Sunder's & Heralds: Clarifications on Drops

tadkarcz wrote: 6 hours ago

By the way, since the launch of RotW I've only played TZ with Lvl 90+ characters, so *every* Elite/Unique monster I killed has dropped shards from the (now I know) infamous "Act 1 Shard Trease Class". This is how my shards look like currently:

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Considering how many Act 1 Shards I've used (more than 10) and how few Act 5 shards I've used (only two or three, I'd say), one can clearly see the skewed probabilities lol (granted it's not a big sample).

Mine are far less but nearly the same distribution. Yesterday I found my first

Northern Worldstone Shard in

Chaos Sanctuary (non TZ). I still have to read Pavke´s academic paper (is it already in peer review? ) but from skimming through it, I think I understand the basic mechanics.

Bottom line: With only playing normal / rotating TZs (and not waiting nearly half an hour until the next one) you probably will never see a new Sunder Charm. As I already said: I have no problem with making them rarer than before. But I think there has to be a way to reliably target farm them with an event like the Colossal Ancients (e.g. terrorizing the whole game makes all act bosses "Heralds" from 1-5 - in the order you spawn/kill them - and the last one reliably drops a Sunder) since they are vital to many builds.