Shards from Zombie Uprising or Banners?

Know you can get them from Rikti Invasions, haven't had a chance to join a banner event or zombie uprising since I19.

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Do you remember what the shard dropped off of? The hidden level of most of the Rikti troops is level 30, so they shouldn't be. I've heard that the bombs and the heavies are level 50, so it should be possible off of them.

For the zombies, I would think maybe the Nightmares, but probably not any of the others.

Of course, I could be completely wrong .

Unknown what mobs they were dropping off of; definitely not heavies though. Have gotten one off a bomb.

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One person on my Rikti Invasion team on Guardian got a shard off of a bomb. Only one on the team.

I had a shard drop during a Rikti Invasion the other night which sort of suprised me since someone had told me that same thing.. While they have no assigned level basically the invasion forces are mostly 30 levels .. that was based solely on the level of the recipes that dropped during invasions.

I was battling invading troops, not bombs, and to be honest I was on my Crab Spider with all of my pets out and using my AoE attacks as much as possible to get credit for as many defeats as possible so I really have no clue what prompted the drop. I know we did battle Heavy Suits at least twice during that invasion but I can't even recall if any of them were out at the time the shard dropped.

I suppose it is possible that the EBs could be 50s and potentially dro shards but I'd have to think there are a lot quicker and easier ways to get shards than racing all over the place chasing Rikti and Zombie invasions hoping for ONE shard. :-D Happy hunting!

Got 2 shards during a Rikti invasion last night; the last one was obtained just as it ended so I scrolled up in the chat and it had dropped from a Headman Gunman.

I've pulled shards from multiple Rikti invasions already. I see no reason to think that it'd be otherwise for the other two events.

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Paid close attention during a Rikti Invasion today. I was solo and tried to use only Single-target attacks.

I had a shard drop from a Heavy Assault Suit and also a Conscript, so it looks like it's not limited to just the EBs. There wasn't even an EB up when I got the shard from the Conscript.

I'd say that maybe the Conscripts are lvl 50 also, but I got a lvl 30 Invention Recipe from another Conscript, so I can't really explain that.

Either way, I think we can all agree that we can earn them during invasions anyway.

I'm pretty sure if you seem to get a shard from a Rikti that is not a heavy or a bomb it is because you or a teammate did damage to a heavy or a bomb and when it finally died at someone else's hand, you got the shard reward even though someone else got credit for the kill.

When a shard-dropping critter dies, every level 50 that had a hand in its death gets a roll for a shard.

You can tell the 'invisible level' of a 'levelless' critter by the level of recipe it drops.

Weird.

Maybe as a side effect of their non-standard everyone-has-their-own-chance dropping, the GM code allows people AT fifty to get shards?

I have gotten Shards from rikti invasion (off bombs and regular troops) and from the banners. I have not done a zombie invasion for a while but would assume the same there. If your toon is playing at lvl 50 these events will drop shards for you, not at any great rate compared to other stuff but they will drop.

OK, it does look like Shards drop off of stuff that follow the GM scaling rules.

I was just fighting stuff completely on my own in Lord Winter's Realm. The Winter Horde in there have no listed level and use the GM code - they always count as even-level foes. While fighting them I received stuff appropriate to a level 30 critter, including a L30 Multi-Strike and several pieces of Ancient Bone and Alchemical Silver. (No complaints there.)

I also received an Incarnate Shard.

Click for a full-sized view, and check in my "Rewards" tab (top left chat window).

Maybe what we can conclude from this is that while playing at combat lvl 50, it simply checks if the foe cons white or greater to you?

Maybe the test for this would be for a lvl 50 to regularly EX down during a zone event and see if shards still drop. I'd theorize that you wont get the shards while EX'd, even though you are lvl 50 and fighting "GM code" foes.

Or an even better test.. Have a lvl 48 or 49 host an ITF at +2 so you'd be EX'd but still against lvl 50+ foes. If you don't get any shards the entire TF, the answer is clear.

Wendy, your example of running a Positron TF is correct, but...

Yes, they do drop during banner events. I can state this with certainty, as one dropped for my Domi a couple days after she became Incarnate-capable and was puttering around one of the circles.

In theory, this would also mean they can drop during zombie raids as they use the same system (as far as I'm aware). Haven't been able to confirm it directly as of yet, though.

Was fighting a Zombie Apocalypse in Grandville solo the other day on my MM (nobody else was even around). I asked in RO Global whether the zombies dropped shards, and seconds later I got a shard from one of the minion zombies.

Okay I hate constantly dredging up old stuff but I had another instance tonight where I confirmed shard drops. I was on my 50 level Bots/MM Mastermind and there was a Zombie Invasion in Cap Au Diable so I headed over there and joined the fun.

Now let's set the scene to avoid speculation...

1. I did NOT join any team so all the drops, Salvage, Recipes, Shards, and Enhancements I may have earned came from my own attacks or from something i at least damaged before someone else defeated it.

2. I did have out all 6 minons and there were plenty of times I had no clue exactly where they were or what they were attacking

Okay that out of the way during this invasion I had 4 shards drop. Once again after this now aging thread began I paid close attention and while on two of the drops their were Elite Bosses out (and on one I was actively attacking one when a shard dropped) the other two occurred when nothing higher than a Boss was present. Between this incident and the others posted here I think we can assume that if a 50 level teams or solos an Invasion (Rikti, Zombies, or Banners) there is a chance of a shard drop no matter what is attacking at the time (IE.. minon, Lieutenant, Boss, or EB).

We can also conclude, from my numerous experiences, that the RIKTI are cheap A$...ed bums that grudgingly give up anything compared to their Zombie counterparts... Two different Rikti incasions net me TWO shards while ONE Zombie invasion, that I even joined late, nets me 4? LOL