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Shard Drop Rate Skyrocketed?

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Ever since this new patch came into effect, I've been getting SOOOO many shards! Went from having under 10 of each to 30-40 of each! Insanity. Anyone else felt this way?

also, small side note question: anyone feel like drop rate of other uniques has dropped with the new changes? Might just be consequence of me doing more full clears than just hitting the highlights of each Act?

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ajgibbens1805 `8`

3 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

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atari `1470`

3 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

From https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... 4-now-live:

Blizzard wrote:
The chance to drop Worldstone Shards is no longer modified by player count. This change is reflected as an increase in drop rates for solo players.

Queegon `1042`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

By using one shard to terrorize an act you will probably find 5 more within the same act. Essentially worthless since they multiply exponentially.

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Orig_BarbaQ `15`

56 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

Yes. On a pack (30 enemies) found 4 yesterday. My current record it seems.

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FlammHammer `17`

51 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

ajgibbens1805 wrote: 3 hours ago
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Ever since this new patch came into effect, I've been getting SOOOO many shards! Went from having under 10 of each to 30-40 of each! Insanity. Anyone else felt this way?

also, small side note question: anyone feel like drop rate of other uniques has dropped with the new changes? Might just be consequence of me doing more full clears than just hitting the highlights of each Act?

The drop rate of uniques off heralds was lowered significantly, unfortunately.

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sanzen `0`

47 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

FlammHammer wrote: 51 minutes ago

ajgibbens1805 wrote: 3 hours ago
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Ever since this new patch came into effect, I've been getting SOOOO many shards! Went from having under 10 of each to 30-40 of each! Insanity. Anyone else felt this way?

also, small side note question: anyone feel like drop rate of other uniques has dropped with the new changes? Might just be consequence of me doing more full clears than just hitting the highlights of each Act?
The drop rate of uniques off heralds was lowered significantly, unfortunately.

Yeah heralds are really not worth the trouble anymore.

ShadowHeart `6179`Moderator

32 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

ajgibbens1805 wrote: 3 hours ago
also, small side note question: anyone feel like drop rate of other uniques has dropped with the new changes? Might just be consequence of me doing more full clears than just hitting the highlights of each Act?

Blizzard deliberately lowered the Quality Factors on heralds with the patch - they are far less likely to drop anything better than magic items now.

I explained it more here:
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tl;dr

ShadowHeart wrote: 3 days ago

Heralds used to have a Unique Quality Factor slightly better than act bosses, and now it's the same as regular elite monsters.

Heralds used to have the same Rare Quality Factor as super uniques, and now it's much lower than super uniques, but slightly better than random uniques & champions.

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Semirotta `575`

7 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

atari wrote: 3 hours ago
From https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... 4-now-live:
Blizzard wrote:
The chance to drop Worldstone Shards is no longer modified by player count. This change is reflected as an increase in drop rates for solo players.

F_CK YES! This was so god damn stupid to farm... Even in full games it was annoying to farm. Though now I fear its become too easy to obtain and lost its worthiness as worldstone shards sold nicely.