Road to 1,000 Tidal Islands (for masters)

Update:

I am up to 400 Tidal Islands now. My current analysis is as follows:

Elreon and Vorici are starting to appear to be less common than the other. I doubt it to be the case. It just appears that way wit the data set. I still believe they all have the same chance to spawn.

Zana obviously cannot spawn because it is not an end-game map.

The other 4 appear to have spawned roughly the same number of times.

It still appears to be where you should go into the zone expecting not to see a master at all. That number is getting closer to 1 though. This means that masters are less common than they appeared to be at 100 Tidal Islands.

With that being said, it still works out to average approximately one master in every 10 maps.

becoming more and more clear that it's essentially 1 in 10. Would have been cool if you kept track of Corrupted Zones too.

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

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[/quote]

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.



I hit quite a luck there in cruel last night, 2 chaos orbs dropped from one mob!

I have not counted, but i have been running 66-71 maps both in Standard&Rampage and it seems that i get a master atleast 1 in 3 maps.

+ i can get Zana
+ i can get decent loot
+ i can get more maps
+ i get XP, for my characters and more for the master/spawn.
+ i am killing stuff in +35-110 quantity areas=


Why are you people doing some low-level runs?

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PyleWarlord wrote:

I have not counted, but i have been running 66-71 maps both in Standard&Rampage and it seems that i get a master atleast 1 in 3 maps.

+ i can get Zana
+ i can get decent loot
+ i can get more maps
+ i get XP, for my characters and more for the master/spawn.
+ i am killing stuff in +35-110 quantity areas=

Why are you people doing some low-level runs?

It's faster to kill lower level stuff. It's faster to run smaller areas. They sacrifice just about everything else for speed. You should really replace "it seems like" with "in the last 10 runs I got 3 masters" or something more concrete than your personal feelings.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

It's faster to kill lower level stuff. It's faster to run smaller areas. They sacrifice just about everything else for speed. You should really replace "it seems like" with "in the last 10 runs I got 3 masters" or something more concrete than your personal feelings.

But if i had said i got 3 masters/10 maps, i would have lied because i don't have any actual numbers.. If i had said that, it probably had made me sound more pro, but it would still be a lie.

And i do many things in my life based on how i feel, in the past i did not listen to myself and that got me deeper and deeper into drugs/booze... nowadays i'm almost sober and can control myself and this game is the only thing that sometimes gets out of hand... :D

@Shagsbeard: Yeah. I've been doing this more for the corrupted zones than the masters. The first 100 was to track masters. Had thought of tracking corrupted zones, but didn't do it. I can say that they do appear more often. I tend to see 3 or 4 corrupted zones before seeing a master.

If the "it seems like" comment was directed at me, I use seems like because I can only give my predictions with such a small sample set. I cannot say that this is exact.


@OssanTensa: I've gotten an Exalt worth of Chaos recipes, had a Tabula Rasa drop, and Hailrake drops uniques kind of frequently. I think I'll stick with Merciless. Also, I thought of stacking some rarity for hailrake. Not sure if I will or not.



@PyleWarlord: I am doing Tidal Island for the corrupted zones mostly. And I don't care about experience and maps. It would be nice to be able to level Zana too, but I'm not that worried about it. They don't get much experience anyways.

Hello again, i came back with some actual numbers this time..
I run 25 66-71 maps with the following results(i know the samplesize is small, but i'm aiming for 100 maps, maybe more):

Elreon 3
Vorici -
Tora 2
Zana -
Vagan -
Haku 3
Cata 6

So 14/25

In my opinion the best maps to do this(and the second best):
66 Tropical Island (Dunes)
67 Wharf (Cemetery)
68 Springs (Reef)
69 Promenade (Shore)
70 Pier (Undergroud Sea)
71 Strand (Colonnade)
72 Mine (Jungle Valley, if you are lucky and not have to go to the bossroom)
73 Canyon (Dry Peninsula)
74 Gorge
75-79 i have not played yet, lol

And since in RNG-based games tinfoilhat is important, Catarina was the only master in my hideout and i got her twice as often than any other master... :D

How many corrupted zones did you get during those 100 runs?

1:10? or even 1:12?

do that in a full farm group and do runs in different instances -> far far better than any map master farm.

sad that there is no option to get your item into another master's crafting station and have him enchant your item after you hit the accept button to do so and pay the fee for it...

would have been great if there were only 4 master - int, dex, str and maps/rest who all have a passive tree to train on some recipes and improve it by using reputation points - or what are you going to do with those later anyways..