I am seeing (and feeling) a lot of complaints about difficulty getting Ascension Items. So here’s an idea to help offset that:
For some special events, and whenever the Devs feel the need to apologize for something, you get (for lack of a better name) one or more “Ascension Tickets”. These could be used in a new subset of the store to purchase specific ascension items. You would still have to save them up, but once you have enough, you know you can get that thing you need, and it doesn’t impact the gem trade.
And at the rate the Devs are having to apologize lately, I’d have a team of fourth-tiers by July. 