Rainmare@Oasis wrote:
or maybe it's becuase there's a LOT more group instances to get white shards then there are raid instances for blue shards?
lets see. white shards come from: 3 ToFS instances, 3 Rime instances, 3 Kael instances, 3 drunder instances, EoW, 4 SS instances. so basically for white shards right now you've got 17 places to go. and all of them resetable every 1.5 hours.
so for raid shards what do we got. Kael and Rime, which I think is one zone each. 3 SS zones, 3 Drunder, PoW, ToFS x2 and Drunder x2. in all these instances every named drops I think 2 shards. they all can only be done like what, once every 2-3 days? and now ST. so there's like 12 places to get blue shards. and it's not like you can run them several dozen times a day, either.
considering the lockout timers there's a TON of white shards to get easily and quickly. no need to add white shards to ST. as it gives everyone a reason to still do SS zones or DoV zones. which means all those folks that have been still leveling or getting thier aas to hit 92 may actually be able to get groups for the access questline in Skyshrine.
You can also get (if I remember correctly) 3 white shards in one run through Delving Dead in Sinking Sands, just by picking up the quests at the monolith when you first enter.