Exactly. What he says makes literally no sense.

I actually love popping shards cuz i can take my time and relax .. instead of trying to speedrun it due to timer

Great new feature imo

Yup!
Did all 5 acts in a game today. Took 2.5 hours, killed 17 heralds and got 6.3 bars of exp at lvl 95.
Got at least 15 shards back from those 5.

Beats doing 3 hours of Blood Moor, Burial Grounds and Far Oasis back to back in gaming prime time.

This post was edited by Roneye on Mar 2 2026 10:18pm

Yea shards have been an awesome addition.

3 days means absolutely nothing out of context. How many hours? Were you playing p8 solo? Your 3 days could be an average player's entire season considering average players dont hit 99

I think the system is fine but there are a ton of pros and cons. For example, 30 minute rotation means tombs/WSK TZ is more annoying to casually organize now because you get a whole group and only run for half as long as before. Most groups ive seen are not down to spam full acts, very different from the old system where you could sign up for pretele wsk and get 50% in an hour by leeching

U fawkin wot m8

Have you tried popping a shard after you've opened cow portal? The other day I ran cows then popped a shard for a1, cows were labeled as tz. It could have been a coincidence, I don't recall checking the timer.

I wonder why they decided to have variable drop rates between the shards when general drops don't depend on which act you're farming.
Northern shards being more rare just makes it more difficult to prep complete shard sets, and you end up with a surplus of the others.

How do you guys get so many shards? I clean the whole fucking game and get 1 if i'm lucky.

Depends on player count ofc which is why the patch is busted. Aka it's a very group oriented patch especially when world shards are involved and have insane drop rates on p7+ but almost none for solo players.

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Mar 3 2026 12:48am