Obsidiann

Down to 40g on Befallen, many pages of them

Vainamoinen

I'm assuming that their rarity may have been a sort of limited, live "test" of the shards and that once devs were comfortable with how they were working, they were made more common. Perhaps, they also figured that more people might be making a concerted effort towards raid progression in order to obtain the mythical epic rewards and that this influx of people would need to get their hands on the shards.

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Hitz

Sucks for the ppl that paid lots of plats for these.

3devious

Well, it's just like when you buy a console at launch and then the price drops. You were just paying the price for enjoying the item since you bought it until the price dropped. If you're really cheap with your plat, at least it won't take you long to go farm your own.

Pett

Dev posted you can have multiple mirrors placed in your house, but only one will work.

lol Become lost his farming spot

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Caswydian

That's a risk you take being an early adopter of any new technology.

icKx

Yup, same thing goes for the people paying hundreds of plat for T8 masters that will cost a fraction of that amount a couple months down the road. Early adopters pay more.

I did have a nice lawl seeing the shards go from 1 @ 60 plat to 4-pages-n'-counting @ 20 gold not even 48 hours after Lu42.
Before that, I farmed frogs in Seb for hours and hours to never see a shard. Then I read in the update notes that the drop rate was increased (and was pleased) but never thought they would rain from the sky and become as common as guild status items.

firamas

Consoles gradually decrease in price over time, a 10% cut here, 10% there, over the course of a few years. Having the price of shards go from 80p to 20g almost literally overnight as the market flooded is in no way comparable to the trends in decreasing prices for retail entertainment technology.

A closer comparison would be a car collector paying $750k-1M for a Ferrarri Enzo because Ferrari says they're putting out a limited run of 399 (actual numbers here btw). And then 2 years later, after they've all been sold... Ferrari says that they were so popular that HEY, we're opening up vast new production facilities and making 50,000 more Enzos. The price of that valuable car plummets, and the original collectors/buyers are fucking pissed. Shit, there'd probably be lawsuits.

The original shards were relatively rare, but not difficult to obtain with a decent group (or some time on your hands to farm the solo frogs). I am simply asking why they were making many orders of magnitude more common, that's all.

Taear

Someone I know paid sixty plat for a shard just before the change. He's a coercer, so switching from a PvP to a PvM setup was quite a jump and he felt he really needed it.
Imagine his shock when it suddenly changed with no warning.

firamas

yep, after some failed farming i paid 70p, and that was a "buddy price"... i was going to get a shard at some point later and sell it back to him for 70

imagine my amusement now that they're 20g?