I’ve been playing since long before D2R, but started new characters with D2R. And once the Heralds system was first introduced, I played and got a lot of Heralds. As far as I could tell amongst peers and the community, it was all a decent, common amount.
But since this most recent update in May, I have seen virtually zero Heralds. I mainly play on my MF barb, which only kills the champions or uniques, ignoring the minions or regular mobs. I’ve seen zero on my barb since the update, and I’ve played a LOT (I’m working on my last item in a Holy Grail run).
I’ve tried my apocalypse warlock as well. With that build, swaths of enemies die at once. I’ve seen 4 Heralds in total since the update with him. Still, an absolutely abysmal amount lower than before.
And to test, my brother and I played at the same time. We were on call, and he played on console in the same TZ (different game) than me. They were big TZs, too, like Canyon of the Magi and whatnot. Lots of opportunities to spawn. My barb never saw a Herald in his games, which I ran back-to-back. When we got to play in a Secret Cow Level TZ, I swapped to my warlock, and he saw 3 Heralds in 7 runs.
Idk what’s going on, but my barb seems to be bugged, and my warlock seems to be unlucky, but I’m virtually neutered of the Herald experience atm.