What Does 150 Shards Get You?
So what exactly does 150 Void Shards get you these days?
So you were frugal with your void shards and hired a tradeskiller to make your T1 set [38 shards] and T2 sets [112 shards]. You traded in more shards for Jewelry, Charms, Cloaks, and Baubles. You needed a few more shards for that shiny new T3 pattern that dropped out of Ward of Elements. And after all this, you’ve still got 150 shards or more just burning a hole in your money purse? Have we got a deal for you!
As you may or may not know, almost every named in the 20+ Shadow Odyssey dungeons has rare and semi-rare Fabled drops. These items reward the fastidious, the lucky, the patient, and the rich, but so far, not those who have an overabundance of void shards.
Game Update 53 (appropriately named the Shards of Destiny) will be adding an eighth vendor to the already bustling Void Shard Outdoor Market on the Moors of Ykesha docks. This vendor will be offering some of the Fabled instance drops for a cost of 150 shards. For folks who have been exceptionally unlucky with the random number generator (RNG), or simply have accumulated a ton of shards among multiple alts, this provides yet another opportunity to quickly gear up.
None of these are particularly rare. They’re not the best items from any zone, and the newer zones like Emperor’s Athenaneum and Kurn’s Tower, as well as the best Palace of Ferzul are not represented at all. None of this is game-breaking stuff folks.
Edric Fyrecog <Elemental Treasure Hunter>
Speaking of… You may remember that one of the Order of Flame disciples never tires of hearing your triumphs over the Void Beasts and conquering the various Elemental Lords contained within the temples. Turns out, the Jewelry merchant on the Lavastorm docks feels that just 15 [Unbound Elemental Essence] will suffice for the wares he’s offering up instead of the previous 30 essences he expected you to part with. Considering you can cleanse 3 temples per day, that’s a mere 5 days to earn these items.
Awnya N’Kval <Najena’s Elemental Jeweler>
This is not a change in Gu53 at all, but just a reminder that if you have picked up any of the nicer jewelry in the Ward of Elements x2 raid, be aware that many of these items have upgrades available from Awnya N’Kval on the Lavastorm docks by merging them with other shard jewelry.
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Comments (6)
Calain
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They should have done this from the start or even better use a difficulty based shard system to buy the drops for the unlucky like me.
The only bad thing is, that the rolling pin is missing. 🙁
Calain
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Hollenbrooke
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Wonder if there is a chance of them adding: zraxth’s vexed chaos bracelet from Zraxth, Guk:OS due to the infrequency of runs on that zone.
\aITEM 1475939464 -920583765:Zraxth’s Vexed Chaos Bracelet\/a
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derek
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bah. where is the najena ring and the veksar mage belt? and the crucible charm??? wah
not sure theres anything i want tbh
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Blackness
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A lot of the finer rare drops are missing from Guk zones like the Silver-Plated Bracer. I wonder why this is?
I’d also like to see the tradeskilling instance stuff vendor attainable too.
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Hrm
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Wow not even drops from the easiet zones like Scion of Ice’s Hood of Chaotic manipulation or Deep Forge’s Burning Lavastud. Not about how nice/powerful the items are either as the drums are on it. Simply nothing there to spend shards on, not because I don’t have plenty ..Come on SoE.
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Feldon
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It’s none of the rare stuff. It’s the more common FABLED drops to be honest. Except the mistmoore drum.
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