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Vile Realm Wandering Bosses
1MA_scurvynaive wrote:Of course I am not sure how you farm a recipe from a mob that seems to appear less than 0.25% of the time.
Speaking of which has anyone found a place where they reliably appear? I have spent lots of time in the new areas but between three toons I have only encountered Bromet once and Saydon never.
MY PERSONAL OPINION
Chat and Forum Mods, including me, do not work for Venan. Unless a Dev answers we will never have definite answers. Personally I think it should be like Spoilers, the Devs don’t answer questions about Vile Realm Ch 1- 2 surprises until Ch 3 is released. Under this system they should tell us the Shard Drop rate for Karnak’s Temple since Vile Realm Ch 1 is released, but I digress.
Vile Realm Ch 1 & Ch 2 each have a map and each map has a Wandering Boss. Maybe Vile Realm Ch 3- 5 each have a Wandering Boss.
Difficulty Rating- Medium and up
Rumor says you cannot get a Wandering Boss until you get the “Continued in Vile Realms Ch 3” message (unlocked Legacy of Blades Raid).
I would be interested in where you got 0.25% as a number. Rumor says that the Wandering Bosses follow the rules of each HoliGob appearance- No Raid Zones, No Dungeon Zones, any Endless Encounter Zone, limited to one map. Rumor says that each eligible encounter has a 1:400 chance of being a Wandering Boss (Edit: Bims says lower. SPOONS!). At those odds, 200k+ combats in the Vile Realm might *still* not give the actual odds of appearance (see below).
Difficulty Rating- Advanced and up
Using our Crude Lockbox Simulation:
Crude Lockbox Simulation or Explaining Random Number Generators
https://www.venan.com/boh_forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4895In this example, we are simulating getting a Wandering Boss (Tails = 200 eligible combats with no Boss, actual odds may be different).
Take a break from reading this Post and flip a coin ( or a die roll ), I will wait. How many flips did it take you before you got a Heads result in the coin flip ( or an even number result in the die roll ) ?
Wandering Boss Examples:
If your first flip was Heads, then in the simulation it took you 1- 199 eligible combats to get a Boss.
If you flipped Tails, Tails, and then Heads, in the simulation it took you 401- 599 eligible combats to get a Boss.
If you flipped Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails and then Heads, in the simulation it took you 801- 999 eligible combats to get a Boss.
To demonstrate how this can vary from character to character, repeat this five times. How many flips did it take to get Heads?
Let us say that 10,000 people attempt to get a Wandering Boss. The first time a person fights an eligible combat, they may fight a Wandering Boss. With Random Number Generators (RNG), it is impossible to know what will happen until you enter combat. But you can say what will happen with large groups of people and many eligible combats. Examining the Wandering Boss data, half of the people ( 5,000 ) will take 1- 199 eligible combats to get their first Boss, but half ( 5,000 ) will take 200+ eligible combats. A handful of players ( 10- 20 ) will take 1,801+ eligible combats to get their *first* Boss. Hopefully Wandering Bosses start at 1:400 odds and the odds get better the more Energy you spend in a Map.