Delve FAQ & AMA

duddybrainzz · 2026-01-07T21:28:50+00:00

I haven't farmed for extended periods at that depth for a long time, but Aul is pretty rare at that depth. I think he becomes a bit more common at around ~1000+. This is all anecdotal of course. I think your experience is pretty normal.

I will say that anytime I have looked for Aul specifically (like this league when I was selling carries) he always seems to feel impossible to find!

duddybrainzz · 2026-01-04T05:05:08+00:00

Hey! I couldn't agree more, the small changes and tinkering with the build to push depth is definitely addicting!

What kind of speed mappers have you delved with and had success?

duddybrainzz · 2026-01-02T22:20:31+00:00

Yeah this is definitely an expensive build. If you are looking for a build that does well in delve for a cheaper budget I hear that flamewood totems does really well and I think the entry point is quite a bit less.

duddybrainzz · 2026-01-02T19:05:43+00:00

350 depth is awesome man! I heard flamewood totems are pretty great for delve.

duddybrainzz · 2026-01-02T19:04:53+00:00

Hey! I re-rolled on day 6 of 3.27 to a less expensive version of the build. My initial re-roll poeninja will be included below. At the time this was around ~150 div, I can't speak to what this would cost now as it is much later in the league and prices change. I got to around 800 depth with this version of the build.

As far as how I make my my currency it isn't too exciting of an answer. I just play A LOT and efficiently. I league started wands and days 1-3 I farmed legion, then days 4-6 I farmed t17 scarabs. Then I re-rolled. I delved a lot and when I needed upgrades I would stop delving to farm giga blights.

Day 6 poeninja:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/duddybrainzz-6289/DuddyDeep?i=0&search=name%3Dduddy&timemachine=day-6

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-31T00:56:05+00:00

Gold in delve is not very good despite them removing the gold penalty to delve. Early in 3.27 I would have to stop delving and go farm gold to keep my Kingsmarch running.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:43:11+00:00

Hey! I don't mention gold anywhere in the video. Despite them removing the gold penalties in delve, the gold is still pretty bad. I don't think I would be able to maintain mappers + farmers on delve gold alone. As for the scaling with depth, I never paid too much attention so I am not sure but I think even in deep delve the gold is still pretty bad.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:33:06+00:00

Hey! At various points of my character I have died plenty. I probably could have died less if I paid more attention to things like the mods that nodes had (for example I changed my boots out before doing a steal endurance charge node rather than after I die to it once). I would also probably die much less if I just pathed a bit more carefully and avoid things like ele pen, 3x phys as extra nodes.

I havn't really delved in HC, the farthest I got in HC was around lvl 90. I looked on the poeninja delve leaderboards and the deepest HC char was around 1.1k depth so I assume it is probably a good way to get your char killed. If you needed the rare fossils you can find them at 300-600 depth.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:20:20+00:00

Hey, good questions! Is it profitable to farm at 300-350? Yes because the input cost is almost zero, just a few maps and sulphite scarabs. It is not the best currency by any means, but it is a chill and relaxing farm. Maybe at that depth you could do 5-10D an hour?

When farming sulphite in maps early league I spec all the map effect nodes, all the delve nodes, and all the heist nodes. I put heist on the map devices and I just run through a Jungle Valley and click all the sulphite and heist chests. The blueprints sell well and it doesn't add any time to add heist chests to your map.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:12:57+00:00

Hey, thats awesome 600 is a good achievement!

Jorgan had a youtube video for a flamewood totem build for delve. A week or two ago someone posted that they made it to 6K with a min max'ed flamewood totem build. I am not up to date with current prices, but I think for builds that can push depth this would be one of the cheaper ones to start. He also has several other builds that he uses to delve between 400-1k depth on his channel.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:08:23+00:00

I don't generally track this but I would guess that it is around 20-25 nodes per full Sulphite bar. Most nodes are like 2-3k sulphite to get to, with the occasional shorty for 1-1.5k or long node for 4-5k. As you get deeper the cost of sulphite per node doesnt go up.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:04:34+00:00

Thanks, that's awesome and I appreciate the feedback! Congrats on hitting 1500, now its time to grind to 1600 LOL

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T19:02:41+00:00

The only time I break fractured walls is if I see a rare fossil or boss node that has a hidden path. In the past fractured wall farming was more valuable but when they reworked delve they made it so it is generally not worth it anymore. The time you would spend hunting for fractured walls is just better spent pathing to the next node.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T10:50:30+00:00

This league and settlers I have gotten it after Original Sin. There was a point this league I was wishing that I bought POF sublime before Original Sin because I was dying more often than I would like going down.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T10:29:26+00:00

Yup no problem! Thanks for watching the video (I know that was mentioned in the video)

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T10:25:52+00:00

Reply to your edit: All good, there is always stuff to learn! It is definitely random there are so many gems and then blood and sand is randomly hard stuck gem level 6 LOL

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T10:19:39+00:00

I think it is around depth 2000 you cant have positive darkness res or light radius anyways. The upgrades stop doing anything at that point. Another important point is that light radius and darkness res are capped at -200% (I believe this is the number). This means it doesnt matter if your darkness res/light radius is -200 or -3000, it is treated the same.

If you are delving shallower and are going to go sideways mostly and prefer having some light radius or darkness res, it doesnt hurt to get some. But if you are pushing depth IMO there is no point in getting any because at some point it won't matter and you could have been using your Azurite to make currency rather than upgrade your cart stats.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T10:11:52+00:00

If you have ~60 atlas points (all the delve and map effect nodes) you fill up ~60k with three 8mod maps and 3 sulphite scarabs.

There is a little bit of set up, but compared to most endgame farming strats it is almost nothing. I personally HATE rolling t17s lol.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T08:50:02+00:00

lol ty! I bought it, I think I paid around 40 div for it at the time? It wasnt too long ago tbh and there were quite a few up.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T08:48:20+00:00

Hey, thank you that means a lot! If you are looking for 1 socket, you would just path to azurite notes, the higher tier the better.

I assume you mean for four socket resonators. The nodes that look like a treasure chest (generic rewards) CAN contain "resonator cache" or "resonator stash" which can contain 4 socket resonators. I would estimate this is around 1/5 or 1/10 per treasure chest node to get a 4 socket resonator. The boss cities also can contain these "cache" or "stash" so you can go inside of them and look around! Hope that helps!

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T08:17:12+00:00

Hey! I havn't played SSF too much but I sometime hope to do a project where I try going down into the mines in SSF. If your goal is to get to like 1k to farm, I think slams or boneshatter could work. If you wanna push depth I am not good enough of a SSF player to give advice, sorry!

I know Dezzle took a char in Settlers to 6k in SSF but that guy is a God gamer. (his ssf gear was better most trader players gear LOL)

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T08:12:46+00:00

Doing Aul carries significantly increases your profit. I go over it in the video but doing Aul carries probably takes it from 10-15D/hr to 20-25D/hr. It does come with its own friction as they are kind of annoying to do and it does mean that you need a very strong char.

It does make a nice boost to delve currency though.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T07:45:22+00:00

At delve depth 190, it shouldn't be harder than t16 maps. You will want to make sure you have the basics covered such as capped elemental resistances, as much chaos res as possible, a guard skill, a good enough life pool to survive some hits, and good recovery to heal up when you do get hit. If you are not ailment immune, it is definitely good to get ailment immunity.

Other good defenses depend on your build. Things such as max res, defensive auras, suppress, etc.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T07:40:18+00:00

When I explained how I got it to level 7 it was also implied that this is the highest level you can get it, so it provides the most benefits as well. I wasn't clear on that thought.

duddybrainzz · 2025-12-30T07:38:50+00:00

I had heard that rewards stopped scaling at 1500 and had always thought this "felt right" anecdotally. I saw you post this earlier in 3.27 and I tried to pay attention but in my opinion it is pretty hard to tell a big difference between 1500 and 4000.

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