TZ Herald of Terror Faming Strategy

Yes, Ginger already pointed out that when you terrorize a complete act you should farm every "normal"

Terror zone in other acts to maximize your chance for Heralds (you can alway come back to your tz act). Bottom line: Keep your game open as long as possible and farm until you get a tz you already have cleared. Then quit or take a break until the next one

I don't know if this is documented, but it seems as if when you trigger the event 'draw the ire...' the next time you fulfil the conditions (encounter an elite pack a certain distance from you?) then the

Herald spawns.

So my strategy has been to hold back the areas the areas I know are full of elites (certain caves etc.) and go into them once I've initiated the event. More often than not, I then get a

Herald as soon as I change maps.

TopXIMaje wrote: 3 hours ago

I don't know if this is documented, but it seems as if when you trigger the event 'draw the ire...' the next time you fulfil the conditions (encounter an elite pack a certain distance from you?) then the

Herald spawns.

So my strategy has been to hold back the areas the areas I know are full of elites (certain caves etc.) and go into them once I've initiated the event. More often than not, I then get a

Herald as soon as I change maps.

While I'm still unsure on the exact triggers, this does seem a good approach.

I finally started getting some ire triggers again last night after "nothing whatsoever since ladder started" and whenever I had new unique packs left to discover, I got my

Herald quite quickly. When I didn't as I already went through the area (just teleporting across), it became a lot harder.
For tombs for example, teleporting across canyon to get an ire inside some tomb meant that trying to get a spawn in canyon afterwards felt impossible. Heading into a new, untouched tomb though then triggered it near instantly.

TopXIMaje wrote: 3 hours ago

I don't know if this is documented, but it seems as if when you trigger the event 'draw the ire...' the next time you fulfil the conditions (encounter an elite pack a certain distance from you?) then the

Herald spawns.

The mechanic is known. Described here: post4116812.html#p4116812

tl;dr

Every time you kill an elite, you have 2% chance to gain a "token" (draw ire). These can be stacked up to 5, but you can't see the number anywhere, you need to manually keep track of it by watching the game chat.

Every time new mobs spawn in (which happens in a ~2 screen radius from where you're standing), there's a 1% chance per mob that it's converted to a

Herald. This "consumes" a token. A lot of people experience that heralds often spawn when you enter a new map/floor, and that's because the instant you enter a new map/floor, the game spawns in all mobs on that map within a ~2 screen radius from the entrance - that can be a lot of mobs that spawn in at once, and if you already have at least one "token", there's a high chance of a

Herald appearing. Otherwise it will happen randomly as you move across a map (monsters spawn in as you explore, the whole map doesn't spawn at once, only within ~2 screen radius). All mobs can be converted to a

Herald, even normal mobs.

Till now all my observations follow the mechanic @ShadowHeart described. My current strategy is:

1. to focus first on killing uniques only till get the token.
2. Then exploring map and spawning new mobs till

Herald spawns.
3. Then kill

Herald and if map isn't cleared start again hunting uniques.

Most terrorized zones aren't that big that you have multiple iterations but zones like

Tal rashas tomb are perfect for multiple iterations. It is also important to know that you can have multiple tokens at the same time. If a token is triggered you should kill the spawned

Herald first before triggering the second to raise the level of the second

Herald.

This whole approach is more theoretical than practical but can be served as a rough orientation maybe.

dejavue wrote: 1 hour ago

2. Then killing normal monsters till

Herald spawns.

I'd say rather than killing, just exploring map and spawning new mobs until one of them turns into

Herald.

I've also been testing if you can get a token from terrorized uniques/champions after the TZ expires and moves to another area (because in RotW mobs that already spawned don't despawn whe you leave the area, and stay terrorized). When doing act boss runs for statues, after the last run before TZ changes, there's a probably lot of spawned uniques left along the way, so I just spend extra few minutes to kill them and check if I get "an ire".

So far no luck, but it may be due to low chance to get a token in general.

sewcioj wrote: 1 hour ago

dejavue wrote: 1 hour ago

2. Then killing normal monsters till

Herald spawns.

I'd say rather than killing, just exploring map and spawning new mobs until one of them turns into

Herald.

Yep, that's right. I fixed the step.