Yikes… I mostly find my ember through GRs though, while the soul shards dropped nearly from everything.
That is quite unfortunate…
Anyway, here are 2 screenshots of me getting 2 embers in each GR I completed just about an hour back:
https://i.imgur.com/zNTbQqc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/feSkUXO.jpg
I think my forum level was demoted due to my inactivity thus I can’t directly link the images here.
I’ve had basically the same experience. 10 or so shards, yet only one ember, when I was around level 43.
This muppet went and applied it on the wrong shard as well, so I might as well have trashed it 
Hopefully be a bit more careful when I do get another one.
RNG is so funny.
I had only found 1 ember in a T1 rift when I was about 10 paragon.
Many paragons, rifts, bounties, and GRs later had not found any more.
Then 3 embers dropped in a single GR66 
Don’t though, soul shards can be used instead of the legendary gem in the Caldesann’s Despair recipe to add augments to equipment…
I think I’m going to cry because I salvaged 2 Rank 3 Soul Shards thinking it would either give back the Embers or give me better gems.
I didn’t know they could be used for augments but thank you!
I think the ember drop rate should be a bit higher as well as rama drop rate. There are some who end up with large quantities of rama’s per season. I have Montezuma’s revenge level of crap luck with rama’s. I did get my 4 or 5 ember finally.
Are the embers tradable like rama’s?
Unlike the soul shards (got my first one before level 40), embers have a low drop rate.
The 2 i have gotten so far came from T8 rifts
What level are you playing at? The drop rate should be okay at T13 and higher. Once you get two upgraded shards your speed and power should be increased quite a lot… thus yeilding more embers.
Since you can target farm the shards it doesn’t make much sense to compare with embers found. Those numbers probably depend a lot on how many bounties you run early on.
Personally at ~15 embers and ~20 shards.
And 1 ram…
Btw, Blizzard, this is a much better system than lvling up a gem 150 times…
…just to add to what I’ve already said. I just ran some empowered GR 75s to level up some gems to 25 and I got several embers and also some shards. It’s not like that they’re raining of course. In comparison I’ve “only” had two Ramaladnis drop.
I’ve been doing T-16 and GR-75. No rama’s.
So far I’ve got a lot of shards, 3 embers (2 from the same level 45 GR and 1 from a level 60) and 2 Ramaladnis. One of the shards netted me a Flawless Royal Emerald! 
Darn it. For want of a more colourful choice of language…
I assumed it was just max levelled shards that worked for stat augmenting. And I played the ptr as well. Should have known this.
Thanks MB.
This. So much this.
/10char
embers are sucking on drops and even worse when you find out the rank 3 sucks and wrong main stat.
Update on my search for Embers: one dropped randomly off a mob (all shards so far dropped from bosses). Then a second ember dropped from a GR boss. Seems like either the drop rate has increased considerably for Embers, or my RNG improved, boosting my morale.
Edit: This was at T8 or T9 where it dropped from a random mob in a regular rift. Greater Rift drop was probably around 45.
For practical purposes, the lower ranks may as well not exist for augments unless you get really lucky gem drops very early. Between the embers dropping at a fair clip and the high number of shard rolls that are useless, there won’t be any sort of shortage of Rank 3 gems to augment with.
You’ll likely not have enough flawless royal gems before you run out of useless rank 3 shards for augmenting.
Lotsa shards and 2 embers.
Kinda wish shards could be salvaged into embers. Might help bad RNG for some folks.
I got 4 embers in 2 GR 100 runs…thats right 4 embers in 2 runs…I’ve notice that 100 seems to be pretty efficient farming for me…anything you can do in under 3 minutes seem to be the best way that I’ve noticed to farm them