Duration: 20 Mins
Portals: 6x Level 35 small ones, 2x Level 35 major ones
Shard rewards:
From 2 Big chests: 1x Corrupted Shard (blue), 1x Corrupted Fragment (green), 3x Corrupted Sliver (white)
From 6 Small chests: 1x Corrupted Fragment (green)
In order to craft one Arena Key (all Arena Keys cost the same), you need to have 5 Corrupted Shards (blue). One Corrupted Shard needs 5 * 4 = 20 Corrupted Slivers (white). If you take into account that currently there are Stonecutter Shoes, Hands and Head droppable and you have a base chance of 20% to craft additional items while stonecutting, you need (1/1.26)^2 * 20 = 12 Corrupted Slivers.
Through my short run I have dropped an Corrupted Slivers equivalent of 20 * (1/1.26)^2 + 5 * (1/1.26) + 3 + 1 = 12 + 4 + 3 + 1 = 20 Corrupted Slivers. Therefore I would need 3 of these runs in order to craft one Arena Key.
This run was extremely lucky, since I had dropped a Corrupted Shard (Blue) from one of these chests, which should only happen in around 1/10 chests. From my experience I need on average 6 - 10 of such small runs to craft one key. That usually takes around 2 to 3 hours.
Is this how it is supposed to be? In order to be able to craft my 5 Arena Keys per week per Arena, I should be running portals for 10 - 15 hours of Corrupted Portals? For 3*5 Arerna Keys I would need to run 30-45 hours of Portals each week?
Please make Portals 5 times more rewarding or decrease the amount of Corrupted Shard required to 1. Otherwise noone will run one of the best endgame content that you have created besides the Keys you get for free from the quests.
Another solution would be to make higher portals more rewarding than lower ones. Currently the best way to farm Shards is by destroying Level 25 Major Portals, which is super boring for any Level 60 group/ solo player.
nope mate, i went ahead to just make genesis and lazarus key weekly they cost 9 corrupted lodestone weekly, but yes gotta grind corrupted run a lot just to fulfill those weekly craft
Your problem is with farming the small portals and low level ones at that. If you are going to farm low level portals, only kill the major ones. You are best off though killing the level 65 portals. Nearly every minor one gives a shard and the major ones pretty much always drop a blue crystal. If you are doing myrkguard chest runs you will be able to kill 5 greater portals (if they are up, but they generally are from what I have seen, at least when my faction does our mass chest runs). I don’t normally farm portals specifically outside of chest runs and doing just the ones in Myrkguard once a day daily normally gives me enough to craft 1.5 Genesis keys per week.
Also, as the other person responded, the Arena’s are really not worth it. You get far far more loot from Genesis and Lazarus runs and they don’t cost much more to craft the orbs.
With the upcoming patch you get a guaranteed Expertise bump after every Arena, they would be a great way to farm your WM - but not with the current amount of work required for the keys. Like you guys said, currently everyone is using their shards for Genesis nad Lazarus Keys. So 3/5 endgame content, namely Arenas arent played at all, because of the shards required to craft the keys.
Are you sure that higher Level Portals give better Corruption stones? I was testing it with a small sample size the other day and I made a different conclusion.
From my testing the higher level portals have better drops. I farmed a few level 25 greaters and got numerous chests with like 5 shards, or 1 green one. When I do the myrkguard ones I generally get blues and sometimes purples.