Has this been made significantly easier? :S
Today after work I decided I would start working towards the CR skin, not to hard though, I bought both books off the AH, had them fixed, cleared BWL for Neffy's head, went DIM, etc. The slime spawns the second I get to the river, nice, so I talk to the lich and go to fish the shard, problem is my Pala alt never learnt to fish, a few minutes later I return with fishing and begin to fish, four casts later I have my shard and am on my way to get my skin, like ~3 hours after starting.
So they buffed this right? Or do I need to buy some lotto tickets? lol.