Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-198.160.9.62-20141119222044/@comment-128.255.117.100-20141120200349

Nivek Z. wrote: 107.194.174.250 wrote: Are you kidding, its totally enough time to make plus version with no gems..all you have to average roughly 4.5 fragments a day, it can be done with not a lot of effort, this is very cool, im at 30 fragments, no gems, 30 potions.. so if i can do it most bood players with multiple epics for advantageous elemental combos can Either you have a ton of strong epics or are very lucky. I spent all night last night and this morning battling monsters and save my special attack for the last monster to try and get a shard and get 1 shard for every 10 defeats... That is a 10% chance of getting a shard; by then my hp is all down and have to wait 2 hours for my hp to recover.

I have 3 war epics and still not doing well. (Bonesaw, Naga, and Minos Wargear) along with weaker epics (Beastmaster, aquatic, 2 cryptids, northerners and a bunch of EB+s.  Yet I still struggle to get shards.  So you should enlighten me on your secret.  How are you getting so many shards? I don't have 30, but I do have the first two stages clear and working on the third and fourth atm.  Also just a note, while I do believe that using the power attack increases your chances, it isn't a necessity.  I missed timed it a few times and mis-judged my power attack but they still dropped a shard.  Also I don't have everyone in epics.  I have a lot of EB+ armors and only a handful of epics.  To be fair I am in a max level guild with decent guild bonuses though so that might be playing a hand in it.  However, just be persistent.  If one stage is being unlucky (took a lot of tries for me at thieves cove), then still battle at that one but don't spend your whole time there either.

I definitely think Epic + is possible without spending gems.