i saw a thread where the dev said players can average 3-6 moonstones a day during regular playtime, however it is hard to believe that…

i have been playing more than the average person on launch, and have gotten 60 moonstone shards in total (from day 1 until now), that’s 6 moonstones in 3 days. now, normally i wouldn’t be complaining because that’s a decent amount, but keep in mind i wasn’t playing like an average or casual player. i’ve been playing for hours and hours, alternating between tasks and trying (and failing) to get WWs. now that i must return to adult life, i can’t do that anymore.

so my question for f2p players, how many MSs have you snagged from just regular game play? maybe i’m just horrendously unlucky.

note: i’m talking just gameplay. no buying or selling to get it. only through the tasks / games etc. if you’re curious on the thread that had the dev say this, it’s here, 5 posts down.

edit: I started a suggestion. feel free to add your support, disagreement, ideas etc into it!

I've been spending a potentially unhealthy amount of time grinding levels on my wolves, activities, and trying to get WWs. I have 3 total, so I'd love to know how you got twice that haha! T_T

I’ve been playing pretty casually in between IRL stuff, and I’ve gotten exactly 22 shards (so 2 MS). A majority of those were probably from throwing 12 meat in the pot every few hours.

@TinySatan

i think i got most of mine through mining and… weirdly enough, cooking. i did get some from fishing though. i really wish there was a rare chance to get shards from the campaign to make farming for WW less painful as there is a chance at another reward. maybe i should make a suggestion ? :thonk:

I have gotten 26 MS shards since I started. I can't help but feel the 6 MS per day thing isn't right. I think potentially this total means 6 with membership (which shouldn't count). 3 a day with membership, 30 shards per day through gameplay? Though even then I have no idea how long you're expected to be playing Lorwolf for every day just to get those 30 shards- I don't even think that's guaranteed through daily Activities. I've never gotten 30 shards in a day.

@Lai

yeah i did wonder if she meant with the membership but she specifically said through regular gameplay and i don't consider typing my card details as gameplay lol. but that's why i was asking to get a wider view of it, because so far getting 3-6 per day seems such a far reach…

I've gotten 25 shards in total

So 2 ½ ms

This is from me playing since official launch with hours upon hours on the weekends. It's definitely not something I'd get quickly during the weekdays when I'm working nor is it something I want to do for hours on end every weekend. I've got other things I like doing or have to do.

I'd say most of them were from fishing & that complete 10 daily activities reward

I've managed to get 62 shards since launch, but I've been playing quite excessively just because it's new and I'm trying to experience everything and do a lot. I wouldn't count this as the time I'd normally spend on this game if it weren't early launch. I think with the shards I've gotten, that is scraping the minimum for what's been predicted.

I can barely get a hold of 2 moonstones on a good day as a fairly casual player.

(edit) also it's been said somewhere (can't find it right now) that there's a cap of 25 moonstone shards each day. wish I could find that source again, it was a moderator who said it but I cannot find the post. so 3 moonstones each day isn't even possible if that is true.

I've gotten 34 shards total, but only turned one batch into a moonstone ‘cause I’m always out of bone paste :'D I think I get most of mine from fishing and cooking, since that's what I do the most (especially cooking).

From beta/EA, the most moonstone shards you'll get are from daily pageant voting, which'll stack up during a full round of voting – a week of voting will give 28, plus shards awarded from winning any rank, and the extra shard(s) from completing the 10x activities. Iirc, you could get 49 shards a week from this in beta/EA? Though I'm not f2p as I bought the starter pack, I currently have 52 shards and I haven't turned any into stones yet. The best way I've found to get them is to diversify your activities – they come from pretty much every profession, they're just very rare. Keep your activities rolling by cooking, fishing, farming, hunting, etc in a steady stream and you'll get a number of ‘em. They don’t drop from the campaign/explore, which is the most frustrating part, but understandable to a degree.

An estimate of 3-6 stones/day is kind of high/optimistic with the current rate I'm getting them, but honestly the shards are more obtainable than EA or beta (10 extra per day was the hard limit, only from mining & gauntlet) so I'll take it for now. I do think the devs should tweak moonstone shard drop rates if their goal is to let a normal player make 3-6 MS a day, though. The current rate is too low to hit that amount.