Actually I can see an option where Legendary don’t drop for anyone if you switch someone from your group. That way you could switch someone if there is a dc and be able to complete the dungeon, but you couldn’t use that mechanic to provide Legendary to people who do not participate in the fighting.
(And the same would apply for anything else like quest kills or capes)
I love ping pong threat! Can I play???
Can you have more than 1 shard per person or would you destroy the current to farm a new?
This may be asking too much but can we know what the 1st Major will be on launch so we can strategize?
Thanks!
It will not give you another Level 1 shard into your inventory if you already have one. I suppose some people will probably farm them up and put them in their chest but they do not stack, so I guess it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth the space to do that.
I will announce that tomorrow so you can begin planning, I’m honestly not sure which of them we’re going to choose yet.
Maybe I just missed this in reading over it, but is it:
-1 shard per dungeon per party
or
-1 shard per person per dungeon?
And is killing sentry (for example) a guaranteed shard drop for every person who is there? Or is it also a random/guaranteed drop like the guaranteed loot currently is?
If people are in a party together and kill sentry (for example), will they all get the same shard, or will each one be random (random per person or random per party, basically)?
Really looking forward to this! Going to be a really fun challenge climbing the ladder.
Since some dungeons are naturally longer/ more complicated than others and the time limit is always the same - will the difficulty be tuned slightly differently between dungeons?
Edit: Also- will the info of what level the gear drops at per shard level be shared before hand so we can make more educated decisions on guaranteed drops Friday?
When completing a base-level Tradu Mines boss (any), if you don’t already have a Dungeon Shard in your inventory, a new Level 1 Shard will be generated for you at random
I believe each person is guaranteed on the 1st boss kill to get 1 shard assuming they don’t already have one.
It’ll be like Tradu, I’m sure; some dungeons will be inherently more difficult, or take longer to clear, so certain shard drops will be more desirable, but they’re random and soulbound, so it’s not like you have choice until you’ve farmed several shards.
Competitive end-game players will be gunning for world-first clears anyway, so I’d imagine for those players the dungeon that drops is less important, but more casual players will just want shiny new gear and may seek out other players with shards for the less difficult dungeons.
However, there is an element of randomness in the major and minor mutations that will also have an effect on the difficulty of dungeons throughout the week, so maybe one week a dungeon is ezpz and the next it’s unplayable.
Devs, feel free to correct me on this.
If i was the devs, I would start with the hardest major, just to gate keep the content for a little while.
That’s just it, though. Each dungeon boss has different mechanics and attributes that will be affected by the major, so perhaps there’s no such thing as the “hardest” major, but perhaps there is. And the minor is randomly attributed to the shard activation, so maybe a minor stacked with a particular major is super hard, but then with another major it’s not nearly as bad.
1 shard per dungeon per party. So someone in your party activates their shard, everyone does the dungeon and is eligible for loot, if you do it in less than 30 minutes, the person who activated their shard gets an upgraded shard.
Guaranteed drop.
Random for each one.
We’re actually going back through now and trying to normalize for example the amount of trash in some of the earlier dungeons. There will likely always be some that are a little harder/easier, though, just based on their boss mechanics and the current meta, not to mention how the mutations will affect it. To some degree that’s just part of the RNG of it all.
It starts at 20.3 for Level 1, scales up 0.05 (so 20.3, 20.35, 20.4, etc.) per Shard Level until Level 5, then goes up 0.1 per Level until reaching 21 at Level 10 (so 20.5, 20.6, etc.). So basically it’s pretty linear.
The mythic+ grind never ends…
But seriously this system was the best thing to happen to pve in years, looking forward to see what tricks are developed to handle high level shards in Orbus. Some sort of leaderboard which takes into account shard level and clear time would be cool (see third party mythic+ score trackers in that other game which definitely doesn’t use this exact system).
Someone else has used this system before? I’m shocked to hear that. SHOCKED I SAY. 
I like this idea, a leaderboard would be pretty cool for this.
Yeah ! Leaderboard would be amazing. No need to bother with screenshots and figuring out who did what when. This would make tracking every groups achievements so much easier.
In the absence of an official leaderboard, I would be willing to maintain a site that tracks highest keys completed.
I imagine something like this:
A fellowship submits details/screenshot about their highest key completed that day within 5 minutes of dungeon reset to a public location like these forums or the unofficial discord.
That screenshot and fellowship name gets added to a “calendar” like site that defaults to showing yesterday’s accomplishments and top key completed, but could also open up into an overall view so that the history is exposed.
Since the game doesn’t give a way to verify exact times and at a glance the nature of the mutations makes this seem very RNG based, I’m not really interested in tracking “firsts,” but more-so getting a feel for the overall progress of shard dungeons.
Thanks for the info drop! I am extremely excited to experience this new content, it sounds incredible!
I apologize in advance for the long list of questions. I understand if any/most/all cannot/will not be answered in advance.
Thank you again for all your hard work!
Good golly, that is a long list of questions, and no I do not have time to answer all of them haha. I will try and hit the ones that won’t be really obvious once you actually start running the content.
Will there be multiple legendaries per class each with its own unique affix or just “legendary sword: generic warrior affix”