I haven’t had chance to do shards since the change cause it came out late my time last night and it was as we were starting our raid, so I’m not going to comment about the potions as drops or the effect on the economy.
But I will say it’s disappointing to have the new recipes just handed to you, when the 5x crit/luck/con healing recipes came out I spent a whole day at the weekend drinking ithecac and searching the while game, even in stupid places that I though would have never got checked or used as a hiding place, just in case cause I was hoping there would be 5x int/str/vit, I got stuck in the void a few times that weekend which was entertaining, when necropolar came out I then checked that place too and nothing, it was hard work and took a lot of time, but it was fun hunting around. Even if you didn’t have time to add them in via quest, which is fair, you could have made them like the other missing journal pages so we could go hunt them down, the people that don’t want to hunt them can then find them once we share the location after it’s found like they probably did with the rest of the pages and it would still feel rewarding to those that like to put some effort in
That being said, due to the raid last night I haven’t even looked at the recipes yet but I appreciate that you added them for the players that will still want to make potions, so thank you for that