Hello,
I once sunk a significant amount of time into learning about Jormungand and the nature of his spawns.
As far as I know, I’m the most knowledgeable person on his spawns in Bjora Marches.
Here’s a link to my work including spawn locations, documentation of 100 spawn runs, and screenshots of spawns (both mine and from the internet).
As I have come to understand, there are three regions of spawn points: northwest, southwest, and east. Each of these three regions gets 1 “special spawn” each time the explorable area is loaded. A “special spawn” can be either an Ice Elemental, a Frost Wurm, or Jormungand himself. As far as I could tell, the regions are independent of each other. You can just as easily get 1 Frost Wurm in each region as you can 1 Ice Elemental in each region.
Once you know this mechanic, you can somewhat efficiently do a run of the region and rule out a Jormungand spawn. The goal is by running and flagging heroes to check all the spawn points in each region until you find the special spawn. Ice Elementals are great because you can spot them from a distance and immediately know you’ve cleared the region and can go to the next region. A Frost Wurm, particularly in the East region, can take a while to pop. Once you find your 3 special spawns, you know Jormungand isn’t one of them, so you can rezone.
I did this 100 times and plotted and mapped results. In those 100 runs I got 6 Jormungand spawns. The first 50 runs or so I was still uncovering some spawn points. I’d occasionally not find a special spawn at all, thinking at the time it was possible for nothing to spawn. As far as I know now, there are always 3 special spawns total.
I did MANY runs after that which were not logged.
I am not sure how the RNG math works on the back end, so I’m not sure how a Jormungand spawn is calculated. Therefore, I’m not sure if it is more efficient to check all 3 regions, or to zone through the south portal and only check the Southwest region.
You can also speed the process if you have a partner zoning for you.
If he does spawn, you’ll want to kill the 2 Frost Wurms and obviously flag your heroes away to solo Jormungand to get the highest drop rate for his hammer. I used a SS D/Rt that allowed me to maintain max running speed and never failed to allow me to solo Jormundy. Bar is in the screenshots.
I had a lot of fun doing this. An old friend just reminded me so I had a look and saw your post. Hopefully someone can put all my work to use and enjoy it. I farmed greens for collectors a lot because it was a unique and changing task. Never did get this darn hammer though.
Cheers.
