This season with the new Witch gems crafting + the Ultimates updates and the chance of crafting Grand versions it looks like the fragment drops are extremely low.
Be it Infernal hordes or random world drops or whatever, getting 250-500 fragments when you need 75/100k for most crafts is very bad and that reflects mostly with Skulls and Diamonds. Even Material Caches in the tree give 2-3k meaning you need 33+ (!) caches for a single crafted gem?
You are an infinite of times faster getting Fugitive Heads or farming Rot than wasting time farming those fragments like crazy for a single gem craft. Takes many hours being stuck needing them.
And apart from all that fragments grind for a single char, what about alts needing different stuff making you farm them all over again…
If the theme of the season involves using these and now there is a multitude of overlapping stuff needing them, should the drops not be improved (quantity) or integrated in the Rot zones?
What about the economy, a Grand Diamond goes on trade for 8 billion gold in these circumstances, eclipsing many 1-2 GA items?
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Last season i was capped on gems, this season i cant keep up, seems like they both nerfed gem drops and increased the need for them, deffinitly not optimal.
The whole purpose of the themed season was to do Rot zones and grind for Whispers / Heads but that pales in comparison to the Gem Fragments grind, which is pretty silly and frustrating imo.
and the stupid runes…they are now a currency, they takes slots on loot tables everywhere…