Road to 1,000 Tidal Islands (for masters)

These are my results of doing 100 Tidal Island instances, post nerf.



Out of 100 Tidal Island maps, 88 of them had no master. That means 12/100 (roughly 1:10) maps had a master. Fairly evenly spread out, meaning each has roughly the same chance to spawn, aside from Zana of course. She can only spawn in end game maps.

Also, there was a streak of 30 zones with no masters. Rng will be rng.

Overall, this still seems like a decent place to "farm" masters. 1:10 isn't bad. However, there can be some long dry-streaks.

Edit: Excel sheet on Google docs

1 in 10 sounds like my luck even before the nerf.

I'll take it.

Do one of these on the next worse Farming zone to compare please.

Thank you.^^

I am planning to do the full clear Challenge on Merciless difficulty with my high lvl character on Rampage and I also want to make my own statistics how many Masters I meet on my way in the regular quest and story mod maps.

excellent work. Makes me wonder why they make a feature that requires grinding then they intentionally nerf that same mechanic. I would love to level my masters before 2016

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Danger_Close wrote:

1 in 10 sounds like my luck even before the nerf.

I'll take it.

Yeah. 1 in 10 isn't bad really. The dry streaks get old and discouraging though.

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Sneakypaw wrote:

Do one of these on the next worse Farming zone to compare please.

Thank you.^^

Which zone would you like me to do? Preferably one that isn't going to take long to explore. And this will be a job to start Monday because I will be away for the weekend.

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xxxmarok84xxx wrote:

I am planning to do the full clear Challenge on Merciless difficulty with my high lvl character on Rampage and I also want to make my own statistics how many Masters I meet on my way in the regular quest and story mod maps.

This should be interesting to see. I'm sure several, if not all, of the masters will be level 3 or so (aside from Zana of course).

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Jarenga wrote:

excellent work. Makes me wonder why they make a feature that requires grinding then they intentionally nerf that same mechanic. I would love to level my masters before 2016

I agree with this. It didn't seem bad for soloers the way it was, but people were using /820 and already have level 8 masters. I think this is probably why the nerf. We weren't expected to have level 8 masters in 2 weeks. They wanted it to last the majority of the 3 month challenge leagues.

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generaldave wrote:

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Danger_Close wrote:

1 in 10 sounds like my luck even before the nerf.

I'll take it.

Yeah. 1 in 10 isn't bad really. The dry streaks get old and discouraging though.

It dose a bit but it beats full clears of some of the other zones(non looped areas) in the hopes of finding one....that and there is a surprising amount of rares drop totaling a decent amount of currency, even on cruel

I guessed 1:5 pre-nerf... they likely just halved the chance.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

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generaldave wrote:

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Danger_Close wrote:

1 in 10 sounds like my luck even before the nerf.

I'll take it.

Yeah. 1 in 10 isn't bad really. The dry streaks get old and discouraging though.

It dose a bit but it beats full clears of some of the other zones(non looped areas) in the hopes of finding one....that and there is a surprising amount of rares drop totaling a decent amount of currency, even on cruel

Yes. I was saying that it doesn't seem bad being it's such a small area and very quick to traverse.

Edit: As for rares/currency, you should do this on Merciless rather than Cruel. Rare+ monsters can drop Chaos recipe items in Merciless.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I guessed 1:5 pre-nerf... they likely just halved the chance.

That seems about right, yes. I'm pretty sure Grinding Gear Games said it would be 1:2 maps in the pre-release teasers. It seemed more like 1:5 to me too. Didn't test the theory though.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I guessed 1:5 pre-nerf... they likely just halved the chance.

Yeah, I was getting around 1:5...
Not really worth the effort if it's 1:10. I'll just do 66 maps instead...