I enjoy all aspects of the game, the mining, the exploring, the gathering, this game in many ways is perfect for me. I can build and make things, I can craft and make food.
What I don’t like is that I shouldn’t have to buy a special tool that cost me from 5k and up, regen bombs, the pies, why should I have to pay for those?
As @Kal-El stated, if they are that rare we have to resort to farms and regen bombs, and expensive tools, drinks and food they are F^(ing Too Rare
Sorry for the language, I am in pain, level 7 and I want to play, to spend more than a hour out searching for items I need, to not have to dig growth for a hour and get four or five, if I am lucky for a item I need to make the foods I want.
I can spend two hours mining for coal, iron and such and enjoy it and get enough to make it feel worthwhile.
Trading- Ha, from posts I have read no one wants to trade them because they are so rare. Price I’d like to see them for 30c, was at the mall and N. Leyden Market yesterday and they were from 80 to 200 coins.
Not to be rude or a royal B****h, but we spent almost two hours each on three different level 6 planets and on Cardass we found around 10. Maybe players who know where they are are cleaning them out. And you might go that wasn’t enough time, well I shouldn’t have to spend five hours on one planet to find glow caps. That means there are too few!
This isn’t just one time hunting for them but several and that is the most we have found. Nice amount of Trumpet roots, but we need the glow caps for recipes and for me to sell.
They are so far apart that regen bomb would be of no help to us.
I get about 900 shimmering orbs an hour
Seems fine to me
good for you, that doesn’t help 90% of players…
but she was asking for opinions and you are entitled to it.
I just think it is imbalanced.
Not sure why 90% of the other players have a problem getting them
Now for a lot of the other things yea they suck to farm I personally can’t stand farming something for hours just to get barely enough for a mass craft of bottles or something
Your the one using specific examples now 
And do you use shadow orbs in as many items that you craft to sell for profit?
Are you really able to gather more shadow orbs in an hour than you are shimmering?
I have gathered both and in different manners, and I can’t be too specific as I’ve not made a note for comparison, but the drop rate for shadows certainly seems to be less than shims!
Is it possible that because you want more shims than you can gather, but need less shadows than you can comfortably gather, it just seems that the shadows are easier because you end up with more once you have used what you need?
And please don’t take this as an attack, or anything personal, I’m just trying to point out another perspective you may not have considered.
And I am taking your point of view on board as well, and do agree that there are some finer balancing points that need to be taken on, I just don’t think that making an abundance of everything is healthy long term.
It seems to all trickle down to grind and I believe some people will say leave the grind alone but as I am entitled to my opinion if you can’t successfully acquire the mats you need without a speed brew max powered tool and pies then their is something horribly wrong with the progression of this game.
I don’t sell anything right now, but plan to sell chisels and grapples in the future.
absofreakinglutely. by far.
umm no lol. i just happen to want to craft a certain number of recipes that almost all seem to require shimmering orbs, and a lot of them.
Shimmering orbs used to be a lot more common in early access. spawn rates is an easy thing for them to adjust they said. that’s all i’m asking really.
not exactly what i was asking, but i agree, having too much supply is a problem we already have. the shimmering orbs is for sure in lack of supply right now. and with aging planets, even more so.
I am not necessarily saying they should quadruple the amount everyone gets from drops but what is the problem with an abundance of items? As a builder the cheaper things are the more likely I am to buy them not the more expensive they are. If I need something in order to build, I need hundreds of them normally. So if they are too expensive, I either make them myself or do not use them at all. As an example I have never used or made any of the new luxury blocks. They require too much in the way of rarer materials and take way to long to craft so even to buy them they are naturally more expensive. So as far as I am concerned they do not exist and I do not even consider them available as a component when planning a build. So would it be better if they were cheaper so I might buy them or I could get enough materials that I might even be able to make some of what I needed? If the shopkeeper can get them as easily as everyone else then they can price them cheaper and still make coin. Can the shopkeepers not make coin on volume versus having to have items that are very expensive?
In one hour with an atlas i had 20 glowing lamella. With an aoe shovel i got 19 in an hour harvesting growth. 326 growth for 19 lamella is sad.
I dont use them only sell, but shadow orbs and all others are much easier to attain in higher quantities in the same amount of time. In fact a stack of vital orbs, in one hour with a basic hammer and axe. That is a huge difference.
You don’t have to, you can either make all those yourself or do without them.
You can gather shimmering orbs with a silver axe if you want to. If you want to hack up growth go use a titanium shovel with no 3x3, I used to do that too.
Not sure why everyone wants to skip straight to the end game. Don’t forget once there you will need more of the hard to gather items because you want to make more of whatever you’re doing so you need to gather faster, etc.
Growth doesn’t drop glowingly lamella tho
I’ve been playing since Oct, I am at level 50 and have my skills on page one as high as I can go for hunting and gathering and to stay safe.
I can make all the recipes, I just chose not to; partly because most of the items I can’t get for various reasons.
I don’t think I should have to buy the brews, which I am thinking of getting a alt to start being able to make some of them; but will still have the same problem in getting the orbs. I shouldn’t have to spend the coins for a special tool to collect them. My alt who is leveling up to be a forger will in time be able to make forged items, but right now I can’t get them for the foods I want to make because when I go hunting for them their aren’t any orbs to be found. And I was using a silver swift shovel, but we weren’t finding any to hack at. I don’t remember how many growth we found, more than 15 and they had no shimmering orbs. On a level 4 planet I know where there is around 50 growth in a area, I got five orbs from hacking away, was killed by having four or five cuttletrunks, stout ones, and several stout spitters attacking me at the same time.
And I refuse to pay for special tools, I have bought those to take to the level 6 planets and feel ripped off at how fast they wear out. Buying fast brews are also a waste on a planet, they would wear off long before I found more than two of them considering how far apart they are.
I’m not asking for the shimmering orbs to be doubled; I’m asking that why can’t they be raised by 5 to 10% and no more. Why can’t more plants have them since they are needed in so many recipes? Why can’t there be less recipes that require them and use other orbs in place, such as the vital or pulsating orbs and have the number increased?
I’m throwing away the pulsating orbs as I find them, I have at my base two smart stacks and don’t need more in the way. Maybe make it rare (say 2%) that you will get a shimmering orb that lower level players can sell for coins, it would help them.
I don’t understand how you get so few. Go to Besevrona, put Orb in Atlas, go to blue dots and hit the mushroom. I shouldn’t be saying how easy it is as it’s one of my best sources of coin, but that’s all there is to it. You don’t really have to search for anything as they’re luminous, you just hit them as you run about. You should get a few from each. And while you do it you’re getting Glowing Lamella which also sells well. And of course, if I see other goodies i hit them too 
The water has a LOT of Reactive Lamella. Too much to bother clearing unless you are grinding the place to death I guess.
It drops shimmering orbs.
Shedu tier i think its called just opened up a farm, i walked away with 250 orbs after using a brew for speed and a pie for durability. Go to legenville theres a Slingbow shop that looks really nice with gold, has a porta leading to a portal that leads to Shedu farm.
Yea but you said you got 19 glowing lamella from 326 growth. You don’t get glowing lamella.
Why not? You feel you should be able to do everything yourself without the need to buy anything? You already can with the right set up. You can also buy them, if you don’t want to then you make them yourself.
And you do not need to buy specialised tools to gather shimmering orbs, I never did when I started making pies and brews! And I couldn’t forge myself back then either.
Yeah but here’s the thing! Do you want shimmering orbs, glow lamella or the plant?
Those are 3 different things. Shimmering orbs are very, very easy to get, even with an unforged silver shovel.
FireAngelDth and I just opened a portal to his shimmering orb farm on Dzassak, it’s a Lvl 1 planet, completely safe except for the water, go there and you will get some.
Okay, you need a regen bomb, those are the most easy to forge items there are, if you can’t yet, well, ehh, buy them.
If you don’t want to then yes, you have to go out on Lvl5+ planets and try your luck at the glowcap fungi.
But why not simply buy that regen bomb for 799c I sell them at? Plenty of stuffs you can sell to get that amount of coin. heck, go crazy and buy a forged 3x3 silver shovel from my place for 1899c as well! If that’s too expensive, well, ehhh… Wait until you need to gather forging mats! 
Mja, that is the problem then, you refuse to buy the tools you need in order to gather more and easier. And if you can’t make those tools yourself yet, well…
For crying out loud! Then SELL those! To me for instance! Then buy a regen bomb and a forged silver shovel and go to the Dzassak shimmering orb farm!
It REALLY is that simple!
If the drop rate goes up, price of shimmering orbs will go down too. New players can NOW already sell those easy to get spicy beans, leaves and pulsating orbs…