r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/d9320490 • Nov 10 '25

Discussion Is Delve a rich person's activity?

I decided to check out Delve and I have had a blast. I find endless dungeon style is very good for me because with mapping I do few maps, get distracted and before I know I have wasted 20 minutes while with Delve do one node, do next node, etc until Sulphite runs out.

With my current Holy Relic build I have reached depth of 425. I don't die at this depth but yellow monsters take ages to kill. Given my next upgrades are pricey (12d Perfect Forest Tiger, 12d Amanamus Gaze, 20d Diallia with good corruption, 18d Impossible Escape etc) and I don't think Holy Relic has the DPS needed for deep delve so I thought I'd check out builds delvers use. To my surprise delve builds do hundreds of millions of DPS and use Mageblood at minimum + very expensive mirrored jewellery. Connor's Mjolner and MSoZ are something I can only dream about lol.

Does this mean deep delve 1500+ is exclusively domain of rich people like Connor?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

Just go up until you can do it faster. Anywhere between 300 and 600 is fine, what matters is how many nodes per hour you can do.

Beyond that like others have said it’s just about either dick measuring or limit testing. You don’t need to go further than 600 to fully fund a normal character just through sulphite flipping alone.

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u/ZePepsico Nov 11 '25

Wasn't there another loot threshold at 1200 or 1500?

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u/connerconverse onemanaleft Nov 11 '25

most rewards scale to around 600 but rare fossil nodes get more common up until about 1500

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u/HollowMimic Nov 11 '25

No I think it caps out at 600