Top delver at 500 depth now while so many postings that Delve sucks..

As previously said in this thread, as long as you ignore side paths, delving is easy. Especially with a high movespeed / sustain build you can just fly through the encounters without even thinking.

The top players aren't complaining because they are skipping the broken content, simple as that xD

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bablo wrote:

There's an HC player at depth 296. Arc Trapper. Going this deep, with a new unforgiving league mechanism, without dying...

How on earth... ?

fantastic clear + perma blind in a radius that almost perfectly matches the light radius of the cart? :P of course its going well

I read that the top solo delvers are not doing it legitimately. If that is the case, and they are exploiting something in the game, that GGG notices it, and takes appropriate actions against their account.

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Rasorwind02 wrote:

Yeah, don't know why people some ppl are so upset with this league. I mean it's the fucking funniest content they've added in a while and a great and valid alternative to mapping despite the flaws it have (flaws that can be easily fixed)

An "alternative" to mapping doesnt force yout to map. At a 10:5 ratio no less.

With only following the buggy, delve is fine, great even. After thinking about it for a bit and coming up with the deduction that delve can only be a grid, and that there cant be overlapping cart paths, even finding hidden rooms is easy and fun.

But flares are fucking broken, and so is sideways exploring or "visibility of loot chests". And if you dont explore sideways, you are going to end up with zero fossils. Which to me as SSF is about 90% of the reason why i'd play delve.

So yeah, delve isnt inherently broken and unfixable but it sure as shit is very obviously flawed in its execution. So obvious in fact, i cant imagine how anyone wasnt screaming in the GGG offices "guys, guys wait we cant do it like this, they are going to eat us up!".

I've gotten a dozen fossils and more resonators than i know what to do with that were all visible from the crawler path with base light radius.

That's at character level 50.

The depth part is fine... players are diving deep with strong builds. They're not doing it solo. They have support teams out finding the gear they need and providing portals to sulfite. But they're reaching their limits at about 500. Some might even make it to 1000... we'll see.

The problems they need to fix are the flares and dynamite for those of us that just want to explore the place... who want to play the game. That will be done sooner rather than later.

Grats to the teams who got a guy deep, and give your energy to the people fixing the parts we need fixed.

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AcidRizzle wrote:

I read that the top solo delvers are not doing it legitimately. If that is the case, and they are exploiting something in the game, that GGG notices it, and takes appropriate actions against their account.

If by exploit you mean they hire bitch boys to find sulphite for them then yes.

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AcidRizzle wrote:

I read that the top solo delvers are not doing it legitimately. If that is the case, and they are exploiting something in the game, that GGG notices it, and takes appropriate actions against their account.

I wouldn't call it an exploit and I doubt GGG changes it. SSF HC is the only place where epeen exists here anyway. The rest is just for personal satisfaction.

well, i think the best delver use blade vortex as elementarist with high aoe + cold dmg for perma freeze and lightning dmg + the shock explo armor for better dmg.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

afaik it caps out at 84, or whatever a t16 map mob level is. It just boosts their stats after that right?

I dont think you can get ilvl100 gear or lvl100 spectres etc

Yup. Confirmed by both the top delvers.

At Delve depth 270, you hit the ilvl of a t16 map and the level of the area and the mobs doesnt increase further.

Monsters gain damage/life as you go deeper and the delves themselves start rolling unique map mods like ele pen etc to make the delve harder.

Chance for better encounters and loot also increases according to chris but unsure by what amount.

~Myth