Where is the Thing from the Stars?

[Nanako]

The map said it was in the cove this week, so i picked a short apprentice map.
I took my best party specially adapted for fighting it. Occultist, Tusk, Seraph, Flagellant (I'm using a few class mods :P), and a variety of specific anti-eldritch trinkets

I've been running around this damned cave for almost an hour now. Ive long since finished the quest, ive seen every room and every square of every corridor three times each. Several new traps and enemies have spawned in corridors, but the Thing from the Stars refuses to show its ugly face.

What gives?

[Mango Tree]

Didn't know he wasn't guaranteed, thanks for telling :D

[Sir Francis]

"you may encounter it" it is a chance, albeit a high one, i get it almost every time^^

[Junneshi]

its not 100% guaranteed, and I had the impression that going on short runs made him harder to appear, I went 2 times on short maps and nothing, try a medium one, good luck hunting :)

[No One]

My first dungeon with him didn't spawn him.

[ZaydinTTV]

It's not a guarantee you'll run into it when you go to the region it's in. Just a roll of the dice.

[Nanako]

Well this time the Thing was apparently roaming in the wield, so i went there and took on a MEDIUM apprentice mission to hunt down the Brigand 8 Pounder

I went along geared to the teeth with my best people, fully expecting to have two boss fights in one quest.

Mr Stars is nowhere to be seen, scoured every corner again. :(

[No One]

My last thing fight was the very first fight. Then I found a giant, and then the collector.

[ZaydinTTV]

Originally posted by No One:

My last thing fight was the very first fight. Then I found a giant, and then the collector.

Man, the game REALLY hated you that run. How many heroes, if any, did you lose?

[No One]

None. I finished the quest. (Champion, by the way) with minimal stress. I did have to stall for 37 turns against an unclean giant to clear some afflictions, though.

[BlackDragon]

I don't think the Thing can appear as a 'random' encounter, the way the Collector does. Rather, he'll pop up as a hallway-fight - if you've done every available hallway-battle and haven't met him, he's not there and there's no point in carrying on.

If you've got good scouting, you can sometimes spot him in advance, actually. Outside of the Crimson Court, you'll never get two hallway-fights in the same hallway - unless one of them is a 'special' encounter like the Thing. So if you go into the area where he's hanging out this week and spot a hallway with two encounters in it, one of them is almost certainly the Thing... handy for planning when to Rest.

Oh, and one other thing... while you certainly CAN encounter him on Apprentice-maps, there's really no point in doing so. He won't drop anything worthwhile. Meanwhile, the Veteran-version has essentially the same drops as the Champion, so it's not a bad idea to aim for that one...

(As a footnote... in my experience, after spending a lot of time hunting that Thing, I think he's got an encounter-rate of about 80%... so him failing to put in an appearance twice in a row is bad luck indeed, but not THAT strange.)

[sleeve]

@blackdragon, didnt know his loot table was tied to the difficulty, appreciate the heads up!

[BlackDragon]

Originally posted by sleeve:

@blackdragon, didnt know his loot table was tied to the difficulty, appreciate the heads up!

You're welcome. Though, keep in mind, the reason I know this is that I mucked around in the loot-drop tables after fighting him half a dozen times and getting nothing to show for it. Turns out that just like I feared, his odds of dropping ANYTHING worthwhile is AWFUL. He's far more likely to just give you some random Rare or Very Rare Trinket, rather than one of his unique 'Thing'-class Trinkets or a Memory. (Or at least he was... until I edited the loot-drop tables in my game. :P)

[LesPaulMaster]

I know this post is old but hell, I have to write somethings here, just bypass my experience to another players who want farm that Thing

Originally posted by BlackDragon:

(As a footnote... in my experience, after spending a lot of time hunting that Thing, I think he's got an encounter-rate of about 80%... so him failing to put in an appearance twice in a row is bad luck indeed, but not THAT strange.)

Well, 80% is certain not, unless there are more % if u go on medium or long dungeons, because I went 3 times on short and none of that m@## appeared! I got twice fights against him in Medium dungeon... SO, I think the range is a count too!
Ps. All my runs was in Champion LVL.

Another thing... HE WON'T DROP ANY SPECIAL TRINKETS IN THOSE TWO FIGHTS! Farm Collectors or Crimson enemies was way better than this fu@# Thing. Be prepared to get mad at him!
Ps. OR I am a f@#$@ed in luck and the game is making fun of me OR The devs need to look this (Probably they won't, because DD2 is here in some months)

Finally, I saw in some forum that have a Mod who add a loading screen for when Thing is present in a dungeon ... I gonna try this and see if work, because chase him for nothing is ruining my time!
Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1424499484

[No One]

His trinkets are terrible anyway.

Allegedly the spawn chance is 50%.

But yes, expect to be farming for dozens upon dozens of weeks if you want to collect his trinkets. Much better to be doing something else and collect them as a by-product, e.g. I have one estate at week 400 for party testing purposes. It has all the Thing trinkets because week ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 400.