0% orbs drop this must be a new low

[plavine]

So .... We are supposed to fight the raid boss how????

[Voxker]

i did every LTQ and maybe rounded up about 15-20 orbs... its really low for drop rate...

[Jnsolberg]

My mini is in a guild with 5 orbs left. Very difficult to find any more. They're stopped on level 9/39
My main guild doesn't not have a lot of orbs either.

[Rob.]

I guess that Gree doesn't want anyone to be able to make it to the higher level raid bosses where they would actually spend gems ...

The drop rate for the preceding LTQs was way too low. The current Summer Solstice LTQ was dropping plenty of Ironbark chests while that event was still active, but hasn't dropped a single orb yet!

Gree should step up and give orbs to each player, as they did for events when this happened before.

[Spock_]

The drop rate this time is lower than previous :(
We are 15 very active players in our guild and at level 22, no more orbs....
We have been obliged to buy orbs with Honor points to continue the quest

[Alisha.Banshee]

We are on 28/39 and no more orbs. Some have used honor points to purchase. I'm almost finished the LTQ regular quest and no orbs dropped. How are we supposed to continue?

[Artorius]

We are on 28/39 and no more orbs. Some have used honor points to purchase. I'm almost finished the LTQ regular quest and no orbs dropped. How are we supposed to continue?

Totally agree our mini guild of 26 are having to purchase orbs and at 1 for 5k it's ridiculous.
My guild has already called it a day on raid boss it's a total waste of time just like the last box event.
Getting really bored with this poor service but no doubt GREE will give us some orbs soon. After the last screwed up war and pathetic last box event now this, are we just crazy to continue playing. I never used to put this game down but after nearly 2 years I'm playing less and less and interest is slowly but surely disappearing with GREE games.

[Krayt]

Kinda surprised Gree hasn't given us orbs yet

[Keijen]

287 Ironbark Trunks, but 26 orbs

[Alexius]

If you gemmed the box event you'd have plenty of orbs......no unit though...;):mad:

[the_bob]

i did every LTQ and maybe rounded up about 15-20 orbs... its really low for drop rate...

I had about 80 from the iLTQ. Low, but not super low. Guild had over 1600 orbs donated by time the boss quests were available.

[Beowolf]

My entire guild is looking for another PVP game to play NOT RUN BY GREE(D) and when we do we will all leave KA. This is BS! We are a guild of 11 players and are on level 12 and can kill one more boss and are out of orbs, Gree(d ) obviously does not want the money we spend for war

[Teak]

My entire guild is looking for another PVP game to play NOT RUN BY GREE(D) and when we do we will all leave KA. This is BS! We are a guild of 11 players and are on level 12 and can kill one more boss and are out of orbs, Gree(d ) obviously does not want the money we spend for war

We are in the same boat! Used all our honor points last boss event to be able to play! Cashed in what we had accumulated since then this morning.... We couldn't even make it to the level 30 raid boss.... No orbs. Got 2 after using 3 full energy bars doing the summer soltice quest and when I went to donate them guild server updating message appeared. Had to go out of the app and back in. And magically my 2 orbs turned in to one! This stuff is getting old fast! It's not like you can buy orbs with gems..... They're not making money denying us orbs! They are losing money because of this!

[Totalwar]

You can buy orbs with honour or you could swap stones for orbs.

[AvatarTBS]

Yes, you've posted that in at least 3 threads now. However, the person above stated their guild has already spent their honor on orbs. And we were just given a huge stash of stone due to the tiered gift purchases. If even a couple of your guild members spent the couple dollars on it, your guild is likely set with stone for a long, long time.

The problem is the DROP RATE, not what other alternatives you can attempt because Gree didn't program the quest right. You can run around all day telling people that they can trade or purchase with honor. But it doesn't change the fact that 5000 Honor per orb doesn't work and having to leave your own guild and beg around for orbs is outright ridiculous. Gree has known about this problem for a very long time. Tadaaah has suddenly stopped commenting or talking altogether despite several threads on the topic, and it's frustrating. I'm not sure if they actually think we don't notice that every time a legitimate issue comes up, Gree goes completely into silent mode until it passes over and then goes on to discuss something else entirely.

The idea of having a Community Manager is to be the go between for the community and the developers. Funny how that immediately goes out the window when we have something to discuss. I really hoped things would be different with a "Community Manager", but when it comes down to trying to fix any issue, they are exactly the same. No communication or a "we're looking into it" followed by no posting about it again, ever.

This isn't working.

[AvatarTBS]

Wow, my last message was cranky. Apparently, I'm cranky today. But we still need orbs.

[RandomUser]

According to a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, lack of orbs is a leading cause of crankiness.

[Tadaaah]

The teams are double checking the drop rate for orbs and will up the rate if found to be lower than intended. Apologies for the frustrations.

[AvatarTBS]

Hey, thanks! That makes me less cranky! :)

[Valid or]

Out grinding for orbs...but the only two orbs that dropped were called orb of the ancients,orbs for the next raid boss? But we haven't finished this raid boss

[RandomUser]

Out grinding for orbs...but the only two orbs that dropped were called orb of the ancients,orbs for the next raid boss? But we haven't finished this raid boss

Better collect them now - who knows when they'll cut the drop rate on those to 0%, too!


Side note: I think if this forum had a facepalm emoticon, I would probably use it in every single post re: GREE programming and customer service.

[Shadows]

The teams are double checking the drop rate for orbs and will up the rate if found to be lower than intended. Apologies for the frustrations.

It would have been much more appreciated had you upped the rate during an actual LTQ such as Summer Solstice (or whatever that was)... Now that iLTQ over your fixing the drop rate just doesn't feel as satisfying...

On the other side of it, glad you're back to posting and reading our posts, Tadaah!

[AvatarTBS]

The problem now is that it's being looked into so late, many of our guilds have been essentially sitting for a day or more because the orb supply ran out. I farm and farm and farm and am lucky to come up with one for using an entire energy bar.

Tadaaah, if you could pass a message on, please let the devs know that the two main things we don't want a low trigger rate on is orbs for a future raid boss and the ability to trigger an epic boss. Orbs expire after the quest, there's no harm in guilds having a surplus. It allows us to play the game. Same with boss triggers. Making it difficult to even make a boss appear is pointless and irritating. We'd rather see how far we can beat the bosses, not making desperate attempts to even make one show up. That's just plain not letting us play the game. Imagine if before you started up your Xbox One or PS4, you had to sit and click the remote 3000 times and then recite the Constitution of France from memory. All before you're allowed to play the actual game in front of you. That would be the end of Halo and Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed and everything else, because you're killing the fun before we get there. Please let the devs know that's no way to run a game. We like winning things. Earning things. Discovering new things, places, adventures. We don't like to have to work for our fun. We've already earned that right by supporting the company. Gree doesn't have to be the enemy. Create a game we like to play and we'll happily play it. Just don't take the fun out of it before we reach the fireworks factory.

Thanks. :)

[Gal]

Tadaaah - nice thought but what about refunding all of the honor already spent on orbs - this was a ridiculous lapse and the fact that My orbs "magicaly disappeared" in the initial quests didn't really help much. Nor did the reply that I needed to upgrade when the upgrade was released AFTER i complained.

Finally, I am still waiting more than 2 weeks for my player to be transferred after my phone died. GREE has gone completely radio silent on this issue after receiving proof that the players and devices are both mine. I'm getting tired of waiting. I have quite a lot of money that I was prepared to spend on this game, but if I don't get my player transferred prior to war, I may go back to completely free.

[Tadaaah]

While the orb drop rate wasn't set at zero, the teams have boosted the drop rate. You should be seeing more orbs drop now. Thank you all for your patience.

[Shadows]

While the orb drop rate wasn't set at zero, the teams have boosted the drop rate. You should be seeing more orbs drop now. Thank you all for your patience.

In new iLTQ, finished beginners and halfway thru 7/10 normal... all those mobs and I received 7 freakin' orbs...

I am soooo underwhelmed by this change, Gree!

[Valid or]

In new iLTQ, finished beginners and halfway thru 7/10 normal... all those mobs and I received 7 freakin' orbs...

I am soooo underwhelmed by this change, Gree!

It's a lot better than it was. And with all your guild working the Ltq or grinding won't take long before you have more than you all need for the time left. It is a guild effort and was never intended for one person to have to do it all. I got 6 for my full bar.

[Shadows]

It's a lot better than it was. And with all your guild working the Ltq or grinding won't take long before you have more than you all need for the time left. It is a guild effort and was never intended for one person to have to do it all. I got 6 for my full bar.

I get what you're saying and agree, Valid or...I guess looking at those 12 levels done with 7 orbs, it comes out to a lil more than .5 orbs per level, which still seems kinds low to me, imho......

[Valid or]

I get what you're saying and agree, Valid or...I guess looking at those 12 levels done with 7 orbs, it comes out to a lil more than .5 orbs per level, which still seems kinds low to me, imho......
Yea given some guilds needs lots and the times vanishing on the quests, would have been nice to get a higher drop rate.
But am hopping in the long run to the next raid boss this new spawn rate will produce enough orbs between all guild members that this will never be a issue again.
But if not, well we'll just post/open tickets about the issue and they will have to look at it again.(let's hope they make the changes to the templates they use for these events or it will come back)

[AvatarTBS]

Two energy bars, one orb. Waited, recharged. Two energy bars, NO orbs. I asked around my guild, and everyone had just finished expending an energy bar on the new LTQ. The highest number found was 4.

Seriously? You take the time to close down the other threads, and ask sarcastically, "Did you know there's another thread on this topic?". In answer, yes, we certainly did know that. But they existed because we had waited days for you or any other Gree representative to respond to the other threads and messages we had sent previously. We were trying to get your attention before the quest ended. If you don't reply to an important issue, others will indeed ask this same question. I ask this not to be snarky, but out of seriousness: if we have issues, we are supposed to turn to you or to send in a ticket. The tickets have automated responses and do not help at all. And when you do not respond either, what are we actually supposed to do to get help? Gree has no Tech Support.

And after all of this, we get a polite response that the drop rates have been tweaked...except they are still comically low. What is the point of not letting us do the quests? I don't understand how this benefits Gree or the players. Please advise. I would really like to know what we can do to let the dev teams know that coding the game wrong ruins the game. And we just kinda wanna play, ya know? :) I'd rather be in-game than repeatedly having to pop into these forums because problems are so often ignored. This is not my happy place. The game is my happy place. But if we don't keep on telling Gree what's going on, literally nothing gets done. I would really like to go back to being a player now, not a bug reporter. I think that goes for all of us.

[syKosis]

I got 17 orbs from finishing the iLTQ normal mode. Not great but it's not horrible.

[AvatarTBS]

I'm definitely glad to hear some people are getting a few more orbs. But 17 is enough to summon maybe one boss. I just don't understand why Gree cares if we have leftover orbs. They will all be gone in about 72 hours or so anyways. We're not sneaking them off to the basement to snort them or selling them to Somalian pirates. We just want to use them to further the quest. It just isn't fun.

[Teak]

I'm definitely glad to hear some people are getting a few more orbs. But 17 is enough to summon maybe one boss. I just don't understand why Gree cares if we have leftover orbs. They will all be gone in about 72 hours or so anyways. We're not sneaking them off to the basement to snort them or selling them to Somalian pirates. We just want to use them to further the quest. It just isn't fun.

I complained and complained about this the last boss event and nothing was done! Then they wait until the weekend is over to start finally dropping orbs. Some of us do work.... We like theses big events on the weekends when we can participate more. And lol you're right.... We are not sneaking off to snort them!

[plavine]

While the orb drop rate wasn't set at zero, the teams have boosted the drop rate. You should be seeing more orbs drop now. Thank you all for your patience.

While I was kinda kidding , the original drop rate couldn't have been more than 1/2 %(1/20 ) . Even with an LTQ active that was less than 1 orb per level in the LTQ . Now , since the boss health has been raised to astronomical highs, my guild really only missed out on one prize. We were never going to beat a level 75 anyway.
But I did use 100 k honor for orbs so we could get as far as we did