Spell Shard Requirements

[PJ]

Unless there was a rather substantial unstated change, there's a rather substantial bug with crafting spells.

Normally when you make a specific spell, depending on your current skill level, you require a varying number of spell shards.

I.e. For a Flame Bolt I spell, you'd need 6 sandstone spell shards at 1 spellcraft skill, and3 shards when you became optimal.

However recently this has changed so that the minimum number of shards is always required, regardless of how skilled the crafter is.

[dorrin]

are we talking tier 1 here?
i could've sworn it was only the number of orbs required that changed...

[Eni]

It realy got changed. But over a year ago. Long long ago the number of needed shards got reduced and fixed to mimimum while amount of needed orbs got increased.

[PJ]

They changed the amounts of resources required over a year ago. But the amount of spellshards still flucuated with your spellcraft skill until sometime more recently.

[Narkano]

PJ is right.A year agoonlytheamount of orbs requiredto craft a spell was increased.Nonetheless boththe number of orbs and the number of shards requiredchangeddepending onyour skill.

- Narkano

[PJ]

Well according to the patch notes, archived at GN.

The official change 18 months ago was for the # of spell shards to be reduced and the min and max # to be the same regardless of skill level. So as designed it appears to be correct.

So now i'm just curious when this actually happened, because it didn't happen 18 months ago.