World Bandaid fix to the Ability Shard “issue”

I will be perfectly honest, I’m fine with ability shards, and since editing is no longer a pain I’m fine with the shard system trade off, however I read a lot of good points saying that this system will be tediously slow for the first few weeks, and I completely agree. As a bandaid fix to this issue I think there should be a shard stimulus. players who log in the week of 2.0 can claim 15 shards. This solves many issues as it brings in hundreds of shards into the economy, allowing people who know what they want to sell off their shards while people who want to experiment with spell setups can easily buy the shards needed.

Edit: Disregard the first sentence, after trying to test builds I realize how ANNOYING IT IS, you can burn through shards like water and takes days to change for 1 class. Not to mention very unfair to non VIP and up I would much rather an emerald cost or something, but the reality is that not likely to happen, I’m not gonna take down the post, but if they are going to keep the shard system for some reason I at least think some stimulus to not slow people down

Edit TLDR: I was wrong, fuck shards

 

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Poll is pretty bad considering that doing this would obviously help a little early on but the issue is that it shouldn't need to be done in the first place. This isn't even a band-aid fix since that would imply that it's fixing something, it's more like trying to use a band-aid to cure cancer, like sure, maybe the placebo effect will have a positive impact on your mood but at the end of the day you still have cancer.

 

Great point, this is a band-aid to cancer. It’s likely they well replace it completely, but in the case they don’t at least it’s slightly less sluggish at the start, also updated poll slightly