Anyone seen a Herald of Terror yet?

Elektroputzi wrote: 6 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: 4 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.

unitedcows wrote: 3 hours ago

I just finished a full clear of the game in TZ mode with my singer barb (online, not SP).
All 5 acts activated with the worldstone shards.
Focused on clearing every elite/champion pack in all areas.
Ignored trash mobs as much as possible.
Spawned about 11 or 12 heralds in total.
Just as you said, they go up through the ranks until the Herald of

Terror, and then you only get Terrors after that.
So approx 6 or 7 terrors in total.
Also, I horked their corpses with 72% hork.
Only one or two didn't pop.
Unfortunately, no latents dropped.
But I'm pretty sure this is the way to go about it.
Latents just have a very low drop rate.

Edit: Wanted to add I'm running with 255 mf

That's awesome feedback, thank you.

Would you say that the Heralds spawned quicker/easier after the 5th one? Or didn't seem to be any different than the first three or four?