why are there more estus shards than allowed to upgrade?

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

I know the title of the thread seems confusing, but allow me to explain abit better. I have recently reached the Max allowed upgrade on my estus flask (which is 12 estus+5 by the way) and I then found a couple of more estus shards, 2 to be exact. But, when I go to try and upgrade my estus with said shards, the game will not allow it because I have already reached max. So, why are there more shards in the game than is allowed to upgrade your estus? Is this some joke or something? Because, I am not laughing here.

[Rhorge]

Because you are expected to play the game without a guide glued to your monitor.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Originally posted by Rhorge:

Because you are expected to play the game without a guide glued to your monitor.

Dude, don't insult me like that. I never looked at any guide since I started playing this game.

[Leontius12]

Well there has to be some arbitrary max number of estus flask. Twelve is more than enough really... One extra shard is there in a case you missed another one. No problem. You can always burn bonfire astetics or go to NG+ for more... but there is pretty generous maximum.

[GarGhuul]

Given there have been complaints ibn past games of "Not enough" uses if tge estus flask, I would probably guess it is a joke. Cuz, y'know, it's infinitely refillable. They could have put divine blessings in there for NG+ but maybe not everyone in NG+ got all thier shards on the first pass... presumably they could set it to detect what your estus f;lask uses are at and change what drops... but that would be very low priority compared to other bugs they are trying to nail down.
time and money, they run out and small things get dropped by the wayside.

[Squirting Elephant]

You can also get too many giant souls, petrified bones, and perhaps some other items.

Not to mention that you can't pick up some titanite shard because it's in the same drop as a humanity but you already have 2x99 humanity so the game won't pick the titanite up until you discard some humanites...

[Signild]

According to the wiki there's only 12 shards ingame, so I dunno how you've found 13. :p

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Originally posted by GarGhuul:

Given there have been complaints ibn past games of "Not enough" uses if tge estus flask, I would probably guess it is a joke. Cuz, y'know, it's infinitely refillable.

Humanity is infinitly refilable too, all you need to do is save all the singing gals then use that "pray" fire. So, unless there is a humanity joke in the game too, I highly doubt that this is the case

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Originally posted by Signild:

According to the wiki there's only 12 shards ingame, so I dunno how you've found 13. :p

I can take a screenshot for you, if you don't believe

[Rhorge]

Originally posted by Signild:

According to the wiki there's only 12 shards ingame, so I dunno how you've found 13. :p

You need to learn to count/find a better wiki because there is 13.

[Leontius12]

Originally posted by Signild:

According to the wiki there's only 12 shards ingame, so I dunno how you've found 13. :p

There is definitely one extra shard. You can take 12 sips and there are 12 shards. But the first sip doesn't come from shard, so there is one more. By the way I was doing blind run and I found extra shard and I was pretty much confused, but as I said there has to be some max number of sips.

[Signild]

Originally posted by Rhorge:

Originally posted by Signild:

According to the wiki there's only 12 shards ingame, so I dunno how you've found 13. :p

You need to learn to count/find a better wiki because there is 13.

There's only 2 wiki's I know of, and they both say the same. Either way, 12 is way more than you need.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Originally posted by Signild:

There's only 2 wiki's I know of, and they both say the same. Either way, 12 is way more than you need.

Best screencap I can make for you http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259266211

[Squirting Elephant]

Enter NG+ and you find another 12-13 :P.

[Signild]

Originally posted by 1mirg:

Originally posted by Signild:

There's only 2 wiki's I know of, and they both say the same. Either way, 12 is way more than you need.

Best screencap I can make for you http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259266211

That's 12 shards. You start with a flask. 11 extra from shards, plus 1 left over. So I was right, there's only 12 in the game.

E: I'm assuming they capped it at 12, and didn't realize that having 12 shards equals out to 13 because of the starting flask. Or they didn't expect people to find all of them.

[Leontius12]

Originally posted by 1mirg:

Originally posted by Signild:

There's only 2 wiki's I know of, and they both say the same. Either way, 12 is way more than you need.

Best screencap I can make for you http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259266211

Yeah, yeah... but I still can't see the problem with it. Twelve not enough? Because other way you may go for 50 sips from your estus flask, considering Astetics and NG+++++