[SUG] Obtaining Spirit Shards From Leveling
No, I completely feel the same way. Skill points I was at 0 practically and began working on my legendary. Everything is almost done and I was planning on farming skill points on a lower lvl character I never used and map completions so I can get the last thing I need. Problem is, with the conversion it makes this 10 x more difficult to finaly finish given the lack of a drop rate spirit shards actually get which makes creating a legendary 10x more complicated then it needs to be.
I was shocked when I saw my hero points lingering at 198 left over with everything unlocked on my Mesmer thinking OH okay…..must be strange I could still use this …for my legend since….well its still pertaining to traits and skills right?-NOPE. so I have been non stop farming silver-wastes and No luck I got maybe 20…..I am sitting at 5 spirit shards out of 200…. so what do I do…and whats the fastest way possible….it would be appreciated to get something worked out rather then sitting still and not being able to finish something after a long period of time -_- specially when everything else is done.
not to mention i heard my one friend logged in and apperently had 3k worth of shards. How??
How? Stock piled skill points from scrolls and characters who levelled past 80 numerous times.
I had 500 in my bank sat doing nothing and 2.5k spread over my level 80s.
Spirit Shards are now what Scrolls of Knowledge were prepatch. Nothing except the name and where/how they are stored changed in the patch, that and they now drop randomly from mobs.
Forget that Skill Points were in the map to be obtained, the change was to remedy the surplus that many people had over their characters. Which is why Hero Points are finite.
Don’t forget you get 3 Spirit Shards for doing your Daily.
Also, I don’t think we need anymore rewards, to reward rewards. You play, gain loot, etc why do you need a Spirit Shard for something that is not considered deserving? You get level up rewards, but the exp bar needs to vanish until HoT, when it switches to Mastery post 80-ding.
(edited by Haleydawn.3764)
Spirit Shards are now what Scrolls of Knowledge were prepatch. Nothing except the name and where/how they are stored changed in the patch, that and they now drop randomly from mobs.
This is not true, they do not have the same drop rate. I’ve opened plenty of bags since the change and received a single shard where I would have received 8-10 scrolls.
There is absolutely no evidence to support that it would.” -AnthonyOrdon
No, I completely feel the same way. Skill points I was at 0 practically and began working on my legendary. Everything is almost done and I was planning on farming skill points on a lower lvl character I never used and map completions so I can get the last thing I need. Problem is, with the conversion it makes this 10 x more difficult to finaly finish given the lack of a drop rate spirit shards actually get which makes creating a legendary 10x more complicated then it needs to be.
I was shocked when I saw my hero points lingering at 198 left over with everything unlocked on my Mesmer thinking OH okay…..must be strange I could still use this …for my legend since….well its still pertaining to traits and skills right?-NOPE. so I have been non stop farming silver-wastes and No luck I got maybe 20…..I am sitting at 5 spirit shards out of 200…. so what do I do…and whats the fastest way possible….it would be appreciated to get something worked out rather then sitting still and not being able to finish something after a long period of time -_- specially when everything else is done.
not to mention i heard my one friend logged in and apperently had 3k worth of shards. How??
“I was shocked when I saw my hero points lingering at 198 left over with everything unlocked on my Mesmer”
You forgot you will still have the elite specialization to unlock. That’s undoubtably why you and so many others have a bunch of Hero points still.
As to your friend having 3k spririt shards, I bet he didn’t do much Mystic Forging. I have over 2.7k spirit shards because I don’t normally buy anything from Miyani. (It’s a pity people with an excess of spirit shards can’t sell them)
ANet may give it to you.
(edited by Just a flesh wound.3589)
Spirit Shards are now what Scrolls of Knowledge were prepatch. Nothing except the name and where/how they are stored changed in the patch, that and they now drop randomly from mobs.
This is not true, they do not have the same drop rate. I’ve opened plenty of bags since the change and received a single shard where I would have received 8-10 scrolls.
Bag drop rate was most likely adjusted because they now drop from random mobs and as a daily reward. Not just in champion bags.
Also to add, using Tomes of Knowledge on a level 80 gets you a Spirit Shard.
Back to the point, you don’t need Spirit Shards from levelling past level 80 because you get them elsewhere, be happy the system is in place ready for HoT.
and before you got them just for leveling up i thought that was why they started droping from mobs so dubble down on the nerf hammer you mean?