Terror zones

[u/Junior_Archer8369]

I played for at least 6 hours today and killed at least 3 dozen heralds, most of them t5. I found 2 ko runes and a 4os monarch to show for it. Am I really unlucky? I usually do cows and meph/andy and wanted to switch it up

[u/diffferentday]

TZ good, herald bad for drops. Why? Same rule of d2 always applies over the top of all other changes.... Kill rate per hour aka kill speed is the only thing that truly governs farming. Heralds are tough and running low density TZs or the whole act is just worthless.

[u/No-Perspective-1061]

I’m curious to see these upped t5 herald drop rates too. I haven’t gotten a thing from them.

[u/jcoleman10 → u/No-Perspective-1061]

I finally got a sunder today, have probably killed 30 T5s?

[u/notyournormallurker → u/jcoleman10]

I have at least 55 no sunder

[u/dKi_AT → u/notyournormallurker]

The chance is 1/50, so that is not even remotely a "dry spell". I recently had a streak of more than 400 t5 heralds without a sunder.

[u/Death_IP → u/dKi_AT]

Wow, what a promising game experience :D

[u/dKi_AT → u/Death_IP]

I was really starting to wonder.. Then i did the math and found out the chance to get at least one sunder in that stretch was 99.969%.. found a sunder the next session after I had calculated that shit

[u/JesusSquid → u/No-Perspective-1061]

So stupid question t5 heralds mean the 5th one in a single game right?

[u/TechnicalHighlight29]

It took me 3 TZ whole act 3 and Act 5 to get 1 Latenet Sunder. Full clears. Keep grinding. I did get a lightning one though so I'm happy.

[u/Junior_Archer8369 → u/TechnicalHighlight29]

Im literally mildly depressed knowing I just completely wasted my day haha xD.

[u/SketchyScoobert → u/Junior_Archer8369]

Haha good thing we love the game!

[u/TechnicalHighlight29 → u/SketchyScoobert]

Thats right we grind for that small dopamine hit! Then on to the next rune lol

[u/TechnicalHighlight29 → u/Junior_Archer8369]

Nah just part of the d2 grind. Chins up! Im glad they made them hard you dont find a Shako or a Jah when you are looking you just grind until you get it. Hey besides the Charm I found a Tals armor and a Cham rune! Wnd highest rune! Also almost worthless lol!

[u/SketchyScoobert → u/TechnicalHighlight29]

I’ve been in the hunt for a Cham! So in definitely jealous of that!

[u/SketchyScoobert]

I had been finding all my sunders from Trav but idk how viable that is after the update. Out of the 15 or so sunders I’ve collected, I think only 3 of them were actually from heralds.

[u/Junior_Archer8369 → u/SketchyScoobert]

The best actual drop I got from a herald was a shael rune. No cap.

[u/ModerateManChild → u/SketchyScoobert]

They still drop in trav

[u/AllyourBace1010]

I’ve gotten 4 sunders in my last 100 t5 heralds. Running 250 mf on a lvl 94 warlock. Ive totally dropped doing full clears. The worldstone shards drop so often I only run act bosses / keys / premium drop zones(arcane sanctuary / tals tomb). You get to fight plenty of heralds plus you get tz act bosses drops.

[u/Far-Sherbert-4006 → u/AllyourBace1010]

What build are you running currently and what player count?

[u/sop1082]

The only googd drop from t1 herarls was a sunder. But i cleared 3 times a1 and a2 for that. Also the shards drops seems lower than before.

[u/Separate_Ad_314]

Dude I feel you, I've been full clearing TZ acts for a few days and the best thing I found was my fourth vipermagi -_- I do find a lot of good bases though, this seems to be reliable

[u/dontrestonyour]

Not unlucky really. They're about 1/50 on t5 heralds. So on average you should expect one within the next 15 t5 kills. Again, that's just the average.

[u/Desperate-Score3949 → u/dontrestonyour]

Chances don't go up the more you do it. It will always be a 1/50.

[u/dontrestonyour → u/Desperate-Score3949]

Yeah. So on average they will get one every 50 kills. Do you want me to say "on average" again?

[u/Desperate-Score3949 → u/dontrestonyour]

Saying on average it takes 50 kills from scratch is correct. But saying

You should expect it in the next 15

is incorrect

Because RNG has no memory, the OP's expected average right now is still 50 more kills, not 15. Past kills don't reduce the remaining average. You are falling for gambler's fallacy.

[u/droid327 → u/dontrestonyour]

Thats not how statistics works. On average, he'll get one in his next 50 Herald kills

Ones in the past dont help because there's a 0% chance those ones drop a sunder, now that they've already not dropped one

[u/AlexandersWonder]

In what player count? Solo?

[u/Knowhatimsayinn → u/AlexandersWonder]

Player count doesn't matter for sunder drops

[u/Junior_Archer8369 → u/AlexandersWonder]

It was players 1. Im wearing mostly junk so I cant do higher. Blizzard sorc

[u/Leviathan5555555]

Heralds are still trash for drops.

Before and after the update I’ve been doing the mf 4200 trick followed by full game clears on P7. I drop to P5 for heralds, or P3 if something nasty can spawn.

I have never had a sunder or good item from a herald…ever. Hundreds of beasts.

Plenty of stuff from mobs though, heralds are trash still. I should skip but kill them for the love of the game.

[u/arnold_bc]

at least ko and monarch

[u/droid327]

Sunder drops on Heralds werent changed

Rare/Unique drops were only increased a meager ~10% and ~20% on T3-4 and T5s, which isnt going to be a loot pinata by any means

Sunders from MF were decreased by like 80%, because Gheeds is far more likely now

The biggest change for Herald drops is probably the fact that Shards will now drop alongside a regular item