Ascension Orbs / CS + Mandate

[milkycharm]

Both mandate and cold storage are part of the event and require ascension orbs - yet we have no way of obtaining these other than 1 shard per DC. That means even if we do 11 characters DCs, we don't make enough orbs to do both dungeons every day.

Not having easy DCs in CS and mandate already makes playing the game on lower geared characters.

After telling us we could save White Orbs to use, there seriously needs to be compensation. This is the worst thought out change so far. Actually ridiculous NCsoft think they can get away with this.

[Kuasynei]

Agreed, even if a fixed party of 6 players coordinated their orb usage over 6 days, they'd still only be able to practically use one per day. Their weekly rewards as well would only amount to 3/7 days where they could get both daily event rewards, and that's completely ignoring the issues with cross-server, rotating groups of players with more than 6, and the daily logistics of assembling an orb each day (it's not fun). I understand the team may need time to implement more long term solutions, but a band-aid fix now would go a long way retaining the enthusiasm the community's built up for this patch. Toss a daily claimable orb fragment or two in the hongmoon store, or infuse some fragments into the economy with a claim-once bundle, these tools have been used before to great effect, and now would be a good time to use them.