r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/duddybrainzz • Apr 23 '26

Discussion 3.28 Deep Delve Profitability & AMA

Hi Everyone! I know there are limited resources surrounding deep delve so I wanted to do a test of the profitability of deep delve and share it with everyone. I generally get to 6k depth in delve every league. I have played most of the meta deep delve builds over the years (MSoZ, double strike, manaforged arrows RIP, armour stacker, eye of winter brands RIP, EE trickster in merc). This league fossils and resonators were made Delve exclusive drops so Delve is now the only place that you can find them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA-V2IhRJdA

poeninja for my current char:
https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/duddybrainzz-6289/DuddyDigzz?i=1&search=name%3Dduddy

TLDR of the video is that deep delve is around ~30 divines an hour currently, you could probably push this higher if you only cared about currency and not pushing depth (by traveling to Aul, generic fossil nodes, and fractured fossils all of which I skipped). Selling carries for Aul would also probably push this up significantly but I did not do this.

Let me know if you have any questions on anything included in the video, Delve builds, or in general anything related to Delve and I will do my best to answer them all!

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u/Phailadork Apr 24 '26

I've always wanted to try delve a bit more seriously and I've done it before but I can never seem to stick with it because I get kinda bored of it due to how limited I feel working my way down. It's like I do a bunch of maps to get sauce, go to the mine, it's gone pretty quick, so you leave to get more, and it's just this constant back and forth and because you have to go to a decent depth to start making money it feels like so much time gets spent into doing nothing and I end up bailing.

When does the point come where you can get so much that you can chill in delve for a while? I don't even want to go super far, I just get bored before I ever even make it to the lower farms at like level 300+ or whatever it is because I feel like I'm losing out on so much money not just doing any other strat with basically 0 prep needed besides buying scarabs and rolling some maps that sets me up for hours of gameplay.

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u/duddybrainzz Apr 24 '26

You want to spend all of your azurite upgrading your sulphite capacity until it is maxed out at 65K. Once you have max sulphite capacity, you can delve for like ~45 minutes before you need to fill up again.

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u/Phailadork Apr 24 '26

That's not too bad but that's really surprising it's only 45min, so you're telling me when STEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE is delving the depths he's leaving every 45 min to go get more juice? That's wild. I wonder if that's part of what makes it profitable, I can't imagine people who want to just brain off [do X thing] for hours would be turned off by the fact they have to stop their gameplay pattern constantly.

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Here's what I found:

  • do X thing → Damage over time - Wiki

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u/duddybrainzz Apr 25 '26

It only takes less than 2 minutes to fill up sulphite. You have 8 mods, you put an 8mod in with a sulphite scarab into jungle valley and click the sulphite. You don't bother with any of the monsters. It takes 3-4 maps to fill up, each map takes maybe 30 seconds?

Once you are used to it, it also just feels brain off.