Which two shards including the variants are you planning on using in s25 and for which build? Do you work out your own build during the season or do you just copy what others (Maxroll) have said are the best builds?
I’m waiting to see them in game before I decide which to use as of right now I am still undecided on class to play. The final PTR adjustments may help with that but I am curious to try a WD… I just don’t want to main a character that will struggle so I’ll probably go for a DH and try the sentries.
I’ll do my own thing. I dislike looking at builds.
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I will be running solo for most of the season with a Monk. I wonder how often the Hellforge Embers will drop.
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I may not get very far with Vyr (non-chantodo variant), but I’ll likely aim for Remnant of Pain (cold damage freezing variant) and Sliver of Terror (cooldown reduction variant).
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Jade BOOM Harvester for me due to my love of this set and the reworked Lakumba/Shukrani
About shards… I’ll try Hatred/Anguish
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whichever will drop first. i suppose we’ll see less of em on live servers. and i wonder about embers too. those shards are no use without embers.
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As of right now, I’m thinking DH to start. But I’m with Opheliac. Not sure of their drop rate and since you need embers, it will be difficult to decide whether to spend the embers early or wait until you get a better shard.
I usually do my own thing, which generally ends up being pretty much the same thing as everyone else since the math generally point in only one direction.
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what i meant, is that i will use and level whatever gem i’ll get. i dont think well see as much of them as we see here on ptr. and even if its the wrong one it stil empowers your char a lot since all the weapon shard have cooldown and resource cost reduction, etc etc. they give you more anyways that the plain green gem we usually use in weapons. and helm shards also give cdr and rcr but with some vita and/or resists. which is also more than we have usually using only one plain gem.
what i wanted to say, is that i will use whichever i get if i have embers i will totally upgrade and use it. the only question is - will we have embers? 
some people spend a whole season not seeing a single ramalandhi, so i hope drop rate of this embers will be a bit higher.
I saw early on in the PTR someone (probably Wudi) mention that he had found 11 embers and 6 Ramaladnis just from playing the game. So if that’s what will happen in s25 we’ll have to spend those embers carefully and wisely - at least early on.
The drop rates are increased exponentially in PTR.
We will just have to see once season starts.
Some were thinking that they would all drop fast, level them all and pick the best two. That does not appear to be the case. I did not receive my first ethereal until I was P520 in s24, so I am use to the grind. For anyone who played the PTR do the Soul Shards and Hellforge Embers drop together? Getting the right amount of embers might be the key in s25.
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Hence why I said that I’ll aim for the mentioned gems, because knowing my luck I won’t even see the gem variations I’m going for.
As in, if a soul shard drops; does a hellforge ember drop with it? From what I’ve seen in the ptr, that’s a no. As I had embers drop by themselves, and sometimes a shard drop by itself. I think the only time I had both drop together, was when I killed a blue goblin.
Do the embers have any type of beam like the shards so you do not miss them on the ground? I know that a lot of the speed racers just run past everything. If the drop rate is low I do not want to miss any of them.
Yeah, Hellforge embers have the legendary beam and are called consumables (until you identified them), so you won’t have to miss them in that regard.
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Unless you have everything you can toggle the show item button to anything… im pretty certain i bound it to the shift or ctrl key. Eesh. Tough crowd xD. Nooby noob here again just doin my thing yo.
I don’t even know what I’m gonna start with this season. I’m thinking necro since I never ever ever really play necro…I’ll just have to wait and see how it pans out
Embers = Orange text that says Consumable → Orange beam -Orange Star on minimap
Souls Shard = Red text that says Shard of **** —> Red beam like Primals -Red Glow around Black Soul Shard on minimap and not a red Pentagram
**** is name of the shard . Ex: Shard of Hatred
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True. We’ll have to see, but Wudi’s point was that if the drop rate is like two embers for each ramala(ding-dongs) it’s something to consider.
The shards drop with some regularity and can be target farmed by killing bosses. Don’t anticipate any problems getting multiples of each.
Embers seemed very stingy and I’m afraid since upgraded shards can be used as augments that will be justification for keeping their drop rate low.
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