Quote (Roneye @ 17 Dec 2023 01:55)

Some excellent questions. I do have some extra notes that I for some reason decided not to include, like information on specific waypoint, monster AI etc. But had to cut it somewhere.
I also was writing a section about the subject super unique, unique and champion packs. About their spawn limits, how one overrides the other and why you wanna run each map in specific patterns, so you can clear the most amount of unique/champion packs per hour. But it went into a rabbit hole that deserves its own topic.

20 minutes seemed to be an okay compromise, I didn't quite feel like doing more than 15~ hours of single player testing. But yes you are right the more testing the better. For some of the zones I actually did two test passes where they pretty much hit within the margin or error.
Tested these twice: Chaos, Arcane, Sewers, Flayer Jungle and Flayer Dungeon, Spider Forest and Spider Cavern, Lost City, Valley of Snakes, and Claw Viper Temple. As these kinda surprised me and wanted to make sure the results were correct.

Spider forest - from town
Cata - from inner wp
Halls - from wp - as maps are static go towards Nihl, kill packs on the way. After killing Nihl return and go in parallel lines about 1.5 screens apart. Clear about 40% of the Halls of Anguish and Halls of Pain, that usually spawns around 80-90% of the unique/champion pack limit. End with killing Pindleskin.
Flayer - from LK WP, backtrack. find flayer dungeon, continue of around 50-60% of flayer jungle has been cleared for packs.
Lost city - main goal is to find Claw viper, clear about 30-50% of lost city depending on the place entrances are.
Foothills - Frigid highlands wp straight to frigid hills only do half of the second half and then back to frigid highlands.

Quote (bhaaa @ 17 Dec 2023 03:20)

Impressive work 🫡 Thanks for sharing

Quote (brianrulsbasball @ 17 Dec 2023 03:25)

:rofl:

Awesome info here. Ty for taking the time to break it all down

Quote (TeenyUncle8 @ 17 Dec 2023 04:21)

Very interesting. Ty sir for doing this!

Quote (Touftouf @ 17 Dec 2023 07:10)

Super useful to start with the right base ty

Quote (Clouddino @ 17 Dec 2023 08:53)

Great work, thanks!

Quote (BonGi @ 17 Dec 2023 08:10)

Wow, very interesting results, thank you for your effort!

Quote (spokoluzik1989 @ 17 Dec 2023 09:55)

Thanks for hell of the work.

Quote (KimSulki84 @ 17 Dec 2023 10:52)

This is a great info. Thank you.

Quote (Tarisus @ 17 Dec 2023 14:25)

Great information, thank you for posting. :thumbsup:

Quote (Count_Grishnak @ 17 Dec 2023 14:36)

Thanks, you are awesome.

Quote (BonGi @ 17 Dec 2023 08:10)

Wow, very interesting results, thank you for your effort!
Never thought you could gain this much xp/h.
would you mind sharing your strategics to maximize the xp per hour? (maybe for the top 10 TZs)
What to clear? What to avoid? which ways to go? (p.e. you said you go only two sides on arcane)

Quote (pat777b @ 17 Dec 2023 09:43)

It looks to me like tal tz is also the longest tz for him. Assuming ^Roneye only has to charge up once per game, longer terror zones favor him imo.

Quote (thvnderfvnk @ 17 Dec 2023 13:15)

This is obviously unreliable anecdotal evidence, but I played Psn Nova necro last season and am playing Hammerdin this season, and I feel like I was clearing faster with PN than Hammers.

Quote (Roneye @ Dec 17 2023 03:00pm)

Yeah sure. I will look into adding some more information to it late on.



You are assuming correctly. Under all the testing I didn't lose the charges at all, the only need for stacking up is 7 seconds in the start of each game. Doesn't sound like much, but in the case of 45 chaos games/h. 320seconds/5.25minutes aka 9% of the whole hour it used actually doing that lol.



May I ask what players count you ran on average?
Because I know psn nova CE necro is quite insane at lower players count because of the very large AOE. The issue is just CE damage doesn't scale with amount of players, around P4-P5 it falls off quite quickly.