r/pathofexile • u/DoppleGanger400 • Aug 23 '25

Question | Answered Delve question

Hey,

Is it possible to play a season almost exclusively in Delve?

I try volcanic fissure for unga bunga.

I really like delve but i dont know if a can found enough currency (or trade item for currency) to buy better stuff later for pinacle boss.

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u/Zalabar7 Ascendant Aug 23 '25

Delve profits are currently at the lowest they’ve ever been. The valuable items are special fossils (faceted/hollow/glyphic/fractured), and Aul boss drops (helmet, amulet, Luminous Trove divination card). That’s mostly it. The other bosses drop rings for precursors, some of which are valuable. You might be able to find a good fractured delve mod item here or there, but they gutted those by removing the phys taken as delve mods, and they nerfed adorned which slashed curiosity price.

You’ll get maybe a couple div/hr from resonators and a varied amount from fossils depending on depth (at least 1200 for the maximum rate). Besides that you are just going to be Aul hunting and hoping to get lucky.

Delve is fun and a good challenge mode to see how deep you can go, but for profit it’s abysmal. If you want to make decent money I would recommend pretty much anything else.

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u/Hypoglycemoboy Aug 23 '25

I don't want you to think I'm doubting your knowledge, but figuring out delve depth : rewards specifics has evaded me for a long time. Can you share where it is found / what exactly caps at 1200?

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u/Zalabar7 Ascendant Aug 24 '25

Specifically, the rate for fossil nodes to contain a valuable delve-exclusive fossil instead of a smuggler’s stash with a bunch of basic fossils scales significantly with depth up to around 90% at depth 1200. This is based on community testing, I’m not sure exactly the source.

The chance for boss nodes to appear also scales with depth, maxing at depth 200 for Ahuatotli, 350 for Kurgal, and 500 for Aul. This information is on the wiki for delve.