Why do Delves not drop loot?

I mean, seriously though. I'm at around depth 150, just hit monster level 83. I feel like the time I've spent delving has been a complete and absolute waste. Do things start to improve as I progress further? I kind of figured that once I reached the monster level of Tier16 maps that I'd start seeing *something*.

I think I Delved for about an hour last night and got maybe 5 or 10 chaos worth of loot, total.

I never bothered with Delve much before, I tend to focus on the main content. I never played during Heist, Delve, Beastiary, and several other leagues so I tend not to mess around with their content much. This time I was like OK, let's figure out Delve league mechanics. Feelsbadman.

I hear the "good stuff" is all behind the walls you blow up... if you're not going back looking for those, you aren't Delving.

As Shags said, if you aren't running into the darkness to blow up walls or find chests/fossil nodes in dead ends, you aren't delving correctly if you want rewards, that's where they are.

The best loot in Delve is found in dark areas, not in nodes themselves.

Other than that...realize that every time you finish a node, you get a ton of trash rares dropped at your feet with a vendor two clicks away without a loading screen. That's easily 1-3 chaos in alts.

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CrazylikE wrote:

As Shags said, if you aren't running into the darkness to blow up walls or find chests/fossil nodes in dead ends, you aren't delving correctly if you want rewards, that's where they are.

Yeah, I've been trying to keep my eyes open for that stuff, but I don't really see much, and all the loot I've opened in dark areas or along the path seems to be pointless so far. I guess I've just had bad RNG.

Thats not how this works.

You can randomly and rarely stumble across a wall close enough to the path so you can spot it.
But you are supposed to venture off into the darkness, risking a rip in case you run out of flares, to find those places.

Bring loads of movespeed and a quartz flask or phase run, so you dont have to fight mobs in the darkness and instead just run past them.

You've just realized that none of this stuff is actually worth anything. Good for you. It's always been that way.

Sounds like you are not looking in all the dark places. I'll average between 30-60 fossils on a 30k sulphite burn. Make sure you understand how to know how many walls are on a path and always path along routes that give you walls.

Next thing to know is what biomes drop which fossils.

It is now intended.
You must search in dark areas, and find pennies. Like it should be, sppose.

GGG wins!

No, srsly, not even try.
All I know, saying delving is ded now.
Ofc if youre noob and first time playing poe, its fun. But if you remember at least last league.. bad for you.

They don’t drop as much loot because no map modifiers adding to 150%+ item quantity. Also consider monster pack density.. one map equates to 2-3 delve nodes or so. I did find my most valuable drop this league in delve though.