Situation is this: I, as I am sure you do, need copious amounts of Shards. 64 to be precise. I figured that an effective solution could be to complete lots of public events. Some, if you complete on gold, give you material rewards, e.g. shards, energy etc... I trailed this over 2 days. Day 1 (yesterday). Completed about 8 public events on gold. Received 1 shard from tower (first event of day). Also received 4 shards and 2 energies immediately after completing the event on gold. Some of course you get nothing. Day 2 (today). Completed 12 events. All on gold. Recived a mote of light from tower. Recived nothing immediately after completing, except some glimmer. Questions: 1. Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of 'ascendard materials' from public events per day or week? 2. Has anyone else completed 12 public events and received nothing but glimmer? 3. Has antone else completed 12 public events, recieved nothing but glimmer but then starts receiving asendant rewards again? if so, when did this start to happen? 4. Does anyone know of any other way to acquire shards? As I mentioned, I need 64 just to upgrade to level 29. I can currently get 1-2 each day max and each take 1-2 hours. This will therefore take 32-64 hours of time over 1-2 months just to jump 2 levels.... This sounds absolutely ridiculous. I simply don't have time to do this. Not would I choose to dedicate this time even if I did. Thanks,