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Error/Bug with Blue Prophet Shards since JW release?


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Hello,
earlier today I was wondering why I don't get any blue prophet shards from daily soto or EoD strikes aside the daily achiev(5 shards each).
So I checked wiki: "While there is no acquisition cap for them from Icebrood Saga strikes, and the strikes may be completed repeatedly without any daily or weekly limits, there is however a 100 shard limit per week for End of Dragons and Secrets of the Obscure strikes. "

I believe this is either a bug, an error (or an overlooked issue?) when I ran some numbers.
Pre-JW the limit of100 shards made absolutly sense. Running a full clear EoD gives you on averade 77 shards. If you did them daily 1x/week, you get close to 100. If you add easy CMs like AH and XJ, you get capped. 100 shards might be still not much, but I can understand the limit's height. It's rewarding while discouraging for endless grind.

Now, that soto also gives only blue shards, we run into problems.
A soto NM fullclear gives already 46 shards (51 if on separate days).

This makes running the strikes daily not worth it besides completing them 1x week. Yes, you can spam IBS5 daily for ~15 shards on average. But for the majoroty of the players it won't be worth it anymore.
Sure, you could say that one weekly full clear is still great. That's true, but this is not the point as stated above considering the reward structure.And also... it this is increasing the problem that there will be even less groups during the week. EoD and Soto strikes are an excellent gateway to get new players to group content, so limiting it like this would be pretty sad.


Another indicator why I could imagine this was an error, was that at JW launch all our green shards turned into blue, but for the first few days we kept getting green shards from completing soto strikes. Short after the release we had the option to covert green shards into blue. Maybe that would have kept the limits as they were before and we would be able to keep getting up to 260 shards/week.

So, is this an error or a actually planned nerf? Some clearity would be great. 😕 

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Could we get some clariry in this? I this intentional or an error?

From Wednesdays until Sundays I have daily a at least one person in my squad asking me WHY they get too little rewards from  EoD and SotO strikes. And I cannot tell them if this is a bug or not.. 😞 


....So, is this ~62% weekly nerf of blue prophet shards intentional or not? (100 instead of 260 weekly)
I would really like to be able to tell people if it's worth their time or not. Currenly I witness the strikes pupulation decline by a lot. I see groups stop doing daily strikes because of this. I personally find it a pity because EoD + SotO stikes are a great gateway for harder endgame content and think they should be promoted more instead if letting them die.  I hate to see them die, but this is what I see right now.

I didn't bump it earlier because I understant that you guys are busy fixing the new expansion content. And I also know that just a fraction of then community is actually  interested in the the strikes. I ask basically in the name of those who DO enjoy that content and don't want to see it go down like e.g. dungeons.

 

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