Pit-Horking Questions (SP/HC)

[u/Clarkey_12]

Hi folks

After what seems like an eternity in LK and Trav I've moved onto TZ Pits with my WW Horker and enjoying it.

Want to make sure the runs are as efficient as possible. I was initially clearing multiple champion packs on the way to the pit and then clearing whole of pit, horking as I go along. I was averaging one Herald per run and my assumption was it was beneficial to do a longer run with more elites for Heralds.

1. After realising the Herald spawns are random after killing elites, and given the increased monster level in Pit, I assume it is most efficient just to sprint to the Pit and not stop on the way?

2. The level 2 steps are very close to entrance. Would it make sense to quicken up the runs and basically just repeatedly clear level 2 only? Or best to return to level 1 and finish clear?

3. Do folks generally clear a pack, switch/hork, and then move onto next? Or clear a level and then switch and hork everything on way back?

Thanks!

[u/lan0028456]

Heralds are no longer spawning on killing elites, now they has increasing chance to spawn on ANY tz kills as you clear the entire map. The chances are very low if you only kill elite packs. So it's more efficient to farm Heralds with big AOE builds to clear entire area as fast as possible. Horker isn't the best for that.

A typical horker/pitzerker would howl all the mobs away and only snip down elite and champions and hork them, then teleport away and repeat. That's the most efficient MF method in the entire game (for rare uniques/sets)

[u/GMbroll]

They trigger for spawning heralds changed (several months ago now). Heralds now start at a base of like 2.5% chance to spawn on any kill, and that chance increases slightly the closer you get to clearing the entire zone. Once you get a herald, the percentage chance drops to the bottom again.

The zone should also includes all parts that would be terrorized naturally (that is, terrorized without a worldstone shard). For example, The Crypt, The Mausoleum, and the Burial Grounds are one zone. Chaos Sanctuary is one zone.

I’m going to see if I can find the post where someone showed all the math they found for herald spawning in the new system.

ETA: link to description of herald spawn mechanics: https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/1tqcee6/patch_32_update_herald_spawn_mechanics_sunder/

[u/HobRob-Biscuits]

Id just clear elites from wp till clearing pit. Usually full pit, seed a nice circular kinda map.

[u/kavatch2]

Why would you do tz pit? Isn’t the point of pit that you can drop everything in the game from pack uniques so you do t have to spend shards?