This is my first ever forum post. I am posting because of the horrible grind that blizzard have dropped today regarding the voidshards used to acquire ascendant voidcores. It is shocking that this went live as is. The drop rate is so insanely low and completely punishes people playing alts, other specs, and even for dual wielding. Please fix this blizzard.
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Artifact power was a better system than voidshards, that’s how much I spite current system.
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I hate this system, and refuse to engage with it.
You can’t make me, Blizzard. I’ll get CE without it.
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With the way things are alts will never get an upgrade. For one they don’t get the one free shard your main gets, and then even if you do 8 keys a week with the current drop rate it seems like 1-2 shards a week. IMO every completed M+ should drop a shard.
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It’d be fine if they just dropped at a solid drop rate for weekly stuff, but right now it is like a late season return to island expeditions where only the people REALLY pushing care about the power increase and these people are now being pushed into leveling dungeon level content to just do a busywork grind.
M+ and raid should just be 100% drop rate
Also worth noting is that its somehow worse then island expedition grinding in that islands had a place to aim for. This grind is islands in nature but with a drop rate instead of steady gain.
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It’s especially disappointing after how good a job they did with the bonus roll system that they totally failed with the ilvl upgrade system.
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What a boring system, rewarding doing a 2-minute ritual site over and over and over.
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Imagine being time gated 4 weeks for content then being awarded with a multi hour grind just to upgrade 3 items. I guess you really can /spit on players in game still, oh wait only Blizzard can do that… To EVERYONE subbed
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Horrible system. It needs to be 100% drop rate or do away with “shards” and have full ones drop. Time wasting system to the fullest.
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It should have a 5% times delve level and 10% times key level and 25% times raid tier difficulty level as the drop rate.
And voidcores and this should be unlocked account wide. Pay/do on one toon, all the other toons are eligible to just go and loot theirs.
This feels like a yo dawg meme… again I am okay with it because I don’t play enough to have a horse in the race. But why bother with an 8 week grind to tell people to do a random grind right after…
Just do LFR. I got 6 shards from VS and 1 from DR. Took about 30 minutes total with all the geared people in there doing it.
The amount of crying about these things is frankly hilarious.
Woe is you, you have to play the game.
I guess you could defend grinding artifact power the same way, I wouldn’t call it still a good system it encourage degenerate gameplay that is simply not much fun but sure some people like that 
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Add timegated power, people wail about timegating
Add grindable power, people lament about having to grind
Lol, lmao.
Both can be bad.
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Lol what? You get shards by doing end game content. How fast you want to do it is the player’s choice. Nothing is encouraged. I’m going to get mine by doing the raids, dungeons and delves that I already do on a weekly basis. If you’re trying to hypergrind to get it as fast as possible, that’s your personal choice. Complaining about the way you choose to complete content is moronic.
Kind of annoying that they do either instead of just having it done automatically so we didn’t have to log in and play
better than the pvp version where you have to do rated with toxic sweat lords.
+1 increase drop rates.