Welcome to MmoGah exiles. Today
we will talk about Jorgen's
guide on how to delveandMake PoE Currency Easily. I cleared
like 200 Chaos Orbs and a couple of Exalted Orbs. How am I doing it? What's
my strategy? That's what we're going to talk about in this guide. Now the quick
disclaimer. Suppose you're an elitist, and this is not what you like doing in Delve.
In that case, this guide will not be for you, but if you want to generate quick
PoE Currency, if you want to Delve, or
if you want to understand how Delving basically run, let's get into the guide.
Market and why you should Delve
The first thing that we need to understand about Delving
overall is the market and how it's operating. We need to look at a couple of
things, and first of all, we need to get a poe ninja.
Secondly, we want to look at Fossils. So right now, the fossil
market is actually doing pretty well. You can sell those for a pretty penny. But
you know we're talking about selling high bulk volumes in Delve. That's how we
make our currency.
Next, let's look at Resonators. Again, the market's
doing pretty well. It's not a profitable mechanic, and these drop pretty
commonly throughout delve, and we'll talk about that as we go through the video.
Now the other side is Scarabs. We'll talk about
generating Sulphite in the next segment of this video.
That's pretty much why you should delve. It's incredibly
profitable from a market perspective right now, just selling bulk volumes. We'll
get into the next section of the video, which will generate Sulphite.
How to get Sulphite?
How do we generate Sulphite? I get asked this question a lot.
The first and foremost way is running Scarabs. So you can get Sulphite Scarabs,
you get Rusted about 1.5 Chaos. It's a little bit more for what was polished. And
then Gilded. You can get winged for about 18 Chaos. And basically, you bang
that in your map device, and Nico pops up.
The other way to do it is running the Niko missions, which
are here. As you can see, I got 17 banked up because I have only just started
delving for the league, but that's your other alternative here.
The other way you can do it now is these two map nodes that
you can use Lex Proxima and unlock the Rich Veins, Sulphite Infusion, and the
packed with energy nodes. Sulphite infusion in particular because basically on
the completion of red tier maps if you do in general farming. You're going to
get five additional Voltaxic Sulphite on completion of that map, so that's
pretty cool. And the other side of that is New Vastir, which means you can add a
Mad Devotion and Out of the Blue, which will generate more Sulphite, when you
run Sulphite rotors or Sulphite scarabs or Sulphite Nico missions on these
areas. That's pretty much the overall how to get Sulphite.
What to Level up first in the
Voltaxic Generator?
You figured out how to and why you should delve, you
figured out how to get Sulphite, so the next is what we level up at our Voltaxic
generator.
The first thing you want to get is Darkness Resistance. You
want to get Sulphite Capacity, Darkness Resistance, and Light Radius. These are
your first three things that you want to level up. You want to get these to a
level you want to be on at least 75 percent all the time, but that's not
necessarily going to happen all the time. But you want to have enough darkness resist,
so you're not negative, and the light radius is pretty key because that's going
to keep you alive in the nitty-gritty situations now.
For Flares, you will want to keep pushing your flare number
up, but I would suggest radius to be max out when you're looking at flares. You
can have fewer flares. It just means you can't go into as many side areas if you
don't have a sustaining character or a darkness runner.
For Dynamite, I've got mine up to six, but you know I'd
usually level Dynamite last. The first thing you want is Sulphite capacity to
run more delves darkness resist and light radius, alternate between the two, and
then focus on light radius on your flares total number of flares and duration
last. That's pretty much what you need to level.
What are Biomes?
You've gotten that far, you're going to start delving, and
you're figuring out what do all these colors in here mean. What the hell does
this mean? It's all patchy, and there's random crap. These refer to as Biomes. So
depending on the biome, there's a higher probability of different types of
fossils dropping. For example, perfect fossils and corroded fossils have a
really good cell value, so you want to focus on Fungal Caverns if you want to
go for those now if you're farming for actual crafting. You know you might need
Metallic fossils for lightning damage or Frigid for frost damage, or cold
damage Scorched for a fire. These are generally more worthless than the fossils,
but that might be the fossil you need for your build.
This is essentially your guide to finding fossils and where
and how to farm these fossils predominantly. So if you were wondering what the
colors are, that's what they are. They're called biomes. They dictate the types
of fossils that drop in those areas.
Basic Delve Strategies
You can delve a few ways. The first thing I would say to
anyone who's starting on delve and want to make currency out of it efficiently.
You don't have to go down to crazy depths, and you don't have to have a delve runner.
You can go down to about 150 to 250 is optimum for most fossils that turn a profit,
and also, you'll get a decent amount of volume down there at that Level. It's
not too hard. You can usually do that at a pretty proficient level once you get
to level 90. We're talking Level 83 zones, but good drops down there you want
to get a little bass chaos when you're down. You also get a lot of fossils and resonators
at about those levels as long as you're in the right biomes and your rng is
playing on your field. Normally you'll walk away out of a full Sulphite I guess
meter, you'll walk away with a bit of stuff to recover on that Sulphite that
you've had to generate, so you'll turn a profit. You'll generally make about an
exalt or if you're focusing on rotors and things like that now. There are two ways
to delve. You can continually push down and push down, and I would suggest this
if you've got a character that can handle that. Still, some people will hit a
point where you get to a brick wall, and that's when you can go horizontally,
and as you can see, I haven't gotten to that point yet, but when I get to a
stage where I'm like this is too hard, I'll move up. I'll go horizontal all the
way through, and that's how I'm going to generate a ton of currency from just fossil
farming, and that's pretty much as simple as it gets.
Hey exiles, this time mmogah.com will be
covering everything you need to know about Delve. In this guide, I'll talk
about the basic Delve mechanics, fossil crafting, hidden nodes, as well as some
general tips and tricks. I'll also cover the Endless Delve race event and how
it differs from normal delving.
Basic Delve Info
Delve was a league that launched more than two years ago,
and it quickly became one of the most successful and appreciated league mechanics
ever introduced in the game. You normally gain access to the Delve after encountering
the NPC Niko in act 4. Afterward, you'll have a chance to encounter him on
almost any map, whether during story mode or in the Atlas. Maps where Niko is
found, will spawn 3 voltaxic sulphite piles, a resource required to progress in
the mine.
Once you've met Niko, you'll also be able to teleport to the
mine encampment, the staging area for delving. Here you'll have access to the
other half of Delve, which is the actual mine. This is a huge network of nodes,
connected by tunnels, spreading out downward and the left and right. You travel
between these checkpoint nodes by following a minecart or mine crawler, which
uses sulphite as fuel. The minecart will keep moving independently of you, as
long as you're in a certain range from it. If you lag or go too far from the
cart, it will stop and wait for you. The crawler also illuminates an area
around it, protecting you from the darkness. If you step outside lit areas, you
take increasingly great damage over time in the form of a stacking debuff. However,
as soon as you go back into the light, all the debuff stacks are instantly
cleared. Monsters inside dark areas are immune, but they can deal damage to
you.
Once the crawler reaches the node you've selected, you'll
generally need to clear several waves of monsters, and then you'll get a loot
explosion, as well as access to various treasure chests or containers. These
reward containers are based on the type of node you've completed, so a weapons
node, for example, will have various boxes containing weapons.
Azurite & Spending Azurite
Now, if you've looked over your delve map, you've surely noticed
these blue Azurite nodes, which come in 3 different tiers. Completing these
will provide a delve specific resource called Azurite, which is used to purchase
upgrades at the Voltaxic Generator found in the mine encampment. The first
thing you can upgrade is the sulphite capacity, allowing you to stockpile more
of it while mapping before having to delve into consuming it.
Then there's darkness resistance, a stat that only applies
to delving and reduces the damage you take from the darkness debuff. While it
caps at 75%, as you go deeper into the mine, you'll receive an ever-increasing penalty
to your darkness resistance, so you'll have to keep upgrading to maintain it
above that value. Light Radius increases the illuminated area around the mine
cart and the floor lights connecting completed nodes. This stat caps at 150%
and, similar to darkness resistance, must be constantly upgraded as you go deeper
to keep up with the penalty.
Then you have flares that are consumable light sources
thrown on the ground to illuminate an area for a short duration. Standing near
a flare will remove any existing darkness, debuff stacks, and prevent new ones from
being applied. Apart from upgrading your flare cap, light Radius, and duration,
Azurite is also used to purchase them.
Flares & Hidden Areas
(Fractured Walls)
So why would you need flares when you have the mine cart to
light your way? Apart from the nodes themselves, the most valuable rewards in
delve are generally found in dark side areas. These can range from small
pockets to long and complex corridors filled with mobs, which will require
several flares to navigate and stay alive. A special type of dark side area
you'll encounter will be hidden behind fractured walls. These will show up on
your minimap when you get close enough, and their outline will be highlighted
when you hover your mouse cursor over them. Fractured walls can be destroyed
using dynamite purchased and upgraded from the Voltaxic Generator. While
dynamites can affect mobs, upgrading their damage and Radius is only really
worth it for certain very deep delve strategies. All walls can be broken with
basic dynamite, so you should only look into upgrading the capacity.
Fossils & Crafting
Dark areas, and especially behind fractured walls, is where
you'll find Delve specific crafting materials called fossils and resonators. So,
25 different types of fossils can be used for crafting, each influencing the
outcome in a certain way. For example, a metallic fossil increases the chance
of rolling lightning mods while blocking any physical affixes. Unlike other
crafting currency, fossils cannot be used directly on an item but have to be socketed
inside a resonator first. Resonators can have between 1 and 4 sockets, allowing
you to group several fossils and use them as a single crafting tool.
So, let's say I aim to craft a decent pair of boots; I'm
looking for some movement speed, maximum life, and resistances. Using Chaos Orbs to roll random
mods would be highly inefficient and costly as the chance to obtain all those
stats at once is quite low. While using fossils won't guarantee an exact
outcome, it's still a much more surgical crafting method. For crafting that
pair of boots, I'd use Shuddering plus Pristine plus Prismatic fossils.
So why did I choose this combination in particular? First,
I know that the only speed modifier on regular boots is movement speed without
any influence. Using a Shuddering Fossil on boots directly increases the chance
to obtain movement speed and no other mod. It also prevents mana mods from
rolling, meaning the total pool of possible outcomes is reduced, indirectly
increasing the chance of obtaining the affixes I want. I also know that maximum
life and life regen are the only life mods that can appear on boots, so I
wanted to increase the chance of getting the first one. Removing armour,
evasion, and energy shield mods, aka defense ones, has a similar effect as
preventing mana mods from rolling: fewer affixes the game can choose from to
roll for the outcome. Finally, resistances are the only elemental mods that can
roll on regular boots, which is why a Prismatic Fossil was chosen.
Delve Cities
Now that we've covered fossil crafting let's go back to
delving and talk a bit about the so-called "delve cities." These are
special nodes that generally spawn grouped up in a zone delimited by this
yellow border.
Each node is an underground chamber that contains a large
number of treasure chests with various rewards. These chambers also contain
several light pads that you can stand on for a few seconds to illuminate a
portion of the room so you can kill monsters lurking in the dark. You can, of
course, use flares as well, but the pads are free. There are three different
types of delve cities: Vaal outposts, abyssal cities, and primeval ruins, with
the last being the rarest and most difficult. These cities can also spawn
bosses that drop exclusive uniques, some of them being quite valuable.
Hidden Nodes & How to Find the
Routes
As you go about your business exploring the mine, you'll
also come across hidden nodes with no existing roads leading to them. In
reality, these nodes are always connected to one of the surrounding nodes, but a
fractured wall blocks the road, so it's not yet visible. To access such a node,
you'll need to start directly from one of the surrounding ones and explore the
darkness until you come across a fractured wall.
Once you blow it up, the road to the hidden node will be
revealed, and you can reach it with your mine cart. While you can randomly
start exploring from each nearby node, there's a better method than just
relying on pure luck. With very few exceptions, each delve node must be connected
by either 1, 3, or 4 roads. Unless a bug occurred, delve nodes cannot be
connected to others by exactly two roads. Also, the path to hidden nodes cannot
intersect existing roads. The two rules provide us some valuable information
that helps eliminate the vast majority of nearby nodes. These currently
connected by a single road cannot lead to the hidden node as that would then
cause them to be connected by exactly 2 roads, thus breaking the rule.
Delve Biomes
With the basics out of the way, here are a few random tips
and tricks. Apart from Delve cities, the other nodes will always spawn in a
specific biome, depicted by a different background color on the map. These are
fungal caverns, a petrified forest, abyssal depths, frozen hollow, magma
fissure, and sulfur vents. These dictate the type of mobs that spawn in them,
the general layout, and increase the chance for specific fossils to drop. For
example, frozen hollow biomes have a very straight and even layout. They mostly
spawn monsters dealing cold damage and favor frigid fossils.
On the other hand, Petrified forests are convoluted mazes
where you'll find more bound and jagged fossils. On top of that, there are
special nodes that will only spawn in a specific biome. For example, "contains
fire items" will always spawn magma fissure, aka the fire biome. It will
never spawn anywhere else, so if you're looking for something like a "flammability
curse on hit" ring, you should look for magma fissure biomes. Knowing
these will allow you to target farm certain fossils and PoE Items, which can be
especially useful in solo-self-found leagues.
Flares Keybinds
By default, flares and dynamite are bound to 6 and 7 keys, both
quite far away and awkward to press. However, you can set them to other keys by
going to Options - Input and changing the settings
for "Use Temp Bound Skills."
Delve Crafting Recipes
Even if you have absolutely no interest in delving, you should
keep in mind that several very useful crafting recipes for your hideout
crafting bench are unlocked in the mine. Pretty much all the sockets, links,
and socket color recipes are found at various depths and nodes while delving. Two
of them, the 6-sockets and 6-links recipes, are found in delve cities.
Excess Azurite
Spend a lot of time delving. You'll eventually finish
upgrading most of the things on your Voltaxic Generator, and you'll find more
than enough Azurite to keep light Radius and darkness resistance capped. However,
you can use any excess azurite to buy resonators and sometimes even fossils
from Niko. While it's not some get rich fast method, this can be useful in
solo-self-found as his shop resets each time you complete a delve node.
Special Nodes, Biomes, Difficulty
Scaling
As you keep going deeper and deeper, you'll encounter the rarer,
exotic nodes more often, as they start replacing shittier nodes like weapons or
armour. However, mobs' HP and damage will scale as well, at a much faster pace.
At some point, your character will hit a wall where you'll get one shot and
won't be able to clear even thrash mobs. Deep delving is done with highly
specialized builds and gear and using specific tactics for each node, something
that's beyond the scope of this guide. Also, you'll start noticing that most
biomes have extra mods on them at lower depths, similar to magic or rare maps
on the Atlas. This can make monsters even deadlier and, at the same time harder
to kill. My advice is to hang around depth 260-270 max and go sideways instead
of downward. You'll still get a lot of good drops, and it won't be a forever
uphill battle and struggle.
Endless Delve Race Info
OK, so now that we've covered normal delving, let's talk a
bit about the endless delve race. This event will last for a week and will be
an entirely separate league, so your existing characters or items will not be
accessible.
An NPC selling all normal gems will be added in the mine
encampment so people can play any skill they want. The passive points you'd
normally get from story mode quests will be awarded at certain delve depths or
character levels instead. The same goes for your ascendancy points, but you'll
also get the -60% resistance penalties, similar to the ones inflicted after killing
Kitava in Acts 5 and 10. Also, each character will start with some unique items
that were specially designed for this event. While they're specific to each
class, so presumably a ranger will always get a bow + quiver, you can create
multiple characters and use the stash to give them to your main. However, for
all these quality of life bonuses, there's a metric ton of things that will be missing:
you won't have access to the hideout crafting bench, to Pantheon, cluster
jewels, Alva's temple, timeless jewels, conqueror influenced items, anointing
or catalysts, beast crafting, Heist, etc. Other mechanics will be technically
enabled, but you won't be able to use them.
For example, divination cards will drop, but you won't have
access to any NPC to turn them in. The same goes for silver coins or
prophecies. Atlas maps will also drop, but there's no map device, so you can't
use them. A huge number of uniques will be impossible or nearly impossible to
acquire, and stuff like Elder or Shaper influenced items will be extremely rare
as well. Crafting will be limited to fossils, essences, and regular PoE Currency. Getting a
6-link item will be very difficult and mostly based on luck, so be ready to
accept a 5-link as a decent compromise. I suggest you look for a good, high
item level, 6 socket base, and try to link it using fusing orbs. Keep in mind
that item quality directly influences the chance of obtaining more links, so
try to get as close to 30% as possible using perfect fossils. Considering all
these limitations and restrictions, the best advice I can give you is to adjust
your expectations accordingly. You will not be able to run your favorite builds
without heavily adapting and modifying them. You'll need to make a building
work with a hobo level of gear and, at most, a 5-link setup. On the other hand,
be ready to improvise and adapt if some amazing unique does drop.
All in all, this event will be a very challenging one, and
for me, this will make it incredibly fun and rewarding. I strongly recommend
everyone to give it a try, at the very least, to experience everything Delve
has to offer, without being limited by gathering sulphite. Thank you Navandis
Gaming for your youtube video about endless delve guide.
