Use of veteran reward shields to cross shard (14th year reward)

[Kane12]

Anyone out there have any suggestions on what shards I should pick?

I have 2 accounts that are 14 years old finally. One account has 4 vet rewards and the other has 12.

I figured I would use 1 of the 4 on account #1 for my home shard (Pacific) so I can return home.

I figured I would use 2 of the 12 on account #2 for the same home shard.

This leaves me 3 shards for account #1 and 10 shards for account #2.

My main reason to move a character to other shards would be:

1. Pick up holiday items and tickets I never found cross shard traders for (Lake Austin and Origin).

2. Pick up some of those interesting items some of the Japanese shards give you and bring back to my home shard.

3. Buy and sell on other shards more popular or less popular.

4. Do some farming on some of the less populated shards and bring back resources to my home shard to sell.


Any ideas for folks on what shards I should pick?

Thought I would ask around here before making my choices.

I figured I would do like a round robin....on account #1 go to shard A, then B, then C, then return home. Do the same with account #2 but maybe hit more shards before homeward bound.

The shields are non changable once I pick the shard and they accumulate 1 transfer token per month up to 10 tokens before they dont (hold them for you so to speak).

Any input would be appreciated.

[Tommy Boy]

Just remember they are account bound too, even the tokens, so whichever account(s) you use to choose them is also the only account that can use the tokens to transfer.

[Kane12]

Thanks for the info...yea I planned on just making an extra samphire for each of those two accounts to make my runs in case I wanted to stay and farm, hunt, or run events on the respective shards.

Just trying to completely think this thru on the shards before I make the big decision, which is the reason for the post.

There are a ton of very intelligent folks here whom I value opinions on....

Thanks again for the info...

[Ozzy]

i mainly researched  searchuo for pricing and resale of items before i chose  my sheilds .... only regret i had was not chosing more of the home sheilds .. one home sheild for each away sheild  woulda worked out much better since ya wait a month to get another.. so now if i want gifts from other shards i dont have sheilds for i simply buy a token on that shard  either in game or from zack  bring items over then delete that char so no return token is needed.. 

[NObama]

I've set up a network between my favorite shards.  About to do the first transfer.

Anyone know if pets in the stable go with you?  I remember something about packies not working with these limited tokens...

[Kane12]

Your stabled pets are not affected by the transfer. But you are not able to load up any pack animals to transfer with you. Your transfer only works for items you wear, items in your backpack, and items in that characters bank account.

Can be more limited but depends on how you are using the tokens.

Thanks for the advice guys!!! I also went a step further and found the IP addresses for each of the shards and pinged them thru DOS prompt to see what my average speed would be with each shard.....taking into consideration that I might want to farm or run champs on other shards that may be less populated.

[onlyindreams]

I've set up a network between my favorite shards.  About to do the first transfer.

Anyone know if pets in the stable go with you?  I remember something about packies not working with these limited tokens...

Pets in stable, yes. Pets you're riding or have out of stable, no.

[Ozzy]

sheild token  does not allow for you to be mounted at all  ... but gotta still love sheilds they make for awesome deco

[onlyindreams]

sheild token  does not allow for you to be mounted at all  ... but gotta still love sheilds they make for awesome deco

Oops. Good catch!

OP, pick shards that have frequent events and decent a economy. If you want to farm things like scrolls and replicas, pick a smaller shard where you can solo stuff.

[UOMaddog]

Here's what I would recommend and it's similar to what you have. Break it into 2 parts: a "mini loop" and a "major loop"

Mini loop:
- Shards that you would always want to visit on your loop.
- Probably the super-populated shards that are good for selling/buying
- Example: Pacific->Atlantic->Great Lakes->Chessy->Pacific
- Try to keep it to just a few shards (max of 5)

Major loop:
- When you want to do a big sweep-up of a particular item or a yearly collection of holiday rewards, etc.
- Do as many shards as possibly and probably hit up the Japanese shards as well
- Example: Pacific-....->(everything you can)->...->Pacific

Hope that makes sense?!

[NObama]

I'm currently using the mini-loop approach.  About to add a fourth shard to the rotation.

As a note, collecting 14 years of old rewards on up to 7 characters across three accounts really eats up your 300 or so available slots.  I've started junking a lot of items for the points before I transfer.  No idea yet if the points transfer successfully, I'll know shortly.