#Resplendent Shards

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left stirrup
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I think they need to lower the cost of curing resplendent shards, as right now they are not being used. It cost 1200 fuel to cured, which is roughly $9. There is rarely a illuvial worth $9, so they are not worth using. Tier 5 illuvials are worth $4.50. Even tier 4, stage 2 illuvials are worth $4.20. You'd have to see a tier 5, stage 2 for it to be worth using. And then your capture rate is not that great.

It also gives you double the capture rate as epic shards, but epic shards only cost 160 fuel or rougly $1.20 right now. To pay 7.5x to only get a double the capturing rate isn't worth it.

Honestly anything you would use a resplendent shard on, you are probably just better off buying on the marketplace. If you use a resplendent shard during a stage 3 run, it would cost you 2550 fuel alone or $19 (1350 to do the run, and 1200 to cure the shard). You could buy most illuvials on the marketplace for that price.

I understand that if you lower the cost, more people will use and that will mean more illuvials being captured, which increases the supply and lower the cost of illuvials on the marketplace. You would need to solve the supply issue another way, but as of right now resplendent shards are broken and no one is going to use them.

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Or make the capturing rate a lot better, so it gives players incentive to use on illuvials they really want

river kestrel
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Isn't it 1000 fuel to cure the tier 5 shard?

I don't agree with your logic where you sum up the prices of a run and curing together.

But there is another logic. If you want to catch tier 5 Illuvial with Resplendent shard and you have 50% chance of catching it. On average you would spend 2 shards to catch a tier 5 Illuvial. So... you would spend around $15 to catch tier 5 Illuvials.

I don't think there is a fix. The price of Illuvials is what is it. The fuel should go lower. So not sure what you suggesting really as a solution. But I do agree that capturing rates are awful and silly.

mighty shale
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Just use epic shards way more cost efficient

river kestrel
rough willow
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And on the other side 'what's the point of overpaying a shard when you have better result/ average cost doing thing differently?' You might do it once and figure it after, after never again.
Here we are pretty much in an efficiency environement (if you want to last longer and unless unlimited money brrr) or at least we will move more and more toward that, like it or not.

For now OP is right imo, resplendent shard don't have enough utility to reflect there price (x7,5 vs epic shard)
It has some for capturing very rare illuvials, such very rare that you could end up never seeing them, such very rare that you might use a master shard instead.
it has some with dust shard to be able to craft a master one, but doesn't look enought for me .It's not like you are gonna craft 10 master shard, most player will craft/buy one and use it very wisely. And budget player will grind one passivly if they play long enought with dust shard.

Also at lower tier we have some logic behind there price. Its basically paying double price than previous tier to double your capture odds. Can't really be the same for tier 5 as others factors are in, but we could find something more appropriate i guess. Then rebalance shard dust and master shard with it.
Or adding more utility vs other tier could be enough. Then even more utility needed for master shard.

For now it feel like resplendent shard is seating between 2 more valuable things so is struggling to find real utility. Could end up hurting even more master shard price on the marketplace in the futur.

PS : Feel free to share capture odds of T4 vs T5 shard on a T5s1/T5s2/T5s3 ilv as i don't have thoses number yet.

TLDR : Not enough resplendent shard utility beside shard dust.
Lowering there crafting cost or adding more utility looks needed to better fit with actual economy.

rough willow
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Also it might be too early to consider it atm, but i could see some problem coming out in the futur if no change being made. I Could be wrong obv. Just don't react too late.

mighty shale
lunar oriole
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I must have been cursed with bad luck. More often than not, three resplendent shards in a row will fail to capture even a medium T4 Illuvial. The only thing that seems to fill my show bag is bugs. Loads & loads of annoying morpho bugs. I hate them so much I intentionally try not to shoot them any more.

shut anchor
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I agree with the idea here, resplendent shards are barely used.

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Is it a problem though?

rough willow
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not a big deal at all, could have a better utility for sure but still too early to say anyway