/669024521164161030/screenshot-0157.png . If you don't know what to do at the sulphite rotation, just don't, don't even kill, just run. Stick with one of the players. When a player says "h" in the chat, it means "here" and the sulphite node is at the player's location. When you enter the map, DO NOT MOVE. So these are some handy info you will need to know. Secret tip : did you know dynamite could stun monsters? Even with stun immunity, they bypass it, usually able to buy you some time when you are breaking a wall that have some hard monsters behind it.
Note : on the latest patch, they removed the ability to self pickup stuff, which means that you must rely on your friends to pick a valuable currency item when you are killed inside of the delve.
Brittleknee's darkness farmer is not for "delving", it's for darkness farming. What this means is it requires you to already have to a node (at let's say depth 300) available with a long path/multiple paths with multiple fracture walls and you want to go those paths without actually activating the delve cart (no you can not use this build to get down the delve because it deals 0 damage). The intention of this build is to just run in the dark because you have enough regen to counter darkness degen and phasing to not get hit for while. You will pick up anything WITHOUT breaking the fracture wall (because if you do, you no longer get loots for that path), log out, go back to that path again and again and again.
Remi Caster , thx for informative comment! I like mining much more than mapping, but my 2 melee chars aren't feeling great in delve (170 or 180 depth). Not dying horribly each run, but neither feeling tanky enough. I felt the difference after 150 depth. I've seen Brittleknee's forum thread, and it's not "my" build. Can you give some advice about builds for delve - which direction should i look for (with low budget, ~10 ex). Thick jugg, some kind of ranger, or other class equipped with the bow? Maybe some specific examples, it would be great.
for real bro. Im in act 8 of my first hc charecter and am scared to push more, its sad when I knew I had more chaos I could by the pieces of my gear I need way faster and easier.
I'm new , this game is crazy and so complicated ... everytime i need to watch hours of vids to understand htf it works... daaamn. You made it short , clear and direct to the point , thx you +1 sub
it's understandable bcoz this game started in 2013..and now version(league)3.9..it evolve every 3,4 month with new content..btw,this is also my first league..so many mistakes i've made in this league,i still don't understand how the syndicate work..ahaha..at least we got tonnes of video from senior players..
@@muhamadarif1498 Yea .. maybe i'll move to wolcen , so many third apps , videos and stuff to play properly .... the game is really nice but i just want to click and play, bored of the stuff all around .. poe trade macro , poe trade chek price tab ,poe ninja tab, path of building tab, / armor affix tab for crafting to chek and verify the craft avaible and so on and so on .... just want to click and play man :) Good luck !
Awesome. I was always wondering how profitable delve can be, but there are barely any videos describing what's after like 200+ depth. Thank you so much! :)
It can even be alot more profitable if you go very deep and farm tons of rare fossils and azurite. You can make 10ex - 20ex per hour if you are deep enough.
@@krzr547 what depth are we talking about? I got interested in delve when I copied very tanky champion from the guy on Reddit. I think it will be my priority for the next league :)
I like your strategy of essentially half ass darkness farming, not an insult. It allows us to snag those FWs without wasting tons of sulphite, but also not becoming too focuses on darkness farming the same section, over and over without breaking walls. Love it, and now i have a couple 100 lvls to backtrack through and use your side path method
Thanks for making this video! Hadn't realized you could just load the area and run in the dark to find the fractured walls without spending sulphite. Time to clear out some dead ends!
Hey man I just started really delving for the first time this league. I learned a few things I did not know with this video. Thanks a lot for making it.
I am a beginner in poe and this is my first season. The Game is overwhelmingly great! So manny Options and ways to Go. This Season i will complete the Atlas and keep learning. It is so much to take in. Nice Guide! Exactly what i Need!
Holy cow, I think I had eight days playtime this league and I prob only made 8-10ex. You're doing that in one sitting. I ran Ice Shot Deadeye this league too and I can't imagine killin Aul, I can barely kill T15 metamorphs. You're a god
You earned a sub and notifications man. I learned a ton in this that I didn't know and I've been playing pretty constantly from Delve (not no-lifing but several hours a day at minimum).
Just wanted to tell you, that your videos are really high quality in information. Thank you, really, just pure information , i really love the way how you share the knowledge. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much,.
thanks for this video! somehow I had missed the info about squares in the grid containing encounter nodes or fractured walls despite having played awhile and having played in delve! just that knowledge has been making me some nice extra cash as i work my way down deeper
This is a great video. Unfortunately a lot of people don't know about delve. Specifically deep delving. I deep delved this league and you can make 20ex/hr which is insane. On the way down, I break all Fractured Walls to help sustain for more sulphite scarabs.
smonk hard deep delve. 1000+ week 1 and 4K-5K+ depth by league ends. azurite reward amount scales as you go deeper as do the spawn rates for rare fossils.
@@subtlefps Oh damn, I'm guessing trying to offscreen mobs/chain explode them as best as possible to not get 1tapped and playing with high dodge/ms is best for this?
@@Dome98Otaku Pretty much, yes. Go CI and no relevant shield. Like, 100-200ehp. Pump all into damage, ideally pick an ability with CC like Icicle Mine or Ice Shot (mine). You can play without evasion and dodge if your positioning is good, but as a beginner dodge is a good crutch to have. Go with icicle or Ice Shot mines as a starter as they are the easiest to gear and have the best damage output and positioning without absurd gear. Another option is HoA Raider with full on raider defences, but it has limitations when it comes to depth.
smonk hard like the guy below me said. Evasion tech isn’t needed because if it’s needed, you made a mistake, but it will help bail you out occasionally. Frost wall with spell cascade is a big thing too. With awakened gem, it’s basically gigantic and blocks tons of projectiles. You still try to off screen as much as you can though
Here is a HUGE tip about sulphite party ROTAs, make sure you have a fast build, and I mean extremely fast, I tried doing them and I wasn’t fast enough and the guys wouldn’t wait for me so it was a waste of time because I got no sulphite and had to leave the group early it was a huge waste of time
“And that’s a waste of time because I could just spend the 90 chaos orbs and save 25-30 mins” me over hear playing for the first time thinking I just spent a fortune on a chest piece for 25 chaos. 😂
so.... get a 400-500 Exalt build, have like minded friends, spend 20 hours a day getting to the point where you can delve, die, rinse & repeat with the hope of getting your chaos per hour up to your death counter total each day ;) got it! thanks!
Question about Darkness Diving. how can you tell which pathways to follow? Sometimes I veer off into what I think is a side area, only to realize I'm running to some other minecart area. Other times I follow the pathway and find loot much deeper in. Just trying to be more efficient.
I remember being very into low level delving back when it first came out. Haven't played since betrayal and now in metamorph low level delving seems to not exist any more. Is 300 considered the new low level delve?
After Betrayal, low level delving was nerfed into the ground. While you can low level Delve, you won't make much profit. 300 is still pretty deep! Sulphite costs are like 700+ per node.
I'm into the 150s-160s right now, slowly making my way down. I don't run through the darkness to different nodes, I just complete the run as fast as possible and then run back thru the run and go through any side areas. Each run takes about 5 minutes. Sometimes I make an alchemy orb during the run, sometimes I find 40c worth of fossils or a spicy gear item worth an exalt or two. Then I spend an hour doing maps to get my sulphite back up to rinse and repeat, as I have oodles of Niko quests. It isn't the most streamlined way to do it, but it works.
Just found your channel - I'm v noob only a month in. Please consider doing build guides (as detailed as possible please) - you obviously know what you are talking about and have a natural and fluid speaking manner which is easy to follow. Please consider,!?
Great video, now here's my tip for you, did you know that if you disable the sound effects in the file in the my games folder it can improve the mapping performance dramatically?
I absolutely love your videos, please never stop! One question: when you say you make over 500c per hour mapping, do you mean the Legion method that you outlined in your previous video? I imagine a focused strategy like that is still significantly better than farming conquerors into Sirus, etc.
Thank you! :) Yes, I mean with focused strategies such as the Legion method when I say I make over 500c/hr mapping in the description. Just edited it to be a bit more clear. "Casual" speed mapping w/ conq's is a little less c/hr but less painful maintenance and has more interesting variety. I've actually changed my approach to high-end focused mapping into something a slightly more profitable than Double Legions, catered to my current build that isn't using self-curse temp chains HH, but that's a topic for another time!
@@Daykun I figured that might be the case. I guess just adding sextants and value scarabs while running good layouts is more my speed. But I do look forward to learning about this new mapping strat! Eventually I'll find something that's a good balance of variety and profitability. Thanks!
Not worth going out of your way to get at the moment. Maps are typically the main big money from them, but maps are basically free this league if you have a high awakener level atlas.
When you do darkness farming, how do you keep track of the areas that you have already looted? I love the delve, but have always just looted along with the cart, have never tried darkness farming without the cart....Interested to learn more about this technique. Thanks for the great videa
Like in the example of the video if you have a path that have 4+ separate lines that have only 1 FW, you just run with no wasting sulfhite clear that zones and just continue your lateraly run. That i understand that method is just for short paths but i,m from spanish and some thing can i mistunderstanding.
So, every tile there's a FW, or a chance to have a FW? And is this only for certain depth or areas? I feel like some areas that I've done (only about depth 150) that is completely closed the entire length from node to node. If you could respond I'd appreciate it! =)
Agree with you about the rotas, so damn boring.. But only got 38k sulp cap so double rotas caps me.. But tempting to get some scarabs instead and run my own maps.. Any other tip? Do you run 100 quality ones only? Playing zombie build so can run whatever :)
how would this strategy work in SSF for crafting meta gear? i was thinking to make a delver to help me lvl up in the 90s since i struggle there with both exping without dying and also with mats.
In other darkness farming vdeos, they say dont destroy fractured walls or the loot will not respawn. I guess in this case its about farming the loot behind the fractured walls only, but do they really respawn? Like can i blow up a fractured wall in the same square twice?
Looks Awesome. I love delving atm doing it on my Zombimancer but considering investing in Ice shot. Do u use another build to kill say bosses in delve?
You can clearly see him using a necro to kill Aul. I use either my cobra lash int stacking deadeye or my CoC VD assassin for general delving because they are both extremely nimble and switch to my necro for tough fights.
Is there a how to get into delve video, that explains everything to do with delve. As when i go into delve i have no idea what i am doing, i just run from point A to point B.
Get currency, buy scarabs, get sulphite, get as deep into Delve that your build can handle, then target fractured walls and molten cavities, humid fissures, crystal spires, stonewood hollows.. make sure you upgrade your capacities, light level, darkness resistance etc... and keep flares and dynamite on you at all times, spend additional azurite on potent chaotic resonators which you will then trade for additional chaos orbs.
Hey Daykun, im trying to cap my darkness resist, everytime i dive deeper it resets? It seems to never cap, or should i reach the level i wanna farm then start capping?
The deeper you go, the darkness gets more and more powerful (eg. -150% at depth 100, - 250% at depth 200). You will eventually need to make the purchase anyway, so keep capping as you go. Once you get to the level you want to farm, delve horizontally without changing your depth too much. That way, you don't have to keep purchasing resist upgrades.
@@Daykun Great! Any tips on how to reach the nodes behind walls? I went to the all nodes surrounding one and checked every single path in darkness, could never get it :/
@@tiordkw You mean how do you find fractured walls? If you're new to it, start by simply following the minecart and branching off into the side paths. Once you get good at that, you'll start to memorize the layouts of the Delve mine. That makes running into the darkness without the minecart and finding fractured walls easier.
@@Daykun i mean the nodes behind the walls, i know perfectly how to navigate the darkness, usually i never miss a chest or wall no matter how long the route is, my main problem is the nodes in the darkness how to get to them or let the cart reach them.
@@tiordkw for nodes with no route,look for an adjacent node with only 2 adjacent nodes. The normal node has 1, 3 or 4 nodes... But never 2. That is the node u are looking for
Great video Daykun! Question. I also run a pretty good ice shot build in standard. How much heath regen do you have? I do a bit of this strategy myself but im really trying to streamline it
That's a good question! Those 80c+ fossils are found from very rare fossil monster encounters. They are labelled on the map with a Fossil, and the common low-value encounters are called "Smuggler's Stash." At 11:20 in the video, you can see me fighting in the named "Molten Cavity" fossil monster encounter, which drops a Faceted Fossil (1ex). In my 1 million sulphite delve, I only encountered 4 rare fossil encounters. The deeper you go, the more of these encounters you see on average. At depths beyond 1500+, they are literally everywhere, but that's a topic for another time.
I just returned in poe, is my ed contagion life regen viable on darkness farming? My regen 660 life/sec, and my dot are very good, with 70% dodge and spell dodge, 6k life
i love how good delve is, but i actually hate delving now. i loved delve league, but delve now just feels so tedious and boring compared to just playing the game, mapping, master missions, and all the side content available. i feel like getting to a meaningful depth just takes way too long. great investment if you can stand it, though
@@Daykun thanks i managed to get a character up and running. As someone new to delve, is it possible to reset the fractured walls like zones in normal via control click?
So you aren’t using the 2-path rule here? I’m new to this game and I saw one of ZiggyD’s vids but it’s pretty old th-cam.com/video/u7CYiro4CQY/w-d-xo.html. You explore the routes with elbows. Do both methods still apply today or just yours?
Hi we can't look at your build in pathofexile.com your profile has been turned to private. Would you open your profile please so we can check it? thanks alot and great vid!
The core of this strategy revolves around carving efficient paths with the delve minecart, creating opportunities for high-yield darkness running (costing zero sulphite) for fractured walls at depth ~400. Here are some timestamps for major topics!
0:48 - Loot and Profit Review
2:37 - General Strategy
5:09 - Min-Maxing Currency Gain
7:32 - Selling Loot for Max Profits
7:51 - Farming Sulphite & Sulphite Rotations
10:19 - Build Choice
11:09 - Concluding Thoughts
Thx for you work🔨😊👍
Great overall guide for Delve, too. Thanks Day! Subbed
I don't understand. if you break fractured wall then you can't get loot from that path again. So you need a new node, how does it cost zero sulphite?
there is no PoB in description :(
Sorry to bother as this is 3 years old, depth 400 at that time is equal to 200 nowadays, am I right? What depth would you recommend nowadays?
I would say I have a quite a bit experience in delve, so if you guys want to do this method on delve, there are a few things you need to note
1. Monster scaling
Monster level scaling caps at depth 170, which is ilvl 83 area. They will NOT start scaling until around 230 depth. As you go deeper, the more sulphite you need to route to a node, it caps out at 1.1k minimum at certain depth (around 900 I think). The monster scaling actually STOPS at 6k depth, but that is pretty much out of most people's reach. Note that monsters have a hidden scaling, which is curse effectiveness, I don't know when the curse effectiveness starts, but just avoid using builds like bane on delve cus they will just render your curses useless.
2. Loot scaling
City spawn frequency will be capped at 600 depth, the deeper you go, the spawn rate will not change. The only thing that scales with depth is azurite amount from both azurite nodes and those azurite stones you find in the side depths. Oh and I think above about first 150 depth, fractured walls spawn frequency is reduced. So there is no point in farming high depths, recommended starting at 200 depth. Rare fossils like Mirror Fossil can't be found behind fractured walls (I believe it is either impossible to find or it's just super rare, did you know you can get a uzaza's ring from city chest? But it is insanely rare). Rare fossils can be found in high depths (even 90 from what I heard) but are super rare, their spawn rate will gradually increase when you go deeper.
His faceted fossil is found in the molten cavity, not behind walls. Faceted fossil is the most expensive fossil currently available, which is used on crafting +5 lvl bow.
Notable rare fossils that are worth something
[Fossil name] (Node name) - Biome : [what the fossil does]
==========================================================
1. Faceted Fossil (Molten Cavity) - Magma Fissure : +lvl modifiers.
2. Fractured Fossil (Humid Fissure ) - Sulphur vents : creates mirrored copy
3. Hollowed Fossil (Crystal Spire) - Abyssal Depths : have abyssal socket
4. Bloodstained Fossil (Stonewood Hollow) - Petrified Forest : have vaal modifiers (20% reduce cost of vaal souls, etc)
Note that if you actually got killed when the node finishes, you actually lose the fossil, when I mean by lose the fossil, like the fossil is deleted in front of you. But don't worry, you can ask for fossil pickup if you need, recommended asking a deep delving streamer or a friend of yours or... me? Well if you trust me tho...
Other rare fossils are pretty much worthless. Like Glyphic Fossil, which gives corrupted essence modifiers.
Edit : forgot to clarify this, rare fossils have their own node with the name i listed on top and have a boss on the nodes respectively. So if you found molten cavity, gratz u found 1ex fossil.
3. Builds
As OP say, most builds can play at 300 depth, but some of them just feels damn bad on delve like exploding arrow. But I highly suggest playing tanky builds that are quite speedy. Here's a suggested build you can use.
Brittleknee's Darkness Farmer :
www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2721239
4. Sulphite rotation
Sulphite rotations saves A LOT of money, but if you don't have a potato pc or internet, feel free to join em because most people in those rotas hate you for being slow. Usually they look for 90+ Quan, a good map layout, T15 map, no boss kill and no reflect. Good map layout including : Reef, Desert Spring, Promenade, Summit, Lava Lake, or any open map layout. I like to farm sulphite my own because of uh, lemme show you this screenshot, it gives me ptsd cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/261793168066871306/669024521164161030/screenshot-0157.png . If you don't know what to do at the sulphite rotation, just don't, don't even kill, just run. Stick with one of the players. When a player says "h" in the chat, it means "here" and the sulphite node is at the player's location. When you enter the map, DO NOT MOVE.
So these are some handy info you will need to know.
Secret tip : did you know dynamite could stun monsters? Even with stun immunity, they bypass it, usually able to buy you some time when you are breaking a wall that have some hard monsters behind it.
Note : on the latest patch, they removed the ability to self pickup stuff, which means that you must rely on your friends to pick a valuable currency item when you are killed inside of the delve.
Comment so I can copy the entire thing once I'm on PC
Brittleknee's darkness farmer is not for "delving", it's for darkness farming. What this means is it requires you to already have to a node (at let's say depth 300) available with a long path/multiple paths with multiple fracture walls and you want to go those paths without actually activating the delve cart (no you can not use this build to get down the delve because it deals 0 damage). The intention of this build is to just run in the dark because you have enough regen to counter darkness degen and phasing to not get hit for while. You will pick up anything WITHOUT breaking the fracture wall (because if you do, you no longer get loots for that path), log out, go back to that path again and again and again.
This is one of the most beautiful comments I have ever read on a PoE video. I have learned a ton!! THANK YOU SIR!
Remi Caster
, thx for informative comment! I like mining much more than mapping, but my 2 melee chars aren't feeling great in delve (170 or 180 depth). Not dying horribly each run, but neither feeling tanky enough. I felt the difference after 150 depth.
I've seen Brittleknee's forum thread, and it's not "my" build. Can you give some advice about builds for delve - which direction should i look for (with low budget, ~10 ex). Thick jugg, some kind of ranger, or other class equipped with the bow? Maybe some specific examples, it would be great.
meanwhile, me on week two of the game, i get happy when a single chaos drops lol
for real bro. Im in act 8 of my first hc charecter and am scared to push more, its sad when I knew I had more chaos I could by the pieces of my gear I need way faster and easier.
This has to be the best Delve video I've seen and actually makes me WANT to Delve. Thank you for sharing this info!
Wow this is something my casual self can get behind. Super comprehensive video my man thanks.
thanks! :) glad it's useful!
I'm new , this game is crazy and so complicated ... everytime i need to watch hours of vids to understand htf it works... daaamn.
You made it short , clear and direct to the point , thx you
+1 sub
it's understandable bcoz this game started in 2013..and now version(league)3.9..it evolve every 3,4 month with new content..btw,this is also my first league..so many mistakes i've made in this league,i still don't understand how the syndicate work..ahaha..at least we got tonnes of video from senior players..
@@muhamadarif1498 Yea .. maybe i'll move to wolcen , so many third apps , videos and stuff to play properly .... the game is really nice but i just want to click and play, bored of the stuff all around .. poe trade macro , poe trade chek price tab ,poe ninja tab, path of building tab, / armor affix tab for crafting to chek and verify the craft avaible and so on and so on .... just want to click and play man :)
Good luck !
Awesome. I was always wondering how profitable delve can be, but there are barely any videos describing what's after like 200+ depth. Thank you so much! :)
It can even be alot more profitable if you go very deep and farm tons of rare fossils and azurite. You can make 10ex - 20ex per hour if you are deep enough.
@@krzr547 what depth are we talking about? I got interested in delve when I copied very tanky champion from the guy on Reddit. I think it will be my priority for the next league :)
@@PurezzZ atleast 1200-1300++ to get around that number 2000 is most profitable
Pawel Kurzeja, you should watch this: th-cam.com/video/eYylkV9l8aw/w-d-xo.html
3000 depth.
When u said you dropped that 8 ex to 100c.. thats just thinkin for the little guy who has bad rng. Thanks mate :)
I like your strategy of essentially half ass darkness farming, not an insult.
It allows us to snag those FWs without wasting tons of sulphite, but also not becoming too focuses on darkness farming the same section, over and over without breaking walls. Love it, and now i have a couple 100 lvls to backtrack through and use your side path method
An actual good video where the content creator put lots of time into it on currency making. Thanks man.
Glad I came across this vid…one of the most informative and engaging out there
Thanks for making this video!
Hadn't realized you could just load the area and run in the dark to find the fractured walls without spending sulphite. Time to clear out some dead ends!
I'm a beginner to POE in harvest and this actually helped me to understand delving so much better, thx!
Hey man I just started really delving for the first time this league. I learned a few things I did not know with this video. Thanks a lot for making it.
I am a beginner in poe and this is my first season. The Game is overwhelmingly great! So manny Options and ways to Go. This Season i will complete the Atlas and keep learning. It is so much to take in. Nice Guide! Exactly what i Need!
Great video. Happy to be subscribed for this level of content and game information. Cheers
Holy cow, I think I had eight days playtime this league and I prob only made 8-10ex. You're doing that in one sitting. I ran Ice Shot Deadeye this league too and I can't imagine killin Aul, I can barely kill T15 metamorphs. You're a god
Nice guide. Quick and clear. Didn't know about FW prediction system.
You earned a sub and notifications man. I learned a ton in this that I didn't know and I've been playing pretty constantly from Delve (not no-lifing but several hours a day at minimum).
Just wanted to tell you, that your videos are really high quality in information. Thank you, really, just pure information , i really love the way how you share the knowledge. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much,.
1900 hours played and I still learned allot here. ty sir
PSA: if you Ctrl shift click a item u buy a Full stack of the item!
doesnt work on resonators yet
Great video, very clear and concise explanations!
thanks for this video! somehow I had missed the info about squares in the grid containing encounter nodes or fractured walls despite having played awhile and having played in delve! just that knowledge has been making me some nice extra cash as i work my way down deeper
Gallant Blues awesome man! That’s great to hear :)
This is a great video. Unfortunately a lot of people don't know about delve. Specifically deep delving. I deep delved this league and you can make 20ex/hr which is insane. On the way down, I break all Fractured Walls to help sustain for more sulphite scarabs.
How do you consistently make 20ex/hr lmao
smonk hard deep delve. 1000+ week 1 and 4K-5K+ depth by league ends. azurite reward amount scales as you go deeper as do the spawn rates for rare fossils.
@@subtlefps Oh damn, I'm guessing trying to offscreen mobs/chain explode them as best as possible to not get 1tapped and playing with high dodge/ms is best for this?
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Pretty much, yes. Go CI and no relevant shield. Like, 100-200ehp.
Pump all into damage, ideally pick an ability with CC like Icicle Mine or Ice Shot (mine). You can play without evasion and dodge if your positioning is good, but as a beginner dodge is a good crutch to have.
Go with icicle or Ice Shot mines as a starter as they are the easiest to gear and have the best damage output and positioning without absurd gear. Another option is HoA Raider with full on raider defences, but it has limitations when it comes to depth.
smonk hard like the guy below me said. Evasion tech isn’t needed because if it’s needed, you made a mistake, but it will help bail you out occasionally. Frost wall with spell cascade is a big thing too. With awakened gem, it’s basically gigantic and blocks tons of projectiles. You still try to off screen as much as you can though
Thanks for the sweet video -- very informative and contains practical advice I can act on right now.
That was actually a really well put together Delve video guide. o.o
Here is a HUGE tip about sulphite party ROTAs, make sure you have a fast build, and I mean extremely fast, I tried doing them and I wasn’t fast enough and the guys wouldn’t wait for me so it was a waste of time because I got no sulphite and had to leave the group early it was a huge waste of time
My 10 endurance charge ms jugg is having a blast delving. I make about 10ex a day just from fossils themselves.
nice voice + detail guide = subscribe. good job exile !!
“And that’s a waste of time because I could just spend the 90 chaos orbs and save 25-30 mins” me over hear playing for the first time thinking I just spent a fortune on a chest piece for 25 chaos. 😂
Great video, thanks for lots of information
Been playing for about 20 days or so, found an exalt doing a tier 4 map,was surprised it dropped with so little time played
Subbed and already clicked on the bell for notification!
you can also use a blood of the karui health flask to stay in the darkness for quite a long time
so.... get a 400-500 Exalt build, have like minded friends, spend 20 hours a day getting to the point where you can delve, die, rinse & repeat with the hope of getting your chaos per hour up to your death counter total each day ;) got it! thanks!
Very nice video!
I wish I could upvote this more
do new video for delve man you rock learnt so much, I am at depth 900 atm
Question about Darkness Diving. how can you tell which pathways to follow? Sometimes I veer off into what I think is a side area, only to realize I'm running to some other minecart area. Other times I follow the pathway and find loot much deeper in.
Just trying to be more efficient.
wondering the same
I remember being very into low level delving back when it first came out. Haven't played since betrayal and now in metamorph low level delving seems to not exist any more. Is 300 considered the new low level delve?
After Betrayal, low level delving was nerfed into the ground. While you can low level Delve, you won't make much profit. 300 is still pretty deep! Sulphite costs are like 700+ per node.
I'm into the 150s-160s right now, slowly making my way down. I don't run through the darkness to different nodes, I just complete the run as fast as possible and then run back thru the run and go through any side areas. Each run takes about 5 minutes. Sometimes I make an alchemy orb during the run, sometimes I find 40c worth of fossils or a spicy gear item worth an exalt or two. Then I spend an hour doing maps to get my sulphite back up to rinse and repeat, as I have oodles of Niko quests. It isn't the most streamlined way to do it, but it works.
Awesome guide!
Thank you for your hard work! video is really cool. Can you please tell me which software you use for editing video? crop, split, etc..
Just found your channel - I'm v noob only a month in. Please consider doing build guides (as detailed as possible please) - you obviously know what you are talking about and have a natural and fluid speaking manner which is easy to follow. Please consider,!?
Great video, now here's my tip for you, did you know that if you disable the sound effects in the file in the my games folder it can improve the mapping performance dramatically?
But then you have a game with no sound...
I absolutely love your videos, please never stop!
One question: when you say you make over 500c per hour mapping, do you mean the Legion method that you outlined in your previous video? I imagine a focused strategy like that is still significantly better than farming conquerors into Sirus, etc.
Thank you! :) Yes, I mean with focused strategies such as the Legion method when I say I make over 500c/hr mapping in the description. Just edited it to be a bit more clear. "Casual" speed mapping w/ conq's is a little less c/hr but less painful maintenance and has more interesting variety. I've actually changed my approach to high-end focused mapping into something a slightly more profitable than Double Legions, catered to my current build that isn't using self-curse temp chains HH, but that's a topic for another time!
@@Daykun I figured that might be the case. I guess just adding sextants and value scarabs while running good layouts is more my speed. But I do look forward to learning about this new mapping strat! Eventually I'll find something that's a good balance of variety and profitability. Thanks!
Great video! One question: Which zone you prefer to run?
Frozen Hollow. It's got the easiest layout to understand when darkness running/following minecart and highest value fossils!
Best delve guide ever
great guide! how do you feel about cities, are they worth running atm?
Not worth going out of your way to get at the moment. Maps are typically the main big money from them, but maps are basically free this league if you have a high awakener level atlas.
Thank you man! You’re awesome
When you do darkness farming, how do you keep track of the areas that you have already looted? I love the delve, but have always just looted along with the cart, have never tried darkness farming without the cart....Interested to learn more about this technique. Thanks for the great videa
Like in the example of the video if you have a path that have 4+ separate lines that have only 1 FW, you just run with no wasting sulfhite clear that zones and just continue your lateraly run. That i understand that method is just for short paths but i,m from spanish and some thing can i mistunderstanding.
So, every tile there's a FW, or a chance to have a FW? And is this only for certain depth or areas? I feel like some areas that I've done (only about depth 150) that is completely closed the entire length from node to node. If you could respond I'd appreciate it! =)
Agree with you about the rotas, so damn boring.. But only got 38k sulp cap so double rotas caps me.. But tempting to get some scarabs instead and run my own maps.. Any other tip? Do you run 100 quality ones only? Playing zombie build so can run whatever :)
Felt like it was a dumb question, more quality (quantity) = gives more sulphite 😂
Do you have to do something special like putting an item in or something to get that many fossils?
the letting the character die approach didn't work so well for hc xD
LOL! I should have mentioned this is a strategy for softcore, eh?
@@Daykun yea put in title plz :/
how would this strategy work in SSF for crafting meta gear? i was thinking to make a delver to help me lvl up in the 90s since i struggle there with both exping without dying and also with mats.
In other darkness farming vdeos, they say dont destroy fractured walls or the loot will not respawn. I guess in this case its about farming the loot behind the fractured walls only, but do they really respawn? Like can i blow up a fractured wall in the same square twice?
Looks Awesome. I love delving atm doing it on my Zombimancer but considering investing in Ice shot. Do u use another build to kill say bosses in delve?
You can clearly see him using a necro to kill Aul. I use either my cobra lash int stacking deadeye or my CoC VD assassin for general delving because they are both extremely nimble and switch to my necro for tough fights.
@@o0Da7mi0o Ye im doing a Mana Guardian + ice shoot next league and nothing changes.
I really want to delve but as soon as the screen starts to go dark my anxiety kicks in. I've been sneaking above depth 50, scared to go any lower 😂
I do pure darkness farming with a scion. Less loot, but free loot.
I never knew you can sell resonators to niko for chaos. Really have to check it out
How did you get the grid on the map?
ty for the stats mate..gg
Yay new guide.
Is there a how to get into delve video, that explains everything to do with delve. As when i go into delve i have no idea what i am doing, i just run from point A to point B.
Get currency, buy scarabs, get sulphite, get as deep into Delve that your build can handle, then target fractured walls and molten cavities, humid fissures, crystal spires, stonewood hollows.. make sure you upgrade your capacities, light level, darkness resistance etc... and keep flares and dynamite on you at all times, spend additional azurite on potent chaotic resonators which you will then trade for additional chaos orbs.
would this be a good league starter build? and should I just skip mao entirely and onky delve as soon as I can?
Hey Daykun, im trying to cap my darkness resist, everytime i dive deeper it resets? It seems to never cap, or should i reach the level i wanna farm then start capping?
The deeper you go, the darkness gets more and more powerful (eg. -150% at depth 100, - 250% at depth 200). You will eventually need to make the purchase anyway, so keep capping as you go. Once you get to the level you want to farm, delve horizontally without changing your depth too much. That way, you don't have to keep purchasing resist upgrades.
@@Daykun Great! Any tips on how to reach the nodes behind walls? I went to the all nodes surrounding one and checked every single path in darkness, could never get it :/
@@tiordkw You mean how do you find fractured walls? If you're new to it, start by simply following the minecart and branching off into the side paths. Once you get good at that, you'll start to memorize the layouts of the Delve mine. That makes running into the darkness without the minecart and finding fractured walls easier.
@@Daykun i mean the nodes behind the walls, i know perfectly how to navigate the darkness, usually i never miss a chest or wall no matter how long the route is, my main problem is the nodes in the darkness how to get to them or let the cart reach them.
@@tiordkw for nodes with no route,look for an adjacent node with only 2 adjacent nodes. The normal node has 1, 3 or 4 nodes... But never 2. That is the node u are looking for
So what is the best delve farmers in HC where you cant just brute force it?
And I here have never encountered a fractured wall so far, because I die of the darkness...
This most be a good strategy for HC :)
Great video Daykun! Question. I also run a pretty good ice shot build in standard. How much heath regen do you have? I do a bit of this strategy myself but im really trying to streamline it
Daykun how expensive is you build?
so those areas with fractured walls, do they reset so i can farm them again, or i need to move on
What's the best ranger build to delve, I have 50ex to spend. Thx
nice vid however it wasn't very clear to me where exactly do you find those 80c+ fossils in delve they are not in the graphic of ziggy either?
That's a good question! Those 80c+ fossils are found from very rare fossil monster encounters. They are labelled on the map with a Fossil, and the common low-value encounters are called "Smuggler's Stash." At 11:20 in the video, you can see me fighting in the named "Molten Cavity" fossil monster encounter, which drops a Faceted Fossil (1ex). In my 1 million sulphite delve, I only encountered 4 rare fossil encounters. The deeper you go, the more of these encounters you see on average. At depths beyond 1500+, they are literally everywhere, but that's a topic for another time.
@@Daykun Thanks for the info I'd love to see a video on this topic.:)
what we need a loot scooper, i have collected over 10,000 armourer scrap's and thats alot of clickin hey
I just returned in poe, is my ed contagion life regen viable on darkness farming? My regen 660 life/sec, and my dot are very good, with 70% dodge and spell dodge, 6k life
For bosses do u use another build?? In Delve
i love how good delve is, but i actually hate delving now.
i loved delve league, but delve now just feels so tedious and boring compared to just playing the game, mapping, master missions, and all the side content available. i feel like getting to a meaningful depth just takes way too long.
great investment if you can stand it, though
what is keeping your frenzy charges without killing? I noticed that when the frenzy charges is about to expire they renew.
Farrul's Fur body armour has a mod that allows that.
@@Daykun thanks i managed to get a character up and running. As someone new to delve, is it possible to reset the fractured walls like zones in normal via control click?
Delve 450. No good loots, just more lag Desync and 1 shots. I need to go deeper into niko next time.
its a shame i cant go back to already explored zones to check for loot in walls.. Ah damn
Does this strategy still work with the 3.10 Delve changes?
yup
2:00 can i do this in "standard" ?
my build is squishy & slow with hughe damage ... kinda not viable anywhere outside bosses ... i love it but it sucks at the same time
do you have a delve build you recommend? Something not... glasscannon?
HoA Jugg or HoA Raider should get you to around 1000 depth. From there you pretty much have to go full on zhp glasscannon sooner or later.
i mean, i'd love to do this but my masters are still messed up and i haven't gotten a single natural niko
I don't understand how you knew there was a fractured wall down those paths?
Rick Kackis here...
What is Niko dailies?
can some one pleas point me to a good build for doing this mine dies in the dark so fast
So you aren’t using the 2-path rule here? I’m new to this game and I saw one of ZiggyD’s vids but it’s pretty old th-cam.com/video/u7CYiro4CQY/w-d-xo.html. You explore the routes with elbows. Do both methods still apply today or just yours?
any good league starters for doing this?
Delve best league !
HOW DO I GET MORE SULPHITE?
Hi we can't look at your build in pathofexile.com your profile has been turned to private. Would you open your profile please so we can check it? thanks alot and great vid!
i dont like the delve league, but maybe next league im going to focus an try farming it, see what i can earn
Is this still worth doing
well i start play 2 week ago and i can hardly get to 150+ would that be enough depth xD ?
No. You will make money ofc, but its really not worth your time. Try to delve to 300 and lower, thats where the magic starts to happen
kEEP ON kEEPING ON!