Thoughts on Heralds, Sunders, Statues, & New Ubers - discussion welcome

TeleTabitha wrote: 9 hours ago

[..] Games should never take hold of the player's schedule.

Sadly, trying to argue that is beyond futile these days it seems.
But yeah, I miss the days of "play how you want, when you want to".

TeleTabitha wrote: 9 hours ago

I hate the 30 minutes

Terror zones. The game forces me to mindlessly grind act bosses during that period. Games should never take hold of the player's schedule.

Exactly, and that's why i stopped farming TZ zones, statues, shards etc after 3 weeks. I used mainly a Mosaic sin, was lvl 97 when rotw came out, she is now almost 99 now, playing HCNL. Terrorized entire game 5 times, most of the time terrorized 2 acts, i'm well over 400 heralds killed, at least 200 were T5 heralds. Still no sunder of course. Did i get good drops doing so ? yes, very good drops, including multiple HRs and rare uniques. Did i have fun ? well i'm now playing other games.

I find the Heralds as an extra challenge and fun addition. But they seem to be overpowered compared to what they can drop. The best drop is a new sunder charm obviously but I wasn't lucky so far. To draw an ire of a

Herald can be triggered randomly in my opinion but mostly it happens after a pack, champions or end boss kill (terrorized Meph in my case). Very good thing is that they can be horked. That way I found an Arkains Valor. I fought heralds with various chars like fire sorc, javazon, ww barb and they can be very tough. Example: Javazon had hard times against undead mage with

Concentration and

Thorns aura in

River of Flame. They are light immune but even with old sunder charm that was a struggle. I pesonnaly think that a special build is needed against Heralds. They have pretty high self heal rate and largely increased res with physical included. But that struggle is unnecessary compared to chances for a new sunder charm. Maybe special squad dedicated for

Herald hunting makes sense. Prevent monster heal, open wounds, crushing blow,

Static Field, poison, slow effects could work. Solo hunting is pointless and time consuming. Some changes are welcome dear Blizz. I found some statues but guess what. No statue from act 2...

Earlier today, and since I have the entire week off, I decided to try and pi$$off a couple of

Herald's. At first it went slow and then a couple of Fright's spawned, 1 in Arcane, and another Fright in Stony Tomb. So when the Ancient's Way TZ popped, and not having logged off, I continued to the Ancients way when it popped. I wasn't there for more than a few minutes when I sequentially got one, then two, and three Ire warnings in a row. Then only a minutes later I got one, two, and three hunted warning is a row. I thought, "okay, I got it the first time, and one warning is enough to know what's coming." Instead ended up facing a

Herald of Fear, and two

Herald's of Dread in a row. Fortunately they weren't all together but they were close and I wonder...?