This really quite simple. Remove cores from infusion, keep them for masterwork. Adding more ways to get cores is not going to help at all. It just means more grinding the same stuff we are already tired of grinding. Stop trying to artificially inflate player hours to make the game look “healthy”. I’m already down to just logging in for 30 minutes a week for “invitation of the nine” story line. If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t even bother. The game has become a chore now, not a game. I know some ppl don’t agree but a majority does. You have 600k+ playing daily, sounds good until you compare that to the 13 million units sold. Forgive my math I have a cocktail in hand, but that’s, what, 4% of the people that bought it still play?