Remove fire damage and any fire bias from Blaze Herald

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I’m currently farming a Magestorm Blaze Herald for an Aether Spellbreaker. It’s supposed to be an Aether Lightning build, so I have to have Magestorm for aesthetic reasons. I have farmed out 38 Blaze Heralds yesterday and today, and got maybe 7 Aetherfire and 0 Magestorm. I assume there is an affix bias at play because Blaze Herald has some fire damage on it.

Which raises the question, why does it have fire damage on it? It doesn’t have any fire RR, doesn’t buff any fire skills. Does anyone out there have a fire build which uses it?

How about removing the fire and making Blaze Herald a pure aether weapon? Which I assume would give it equal chance to drop with Aetherfire and Magestorm.

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some affixes have higher proportions than others, even within same dmg bias, this is to make some affixes more common/less common, so not necessarily a guarantee you get equal chance
you can check the exact %s with Modal’s help

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50 Blaze Heralds, 0 Magestorm.

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EDIT: Been looking around that spreadsheet. So far these numbers do not line up with my experience.

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Hello fellow Grim Dawn traveler. Have you prayed to RNGesus today?

All kidding aside, it’s usually RNG at play here just like when one player gets both Alkamos rings in maybe 10 runs while another gets them in 250+…

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I finally got 1 Magestorm Blaze Herald of the Aether. It was Herald 56. Now to get the second one. I also killed Krieg 12 times for the lols, and got 2 Magestorm weapons from him.

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And this exact thing has happened so many times before. Mention your plight on the forums and then you get the item you needed right afterwards. :laughing:

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I got the second one now too. Also Magestorm of the Aether. It was Blaze Herald 74. I hit Nemesis with Aetherials on run 65 or so. And Revered with Deaths Vigil on run 70 or so. I found a total of 16 Aetherfire Blaze Heralds.

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Man I think I need to bitch about that Tyrants of Ruthlessness Derma slicer not dropping…

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I wish Ritualist’s Scorpius Pummeler of Caged Souls is a real item drops

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Fellow GD travelers, have I preached to you of the joys of becoming a filthy, dirty GD Stasher? There are untold wonders to behold! :star_struck:

That just proves the existance of RNGesus. :muscle: Praise be RNGesus! :pray:

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I think you should try to fam Corruption of Gargabol next time… That was PitA to drop… :rofl:

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I hope they’re both level 94 :rofl:

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No, they were both level 55. My ideal realistic Blaze Herald is Magestorm of Celerity. The spreadsheet says the odds are not good. Maybe I’ll try for it when I hit ultimate.

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Oof, I wouldn’t put that much effort into farming low level gear. You’ll fly past the levels where those items are relevant imho.

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Unironically I got two of them while farming blooms fairly quickly…both have low conversion rolls tho ofc :sweat_smile:

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Guessing you’ll find a bunch of players who like the fire. Usual stats sales work on is that pleasing people gives about a tenth the plus on sales that displeasing people loses you.
Angry people are louder than happy people.

I am curious about something.
You farmed 38 of these things.
Gosh.

You don’t find that a bit repetitive?
I’d have been reaching for GDstash well before I got to 38.
I dunno, I’m just a lazy developer. Loops are for code IMO.
To be clear. I’m not criticising or anything. Just curious.

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welcome to ARPGs, where repeat farm/grind is the game :saluting_face: