[quote] Based on that track record, what’s keeping them from releasing ToC as a placebo for us to burn through the thousands of shards we have? How does one prove that random drops have increased when said drops are RANDOM?!? [i]~Nyahh! =^,.,^=[/i][/quote] This is the only reason they exist. Drop rates in D2 did not need any sort of increase. So they lowered them and gave us a consumable to supposedly raise it back. Bungie puts in zero effort and people spend the shards they've been complaining about having nothing to spend on.