Maximum number of Shards?

Does anyone know what the maximum number of shards you can get on a character is yet?

I doubt anybody has reached the cap yet but there's no reason to think it's not the same as merits and tickets (9999). If there were a lower limit (one imposed by design rather than practicality), it would probably be shown to us, like the limit on our Invention salvage storage.

I'll concede that point.

I've heard from several people who are past 99 already.
I have not spoken with anyone past 999.... yet.

I've spent before reaching 100, but I've heard tell of people above 100. My guess is 999 but haven't heard of anyone hitting the cap yet.

I know there are some salvages that are limited to 99 (such as Halloween salvage) and others limited to 9999 (such as most merits and tickets).
I'm not sure off-hand if there's anything limited to 999.

Since we know you can have more than 99 shards my guess is that the shard limit is 9999.
It might turn out to be "only" 999, but either way that's going to be more than enough.

I've heard of somone with 126, so I think the limit must be at least 999.

Gone past 200 on one toon. Limit will likely be 9999 but maybe 999.

Just played with someone last night who had 84, but it's interesting to hear you can go beyond 100. Not sure why you'd want to stockpile so many, to be honest, but have at it.

Reason I think that is I don't know how the higher levels of the Alpha slot are going to work, let alone the other Incarnate slots, so I'm not going to stockpile... mostly working on getting Alpha powers for my favorite characters so they can get in on the new TFs, which I find fun and interesting.

And who knows how many you will need for the Beta.. etc Slots, or if there is different shards all together?

My guess would be 9999 also.

My reasoning - you can't sell or trade shards, just like you can't sell or trade AE tickets or merits, so it make sense that they'd have the same limit. Invention and Halloween salvage can be traded or sold, and both have much lower limits, perhaps to discourage/prevent stockpiling these items, but there is no reason to discourage stockpiling shards.

I think those who are stockpiing them are smart considering how many shards it would take to create a single second tier boost from scratch. A single Cardiac Core Boost for example would require 32 shards to create from scratch, so it is easily concievable that you may need hundreds of shards to create some of the more rare boosts.

Obviously some of the shard cost is offset by the fact that you can buy some components, like Grai Matter, outright, and some you receive for completing TFs, but folks who like to solo are going to need a lot of shard inventory to create all the boosts they want.