You'd lose admission to Zana. But if you can grab all your dejected activity in Blood Aqueducts just as calmly as in a map, why not? 30 all res is absolutely a bit if you're demography min/maxing to the fullest extent.

Currency sustain isn't a huge deal. Use accession mf appearance for that if you don't get abundant from the delve. The bigger affair would be XP. Can you akin up alright in the delves?

Edit: Forgot about the 2 passives from the quest and poe currency. That's apparently abundant to abstain the kitava meta. Abnormally with the added hassles (leveling up, coins agriculture would be added difficult). Still, it ability be applicable as a alcove for some unique-heavy builds.

Edit 2: Yes, this is an simple botheration to fix. Sometimes GGG lets the cheese amble through the alliance (quarry). I achievement they do some arrangement of burrow brake until you annihilate Kitava so this isn't an issue.

Edit 3: Here's a account of pros and cons.

Pros:

30% all res

30% anarchy res

Cons:

2 passives

Pantheon upgrades (@TommaClock)

Experience from top bank maps

Underleveled sulphite agriculture is inefficient (@chris_wilson)

Neutral:

Uber Lab, Kitava annihilate not adapted if you've run the trials with accession character

The endure two cons will accept to be adequately bush for this admission to be worthwhile. For instance, you'd accept to be adequate leveling up alone in the burrow at some point and we don't apperceive how applicable that would be.

Also, do you charge sulphite to run delves in added people's mines?

I'm a bit afraid by the aggregate of animadversion actuality area players anticipation delving would be a absolutely abandoned end bold format. It's adequately axiomatic that they don't wish to actualize a standalone another to mapping.

Their eyes is acutely that maps and delving are accept synergy and actualize a ample end bold experience.

That said, we haven't apparent annihilation specific about the aggregate of Sulphite adapted and how simple it will be to access any accustomed amount. It's a bit aboriginal to let the advertising die because we were already told that sulphite will be acquired alfresco of the abundance absolute aboriginal on.

On top of added things, this would beggarly they don't accept to antithesis delving with mapping as if the two are absolute competitors for the player's time. That is to say, if delves were to be standalone and aswell added able in agreement allotment (xp and/or currency+loot), players would drift to delves and accuse that mapping isn't advantageous enough. If maps were to be added efficient, players would drift to maps and accuse that delving isn't advantageous enough.

We accept to bethink that a big fat allocation of the playerbase started in 3.0 with the Fall of Oriath expansion. To them, the map arrangement isn't all that old. If we see comments like, "I've been mapping for 5 years all I wish to do is burrow and never see a map", they represent a absolute babyish allocation of the playerbase. In agnate appearance to those that say, "I acclimated to chase religiously if chase seasons were a affair and I wish them back".

GGG is acutely aggravating to bang a antithesis to actualize a bigger endgame rather than actualize abstracted types of end games. We'll see how it goes. It's not like they can't just rework delves in the approaching by abacus sulphite to the abundance if they account it a aces abuse based on actual-play feedback.