I know I’ve seen a post about this before but I forgot what it said.

With the new patch, what triggers herald spawns? Is it still champion/elite pack kills? Or is it more of a volume thing now, just kill as many packs as quickly as possible?

Any monster can trigger a Herald, not just champions/elites.

Ok that’s what I thought, thanks.

Also note that each monster kill that fails to trigger herald in the same area increases spawn chance in that area. So in certain areas if herald spawns, thats it, you must go to other zones (in context of full clear tz) but if you want efficiency only farm high density areas.

New heralds are designed for 30min tz but the issue is shards drop all the time ( for me it is better tho compared to 30min tz fomo )

This post was edited by Hajun123 on May 24 2026 09:42pm

Anyone have data on how much each failed spawn increases spawn chance? Could be good to know if worth nuking the stragglers on my way to next zone

Also what is considered the TZ area affected.
E.g. stony field, does it include or exclude tristram
Tombs is it shared between tombs or individual to a tomb
Cold plains, does it include or is separate from the cave
And so on,

It seems that something like halls of dead is level 1-3 is "one area" and stony fields doesnt include tristram (purely anecdotal, too lazy to get the data on it). The forbidden technology is run till herald 4 with pala or nova sorc then from 5 after killing heralds join game with barb and hork it

This post was edited by Hajun123 on May 25 2026 05:05am