Questions About Remix Boss Obols

[SwordGuru]

Trying to get the Herodotus obol for sometime now, but difficult getting it to drop at a shrine. So I had some questions about why it's not dropping:

Is there a way to increase the drop rate of remix boss obols at shrines?

If I wanted the Herodotus obol, do I have to defeat normal Herodotus and stay on the current playthrough or will defeating the final boss, and thereby reset the playthrough for a new game, make me have to defeat the normal boss again on the playthrough to make the remix boss obol drop?

[Zors]

You can get the obols any time after you've defeated the boss, even if you're in a fresh ng+.

My best advice for finding them quickly is to always go down when you can, and left or right if you can't go down. You can never jump up into a shrine room so this maximizes the possible shrine rooms per minute.

Each zone (in vanilla) always has 2-3 special rooms, so if you've found 3 in a zone there cannot be any more. If you've found 2, then it's likely not worth exploring the rest of the zone.

Finally, using spelunkers to just rush the special rooms is time efficient. If you reach a deep dead end either suicide or quit to title to take a different path/port.

Those are the speedrun tactics that I've used to find shrines. I think my record for bad luck is 17 shrines without getting my last remix obol. Hope you find it soon, g'luck and have fun. :)

[ratatu]

are you sure that it drops from shrines ? I didn't get a single one and I'm half though NG+1