Anyone seen a Herald of Terror yet?

Elektroputzi wrote: 3 hours ago

I just finished clearing terrorized act 1 (western WSS) + 2tz that were up before and after me clearing act1.
Not a single herald could be bothered to spawn. Is it bugged or was this just bad rng? Any1 had this before? Was the first WSS I spent so far.

First things first: you were playing in Hell, right?

Well, I guess it was just bad RNG really... I usually get 3 Heralds by terrorizing Act 1 and playing through "most" of it. The important thing is killing elite/champion monsters.

You didn't get ANY in-game message notification about Heralds? That's quite strange actually.

Anyway, the inner workings of the Herald's spawn-mechanism (exact conditions for its occurrence) are still unknown. Whether is more on the luck side or just a # of mobs you have to kill or whatever.

It seems to me, though, that after your first Herald the subsequent ones are a bit quicker. When I got my 6th and 7th last night, they spawned back to back almost immediately (don't know if it was pure chance or what).

Elektroputzi wrote: 2 hours ago

Edit: Must have been a hell game, since my lvl 90 javazon gained at least 1-2 bars of xp. And I'm pretty sure I killed like almost 100% of the elites, also in the more unpopular places like

Den of Evil and so on.

That's pretty strange behavior (based solely on my experience from yesterday).

You said you had *just* finished clearing Terrorized Act 1 in your previous message, right? I'll tell you this: for the last two hours I've been playing TZs too and got not a single notification about Heralds either... (I play Single Player, btw). Perhaps Blizzard disabled something in the last few hours? An unusual assumption, but hey, what do I know? 'Cause 8 hours it was ago it was working just fine... We'll have to wait and see.

(and I am playing Hell!)

But TZ

Andariel gave me a Tarlic statue, so that's working fine.

EDIT: btw you mentioned

The Den of Evil. Yes, I'm clearing almost everything too. In the Den only

Corpsefire matters, or course, but I had a Herald spawn in the

Blood Moor yesterday, and actually it's possibly a nice area to manipulate the spawning of higher-tier Heralds, because of the lower monster density (but Quill Rats hurt! You'll wish to get a

Fallen or Zombies as Heralds...).

While doing TZ Act 1 I mostly skip

Burial Grounds,

Mausoleum and

Crypt, The Hole and

Barracks. Pretty much everything else I run killing elites/champions.