No more shards

tmiannone

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Monsters found via rumor mill at taverns are no longer dropping shards...even the lichs and dragons.
 

Sharkyinthe UK

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tmiannone":194dkb5z said:
Monsters found via rumor mill at taverns are no longer dropping shards...even the lichs and dragons.

It's a random drop, the chance for liches and dragons is 50%, so you could go through 10 and not get a drop then it may drop one. (I.e. 50 out of 100 should drop a shard)

Other rumour bosses have a 25% chance of dropping a shard (so out of every 100 you kill you should get 25 shards)

You may just be having a bad luck spell !
 

Uljan

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tmiannone":2me1phnf said:
Monsters found via rumor mill at taverns are no longer dropping shards...even the lichs and dragons.
I killed several dragons and did not get one single shard, then stumbled in a Hill Giant boss while wandering and got one. It can be a little frustrating, but keep walking from city to city, take a break clearing some dungeon and go back to the taverns. Before I read here on the forum that it is useless to stay in a city and skip day after day I wasted 100 days with no rumor at all. You need to spend real time playing and then hope for a good drop. If you're not very good at gossiping, try also to have a look at the usual spots where bosses can be, because sometimes you'll just find them there.
 

hamiltd3

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Hi,

I have a level 20 rogue, and have completed all of the quests except for getting the black shards at this point. I have the shards from all of the bosses that had them, and from the hidden room in one of the dungeons (I have 7, need 5 more), but have now gone from just starting level 19 and a good bit into level 20 doing rumor bosses almost exclusively. This takes forever since I have to run all over the map to get a rumor and details to find them. I've killed an untold number of dragons, powerful skeletons, manticores, giant ogres, etc... and have not yet gotten one black shard from them. The drop rate for shards for me is 0% for some reason apparently.

I've gotten rumors from every city, killed the rumor bosses all over the world, and even added occasional town hall quests to break it up, just in case I was doing too many of them.

Help? What am I doing wrong???? I'm beyond frustrated at this point.
Dave
 

RougeRogue

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Unfortunately RNG isn't in your favour, all you can do is persevere, or try save scumming if you're really at the end of your patience.

I had the same issue while trying to get a primeval mantle (if that's the right name) took me a long time to get the drop, but eventually it happened.
 

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