Exactly as the title says Allow some, namely maybe the first two in each profession, be allowed to be bought with shards. Maybe 30 of them? That's a little less than what it currently is, and people would have to choose between turning those shards to moonstones, but 30 shards are easier to collect, than 25 moonstones, which is 250 shards.

The 30 is just a number there, and I could see it going up to like 50 shards? Starting people don't really have the bones or bonepaste levels to turn that many into moonstones, so it would feel less like a time gate. Just some early morning thoughts. It also would give some more power to moonstone shards, which, people do underestimate as a currency overall.

personally, id rather see pebble expansions added, not shards. shards are basically moonstones.

this feels like a very1st few days/week 1 problem which is resolved by playing the game. bones are acquired extremely easily via campaign, hunting, MM and gauntlet

5 bone paste is only 15 bones, which can be found in a minute or 2 once you have made it through at least one part of the campaign

i dont want to have to spend my shards AND my stones for expansions (plus 250 shards would be a more fair price than 30-50, which is 3-5ms & can be earned in 1 day)

I'd of course much rather it be pebbles as well! Part of my thought process here is to show that shards are worth a bit more than people give them credit for. I have my doubts that expansions will be changed to pebbles, but that leads into speculation.

Maybe some things in the MM that can be bought with shards perhaps?

i want additional expansions for pebble, I'm fine with having some ms ones - ultimately the game does need to make money to continue to grow however it feels very icky that in order to advance you are required to use ms (namely mining - from the grotto on, you HAVE to have expansions or sit there and selectively mine to get your 3 ores otherwise you will end up getting 0 ores because theres too many options)

it still feels like a bit much to me to add in extra things to be bought for shards, especially when they are crafted easily enough into full on moonstones

No support, I'd rather have pebble expansions.

I’m not sure about this for expansions- I do want pebbles- but I do think having the option to buy some things for shards would be nice