Someone please check with J. Think there was a mistake made about crons. 1 outfit surely is not enough!!!

yeah kinda felt like we are about 2000-3000 crons short

This is part of the bigger issue I have with the way they are implementing progression. Enhancement / materials need to be reduced / nerfed going forward when the release new gear tiers rather than just handing out a free pen bs and calling it a day. Not needing so many crons in the first place would help and go a long way in not relying on free handouts from PA.

I think its worse than that.  There's a big gear gap with obtaining BIS gated behind high zone areas.  Flame of Resonance needed to convert Boss Armor shoes to Ator Boots are gated behind Ulekita grind spots 310AP 420DP for example.  You can't even touch that zone with anything less.  So, you're trying to get gear just to close that gap let alone put you over, an expensive proposition in time and silver.   For example, I have a path to 310AP if I manage to get a PEN Tungrad necklace  and two TET Debo accesories, but is a PEN Tungrad worth the taps or buying one off CM when it's falling behind with Debo and upcoming accessories that will be BIS?

So if PA puts the flames for sovereign in a zone with even higher GS requirements (like in the new Dehika's Latern zones, which they say will require 750GS!!!) it starts to feel like a futile effort to keep up.  Today's Heidel Ball announcement could go very very bad for players with mid level GS, if they don't make it a fair and equitable system.  So, is grinding or buying enough Caphras for C20 boss equitable?  Is burning two PEN BS for a soveriegn equitable?  I have my druthers.

They said that we won't be able to buy the materials to upgrade this.....

If you count on buying a BS from the CM to smash with another PEN BS for a soveriegn I would think that's material, so PA doesn't know what they're talking about, =P