RNG Taken Too Far!

[Kerridoc]

Since this thread has been resurrected, I’ll repost my expanded version of shards as providing “micro rewards” for micro-transactions, particular when the player got a bad roll or string of bad rolls:

Something a little more certain for your spend - shards?

I’m intentionally bumping this old thread to revive discussion. In another thread (complaining about low 5* drop rates) part of my reply included an extension of the idea that was started in this thread. Here it is for further discussion: Instead of rare mats dropping outright, you collect fragments of specific mats, e.g. a Mystic Ring fragment. These trickle in much more often than a Mystic Ring. Accumulate, say, 20 shards and then you can forge them into a Mystic Ring. This approach reduces …