Icy Watcher Spawn rate

oozu1234

oozu1234

Dalayan Adventurer
I've been farming the Icy Watcher for the last 3 days for hours at a time for the Icy wand. These are my results

1st day about 4 hours of farming: 3 Icy Watcher spawns all dropped ears
2nd day: 4am PST to 1PM PST. Not a single Icy watcher spawn
3rd day : 4 am PST it is now 820 am Not a single Icy Watcher spawn but got 3 named golems

I don't care about the Rareness of the Icy Wand itself, but I think the Icy watcher spawn rate should be looked at. Its madness in 15+ hours of farming at 30 minute intervals (maybe 5 mins here and there extra time) at 4? Ph's per 30 mins thats 60 Chances at that thing to spawn and i've seen it 3 times! THATS CRAZY! Even Living Lava has a better spawn rate than that!

Any chance this could be looked at? again not complaining about rarity of Icy Wand, Just the named it drops off of!
 
I think RNG just doesn't like you perhaps? Having farmed the wand a long time ago (and more recently for my necro), sure I've had bouts of no icy spawns but I've also had multiple back to back spawns of icy before. Most of my camping were in stints of 3-5 hours, sometimes even logging in to an icy. Just my personal experience, I would say icy spawn rate is fine... but who wouldn't want names to spawn more often so what am I talking about...
 
I had no problems getting what I wanted from the Icy Watcher,even my 55 Druid got a levi clicky,lol.
 
ugh i keep hearing that frrom everyone. i've been killing it since 4 am this morning its now 1130 am and i've seen the watcher ONE time today. it dropped the levi clicky.
 
I could've swore back in the Wiz era it was changed so that the more members you have in your group, the higher the chance to spawn a named.
 
yeah most old world nameds work that way I think, the more people you have in your group when you kill the placeholder, the higher chance of named spawning in the next pop
 
cian2 said:
yeah most old world nameds work that way I think, the more people you have in your group when you kill the placeholder, the higher chance of named spawning in the next pop
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oh no shit! well maybe i should get some leachers and actually exp in there =/
 
It's technically has a blue, nearly purple hue, but it has such exceptionally low saturation that it's really just grey.
 
looks like a greyish blue to me but as i said before color blind =/ yah for being in that % of men!
 
The amounth of time you have been in lab you could used your scumming monk to do quests with the dreadlands refugee who would give you the 0.5 casting clicky flute.
 
This happens to everybody on some issue or other.

I've killed over 100 ?Sanctuary Masterpieces without seeing my last piece of Nautilus

I know Fell opened over 30 bags before getting his Underhill Clicky port

Apros killed about 15 spawns to get his quest piece in Nightmare

This is regarded as being part of the game but it isn't helped by the game mechanics. The average is that an Icy Watcher spawns say one in three spawns and one in four or five of these drops the wand. On average you should get a wand every 7-8 hours of camping but the game has a habit of clustering drops so you get 3 wands in a row then none for 20 straight spawns. This turns the game into temporary hell . Personally, think it would be great if there was some mechanism that checked to see if you had suffered excessively on difficult quests but I'm guessing would be impossible to code. Alternatively, would be good to have some sort of smoothing mechanism on drops to avoid excessive clustering.
 
Goldfolk said:
This happens to everybody on some issue or other.

I've killed over 100 ?Sanctuary Masterpieces without seeing my last piece of Nautilus

I know Fell opened over 30 bags before getting his Underhill Clicky port

Apros killed about 15 spawns to get his quest piece in Nightmare
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Let me add 30 Quickstream spawns without confine of the rushing stream. :/
 
took me over 60 kills for confine, 6 months of 4.3 kills for robe, about a year of farming sharnree for a verdict, etc

oh yeah, and all those items have been nerfed.

you are not a unique snowflake :(
 
I took a look at its spawn rate compared to various other PH/named areas and it looks perfectly reasonable to me. It appears to just be a very long string of bad luck.
 
j883376 said:
I took a look at its spawn rate compared to various other PH/named areas and it looks perfectly reasonable to me. It appears to just be a very long string of bad luck.
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Thanks for looking into it and giving me a response! I really do appreciate it!
 
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