Can you increase the amount of ridges/ridge shards we get from RD? I already know your answer is going to be "Oh, but we made it easier to kill!" And that's completely unrelated to the underlying problem. The problem is the supply of said Ridges. There are people crafting their Feathered Dragon Gliders (40 Ridges per), crafting weapons (8 Ridges to craft, 12 Ridges per awakening attempt) and making Dragon mounts (25 to grow and 25 to keep up each month).
Lets say you want to make a Feathered Dragon Glider. You can only get 1 to 4 shards per RD. If you get an average of 2 per RD, you get 8 each week. 40 Ridges = 2000 Shards. 2000 shards / 32 shards per month = 62.5 months. A little over 5 years to get enough ridges for the glider. Of course, that's assuming you don't buy any. But what if you buy? Only a couple hundred sell per week.
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Every player already has to do 3 months worth of RD just to get the basic glider to be able to upgrade. Please, stop neglecting this issue and save the answer of "We made it easier to kill" for yourselves. That is not related at all to the supply issue. Increase shard drops from 2-4 to 10-20. This is a private server, make more good changes to be better than AA and AAU. Don't cling on to the same features we've had for years.
And please decrease time to open infusions. "We get it in a later patch" is a lazy answer. Just do it, it's a QOL change for a reason.
Edit: Also add all the missing mounts and gliders to be able to be crafted by manastorms, such as the Marauder's glider which is needed for Sky emperor.