Umbral shards, my storage is full of hundreds of thousands of them at any one time they are given out like candy not to mention running m10s each week give 6k per run!
Apart from all my 625 sets what can they be used for?
We all have so many umbral shards that if they are used to increase gear score in the future we will all be able to reach the new GS within minutes of logging in after the update almost making the GS increase redundant, I mean honestly why didn’t you just keep the water mark system up to 625 its no different, its not like any one who even plays casually would have not made it to 625 in a couple of weeks doing expeditions/chest runs/OPRs etc using the watermark system anyway.
I mean umbral shards would make sense to me if they were awarded to us a lot less say 2k for a m10 mutation and took more shards to get to 625 but with them being so easy to obtain and then only needing about 50k to get a full 625 set so around 8 m10s or even less if you are obtaining them through other ways which can easily be done in a week if you actually try, what I’m saying is I feel AGS placed them in the game as a bit of a grind to get to 625 but in the end made them so common that there was just no point and a fake grind.
Personally this is one of the biggest things I want to hear from AGS is how will umbral shards progress and were is there place in the future of new world.
Will future upgrades take a ton more umbral shards, enough to actually justify the amount we currently receive?
Will they be made redundant via tier 6 weapons and armor?
Why introduce umbral shards over the water mark system if it is just the same thing but worse?
They were a stopgap measure put in place to extend content.
In reality the Gypsum should have just went all the way to 625 and people should be able to use materials like asmo/runic/pw/glitt to upgrade their weapons and armor to 625.
Yeah I’m all for sellable shards but then at the same time it means people can just buy 625s like they are now more easily ugh, they should have just kept the watermark system I I feel.
With the next patch incoming and all the new set you are going to need to farm and use with all diferent RuneGlass you will need to spend your Umbral Shard don’t worry.
And remeber that not evryone spam 25 M10 evrey weeks. You are a minority.
People should have always been able to spend gold to buy 625 gear. That’s what a player driven economy is. People with less time can spend money to level gear. People with more time get paid for their dungeon running.
Could be used for Runnic Stopwatch someday, craft a stopwatch with 1 or 2 voidbent igot (to give this a second life) + one other legendary resource (broken musket for engineering suff like that) + 5000 umbrals to have secured legendary
If they up the gearscore max to 650 I would think they will rework the leveling cost. More like every level goes up by 50 umbrals as opposed to direct scaling.
What is it with this community and gatekeeping? Do you honestly want to be the best player in the game of 100 people? Stop trying to make things harder the grind is too much as it is. This drives players away in droves.
Runic stopwatch uses 500 shards per pop but you are capped at one a day… RuneGlass uses shards and we will let the final numbers when they update it… But it looks like they are going to be using them in crafting for the future, and odds are it will let you craft something that is not BoP.
Also, I am sure that sooner or later they will bump GS past 625.
They do its called progression one of my main issues is we have hundred of thousands of umbral shards not in use now if you do not increase the shards needed to upgrade them then this will continue to climb.
What you call gatekeeping I call progression locking I am locked in my current position not being able to make any progress because YOU don’t want me getting to far ahead…
This game is nowhere near a grind if you compare it to any other MMO.
This game is not every other mmo. Do you really want it to be the same as every other mmo? If so why not just go play those mmo’s?
You are not progression locked. You can upgrade everything you buy instantly.
You are at the cap. There will always be a cap.
And yes, you can’t get further ahead. The entire mentality reeks of elitism and garbage. People that think like this would legit be fine with the game dying as long as they could say they were better than the other players. It’s stupid and destructive.