so i spend some time testing, getting aberrations to spawn

[Grizzly]

first of all, dont forget that i only tested for about 5 hours and didnt make a study with 100 people each doing 20 hours intensive testing, a lot of this information could be wrong, but it seems to be the case.

From what i tested it doesnt seem to make any difference in what state you get to a point where one of them could spawn. being low on HP, in combat, already having 10 shards or whatever doesnt matter at all. same counts for the fights you had along the way, meaning struggling or not doesnt matter for the spawn chance, even just running past everything.

however it seems like they have a random timer before they spawn even if they are going to spawn, which triggers as soon as you trigger their spawn (by going past the right place and getting the roll). This causes it for the aberration to not always start to spawn at the exact moment that you enter its spawn zone and you actually get a spawn roll. I dont know the span of time for it but we all have heared about the "aggro an enemy and wait 3 min" tactic before, so i tried to wait at the selected spot always up to three minutes.

this waiting can be skipped if you get a random elite spawn that usually wasnt in that area, as either an elite or an aberration spawns.

here are also some clips from that area, first clip should show a time where an aberration instantly spawned when i entered the spawn area (dont forget, i still only assume that it works this way, might all be wrong) and the second clip shows an elite that spawned instead while i was waiting there for the three min to run down. (the longest i ever actually had to wait for something to spawn was about one and a half minutes btw, but again the test scope isnt big)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9n8hLIE45Y

and as just mentioned, they also dont seem to just spawn anywhere from what i can tell but only at seleceted places (that places trigger the spawn, and it will still spawn at you if you leave that area, only reseting on a stone or using a door stops it). there might also be the spawn if you stay in combat for an extrended amount of time but i didnt test this at all now. my test focused on the spawn points i was able to find.

to show an example of such a spawn place, the area where the clips are from and where i made most of my testing was here, running from the checkpoint to the stairs where my "last death" symbol is, and whenever i didnt got a spawn or was done killing it i just deleted myself and did the same thing from the checkpoint again. i tested some other areas too but not that much.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3173776824
(the root nexus was destroyed btw)

[Rod, of eight toes]

These informative posts are great. Thank you for taking the time to do this testing. It's helpful to the community here!

[DartBenoir]

I don't remember the specifics from when i used to farm them, but it was something like:
- Kill all enemies in an area except 1. That will keep you in "battle" state.
- every 5 minutes (not sure) 1 of 3 things happens: you get attacked by reinforcements OR you get attacked by an elite OR an aberration spawns.
For as long as you are in "battle" the process can be repeated, and you can just reset it by killing everyone and finding a new spot to leave 1 enemy alive.
I think this works in any difficulty, but its more likelly for higher ones like nightmare and above.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Rod, of eight toes:

These informative posts are great. Thank you for taking the time to do this testing. It's helpful to the community here!

thanks, whenever i have time i tend to do stuff like this

Originally posted by DartBenoir:

I don't remember the specifics from when i used to farm them, but it was something like:
- Kill all enemies in an area except 1. That will keep you in "battle" state.
- every 5 minutes (not sure) 1 of 3 things happens: you get attacked by reinforcements OR you get attacked by an elite OR an aberration spawns.
For as long as you are in "battle" the process can be repeated, and you can just reset it by killing everyone and finding a new spot to leave 1 enemy alive.
I think this works in any difficulty, but its more likelly for higher ones like nightmare and above.

yeah thats the part of the "there might also be the spawn if you stay in combat for an extrended amount of time but i didnt test this at all now" that i said in the main post which is a diffrent way to spawn them in and farm them

[Luap26]

I did the root nexus, and just ran around in areas outside the root nexus so the boss bar stayed on the top of the screen, about every 2-3 minutes one would spawn. Got all the new weapons and the 1 missing from first event done in one evening solo. If it took longer then 5 minutes for 1 to spawn, I liquid escaped to the stone at the root nexus and starting over. Just run loops around the paths outside the nexus, make sure not to get to far so the nexus boss bar drops off top the screen.

[AonGreyFox]

I'm not sure about the spawn point, I try many spawn point but seem to not work for me. I'll give this a try next time.

So the prolong combat is my method to farm Elite (Aberr in event). Boring but well, you can read something else while waiting for audio cue.
- Waiting time is varies from 1-5 min.
- While waiting game may spawn extra enemy to try extend combat / add tension.
- Area should be little further from checkpoint, gate. No script spawn close by.
- You can wait in the same spot.
- Work even on Vet (I farm 5 corrupt gun in 3 hour on Vet) Not sure if higher diff have better chance to spawn or not.

Pretty much spawn chance base on combat timer to engage player to clear as fast as possible. May be keep increase weight to spawn chance if spawn event didn't happen.

*Not recommend on Losamn cuz alt-tab seem to bug the bomb enemy. It'll explode 10-20 times white single throw for some reason.*

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by AonGreyFox:

I'm not sure about the spawn point, I try many spawn point but seem to not work for me. I'll give this a try next time.

So the prolong combat is my method to farm Elite (Aberr in event). Boring but well, you can read something else while waiting for audio cue.
- Waiting time is varies from 1-5 min.
- While waiting game may spawn extra enemy to try extend combat / add tension.
- Area should be little further from checkpoint, gate. No script spawn close by.
- You can wait in the same spot.
- Work even on Vet (I farm 5 corrupt gun in 3 hour on Vet) Not sure if higher diff have better chance to spawn or not.

Pretty much spawn chance base on combat timer to engage player to clear as fast as possible. May be keep increase weight to spawn chance if spawn event didn't happen.

*Not recommend on Losamn cuz alt-tab seem to bug the bomb enemy. It'll explode 10-20 times white single throw for some reason.*

5 in three hours while the event was on or without the event? within the event i could prob do about the same

[AonGreyFox]

On event ofc. I didn't run apocalypse so aber' is as rare as Archer Chest.