I just completed a lev 20-22 mission, the mobs got a lev1 armypower debuff aura.

I have 12 shards bonuses saved up, I have 4 shattered victory traits (the ones where the description now doesn't give the slightest clue as to what it does).

The map had about 5 groups, I gained 46 shards...


Intended ?


p.s. The next mission was 21-23 that one gave 0.

Ditto above comments. Shard bonus is erratic.

I have noticed that you always seem to get a shard bonus the first time you conquer a territory, but not in subsequent battles on the same territory. Weird, huh?

This is related to the drop system now too, we should be able to choose when we want to use a shard bonus. So at the end of the map it would say you got say 50 ss and have a way to then use the shard bonus to get 250 but if it says you got 5 ss you could simply not use a bonus.

Yeah, that effect is coming from the drop system, it doesn't always drop SS and sometimes it drops an insultingly low amount of SS and as we all know the low SS x bonus = a slap in the face. Well it feels like it anyways.

The best way to benefit from the shard bonus is to do ranked pvp and win.

That's not always true Chromer... sometimes yes you get screwed and get 0 shards and it steals a shard bonus... however, other times especially when fighting on a spot with lvl 5-6 auras, you get an obscenely high shard count (my highest so far is ~2400ish though I've heard as high as 4k). In the long run if you are doing higher stuff the bonuses are actually better for PvE than PvP especially at lower PvP levels. The problem is that with the current system you are basically forced to choose either PvP or PvE as your main since PvP is controlled mostly by war strategy and PvE is controlled entirely by warfare. If you max out your PvE so that you can hit higher level areas where shards are better, your PvP is neglected and vice versa. So really which one is better in terms of shards depends on which you are focused in.

Now I do have to agree that if you get 0 shards from the mission it shouldn't count against your bonus. Also, an option to choose whether to use the bonus at the end while it would be nice, might be a bit overpowered. Then again, it is PvE so does it really matter if it's overpowered?

hmmmm