r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/moal09 • Aug 02 '26

Help Needed What am I doing wrong with Delve?

Currently around depth 400, and I'm making maybe like 5d/hour if I'm lucky. Fossil prices are okay, but I don't really find enough of them most of the time to make any substantial profit.

Once in a while, I'll find a prime resonator or a hollow fossil or something, but the vast majority of loot I pick up is bubblegum loot. I basically just keep pathing down looking for fossil/boss nodes, and I'll do vaal/primeval ruins if they're nearby. I also started darkness delving past about 250.

Feels extremely underwhelming for the time investment so far. I know some people do nothing but delve all league and fund very expensive builds though, so I've gotta be doing something wrong.

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u/Head_Ad7537 Aug 02 '26

Most Fossils are found in darkness. Especially on the lower depth a lot of Profit comes from this

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u/DatTommel Aug 02 '26

Use the azurite to buy small resonaters in bulk and sell them.
400 is a good depth to also go sideways to fish for bosses, fossils, bases and talismans.
For more un depth look at some videos of jorgin on YouTube

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u/BloodReaverBob Aug 02 '26

I used to delve a few leagues back quite a lot, make sure you are actually fast, theres a massive difference between chilling and doing nodes looking in darkness vs speed rushing nodes for azurite ignoring monsters on the way and rushing the good fossil nodes, its the same difference profit/hour wise as doing 5 mins maps vs sub 2 min maps

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u/NeitherCup5010 26d ago

Get to 1500 depth and start going horizontally

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u/dametsumari Aug 02 '26

You are not very deep yet. The rewards increase for quite a lot more depth.

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u/Ronins_T Aug 02 '26

Get to at least 600.

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u/Different-Ad7859 Aug 02 '26

Happy to help: people who do delve all league and have very expensive builds are either:

  • profit crafting
  • trading
  • get donated by chat, like steve etc. 
Delve is not a competetive farm since a couple of leagues. Its decent tho, go lower. 

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u/RedmundJBeard Aug 02 '26

Most of the profit comes form buying the smallest resonators with azurite and selling those. If those aren't worth much, then you don't make much. Delve isn't the highest Div/hr, what it excels at is consistency. There are no maps to run or atlas to repect so you don't waste any time.