Rock Paper Shotgun has shared with an educational interview that digs into the design and balancing battles of the Delve game style introduced into POE Currency a few months back.

If you change things like this it loses the trust of the community and you need to build it back up again." - Grinding Gear Games' Jonathan Rodgers talks about the conflicts of balancing a live match

Grinding Gear Games, the game's developer adds a fresh mode every 3 months that remixes a portion of the game that is original, and Delve is no exclusion. Grinding Gear Games co-founder and technical manager Jonathan Rodgers runs through some of the early variations of Delve and also the team's ongoing battle to balance tension with pleasure.

Delve went through a small number of layouts which Rodgers dives into in the full story, but finally, that balance was struck and the team moved on to addressing resources and rewards to be used in the manner. The manner shipped with what the group thought was a good balance but, as Rodgers describes , they immediately discovered that among the rewards offered for clearing a dungeon threw systems in the remaining part of the match out of whack.

"We underestimated just how much faster someone could go through a non-endgame region and discover the resource than doing the endgame places. We found people can do runs in one of those non-endgame areas with a maximum clear speed build in about 15 seconds," says Rodgers." The problem with players is that if something has become the most efficient thing to do, they'll do it because they say they are forced to do it, and also complain that it's boring." In Cheap POE orbs two, these stone sockets and hyperlinks are tied into the skill themselves, which means players can spend less time crafting links and sockets on new gear and instead spend time fighting monsters. Leveling will be significantly more easy with this system, and it also grants more gems to use, which means that than what is possible, you can use more skills and abilities.