quite curious what others think of the DC Event Currency thing.
I liked having the ability to get extra event currency from DC. As someone who completes DC daily, I've gotten plenty of the regular rewards, which to me, have grown a bit stale. Having the extra currency, allowed me to get a second fully upgrade Cider Mill, something I don't think would have been possible to do for free without it.
I especially liked when both the quests in the parallel quest line and the tasks from DC all gave me the same tasks to complete. Lots of extra ingredients without much extra work.
I wouldn't want to see that become the standard for every event, but with this event having 5 different event currencies, I found it quite nice having the ability to grab extra ingredients without spending diamonds. While frustrated at times with getting too much of the same ingredient, prudent choices over the recipes allowed me to balance them out anyway.
Since most of the fluff awarded through the recipes will be sold back to the AD, same as the fluff I would have gotten from DC, in that respect it's 6 of one, half dozen of the other. But, winning the ingredients from DC and spending them in the event likely netted me more useful stuff, extra SoKs and that second CM, than I would have gotten without it.