Negation and Vorpal Shards

chadworth66

Where do they drop?
I will be playing NW in ps4 and it will take awhile to farm protectors seals and I so was wondering if they drop.

wylonus

it harder to get any shards from original dungeons, they got overhauled.
only way to get them to built up seals to buy from seal merchant, they cost 300 seals per each shards, and you need 4 shards to make a lesser enchant, and plus 4 more shards to get another lesser to upgrade. very expensive process, since you need more than a dozen of coal wards, last i heard you might need total of 36 C-wards, they cost 10 dollar each.

mercedesman

I wonder if I made a Trans Vorp and Trans Negation from shards, buying the Coal wards from the zen store along with refining every enchant and artifact on my character using items from the zen market, would cryptic send me a thank you card? I don't think I will try to find out, for that money I can get my airplane built and ready for inspection.

kvet

Short answer: they don't.

You can get terror, feytouched and elven battle from the three Sharandar lairs. But that's it.

dupeks

mercedesman said:

I wonder if I made a Trans Vorp and Trans Negation from shards, buying the Coal wards from the zen store along with refining every enchant and artifact on my character using items from the zen market, would cryptic send me a thank you card? I don't think I will try to find out, for that money I can get my airplane built and ready for inspection.

Since wep and armor enchants don't go away and (so far) rarely bind, older enchants are still on the market. And those enchants were created when wards were far cheaper than they are today.

So as a rule of thumb, old-mod enchants are cheaper to buy than to make yourself. All new enchants (think dread, shadowclad) were necessarily created since wards have become expensive again, so their auction house price will reflect that.

scathias

Tiamat drops random armor/weapon enchant shards at times so it is possible to get them from there. The fastest way to get shards though will be to buy them with the protector seals.

And i dont know what it will be like on PS4, but on PC it is cheaper to buy the lesser enchants from the AH, which are made and sold by people who have free coal wards from invoking, and then make your own normals. Many normal enchants also drop from lockboxes, so which lockboxes PS4 gets when it launches will determine the price of many enchants

oliboyph

You can buy the shard from the seal merchant in PE for protector seals. I've gotten some from Tiamat, but it's not very often.

Wow, I just realized how difficult it's going to be to start a new server, you guys will really need to band together.

sorce

Negation and Soulforged do drop, from Tiamat as stated above and from the 2nd coffer in the Dread Ring Lairs (requires the last gauntlet you craft).

As both of these shard types are considered a higher tier, they only cost 100 protectors seals per shard, not 300 (the ones that use Elements seals cost 300 per shard).

kreatyve

Depending on what lockbox they give you on PS4 at launch, some of the newer lockboxes also have some really good enchants in them.

jumpingmorks

Also, VT used to (not sure now) give you a chance at shards, also, DR Astral Coffers also have a chance to drop shards. The drop rate for them is abysmal though.

wildfirede

imo you should worry more about the wards, i think shards will normalize and be available quite soon.