Lack of Orbs for Raid Boss

[Ninja_122]

Gree, why is it that this event was poorly planned with Orbs drop being less than any previous event? Most trials or any other event played prior to RB has a fair amount of Orbs dropped to help, but this one there was hardly any. Can you fix the ratio of drop Orbs to aliviate the deficit/poor planning or was it intentionally?
Just curious how this time almost every guild is struggling with orbs due to the lack of it being dropped by mobs. Any help please would be greatly appreciated by us all.
Tank you

[DragCro]

Gree, why is it that this event was poorly planned with Orbs drop being less than any previous event? Most trials or any other event played prior to RB has a fair amount of Orbs dropped to help, but this one there was hardly any. Can you fix the ratio of drop Orbs to aliviate the deficit/poor planning or was it intentionally?
Just curious how this time almost every guild is struggling with orbs due to the lack of it being dropped by mobs. Any help please would be greatly appreciated by us all.
Tank you

I think each guild have problems with lack on orbs.
This should be fixed you are right

[Lys]

For 5,000 Honor per orb, of course there's no shortage of orbs. Not like honor is used for anything else lately.

There's that option, and then if your guild has been religiously doing trials, they seem to drop just a bit more from those mobs. But yes, orbs are in a bit of short supply this event. Possibly to curb the farming on lv 100s, as they end up costing 225,000 Honor per summon with the orb purchase approach. Pure speculation, though.

[Valid or]

For 5,000 Honor per orb, of course there's no shortage of orbs. Not like honor is used for anything else lately.

There's that option, and then if your guild has been religiously doing trials, they seem to drop just a bit more from those mobs. But yes, orbs are in a bit of short supply this event. Possibly to curb the farming on lv 100s, as they end up costing 225,000 Honor per summon with the orb purchase approach. Pure speculation, though.

There are a few nice units to be purchased with honor, but basically that's all, and if the units don't help, then buy orbs as what else can you do with it.

[aephlux]

Actually crafting will use honor. I suggest not to use all of your honor or dont use it at all.

[Totalwar]

I agree not enough orbs drops please can we have more in future.

[K_BLESS_1]

GREE gave em a few times in the past, why not make it an official thing! no orbs to summon = no buying of gems... you have all to win here

[Jnsolberg]

My guild will be dead in the water on 32/33. This really stinks!

[Vile Lynn]

Saving HP's for crafting? Instead of buying orbs for RB...

...last time I bought orbs & used up a million plus HP, GREE did that "Spend HP's" quest. D'oh!

Maleba Island Huts are definitly not dropping like they used to (for me at least.) 5x gave 1 orb; was 100%.
Boo to lowering the drop rate there.

[Tadaaah]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

[Vile Lynn]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Hard to believe. I've never seen so few orbs dropping before. CIP: Maleba Island Huts.

Anyway, the drop rate needs to be increased then.

[headfaction]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Real talk! Will you guys ever learn to make the customers happy?

[Lys]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Just a suggestion.

With the [current] elimination of Individual LTQs, and the introduction of Trials in lieu of, this is where the source of the problem lies at. Trials are extremely less # of kills per stage, and aren't necessarily something being shoved in everyone's faces 'Do this as quickly as you can in this short time window.'

As a result, less mobs killed = less orbs. I'd suggest possibly upping the drop rate on them by a few percentage, because we no longer have quests where it's kill 20-30 of this one enemy type. No, it's trials, and it's hitting one enemy 20-30 times instead.

[Vile Lynn]

You may be onto something, Lys.

I've done 7 trial levels and killed about 15-17 NPC's and only got 1 orb.
(in MW, 1 NPC = 5 taps = 3-5 Intel for RB.. waaaaaay better drop rate.)

Looks like GREE is not going to do anything about increasing the drop rate. Oh well.

[Lys]

You may be onto something, Lys.

I've done 7 trial levels and killed about 15-17 NPC's and only got 1 orb.
(in MW, 1 NPC = 5 taps = 3-5 Intel for RB.. waaaaaay better drop rate.)

Looks like GREE is not going to do anything about increasing the drop rate. Oh well.

What's funny is that the thought hit me around 2:30 in the morning. Realized that we haven't had any individual LTQs now since the first round of trials hit. We haven't had any Guild LTQs for killing mobs since the cycle after that one, if my memory serves right.

The only mob killing quests we've had lately are "Complete X trials" as a guild. The individual completion one was also removed, so there's less incentive to keep at the trials beyond personal perseverance and helping the guild. Less mobs are being killed, and therefore with the drop rate being the same in KA it always has been, suddenly there's a massive drought of orbs. This time it was felt even moreso, as the novelty of trials have worn off by now.

[Vile Lynn]

Makes sense to me. Just hard to believe the drop rate has not been changed, especially at Maleba Island. The huts were just for farming and had an almost 100% drop rate in the past.

I'm more of a camper... I haven't even finished a trial, heh. But, I'd like to, at least, farm some orbs for friends. After doing 5 huts and getting 1 orb, I started a trial which gave me 1.... Woooo... 1.

Oh well, they can always buy orbs with RP's.

[the_bob]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Hasn't been changed intentionally, maybe. But it's definitely lower than it has been.

[the_bob]

Just a suggestion.

With the [current] elimination of Individual LTQs, and the introduction of Trials in lieu of, this is where the source of the problem lies at. Trials are extremely less # of kills per stage, and aren't necessarily something being shoved in everyone's faces 'Do this as quickly as you can in this short time window.'

As a result, less mobs killed = less orbs. I'd suggest possibly upping the drop rate on them by a few percentage, because we no longer have quests where it's kill 20-30 of this one enemy type. No, it's trials, and it's hitting one enemy 20-30 times instead.

Not convinced. My guild had no problems with orbs the last two or three bosses and the trials were running then. Before trials we had so many orbs that i never donated mine and i ended up with up to a thousand of them on me and the guild had at least a few thousand in surplus after the boss event was over. In the last 2-3 raid bosses, orbs have been more scarce, but we always ended the event with at least several hundred in surplus.

Something is clearly amiss this round as we were completely dry already with well over two days remaining. Down to the last day now and it's crazy buying orbs with honor (one at a damn time, I might add).

[plavine]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Maybe it hasn't been changed recently , but the drop rate has decreased from 6 months ago . As some one else posted the trial offer harder enemies with higher rewards but fewer kills than the traditional LTQs so fewer drop chances .

[Gendur]

huts on Maleba Island were never good for orbs in my experience, they are good for box events though

[Jnsolberg]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

This is the problem, the drop rate needs to be increased because with the Trial Quests, we don't kill very many mobs for our energy.

We are still having the orb shortage. Why?

[Frostpocket]

Just double checked on this. The drop rate for orbs has not been changed.

Well, perhaps you could increase it then please. I have completed 6 levels of a trial; not one orb has dropped. We are at 28/33 and we will not finish. People have worked hard. Many have spent hard earned money. I have spent all my honour on orbs, as have many others. Please fix this for us all. Thank you.

[Jnsolberg]

We have a new cycle, with Raid Boss (Belschnikel?) @ 11 days away, and no orbs are dropping yet.

Clementine, we need orbs. It takes @ 9000 orbs to complete Raid Boss. We need them to start dropping right away at a faster rate then the last 2 RB events.