# Delves: Strategies, tactics and tips **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (General)\ **Created:** [September 8, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522 "2018-09-08T20:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Santandrix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/santandrix/32/68758_2.png) [@Santandrix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Santandrix)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/387 "2018-09-15T15:30:51Z")
Patience is a virtue @Rickygervais, never give up. Too late. šŸ˜‚ ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/388 "2018-09-15T15:32:54Z")
Well game was over i lost it so same result and itā€™s the weekend so might be long before it get fix ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/389 "2018-09-15T15:33:16Z")
So I have figured out that I will work towards getting 1 copy of each of the Factions pet one day. ---
**Author:** ![TimeKnight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/timeknight/32/50221_2.png) [@TimeKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TimeKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/390 "2018-09-15T17:47:48Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > Just finish level 100 in this event. Iā€™m gonna wait until tomorrow to continue, so I can do faction team challange with normal scroll. Also, to avoid getting burned out. Oh man, new Faction Event is taking quite a long time to finish. Already reaching Level 200, but itā€™s still 2 more reward stages to go! I also lose once, and forced to finished the boss 2 times before beating all the rooms due to missing troops. But most of the time, I still using beat-all-rooms strategy. Infernus is quite a popular target today, getting devour, turned in to a frog/mushrom all in one day. RNGsus is clearly trolling me. šŸ˜… I will use tomorrowā€™s normal scroll to do faction team challange at Level 200 before moving on with the event. Hereā€™s the reward progress and renown update! ![Screenshot_2018-09-16-00-21-44](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/d/a/dae3609bd8625946166703389f171470aa09a610.png) ![Screenshot_2018-09-16-00-22-05](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/d/c/dc66280a03534bed039588491681caf3874dfa69.png) * * * > [@Ashasekayi](#): > > Has anyone seen anything higher than a rare drop from daily ingots? In 6 days, I only got an Ultra-Rare Ingot once, the rest are all Common Ingots. Iā€™m afraid the drop rate is the same as PvP battle reward instead of having equal chance for all rarities like I expected. But tomorrow I will get 3 at once, so Iā€™ll let you know if I get any Higher-Tier Ingots! ---
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/391 "2018-09-15T18:04:22Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > After reading other playersā€™ Delve strategy, I still donā€™t understand why some of players want to keep one faction at level 20 for farming purpose. > Whatā€™s the bad thing about farming at level 30 instead? If nothing much, why donā€™t go all the way to farm at level 100? 30 probably doesnā€™t make a big difference, but hereā€™s how I feel. I have Hall of Guardians at 80, with a level 70+ hoard and quality 10. Itā€™s the ā€œsmartestā€ place for me to farm right now. But it takes me about 25 minutes to go through, and Iā€™m starting to think itā€™s worth avoiding Bullete or Faery rooms. On the other hand, I can burn through Crypt Keepers, which Iā€™ve kept at 20, in about 10 minutes, roughly the same as a pet rescue, and I kill everything so fast it takes a freak accident for me to be in peril. I would rather be done with daily delves in 30 minutes than an hour and 15 minutes. Some days, 2 hours is about the total I have to play, so taking longer per Delve puts a serious cramp on whether I can farm trophies or whatever else. Not to mention the harder Delves are more stressful and Iā€™m dealing with some Serious Life Shit right now. That said, itā€™s all subjective. The rewards for a Delve are so much better than other modes it really doesnā€™t matter if you spend more time doing that. If you have plenty of time for farming whatever else, do the higher-level Delve and get your Renown progress. Iā€™m keeping a ā€œfast farming Delveā€ because I value time a little more than the Renown rewards. So both of us sacrifice something. What matters is that weā€™re sacrificing something we care about less than what weā€™re getting! ---
**Author:** ![Ashasekayi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ashasekayi/32/61090_2.png) [@Ashasekayi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ashasekayi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/392 "2018-09-15T18:19:50Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > Whatā€™s the bad thing about farming at level 30 instead? If nothing much, why donā€™t go all the way to farm at level 100? Itā€™s pretty simple in my case. I can do an AOE one shot kill of most rooms in the CK faction on delve 20. That isnā€™t the case at delve 100. The time savings is valuable to me on days that I have a lot of things to do in the game. There are so many time-consuming modes in the game now. Yet, I donā€™t have extra time to spend. Actually, these days, I have less time to spend in-game. So, Iā€™m fine with min-maxing one faction. I leave the other factions for days that I have extra time to spend playing David vs Goliath in a high level delve. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Santandrix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/santandrix/32/68758_2.png) [@Santandrix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Santandrix)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/393 "2018-09-15T18:22:22Z")
![PS_Messages_20180915_142158](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/4/e4013b4120c815c49b4c5964a15d13b1125718e4.jpeg) Lvl 20 isnā€™t that bad with a high hoard. Especially when doing a daily task as well.šŸ˜† I just look with troops or color. Eventually we will be able to do all daily tasks in the delves with enough factions available. ---
**Author:** ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/394 "2018-09-15T18:50:20Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > The optimal comfort zone for Delve seems to be Level 100, based on my analysis. So on Tuesday, I can play Delve the way it is intended all the way until Level 100 then stop there, finish all reward stages, using only 90 gems, without raising my Delve Level higher. So itā€™s possible to do effective farming on Tuesdayā€™s event. This is fine for doing the events if you only buy minimum tiers. If you buy more tiers you would be better off staying lv 20 until only 8 sigils remain THEN progress to lv 100 as the event finishes getting the same rewards but saving possibly hours of time. ---
**Author:** ![noob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/noob/32/54823_2.png) [@noob](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/noob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/395 "2018-09-15T19:05:57Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > Where is 0.25 coming from? Itā€™s either 1.0 for staying at current level or 2.0 going higher. So for playing 9 stage, I got 9 times more reward (ex. 200 and 1,800) than you for staying at Level 20. we are talking about farming delve in the event. you always start at 2. you get 0.25 bonus multiplier for beating the boss. that is where the 0.25 coming from. the multiplier you get for going up in normal daily delve is only one time and nor worth mentioning. > [@TimeKnight](#): > > 441 might be a wrong number, you multiply 3 one too many times. 21 is the maxium number of Delve Scrolls you can have in a week, so itā€™s still 147 minutes, or 2 hours a week, with is not that much. i have crypt as my farm. during halls and eye event i can go up to level 100 and earn the same amount of rewards like you do. however you still have to spend 147 more minutes doing your daily delves during those 2 weeks. the amount of weeks you waste time on goes up as we have more factions, as you only get the advantage once every n weeks where n is the number of factions > [@TimeKnight](#): > > 36 chest upgrade doesnā€™t mean much when you canā€™t know the amount of shards you get from it So youre willing to spend a lot more time for the rewards you dont even know would be worth it or not? Again if you have all the free time and want long challenging battles then feel free to push all delves. those of us who value our time more and think the trade off isnt worth it keep 1 delve at 20 for farming purpose ---
**Author:** ![Santandrix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/santandrix/32/68758_2.png) [@Santandrix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Santandrix)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/396 "2018-09-15T22:09:29Z")
![20180915_180827](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/8/c/8c607117bd68918b0ebf6082e1277778b094aee8.jpeg) Meanwhile on ps4ā€¦ How are the other platforms looking? Is anyone else going beyond 500? ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/397 "2018-09-15T22:17:35Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/7/0/70c63f6d4eb01463b8cdd483e7ef0fc2d32b277f.jpeg) Lina is crushing everyone in pieces on PC/Mobile. Such an amazing player she is. Whos leading on Xbox? ---
**Author:** ![Santandrix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/santandrix/32/68758_2.png) [@Santandrix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Santandrix)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/398 "2018-09-15T22:18:54Z")
All those 20ā€™s. So pretty. šŸ˜† At least on ps4 they try a little bitā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Wubster0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@Wubster0](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Wubster0)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/399 "2018-09-15T22:56:08Z")
I think it was iCheeWaWa (sorry if I butchered that name, I think that is how it is spelled??? I would verify, but serversā€¦you know? šŸ™‚ ) in 1st place on Xbox. Canā€™t remember the points though. Near 200,000 I think. ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/400 "2018-09-15T23:07:35Z")
Yeah it was her last time i was able to log in ---
**Author:** ![Santandrix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/santandrix/32/68758_2.png) [@Santandrix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Santandrix)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/401 "2018-09-15T23:53:52Z")
Iā€™m going to add this thread here. For all chest the pulls you want to share. Thanks. > [@Delve chest pulls archive](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delve-chest-pulls-archive/45852): > > So we have delves now. What is the goal here? The best chest? Here is one of my lower end pulls after beating a level 180 boss and all the rooms. Level 5 chest and hoard is at 80. So letā€™s see those chest pull screenshots please. All or any, best and worst. Just the horrid. "After all that time put in and I pulled this moment!"face_with_symbols_over_mouth And maybe we will see what the best chest really does look like. Thanks and remember to always haveā€¦ The more data we gather the better. šŸ‘šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/402 "2018-09-16T01:07:28Z")
Thereā€™s no point in going past 500 since youā€™re not getting extra renown and you only make your life harder if you ever wanted to do 500 with the faction team. My opinion ---
**Author:** ![TimeKnight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/timeknight/32/50221_2.png) [@TimeKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TimeKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/403 "2018-09-16T01:14:47Z")
> [@Fleg](#): > > This is fine for doing the events if you only buy minimum tiers. If you buy more tiers you would be better off staying lv 20 Thatā€™s very true. If you have enough gems to finish all stage rewards from farming Level 20 alone, then of course itā€™s better than going up to Level 100. The problem is doing that every week with limited gems from tributes. Itā€™s hard to do that every weeks while also spending gems on all other modes. My 2,000 gems/week income is barely enough to finish it all as it is. * * * Also, the argument about the amount of time that goes up every fast when youā€™re playing in higher level, thatā€™s also objective depending on which team you choose. Mang team would be the fastest. Insta-kill and Devour is also very fast. But right now, Iā€™m using Glaycionā€™s skull spamming team, with Warden hero (too lazy to change since Thursday), which have a talent of Hunter Mark all enemies on 4/5 gems match. Soā€¦ despite spending more time on higher level, I spend it on planning rooms order and waiting for team-shuffling rooms (Bulette/Dust Devil) to roll me around. The battle itself? One Glaycionā€™ cast still wipe all the enemies most of time, the same on both Level 200 and 20. ---
**Author:** ![Ashasekayi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ashasekayi/32/61090_2.png) [@Ashasekayi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ashasekayi)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/404 "2018-09-16T01:25:17Z")
> [@TimeKnight](#): > > Soā€¦ despite spending more time on higher level, I spend it on planning rooms order and waiting for team-shuffling rooms (Bulette/Dust Devil) to roll me around. All that still takes time. At level 100, a key troop getting transformed into a toad makes a normally fast game slower. Waiting for dust devil to reshuffle a team makes a game slower, etc. However, at level 20. it doesnā€™t matter what that other team does, the game is fast because their stats are so low. Some of us just donā€™t have the time, so farming 20 is a viable solution. ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/405 "2018-09-16T01:35:52Z")
> [@Ashasekayi](#): > > farming 20 is a viable solution. It is, but even doing it like this takes a lot of time. Especially with higher shop tiers. ---
**Author:** ![Drathas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/drathas/32/7344_2.png) [@Drathas](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Drathas)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522/406 "2018-09-16T02:09:36Z")
Anyone tried Great Maw or a 2x Kerberos and Forest Guardian team in Hall of Guardians? [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522.md?page=19) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/delves-strategies-tactics-and-tips/45522.md?page=21)