Upgrade costs for Ymir Altars

[msdss]

100 ice shards and 30 manifestations of zeal to hit tier 2?
Are you serious? 100 Ice shards = 100 kills. Thats over 3x the cost of other altars.
30 manifestations of zeal? Same as all the others, but thats another 150 kills.

Looking around online, I see that trees in the north used to also give shards when the axe was used, but it seems like this is broken. At least on PS4. I chopped down at least 30 trees up near the volcano, and I didn’t get a single ice shard when I was using the ymir axe…

So is this just a stupid high requirement? Or broken? Is there a better way to get them?

[Nuria]

Originally ymir fanatics would chop down whole woods for their religion.
Meaning: originally the shards werent harvested from human corpses, but rather only by chopping trees with the axe.

But I agree. I always go for set, a few months ago always for mitra (I love blue, so…) so I didnt know about this back then. Ymir should be balanced to come to the same level as the other religions.
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Or maybe all religions should get the same number of their religious material to upgrade the altars/shrines.
And as I am writing… why not delete the decay from the old religion materials? Derketo and ymir got no decay on theirs, but the others do have some.

[msdss]

Maybe its a bug that trees no longer give the resource?
250 kills is a huge undertaking, especially for a solo player like myself.
If it could also come from trees that would be a more balanced scenario.

[Nuria]

It’s not a bug.
Ymir has been changed to be the same like all the other religions.
That was little time prior to full launch. I guess a few weeks?

I guess the altars/shrines just have been forgotten about…
Just change those costs or bring the other religions on the same level… (careful though, huge flamewall incoming)