its stupid how finding the lesser latent version is the hard part, and crafting a the renewed version which is a million times stronger takes mats which are cheap as shit.
finding the mats to craft a renewed should be alot harder, and finding a latent should come sooner. spend more time farming with the ability to get through enemies with your desired build, then work with a junk sunder to find gear with pierce and also farm
the mats for the renewed version. the way it is now, players will essentially be crafting renewed versions as soon as a latent drops... which is dumb.
You need the shards not only to upgrade them but also to farm them. Why would you terrorize whole acts if you could just leave and rejoin any current tz? To run cows tz one time? That contradicts the whole purpose of shards. Imo the best thing they added to this game since lod