Thought on Heralds

I get its not supposed to be a "they Rain from the sky" kind of mechanic... But I have gone 2h now almost without seeing a single one. Even when they are actually spawning its at best one every 20-30min...

Is a single

Herald worth nearly 10

Baal runs in oppurtunity? Hell nah.

These things need a rework.

I've killed about 30 I'd say over the last 2-3 weeks?
Very difficult to have them spawn at times.
Also not a single one has ever dropped one of those new latent charms.
In fact not a single one has ever dropped anything of value for me.

I'm better of doing

Baal runs &

3x3 Keyset runs and when I've amassed enough keys do

Uber Tristram

I am at approx. #450.

Found one sunder as of yet.

Worst FOMO mechanic ever, very unhealthy. I guess my PC is running twice as long as usual.

It's tedious and not fun at all. Found one so far, lost count how many heralds got swatted in the process. Not for me.

Even a bot would get fed up!

130 and counting (32 of T1 ----- / -----19 of T2 ----- / -----12 of T3 ----- / ----- 11 of T4 ----- / ----- 56 of T5 Heralds). The longest chain of T5 was 15 in a game when I cleared Act I, Act II and most of the rest of the game through rotating

Terror zones, I think over 80% of the entire game.
No Sunder Charm yet, but Keep trying.
I play offline, P8, so it's even more annoying. I don't have much magic find, 130 - 180.

DasNarf wrote: 3 hours ago

I guess my PC is running twice as long as usual.

Two times I left the PC on over night not to lose the game where I had 5-6 of T5 and continued the game next day to kill another few T5s, but with no luck.

DasNarf wrote: 3 hours ago

I am at approx. #450.

Found one sunder as of yet.

Worst FOMO mechanic ever, very unhealthy. I guess my PC is running twice as long as usual.

Seeing posts like this discourages me even more to attempt finding Heralds or Latent Charms

Heralds suck. Would be my summary anyways..

Shards feel like a complete waste every time.

Running "elite heavy" TZs for the elites feels like even more of a waste because you're sacrificing say

Duriel statue drops for pointless

Herald/sunder attempts by clearing tombs instead.

Just..ugh..

Unhealthy is really a good way to describe this new content. My experience was to use shard on Act1, then Act 2, then I was so far in, why not Act 4, then Act 5. When I was done with it I had spent hours in the game, did find about 4-5 T5 Heralds.

And when I was done, it burned me out of the game. I could not continue. Best I could describe the experience was grinding & depressing. A mechanic designed to force players into a continuous game for hours. Don't leave, or you need start all over.

Whoever was behind the design of this, should never be allowed to work on game design ever again. This just reeked of D4 marketing mechanics B.S.

So far I've had 1-2 heralds every tombs run with a a2 tz shard

I can't guarantee this, but say you draw ire of

Herald in cata 2, it seems that the heralds pop on entering lvl 3 cata or lvl 1 cata, the new areas proc their appearance

As of now probably 200 heralds no charms, though I enjoy them as some will blow up my merc and actually pose a challenge

here's to hunting

So far for me

Herald's have been largely misplaced expectations, a waste of time. I've killed dozens for mediocre drops. Lately it seems as though it's getting increasingly difficult to even get them to spawn. At least 1 used to spawn in a single TZ, but lately just getting an Ire message across one or more TZs seems a matter of luck. Therefore I've concluded that the

Herald's are all on a sabbatical taking Ire Management Classes, being direct by

Deckard Cain.

I think to actually be interesting they need to have them at a probability that they can spawn every 3-6min kinda thing.

Or at least wiping a full area should trigger one...

RN it's basically do you wanna look for sunders, or go mf for any other item in the game?