Milestone Quest -- Trigger Zrang (Hew Maan's) Teamwork Ability

[Hrothgar]

I'm looking over the quest log for season 3 and noticed that I seemed to be achieving this quest at a surprisingly fast rate.

Only one hour after the season began I had accumulated over 87,500 triggers (already on Tier 6), and that was with Hew Maan in a background party the entire time. The math would indicate that Teamwork was being triggered about 20 times per second.

Things seemed to have calmed down now. It's two days later and I'm only 10% of the way through Tier 6. That seems more reasonable for a quest being done by a background party.

[LostSoul]

At a guess, milestone progress rate was getting multiplied by Teamwork's gear levels the same as the area progress does. Kill one enemy, get credit for Zrang's Teamwork triggering 5, 10, or however high the Teamwork skill was rated at.

[Hecate]

Maybe, yeah, it seems to increase by 1 by now. But it's badly coded anyway, it climbs even if you stay at an area (boss included).

[SuperTim]

Originally posted by Hrothgar_Healfdane:

Only one hour after the season began I had accumulated over 87,500 triggers (already on Tier 6), and that was with Hew Maan in a background party the entire time.
[...]
Things seemed to have calmed down now. It's two days later and I'm only 10% of the way through Tier 6.

That's fast but not that much. My rough estimation for all milestones is that if you can't get to Tier 5/6 at the end of the first week, you're likely not going to complete all 10 Tiers.

[Sapwn]

Originally posted by SuperTim:

Originally posted by Hrothgar_Healfdane:

Only one hour after the season began I had accumulated over 87,500 triggers (already on Tier 6), and that was with Hew Maan in a background party the entire time.
[...]
Things seemed to have calmed down now. It's two days later and I'm only 10% of the way through Tier 6.

That's fast but not that much. My rough estimation for all milestones is that if you can't get to Tier 5/6 at the end of the first week, you're likely not going to complete all 10 Tiers.

byteglow just added rates (velocity) and ETA's so you can judge pretty well if you are going to make it :)

even with my ilvl 24 hewman (foreground) and an epic speed potion its still ~4300 per hours f.e. so its one of the faster ones

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2948355848

[SuperTim]

Thanks for your picture, and I've checked mine too.

It seems this quest was my 6th furthest one out of 10, with less than 10% progress.

So I can now be assured that this quest is not as fast as some other people think it is.

[kab_reg]

In my case, it's nearly at T9.

[Thunderchief]

This quest goes fast on slower parties rather than your gem farm. Remind me of "we'll get there faster if we take it slow" which I just checked and is not the correct Kokomo lyrics...

[Sarge the doggo]

Originally posted by Thunderchief:

This quest goes fast on slower parties rather than your gem farm. Remind me of "we'll get there faster if we take it slow" which I just checked and is not the correct Kokomo lyrics...

Isn't the line "We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow?"

[Thunderchief]

yes but I always thought it was the other way. Now if you'll "scuse me while I kiss this guy!"

[Daggot]

This sucks. Having a high ilvl on stones works against this quest. Having to pull out his feats to slow him down, otherwise you're only getting +1/2 per zone, and nothing from boss zones. Trying to put him in a gold team just to push my click wall.

Byteglow says I won't finish this before the end of the season. I know some have finished all milestone quests. Curious what the optimal is for this one. I managed to muscle through the others, including Wa-spiration. I thought this would happen with my gem farm team, but since it's per trigger and not by how much, gem farm works against the quest. UGH

[Hecate]

It increases if you stay at a level, even if your quest counter is "completed" already, so you can use some spawner champs to increase the grow rate. But it's very slow anyway even with this method (t10 is 231k), quite stupid design. Clearly, another quest designed by someone who don't even play the game.

[kab_reg]

It was one of the first milestone quests I finished.

[Daggot]

Originally posted by kab_reg:

It was one of the first milestone quests I finished.

Some reddit posts suggest at the beginning it was counting quest reduction, not trigger. Short of using potions, I don't see how to speed it up. And, even using potions only gets you so far because it's a max per zone.

[Hecate]

That's it, I was quickly at t9 but as I stopped to use Hew at full power for a time (I only gem farm a few hours a week), it really slowed down when I come back to Hew.

[Sapwn]

Originally posted by Daggot:

Originally posted by kab_reg:

It was one of the first milestone quests I finished.

Some reddit posts suggest at the beginning it was counting quest reduction, not trigger. Short of using potions, I don't see how to speed it up. And, even using potions only gets you so far because it's a max per zone.

either use light of xaryxis campagin, so you can have 4 teammates touching hew
(i dont know if theres a map where zrang is active and you have more adjacent champs) and 3 touching widdle

or withlight with 3 teammates touching hew and 6 touching widdle

(really depends on your equipment which is better i guess)

you want to stay in 1 zone (why stay? so you can stop with melf at his correct buff (spawn speed), other champs i used was shandy and then just randoms for adjacency scaling. i guess in an kill count area you could just use anything that spawns stuff instead of randoms also

with everything that make spawns faster, i got to 5.5k per hours (screenshot on top i used suboptimal campaign), after the nerf, with just the epic potion, with 10x speed you should be able to get ~20k per hour