Please Increase Drop Rate of Khyber Dragonshards

[Kerr]

I've run all the new quests, ran a few older quests, and have yet to see a single Khyber Dragonshard fragment drop from a breakable or be found in a chest! I want to be able to bind certain equipment to prevent the added wear and tear from these quests, and haven't even been able to start! It was posted that these should drop 'commonly' from breakables. I haven't seen any.

Also, Trap the Soul requires these to be forged into larger ones, and my Wizard will never get to try it out if I can't find enough to bind a few pieces of equipment, much less actually get the fragments forged together!

[Angelus_dead]

I want to be able to bind certain equipment to prevent the added wear and tear from these quests, and haven't even been able to start! It was posted that these should drop 'commonly' from breakables. I haven't seen any.

I've got over 4000, they don't seem rare. I bet in a few weeks they'll be cheap at a settled price on AH.

[Stormanne]

Agreed, I've been getting them in groups of 200+ out of chests and 50+ out of breakables....

[bobbryan2]

And a single cast of the lowest level of soul trap requires 1000 fragments just to make 10 tiny shards.

Oh...

4000 doesn't seem like that much now, does it?

The problem I have, is I had 3 tiny dragonshards, and they're used up even if they enemy is immune to the spell. Managed to kill a small ice mephit in a lvl 6 quest with 3 days worth of questing. No soul gem from it either...

[jjflanigan]

And a single cast of the lowest level of soul trap requires 1000 fragments just to make 10 tiny shards.

Oh...

4000 doesn't seem like that much now, does it?

The problem I have, is I had 3 tiny dragonshards, and they're used up even if they enemy is immune to the spell. Managed to kill a small ice mephit in a lvl 6 quest with 3 days worth of questing. No soul gem from it either...

4000 seems like 40 casts of the spell...that's a decent amount for just a couple of days collecting them. And you have to pick the soul gem up off the ground.

[PhoenixRajoNight]

Have to remember the loot drops are random, and some peeps have no luck with getting certain items, I think maybe they should increase the roll range to drop them if its a range of 5 outa 100 maybe up it to 7-8.

[Angelus_dead]

4000 seems like 40 casts of the spell...that's a decent amount for just a couple of days collecting them.

Well, you could easily cast it 40 times in one quest if you were actually using Trap the Soul as a way to fight monsters, rather than as a way to obtain Essenses for recipes.

Plus, 40 times you can cast it will only work on monsters of 10 HD or less, which is virtually no monsters you'll ever fight. To really get use from it, you'll need at least 10,000 frags to make the medium gems.

[Hakushi]

I found 38 in the first chest I opened and havn't found any since on my rogue. My ranger got some from 2 chests (over 200) and that's all I have for now.

[chemonz]

4000 seems like 40 casts of the spell...that's a decent amount for just a couple of days collecting them. And you have to pick the soul gem up off the ground.

Well.....4000 gives you 40 tiny shards which are only good for low hd mobs. At least a 100 tiny shards seem to be needed to make medium shards and 100? medium shards are needed to make large shards which are probably the only ones that would be usable on mobs that would be found in a level appropriate quest for a wiz or sorc capable of casting level 8 spells.

It seems this spell is really only meant for crafting as acquiring enough shards for regular use in quests seems nearly impossible.

[Rindalathar]

I completely agree with Kerr. Common drops to me sounds like a frequency more akin to money in breakables. I've run all the new quests, a few old ones and probably 8 rares in the Vale and not a one fragment. Since Wednesday, I've gotten 4 points of perm. damage when in the past it might have happened once a month, if that. IMHO, the fragments are not dropping in as high frequency needed to allow folks to choose whether they want to bind items or not.

[Knightrose]

They only seem rare because they're new. In a month youll be swimming in them.

[bobbryan2]

They only seem rare because they're new. In a month youll be swimming in them.

Because people are now swimming in collapsed portable holes and dimension door scrolls.

Consumables aren't going to be flooded like something like vorpals.

[Kerr]

And remember, the Khyber ones are BLACK, not yellow. I've found nearly 1500 Siberys fragments in chests, but they are yellow and can't be used for crafting, binding, or Trap the Soul.

[Grimtooth333]

/Signed

I have found 6... that's it. I haven't even found any of the Syberis ones.

The drops need to be increased... Or better yet you can give us a stack of like 5000 of them upon first going to Maridia for completing the talk to whoever in Maridia quest. Plenty to protect some of our items at least, hardly would 'break' anything either.

[Knightrose]

/Signed

I have found 6... that's it. I haven't even found any of the Syberis ones.

The drops need to be increased... Or better yet you can give us a stack of like 5000 of them upon first going to Maridia for completing the talk to whoever in Maridia quest. Plenty to protect some of our items at least, hardly would 'break' anything either.

They drop in the hundreds on higher level content and raids.

[Kerr]

They drop in the hundreds on higher level content and raids.

Not a one for me in the 5 Vale quests, or Reaver raid, when I ran it.

[Knightrose]

The point is the drop rate is probably fine. I see plenty of them dropping not just for myself.

[BigBadBarry]

I've run 10 quests so far - no Khyber Dragonshard's for me...

[Lo_Pan]

Haven't seen any yet....Or scrolls for that matter..... DEVS: Did you break the loot tables again?

[Angelus_dead]

They drop in the hundreds on higher level content and raids.

Yes they do, they drop in the hundreds. But the key is, quantities of hundreds are not much. It takes 100 fragments to make one weak material component, which only works on monsters under level 10, meaning its useless for combat. To get a component that'll actually work on a monster you might see in a level 17 quest would take what, 10 times as many I guess. (I don't know, because I don't have that much yet)

It's as if you're getting 1/5th to 1/3rd of a single spell component per chest drop. Seriously, I've got over 6000 khyber fragments now, and I haven't yet been able to cast the medium-power Trap the Soul even once. The high-power Trap the Soul isn't even on the horizon.