Herald Spawn Q (Meh aspect of it)

Crimmy wrote: 10 hours ago

[..] It would be nice if there was an explanation to my bad luck other than bad luck on ladder. Heh. I'm probably quitting areas too early with bad luck and perhaps missing pockets of monsters which is easier to do in Act 1

1) The more time you spend in town, the less time you spend killing, the less heralds you will get compared to your actively killing friend, simply because you don't kill as much (=reduced number of

Herald trigger opportunities) within the same period of time.

2) You're a blizz sorc. You'll never keep up with your warlock buddy (assuming he isn't just bad), simply because you are far more limited by a comparatively small AoE with a solid cast delay (=slower overall clear speed -> same issue as the point above).

3) If you quit areas "too early" then yes, you are lowering your chances. The higher your clear percentage within a spawn zone past the minimum %, the higher the odds of each further kill in the zone still triggering a

Herald (albeit with diminishing returns). Either quit right after a

Herald spawn when you're near the end of the zone anyways (i.e. very low odds of managing to get another one in that same zone) or keep going with ever-increasing odds to still get one if you're already near or past the minimum threshold and still have mobs left.

4) Certain zones are just bad for heralds as they combine into a massive single spawn zone, meaning you need to kill a ton more individual mobs to get your clear percentage up. Leaving out the weighting for a second,

Burial Grounds,

Crypt and

Mausoleum are all one big zone, as are

Cathedral, all of catacombs and

Inner Cloister. A1 only has 17 total spawn zones, one of which is cows so not reliably part of a sharded game. A2 by comparison is split into 23 of them, giving you a decent advantage there. All in all, on average, you'd expect ~4.23 more heralds in an A2 clear than in an A1 clear. (Disclaimer: Trusting Pavke on that part, I'd recommend reading his

Herald spawn breakdown for more details - the 4.23 difference is assuming I didn't just make a mistake speed-summing up those numbers per zone. )

5+) ... probably a few other points adding into it that I'm not including off the top of my head here or that can't really be judged from the outside without further info.