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Ancient statue drop mechanics

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I wanted to get confirmation on this since I know that worldstone shards drop everywhere in the game and not just in TZ’s.

Do the ancient statues only drop from TZ act bosses, or do they also drop from non-TZ act bosses?

Only reason I ask is because I didn’t realize at first that the worldstone shards also dropped in non-TZ until I found several while

Key farming.

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JTrev `59`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Key farming.

Answeredby ShadowHeart • 2 months ago•Go to post

I posted this in the 1.55 update thread but putting it here too:

I had a chat with Pavke and this is the conclusion (and yes the numbers are taken from the game files):

Statues drop at roughly the same rate as essences (1:12 chance at p1 for any statue to drop from a TZ act boss).
Statue drop distrubution is as follows:

	Talic's Anguish	Korlic's Pain	Madawc's Ire	Bul-Kathos' Nightmare	Worusk's End	Total
Andariel	18/20	1/20	1/20	-	-	20/20
Duriel	1/20	18/20	1/20	-	-	20/20
Mephisto	-	1/20	18/20	1/20	-	20/20
Diablo	-	-	1/20	18/20	1/20	20/20
Baal	-	-	1/20	1/20	18/20	20/20

The table is meant to be read left-to-right, showing the distribution of statue drops per act boss.

tl;dr
Worusk's End is the rarest because Baal is the hardest/longest to reach & kill, plus there's only 2 act bosses that can drop it at all (that's also true for Andariel, but she's much faster to get to and kill)

sbn `94`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Worldstone shards can drop in either TZ or non-TZ, doesn't matter.

The statues on the other hand, well another flawed plan on this new content. The statues can only be dropped by bosses when their area is in a TZ.

LizardWizard `27`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

dropping statue from

Duriel will be really obnoxious.. since you dont know which tomb is the correct one and you only have half an hour.

It would be nice if the drop chance of this one particular statue would be increased. I dont mind the others, you know where they are.

ShadowHeart `6118`Moderator

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

You can find

Duriel's statue from either

Andariel or

Mephisto, but at a very low rate.

There's a drop overlap - all act bosses drop mostly "their own" statue, but have a small chance of dropping one of the "adjacent" statues (in statue/act order).

I was told that the distribrution is like 1-18-1.
So for

Mephisto for example, out of 20 statues,
- 1 will be

Korlic's Pain (Act 2 statue),
- 18 will be

Madawc's Ire (Act 3 statue),
- 1 will be

Bul-Kathos' Nightmare (Act 4 statue)

Source: Pavke

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2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

We are seeing price Pattern being created, A2 and A5 statues will be the most expensive probably.

NastyBeggar `3`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

LizardWizard wrote: 2 months ago
dropping statue from
Duriel will be really obnoxious.. since you dont know which tomb is the correct one and you only have half an hour.

It would be nice if the drop chance of this one particular statue would be increased. I dont mind the others, you know where they are.

OR you can farm

The Summoner and get the answer to which tomb is correct by missing Pattern, in addition you get chance for

Key there. Slightly better odds i guess.

LizardWizard `27`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

oh, you are right. I forgot about that. Well, since I like to delve into those tombs, I probably pass, but it is at least something.

ShadowHeart `6118`Moderator

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

I posted this in the 1.55 update thread but putting it here too:

I had a chat with Pavke and this is the conclusion (and yes the numbers are taken from the game files):

Statues drop at roughly the same rate as essences (1:12 chance at p1 for any statue to drop from a TZ act boss).
Statue drop distrubution is as follows:

	Talic's Anguish	Korlic's Pain	Madawc's Ire	Bul-Kathos' Nightmare	Worusk's End	Total
Andariel	18/20	1/20	1/20	-	-	20/20
Duriel	1/20	18/20	1/20	-	-	20/20
Mephisto	-	1/20	18/20	1/20	-	20/20
Diablo	-	-	1/20	18/20	1/20	20/20
Baal	-	-	1/20	1/20	18/20	20/20

The table is meant to be read left-to-right, showing the distribution of statue drops per act boss.

tl;dr

Worusk's End is the rarest because

Baal is the hardest/longest to reach & kill, plus there's only 2 act bosses that can drop it at all (that's also true for

Andariel, but she's much faster to get to and kill)

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HaveANiceDay `325`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Would be really nice if WSK got 1 hour long

Terror Zones as an exception.

It's not only the longest act boss fight. It's also hard to get opportunity to go through it because timing of TZ WSK is often atrocious for Europe (at least since ROTW).

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JTrev `59`

2 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

HaveANiceDay wrote: 2 months ago
Would be really nice if WSK got 1 hour long
Terror Zones as an exception.

It's not only the longest act boss fight. It's also hard to get opportunity to go through it because timing of TZ WSK is often atrocious for Europe (at least since ROTW).

Honestly, they need to go back to 1 hour TZ’s period because that would help farming all of the statues. 30 minutes doesn’t really make sense, we are going to be using the worldstone shards to farm heralds anyway.

In addition to that, they need to add the normal sunder charms back to the TZ drops. In my opinion, all of this would fix the new system.

I know people still probably want the latent sunders to have a higher drop rate, but at least adding the old sunders back to the TZ drops would help new people or people who don’t have a perfect old one (would also help fresh ladder season play).