So what's the story on Prime Resonators?

It's probably just rare, I'm in 467, and haven't seen a single one.

For those of you have found one, like Ladish, can you confirm the other hearsay in this thread? Does it have something to do with "really long path ways"? was there some kind of indicator of "difference" from the regular dark cave diving?

At this point I just want to find one. It's crazy to me that i've found 7 exalts in SSF but haven't found 1 of these things yet.

Also? Both of the people in this thread have claimed they have found them on an alt... was this Alt created AFTER they released the patch or before?

I'm curious whether the seed issue was fixed for NEW characters but would still persist in old characters.

I'd say just luck of the draw.

I found only 1, super early on (level 30-40ish range) out of a chest you could literally see from the cart path.

Relatively medium path length, and I made my character on release day, not that I think either of those things matters directly (of course, you get more chests and side areas on longer paths, but idk if it gives more per distance/time).

I found one, it was just in an extra glowy resonator chest behind a random wall, wasn’t a super long delve but they’re more likely in longer delves simply because longer delves have more walls. You won’t find one in a one segment delve since it won’t spawn a wall.

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IIPheXII wrote:

This is no bug or anything, just GGG making their content really unrewarding, rng based and ofc requiring you to repeat the same event 500 times for you to have a dencent chance.

This. No idea why the majority of this community likes it this way either.

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Prizy wrote:

For those of you have found one, like Ladish, can you confirm the other hearsay in this thread? Does it have something to do with "really long path ways"? was there some kind of indicator of "difference" from the regular dark cave diving?

At this point I just want to find one. It's crazy to me that i've found 7 exalts in SSF but haven't found 1 of these things yet.

Also? Both of the people in this thread have claimed they have found them on an alt... was this Alt created AFTER they released the patch or before?

I'm curious whether the seed issue was fixed for NEW characters but would still persist in old characters.

the alt was actually my league starter so it wasn't new. As to where I found it, I was finishing up my vaal outposts and it was in a passage off to the side. I don't recall if it was behind a wall or not but I don't think it was a long delve or long passage. I haven't seen a single 4 sock res on my main (lvl 96, depth 350ish, 1.3 quad tabs of 1-3 sock resonators :D)

i am at about delve level 80 now and found one yesterday, but I cannot find ex, just one, not like last league.
I found it while diving in the deep and came to a contains item spot, there it was, waiting for me.
I guess it is not the level of delve and how deep you are, more likely when you enter the hidden areas. All you need are flares and dynamite.

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Nephalim wrote:

Aparently certain accounts had a bad seed and would never find a 4 socket resonator, ever.

GGG released a fixed sometime ago but I've yet to find one despite getting to depth 300 and level 94.

I'm not even mad, I'd just like to know exactly how the seeding and code worked.

I've found 2 ex so far and only 1 prime resonator, apparently for me its not a good seed choice.

As for the explanation on seeding, remember that each character (even on same account) will have it's own unique delve layout? The way they generate such a large amount of different layout combinations that can, theoretically go on forever, is by assigning a random "seed" to each character.

Think of it as a unique key that identifies each character, and from this key they use it to randomly generate the content of the delve layout and loot. This is a quick and easy way to ensure that no delves are identically. The seed is created probably by combining creation time of character, name of char, etc so that it's unique.

Problem is the loot generation portion, in order to determine what loot gets generated and where, the system will use the seed to do so. And by some algo design flaw some seed will have the rate of spawn for resonators really low, or they may get generated in delve nodes that are so far left/right from the main path that users don't really get to discover them. A good algo shou;d evenly distribute the occurrence and placement of loot for all seeds.

Those who get alot are probably having seeds that place the resonators close to the main path, thus easier to discover.

My 2 cents.

Wait.... theres a 4 slot resonator? Lol that explains if i've found one yet ^^

4 characters - wall challenge done long time ago. highest depth 300. still no 4s resonator. I check EVERY SINGLE PATH.

I think its still broke. Just the like the stairs that got patched like 3 times. Except we don't know if this was fixed with patch because we can't find the damn things to start with.