wards not consumed from what I heard, but if you've ever tried combining shards that's a huge deal, since t1 weap and armor enchants have a 1% chance of fusion. so for a lesser you need 1 coalescent, for a normal you need 5, and a greater needs 21. that's 2 million AD. Lol and the reason I constantly have no AD
hrimnir is the only amulet ring set, so essentially t3 so definitely needed a fix, but my guess it ws a simple bug they threw in with getting rid of dupers