No, I'm not going to spend an hour spending them on over 3,000 phantasmal fragments one by one. That's horribly boring and a waste of time, as well as too much inventory space used.
I've been trying hard to spend them, getting down to about 32k, but the next thing I know, I stop for a moment and I reach back up to 35k.
Bungie, please. I know you don't like it when veteran players hoard things, but if you reward players a sprinkle of something for participation but never give that player a good incentive to spend that something, of course it's going to build up over time. These shards are a manifestation of the time we as players have invested. Can we PLEASE get some reasonable way to spend them before they vanish?
EDIT: For those who are telling me basically "to just spend them" I have to say that I HAVE been. Did you not read the title of this thread? Months ago when the announcement was made, I started trying to spend them up. I was sitting around 60k. I'm now about 33k and rising. At this rate, it's not going to happen.
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I spent every last shard at the end of last season based on how Bungie stated they were no longer being used at vendors, then found out you still needed them for upgrading gear and Xur this season. Since then I am sitting at over 7,000 and will once again spend every single one upgrading all the gear in my vault and spending the rest on Phantasmal Fragments at the Lectern. They aren't really difficult to acquire if you are sharding most drops like you should, only keeping the best ones. It just is a pain to have them and not use them on something before they leave permanently.