Q&A: New Terror Zones, Heralds and new Sunder Charms

With RotW being a reality for two days now, we all had some time testing the new terrorzone system. But structured information on it seems quiet sparse at the moment. So i will try to Q&A myself about it, maybe similar questions came to your mind. Will watch this thread and edit in answers.

Feel free to:

• proof me wrong and/or correct me
• provide hard facts (I'm not competent enough to extract infos from the game files)
• suggest more questions
• provide (subjective) answers

How does the new terrorzones work?
Terrorzones switch every 30 min. Monsters there also have another ability in addition.
Q: What are the abilities Monsters have in TZ?
A: Lightning, fire or cold enchanted, extra strong, extra fast, mana burn, Stone skin, spectral hit and cursed. The elemental enchantments do not have the same on hit/death effect as on uniques, like emitting

Charged Bolt on lightning enchanted, for example. They only add resistances and elemental damage on hit. This may be a bug or intended.

All monsters are able to drop shards. These may be used for crafting the new sunder charms or to terrorize a whole act corresponding to the shard you use.
Q: How long does terrorized last?
A: If terrorized through consuming a shard, as long as the game lasts. If "public" TZ switch, the corresponding areas also get terrorized in your game

Q: What are the chances for a shard to drop?
A: I don't know

Q: Are all shards of the same rarity?
A: IDK

After killing a champion, unique, superunique or act boss, there is a chance that the message "You draw the ire of a

Herald" appears.
Q: What is the chance that the message appears?
A: The chance is 2%.
Note, that this means only the monster and not the minions. You may get a message when killing

Colenzo the Annihilator, for example, but not for killing one of the

Fallen he spawns with. Also note that you don't need to kill by yourself. The effect after opening last seal in

Chaos Sanctuary or your merc may also trigger it

After the message appears, another message spawns after a certain time,...
Q: After what time? Is there another trigger?
A: People suggested, that after the initial message appears, the game tries to convert monsters to

Herald when they spawn about 2 screens off your position. A very plausible reason for this is: You got 2% chance for the first message to trigger after killing a unique. You get an internal token for it. Then, when the game spawns new monsters, every normal monster has a 1% chance to spawn as a

Herald and the token is used on success. Look page two of this thread for more details and thanks to Shadowheart and War the Wise for sharing. So if you get the initial message and have no TZ-area left to farm, consider terrorizing an act to ensure

Herald may spawn.

Q: Has the player count an influence on the spawning rate of heralds?
A: IDK

...telling you that a

Herald hunts you in your current area.
Q: Can you manipulate in what area the

Herald spawns?
A: Yes, by switching to another terrorized area after the first message spawns

The

Herald then spawns with a pack of monsters, about two screens away from your position after the message appears.
Q: What type of monster the

Herald and its pack has?
A: A monster type is choosen that spawns in the area

Q: Are there restrictions?
A: I have never seen

Blood Hawk Nest, so maybe yes

The

Herald always provides an aura.
Q: What are the

Herald's Auras?
A:

Thorns,

Concentration or

Vigor

The

Herald has good drops.
Q: How is the

Herald's drop calculated?
A: It seems that the first tier

Herald has drops similar to superuniques with two slots for item drops plus potions. A fifth tier drops an additional two items. Look at the

Herald page for more details.

You can continue getting messages and heralds by continuing killing monsters that may trigger the

Herald. Further heralds are stronger.
Q: What means "stronger"?
A: More life and damage, as far as i could witness

Q: Is there a limit for their tier?
There are five tiers:

1. Herald of Fright
2. Herald of Dread
3. Herald of Fear
4. Herald of Horror
5. Herald of Terror

Heralds coming after the fifth are always Heralds of Terror. I can't say the seventh is stronger than the fifth, for example

Q: Can all tiers of

Herald drop Sunder?
A: On bnet yes, on single player only

Herald of Horror and of Terror (Tier 4+5)

Q: Do higher tier heralds got better drops?
A: As far as i can tell, yes

Q: What means better in this context?
A: Higher chance of items being unique, as far as i can tell. Exact numbers would be highly appreciated

Q: Does magic find influence the

Herald's drops?
A: IDK, but had better results (more uniques) with 200 vs 0% mf

Q: Is the tier of the heralds bound to the game or to the character?
What i tested so far and works is: Spawn

Herald. Switch char. Kill with other char. Tier does not get resetted, so heralds seem to be bound to the game.

Q: Can you hork heralds?
A: YESSS

Heralds are the only source for sundering charms now.
Q: What are the chances to drop a charm?
A:
Level 1

Herald:
p1–2: 0.3677% (~1 in 272)
p3–4: 0.7326% (~1 in 136.5)
p5–6: 1.0950% (~1 in 91.3)
p7–8: 1.4545% (~1 in 68.8)

Level 5

Herald (3x drop rate):
p1–2: 1.0949% (~1 in 91.3)
p3–4: 2.1659% (~1 in 46.2)
p5–6: 3.2139% (~1 in 31.1)
p7–8: 4.2388% (~1 in 23.6)


Q: Is the rarity of charms similar to the old system, with fire being the most common and magic the least?
A: yes,
• Cold 29.70%
• Fire 29.70%
• Lightning 19.80%
• Poison 11.88%
• Physical 5.94%
• Magic 2.97%


They spawn as »latent« with the worst possible minus resistance roll. Upgrading alsways provides best minus res roll and random other attributes.

Q: With what ability can upgraded charms spawn?
A: xxx Resist -70%, -45 on magical and -10 on physical
+5-15% to xxx Skill Damage or -5-10% to Enemy xxx Resistance
+14-25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items or +20-55% Extra

Gold from Monsters
+10-65 to Life or +10-75 to Mana
+5-10% Faster Run/Walk or +12-24% Faster Hit Recovery or +3-8 to All Attributes
Magic Damage Reduced by 5-10 or Damage Reduced by 5-10

Q: Can you apply the recipe multiple times to make the charm better?
A: No, only one roll is possible

Q: Do Expansion sunders get converted to Latent sunders upon moving to ROTW? If so, is the resistance penalty reset or does it remain at the value of original drop in Expansion?
A: No, they stay the same

Q: Can existing Sunders be used with the recipe?
A: No, only new ones

You use

Perfect Gems, runes and shard to upgrade.

Q: What are the recipes?
A: look here:
Note that

Latent Black Cleft is the only charm requiring three shards to upgrade

Recipe pages can be found below:

Recipe: Renewed Black Cleft

Recipe: Renewed Bone Break

Recipe: Renewed Cold Rupture

Recipe: Renewed Rotting Fissure

Recipe: Renewed Flame Rift

Recipe: Renewed Crack of the Heavens

Q: What are the abilities Monsters have in TZ?

Also Mana burn, spectral hit and cursed, those ive seen so far.

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 weeks ago

Q: With what ability can upgraded charms spawn?

@Teebling just added the recipes and uniques to the database. Apparently it's
Monster Immunity to xxx is Sundered
xxx Resist -90-70%
+5-15% to xxx Skill Damage or -5-10% to Enemy xxx Resistance
+14-25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items or +20-55% Extra Gold from Monsters
+10-65 to Life or +10-75 to Mana
+5-10% Faster Run/Walk or +12-24% Faster Hit Recovery or +3-8 to All Attributes
Magic Damage Reduced by 5-10 or Damage Reduced by 5-10

Do Expansion sunders get converted to Latent sunders upon moving to ROTW? If so, is the resistance penalty reset or does it remain at the value of original drop in Expansion?

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

Do Expansion sunders get converted to Latent sunders upon moving to ROTW? If so, is the resistance penalty reset or does it remain at the value of original drop in Expansion?

Nah resurrected sunder stays the same after converted to rotw

Otherwis it would be easy for ppl to take advantage or the new sunder cubing mechanic?

Yep just added all the new sunder charms:

Latent Black Cleft

Renewed Black Cleft

Latent Bone Break

Renewed Bone Break

Latent Cold Rupture

Renewed Cold Rupture

Latent Rotting Fissure

Renewed Rotting Fissure

Latent Flame Rift

Renewed Flame Rift

Latent Crack of the Heavens

Renewed Crack of the Heavens

And their recipes:

Recipe: Renewed Black Cleft

Recipe: Renewed Bone Break

Recipe: Renewed Cold Rupture

Recipe: Renewed Rotting Fissure

Recipe: Renewed Flame Rift

Recipe: Renewed Crack of the Heavens

@Blubbalutsch I edited your table to update it with links etc.

After one drawn ire of a

Herald, can i go from one tz to another, like from lvl 1 to lvl2 in forgotten tower, without "reseting" the draw?

Hallsingland wrote: 2 weeks ago

After one drawn ire of a

Herald, can i go from one tz to another, like from lvl 1 to lvl2 in forgotten tower, without "reseting" the draw?

Yes, tested this a few hours ago, see

Q: Can you manipulate in what area the

Herald spawns?
A: Yes, by switching to another terrorized area after the first message spawns

Can existing Sunders be used with the recipe, or do I need a v3 Sunder to drop to use with the recipe?

sbn wrote: 2 weeks ago

Can existing Sunders be used with the recipe, or do I need a v3 Sunder to drop to use with the recipe?

Only new latent sunder charms can be used. Old sunder charms stay like they were before.

Some updates according to my own experience and some posts in other threads, so bumping this. And another question: Has someone actualy found one of the new Sunder charms? i'm at my 50th

Herald or so now, excluding horking nearly all of those, and i have not found a Sunder yet

Quick question: Are the "old" Sunder Charms still dropping in RotW?

oOKIWIOo wrote: 2 weeks ago

Quick questions: Are the "old" Sunder Charms still dropping in RotW?

I didn't find one yet, and I was playing a lot. So I guess not.

DasNarf wrote: 2 weeks ago

oOKIWIOo wrote: 2 weeks ago

Quick questions: Are the "old" Sunder Charms still dropping in RotW?

I didn't find one yet, and I was playing a lot. So I guess not.

Thx! If this is true and if the new ones are really very rare drops (and you have to reroll them and still maybe get a bad roll) it seems there is still reason to play and farm the expansion - especially considering that most current builds require one...

oOKIWIOo wrote: 2 weeks ago

Thx! If this is true and if the new ones are really very rare drops (and you have to reroll them and still maybe get a bad roll) it seems there is still reason to play and farm the expansion - especially considering that most current builds require one...

Yep.

And I am glad I didn't upgrade all of my heroes. Foresight.

DasNarf wrote: 2 weeks ago

oOKIWIOo wrote: 2 weeks ago

Thx! If this is true and if the new ones are really very rare drops (and you have to reroll them and still maybe get a bad roll) it seems there is still reason to play and farm the expansion - especially considering that most current builds require one...

Yep.

And I am glad I didn't upgrade all of my heroes. Foresight.

Mee, too Today my Zealer farmed two annis in the expansion...

well, apparently one can get hunted without getting the first message. it just spawned withou any "draw the ire" message

Can any level

Herald drop a Sunder Charm? Or only tier 5

Herald of

Terror?