Spawning more Elite and Champion Packs means more chances for loot. And you can use the SuperUniques to spawn more packs than the design intended.
Here's the gist. Each area has a set number of Champion Packs or Elite Packs that are supposed to spawn. These packs spawn as you explore the area, which add to the counter. And when the counter fills up, it'll stop spawning the packs.
For example, you'll enter Tristram and the game decides that there should be four Champion Packs that should spawn as soon as you enter the portal. What will happen is that there will be a counter in the background that'll count up to four as you explore and spawn the packs. Once the counter hits four, no more packs will spawn.
Now, you can use this to your advantage because you can get an extra one or two Champion Packs by spawning Griswold last. If you save them for last, it'll spawn Griswold even when the area's background Elite Counter has reached the desired number. If you spawned Griswold first, it'll add towards the counter and that's not good. I guess this is because Tristram won't beat Tristram without Griswold so that's nice.
Now, there wasn't a lot of Science, so you must perform the experiment. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Science is necessary because it is a video game at the end of the day. But I'm doing this experiment for Science because we know that there are two guaranteed spawns in Tristram. And here we can test to see if we'll get more mobs exploring these two parts last.
Now, here's the experiment 100 runs of Trish from using a Bad Path, which looks like this and 100 more runs of Trish drum using a Good Path, which looks like. This as I do the runs. I will simply count the number of Champion Packs that I run into or the Elite Packs that I run into.
Now, Tristram is only good to run when it's actually terrorized, but my sacrifice is necessary for Science. Of course, if you want to do the run quickly, preparing enough D2R Items will help you a lot. I only found a towel, a Skullder's Ire and a Titan's Revenge. There are much better ways to farm, but anyway what about the results? The average of Elite Packs for the Bad Path was five packs while the average for the Good Path was 5.59 packs. Is this statistically significant?
I'm not going to say because stats confuse people and I'm not a real Scientist. However, if you look at the rest of the data, it is pretty clear that having a Good Path is the real deal. The number of packs that spawn shifts to the higher end of the spectrum. And I believe that this data should seal the deal on this hypothesis if you know what I mean.
Now, is this useful information? Where you can use this in a place that will result in more than three pieces of loop out of 200 runs. Yes, for areas where the map is fixed and predictable just save the guaranteed spawn for the end, in the Forgotten Tower, on The Countess last, doing Trav, on the council lasts, spawn him last, Science.
