Answered Throne of destruction monster spawn pool

I have this bit of trivia info in my head for quite some time:
the pool of monster spawns in the

Throne of Destruction matches the pool of the

Worldstone Keep Level 2 area. To be specific, if souls would spawn in lvl 2, there will be souls in the throne room.

Now I wanted to confirm the truth behind this statement, but can't find anything on that matter. Iirc, I heard this info being dropped like a side note in a video from some d2 content creator.

I've been avoiding souls like that since ladder S2 start and I have rarely encountered souls in the throne room this way. The only times I had souls in the throne room was, when I found the lvl 3 descent pretty quickly. So the chances are high, that I simply didn't encounter souls in lvl 2, because only the other monster packs spawned in while I was teleporting 4 - 5 times until I reached the exit to lvl 3.

Can anyone confirm or deny that? 'Cause I would be very suprised if it matched that well the whole time, without it actually being true.

Take from this what you will, because I never thought of how the game mechanics behind monster spawn pools work.

For what it's worth, the willowisps in WSK2 and the throne aren't even the same kind. The only way this would work is if Black Souls were assigned to be in a group of let's say "D" and the throne's Burning Souls were also in Group D and the game picks "D" for all the levels of WSK and the throne on game load.

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Worldsto ... W._Keep_2_

Monsters - Nightmare,Hell
Frenzied Ice Spawn

Guest Monsters
Greater Hell Spawn,
Soul Killer,
Fiend,
Serpent Magus,
Cadaver,
Horror Mage P,
Horadrim Ancient,
Steel Scarab,
Black Soul

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Throne_of_Destruction

Monsters - Nightmare,Hell
Death Lord
Hell Witch

Guest Monsters
Undead Soul Killer,
Assailant,
Burning Soul,
Dark Lord,
Pit Lord,
Horadrim Ancient,
Doom Knight(Minion),
Oblivion Knight,
Serpent Magus

Snakecharmed wrote: 2 years ago

Take from this what you will, because I never thought of how the game mechanics behind monster spawn pools work.

For what it's worth, the willowisps in WSK2 and the throne aren't even the same kind. The only way this would work is if Black Souls were assigned to be in a group of let's say "D" and the throne's Burning Souls were also in Group D and the game picks "D" for all the levels of WSK and the throne on game load.

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Worldsto ... W._Keep_2_

Monsters - Nightmare,Hell
Frenzied Ice Spawn

Guest Monsters
Greater Hell Spawn,
Soul Killer,
Fiend,
Serpent Magus,
Cadaver,
Horror Mage P,
Horadrim Ancient,
Steel Scarab,
Black Soul

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Throne_of_Destruction

Monsters - Nightmare,Hell
Death Lord
Hell Witch

Guest Monsters
Undead Soul Killer,
Assailant,
Burning Soul,
Dark Lord,
Pit Lord,
Horadrim Ancient,
Doom Knight(Minion),
Oblivion Knight,
Serpent Magus

thanks for sharing this additional info. Sadly, I can't find the source of the statement. Like you said, it has to come down to the spawning pool machanism, but that's not so easy to get a look at, i guess. With the monster types being different, it kinda got less likely for me. I haven't looked at the types beforehand. Maybe someone from the modding community has bigger insights.

Ganonvillage wrote: 2 years ago

if souls would spawn in lvl 2, there will be souls in the throne room.

I can confirm from experience that they do not necessarily spawn together. I've had times where there were Black Souls in WSK2 and no Burning Souls in Throne, and vise versa. However it is the game decides what spawns where, I have never seen any evidence that the roll for one zone impacts another. IMO, they're separate rolls, and any convergence you're seeing is just chance. Annoying chance, as Souls can be quite cancerous depending on your character, but still chance.

Considering the drop chances of some items, you could have had years of runs worth having matching soul spawns...

(no math here, just jesting )

Ravoc wrote: 2 years ago

Considering the drop chances of some items, you could have had years of runs worth having matching soul spawns...

(no math here, just jesting )

you're right, but that was also kinda in my favor this season, when I got a

Tyrael's Might drop a few days in