# Best delves strategy **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [September 11, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742 "2018-09-11T20:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/82 "2019-07-27T09:13:01Z")
I’m counting this as a successful run. The title and description has all my other thoughts on the matter. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/9/8/98ad84b01f683817b6ee20dea4587e44ac1eb84f.jpeg "7 minute example of why 💯% pure Faction teams are literally the worst decision GoW ever had.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYD9w97bNU) ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/83 "2019-07-27T11:42:28Z")
damn that was awful! almost happened to me too, during one run, but luckily he missed once before killing me and gave up the turn. ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/84 "2019-07-27T11:46:25Z")
Potion, potion, potion, potion, mushroom, mushroom [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/7/b/7beaa7ec5955a1bbf9c2de0d554802dca74672a2.jpeg "Amanithrax - Pure faction team @level 500 \*WITH POTIONS\*") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNUQeexg7c) ---
**Author:** ![Bernice](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/bernice/32/76215_2.png) [@Bernice](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Bernice)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/85 "2019-07-28T23:06:07Z")
@jzg Thanks. That team was so much fun! I’m sure I’ll eat those words in GW next week. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/86 "2019-07-29T06:31:47Z")
King Guildtruffle Wars 😂 ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/87 "2019-08-28T00:31:19Z")
[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/c/e/ce84bd263e20cf47670c0b24cdd30e6e6d16366e.jpeg "All Seeing Eye - Pure faction team @level 500 \*WITH POTIONS\*") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOKvKL9S2w) ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/88 "2019-08-30T12:06:07Z")
City of Thieves [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/b/5/b574b6bd1964f8cdd82abeceb0f84708a2b5d8e9.jpeg "City of Thieves - Pure faction team @level 100") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWiSZsSLLM) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/4/8/483732928921268b807f454674de3943411023f2.jpeg "City of Thieves - leveling during the event (@level 150)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfP0iCcfGQ) ---
**Author:** ![madking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/madking/32/62439_2.png) [@madking](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/madking)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/89 "2019-08-31T05:28:34Z")
Tier bought? Your starting attack is very high ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/90 "2019-08-31T05:34:20Z")
> [@madking](#): > > Tier bought? Your starting attack is very high My guess is Tier 7 at least 4 times. ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/91 "2019-08-31T08:18:08Z")
Five times Tier VII ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/1/8/181041c805a9954daa09c4ea4c31e640401ee798.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Demigod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demigod/32/50693_2.png) [@Demigod](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Demigod)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/92 "2019-09-01T11:48:10Z")
City of gem sink Thieves 😁 [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/9/e/9e8c479ed446951f60651a93e0899c67ec97f96d.jpeg "Gems of Sink War: City of Thieves Pure Faction 500") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBaAiyE1p6o) ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/93 "2019-09-01T12:28:41Z")
yup, same for me, 100% luck with skulls lol just buy packs to infinity, probably one of the worst faction teams created, they outdid themselves 😃 ranked at the bottom with fang moor and dark pits - pure awful design 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mana\_Surgeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mana_surgeon/32/55678_2.png) [@Mana\_Surgeon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mana_Surgeon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/94 "2019-09-03T19:57:22Z")
Nice, that’s exactly the bottom three factions in my rankings too. At least City of Thieves has Tomb Robber, for other modes? ---
**Author:** ![Demigod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demigod/32/50693_2.png) [@Demigod](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Demigod)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/95 "2019-09-05T09:17:20Z")
Just finished of this one. With horde lvl 130 no potion 😁 [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/f/8/f8d9439aec5cc9007f775815398346f8d2ed89b4.jpeg "Gems of War: Primal Rift Pure faction 500. Without potion") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6RmO6ex588) ---
**Author:** ![MadDwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MadDwarf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MadDwarf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/96 "2019-09-05T21:24:22Z")
That seems overly harsh. I was able to do L300 City of Thieves faction without potions in 3-4 tries, compared to the dozens and dozens of attempts it took for Dark Pits and Sea of Sorrow. The one caveat is that Cedric has to be on the map for you to stand a chance. Team I used was King, Thief, King, Thief [Abyss], hoard 111. ---
**Author:** ![jzg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jzg/32/53451_2.png) [@jzg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jzg)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/97 "2019-09-05T23:06:07Z")
That is really good, congrats. I’ve completed 9 out of 13 factions, 3 of them without potions, and all of them with level 100 hoard. In this one I had the worst time and I love playing scaling content. Being dependent on that one room to even stand a chance, let alone what if they get lucky after that and you lose in the legendary room and have to wait another 10 tries to get Cedric again, to me looks like a bad design. Troops themselves don’t have good scaling, don’t have summon, no agile for even that chance of dodging skulls with the legend that you need to put upfront, Ultra Rare needing a kill to gain gold. Just to name a few problems (: ---
**Author:** ![MadDwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MadDwarf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MadDwarf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/98 "2019-09-05T23:18:05Z")
Oh, no doubt there are plenty of issues. I just have a really bad taste in my mouth from Dark Pits, and this didn’t seem to be nearly as noxious. 🙂 I can see how the Cedric dependency would have been more frustrating with potions, where you watch one of your chances disappear with each bad map. With regular delves it wasn’t a big deal, though - no Cedric means I just farmed that attempt with HKI team. Also, this is only to level 300. It may well be the case that 500/500 gold buffing King still isn’t enough to keep up with opponents at level 500. But even if that’s the case, Dark Pits and Sea of Sorrow aren’t even remotely doable at 500 without potions either. ---
**Author:** ![Demigod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demigod/32/50693_2.png) [@Demigod](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Demigod)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/99 "2019-09-13T19:05:48Z")
Guys I need help. ![Screenshot_20190913-205906](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/a/b/ab6265868a2d2ed6be5fa5f20b643357548147d6.jpeg) As u can see I have done most of the rooms. But the main room dose opened. I’m doing Pure right now and I have come far. My question is. Why dosent the main room opened? It’s been a while since I have done. Or even trying to do pure on sea of sorrows. Cos it’s one of the hardest. ---
**Author:** ![Micio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/micio/32/50997_2.png) [@Micio](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Micio)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/100 "2019-09-13T19:08:50Z")
You need to do the epic room in the bottom to open the way for the boss. ---
**Author:** ![Demigod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demigod/32/50693_2.png) [@Demigod](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Demigod)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742/101 "2019-09-13T19:19:21Z")
Ok thanks Micio.🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶😫😫😫😫 [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742.md?page=4) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/best-delves-strategy/45742.md?page=6)