RigoRHX.7390 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) Simply put, we gained far less Spirit Shards after Wizard Vault was introduced. I have seen people calculated that we gain 200 less shards per month compare to the old system, which gives 3 shards per daily. Would like Anet to address this somehow, unless it is intended (which would be kinda dumb and there ain't absolutely no good reason) Edited February 17 by RigoRHX.7390 6 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Err, we were getting Spirit Shards for doing the old Dailies? Really? I don't recall. 😄 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 9 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said: Err, we were getting Spirit Shards for doing the old Dailies? Really? I don't recall. 😄 To refresh one's memory: a meta achievement "Daily Completionist" rewards completing any three of the available achievements with 10https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/c/cd/AP.png/20px-AP.png, 2 https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/d/d1/Gold_coin.png/18px-Gold_coin.png and a Small Bag of Spirit Shards. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily_(achievements) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 you get a Spirit shard every 254,000xp, considering how many events,, metas, activities, gathering nodes, and other sources of xp are in the game, even before the WV was added, i think there are plenty of ways to get Spirit shards. but of course, you just want to log in and click abox to get them, my bad. 7 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I still didn't experience the spirit shard shortage. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigmatic.3576 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 41 minutes ago, Parasite.5389 said: you get a Spirit shard every 254,000xp, considering how many events,, metas, activities, gathering nodes, and other sources of xp are in the game, even before the WV was added, i think there are plenty of ways to get Spirit shards. but of course, you just want to log in and click abox to get them, my bad. Players are able to grind out 762,000 xp within 5 minutes at least once per day? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solvar.7953 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 The tomes of knowledge also give you spirit shards, which one can get via various sources (including the WV - 8 AA, 35 can be bought/cycle). I guess it is different for some people, but I've never been short on spirit shards and have over 8000 in the bank right now, so I'll never be buying those tomes. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRay.2391 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 25 minutes ago, Solvar.7953 said: The tomes of knowledge also give you spirit shards, which one can get via various sources (including the WV - 8 AA, 35 can be bought/cycle). I guess it is different for some people, but I've never been short on spirit shards and have over 8000 in the bank right now, so I'll never be buying those tomes. I had 5k+, but after heavily investing in legendary gear currently sitting around 800. And probably will burn this for mystic clover gambling soon enough. WvW though gives good supply of tomes, this helps a lot... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfofdivinity.6251 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) I agree with the op. I am lucky that I have thousands upon thousands banked but I have friends who recently started that love the game, want to start their legendaries(the only real end game) however they keep getting hung up on the spirit shards. We mainly WvW/pvp so it's a trickle if they are lucky. Please add some form of compensation for the loss. Vets will be fine. But newer people will suffer as they use up their meager reserves. Which by now I'm willing to bet are near empty. Edited February 19 by Wolfofdivinity.6251 3 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjentra.3409 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I recently had to burn through about 800 tomes that i saved from WvW just for spirit shards. Don't forget the daily login rewards also gave 10 tomes every 28 days; so WV still doesn't cover the 3 you used to get every day; along with all the writs of exp you used to get from dailies that added up. They even nerfed bauble farm when EoD came out so you can't even use that to get shards anymore. 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I personally didn't even notice it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenKeriti.5176 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I get my shards from AB, Pinata, etc. .-. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krajtin.8956 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 You do AB, you do LW3-LW4 daily achievements, do PvP, do events. It is super easy make SS just you need know the game 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiamat.8254 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) I have more spirit shards than I can use due to shortage of other materials such as mystic coins. What are you doing with them? Edited February 19 by Tiamat.8254 Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 2 hours ago, Tiamat.8254 said: I have more spirit shards than I can use due to shortage of other materials such as mystic coins. What are you doing with them? Looks like legendaries, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idpersona.3810 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I've had the same issue as the OP. This is from one of my posts from a Nov last year: On 11/2/2023 at 12:25 PM, idpersona.3810 said: From talking on here, there seems to be players on opposite sides of this. Either you have plenty and they seem worthless (having literally thousands) or they are the bottleneck to crafting. Since each legendary weapon takes about 300 (varies a bit depending on Gen). Personally this change (removing them from daily chests since SotO came out) has made a huge difference in my rate of spirit shard acquisition. I would like to see the option to get them put back in somewhere. I think spirit shards fall in somewhere like the obsidian shards. Completely worthless if you have an overabundance, but they might be useful for some players to have access to the in the WV. I did the math on another thread some time ago, comparing my spirit shard gain the the 47 days pre and post SotO. 47 days prior I got 683 shards. 47 days post SotO I got 371 which includes 210 from 7 character birthdays. The difference is pretty big. The difference in acquisition speed is huge. And obviously for the people sitting on thousands of shards, this has never made a difference. But it makes a huge difference for anyone that actually needs them. Without characters birthdays, it was 683 spirit shards in 47 days compared to 161. Personally I've somewhat solved it by having to dedicate a day here for there to spirit shard farming. But that wasn't something I ever had to do (or even consider) before. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistwraithe.3106 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 It's a fair point. I'm guessing Anet wanted to increase the value of tomes and other spirit shard sources a bit. Question is whether they have gone too far? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Imagine if I could sell them. I have like 40k or something that will never be used up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vares.8457 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 So far I crafted 65 legendaries and I have over 14k spirit shards. Getting them is easy and really not a big deal. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan Deathrider.5910 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I've noticed, but that is because I've been running through them for Legendary gear and variants. Personally, I think the Tomes of Knowledge in the WV should be uncapped. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idpersona.3810 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 3 hours ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said: I've noticed, but that is because I've been running through them for Legendary gear and variants. Personally, I think the Tomes of Knowledge in the WV should be uncapped. This would be a very easy solution. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan Deathrider.5910 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 16 minutes ago, idpersona.3810 said: This would be a very easy solution. I would go out of my way to do every single daily, weekly, and seasonal if they did that. I need thousands more spirit shards for what I want to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idpersona.3810 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 50 minutes ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said: I would go out of my way to do every single daily, weekly, and seasonal if they did that. I need thousands more spirit shards for what I want to do. I get it. Me too. SotO releasing really stifled my legendary crafting journey. My gold acquisition far outpaced my spirit shard accumulation to the point that I outright bought 2 legendaries instead of crafting them. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan Deathrider.5910 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 5 hours ago, idpersona.3810 said: I get it. Me too. SotO releasing really stifled my legendary crafting journey. My gold acquisition far outpaced my spirit shard accumulation to the point that I outright bought 2 legendaries instead of crafting them. For me, I want to get all the Aurene variants. That is going to take a lot... That and I want to eventually get all Gen1 and Gen2 weapons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idpersona.3810 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 11 hours ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said: For me, I want to get all the Aurene variants. That is going to take a lot... That and I want to eventually get all Gen1 and Gen2 weapons. I'm still trying to finish out my weapons (I just have a torch and warhorn to go plus the 3 aquatics). I was crafting about a legendary a month pre-SotO. Now it looks like one every 2-3 months. And my playing habits haven't changed all that much. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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