Because tons of players bought Shards to use/re-sell them as material for RP way before Mod 2 went live for cheap prices, knowing that they would be valuable later, PW decided to "nerf" their awarded points when used to anything else other than refining an Enchant of the shard type.
It means that if you are using a shard as material, instead of the usual 2160 you will only receive 540 (but the same type bonus is now 8x, making it 5320 again).
So, those cheap shards are only worth if you are making an Enchant of that type.
Which I think is kinda stupid. The preview was that for everyone, it's not like only a couple of players had privileged information or anything... but it seems that it won't be changed back anyway.
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Because tons of players bought Shards to use/re-sell them as material for RP way before Mod 2 went live for cheap prices, knowing that they would be valuable later, PW decided to "nerf" their awarded points when used to anything else other than refining an Enchant of the shard type.
It means that if you are using a shard as material, instead of the usual 2160 you will only receive 540 (but the same type bonus is now 8x, making it 5320 again).
So, those cheap shards are only worth if you are making an Enchant of that type.
Which I think is kinda stupid. The preview was that for everyone, it's not like only a couple of players had privileged information or anything... but it seems that it won't be changed back anyway.