Are we meant to team up to use our shards?

So terrorised and cleared the whole game on Saturday night and was super dissapointed with what I got for what took a few hours. Didn't expect a Latent Sunder but best drops I got was a 29 res viper magi and a couple of White berserker axes. Also only got 3 Heralds for acts 2-5 so only 2

Terror heralds at all.

Did manage to pick up two shards in act 5 though which slightly softened the blow of how wasted it otherwise felt.

Which made me think. Are we really supposed to be teaming up to at least 3, 5 even better 7 player squads to use our shards?

I assume at P7 a full clear of the game (elites) might on average net 5 or more shards which means you could theoretically go infinite and just keep terrorizing and clearing whole games.

And if you do this, does the ire stack across the game or per player? i.e. if 5 different players each draw the ire, is the 5th one a tier 5

Terror

Herald or just a tier 1

Herald?

Is this what blizzard wants us to be doing?

Ire is shared between players in the same game - technically one player clearing act 1 tz could draw ire and a different player clearing act 2 tz could trigger a

Herald from that ire. The

Herald tier stacking is also shared. Ire and

Herald tier is saved on the game level, not per player, so it becomes inherently shared.

If you want to know more about heralds (and everything related), you can read the following Reddit post by Pavke:
https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/commen ... cs_sunder/

Personally do not know. Ive just sold my shards as they are more of value to me that way. Two went for an

Ist.

But if you think about how the looting works; more players = higher chances of loot. So ofc teaming up and running the shards through is most valuable use for them. But that requires friends.