I think I was at somewhere between 120 and 160 runs across 5 characters before I gave up. In that time, I'd only seen maybe 4 shards drop in total at all (and only 1 shard for the red dragon armor, and only 2 red dragon helms).

mudfud wrote on May 17^th, 2013 at 10:18pm:


i'm amazed they never rolled anything back...i guess it took too long to do a fix?

painkiller wrote on May 21^st, 2013 at 11:44am:


It was going on for a long, long time before it really went public.

After it made it's way to the general public the marketplace chat was hilariously crowded with people trading seals and shards on Argo. At that point I think there was a Turbine post along the lines of "please don't do it".

I got a 5 point infraction for posting something along the lines of "People are trading them in the marketplace, what rock are under?" in response to a "What bag exploit?" post.

Selee wrote on May 21^st, 2013 at 9:48pm:


Exploit early, Exploit often!

(I'm just jealous because I don't have one)

Flav wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 3:22am:


No?

Osharan Tregarth wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 11:10pm:

Mine does, new bags don't.

I was 250+ runs before I got my first shard, sucks

over 100 runs.  I have 5 characters that got the base sword of shadows on 20th completions.

I pulled close to 40 flawless red dragon scales.  I have 1 seal, 0 shards, 0 esos scrolls.

I have on eSoS on my main.  I'd say it took about 50 runs in total to get.  Had all the ingredients, only missing the base item - but it appeared on my 20th reward. 

Was a relief as my 20th rewards usually skunk me.  My divine is sitting at 60+ runs of ADQ without seeing a torc.

My main toon has been quite fortunate in that regard, compared to some of the stories here.

I got my base SoS on my first-life Fighter in a heroic run with Guildies (it was up for roll, I came in second to a TWFing rogue, but he reconsidered and passed it to me).  Once I capped him (level 20 back then) I started hopping on EVoN5&6 runs when they popped up on the LFM, picked up one SoS Seal fairly quickly, but it was about 18 or 19 completions before I saw to my wonder the rare SoS Shard in my name in the chest (had seen 3 total in all that time, none put up for roll).  On my 20th completion, I had another base SoS in my end rewards list, so grabbed that one as well.  Bought a scroll off the Auction House for too much plat, and now I run with both the Base and Epic versions when I TR.  None of my other alts has gotten so much as a sniff at SoS pieces or parts.


I'm quite happy, and I absolutely love using them.   

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