I want to say that's the message you get if you have too many favor orbs with you at a time and it basically makes it unsuitable (broken). I want to say I'd recommend not carrying more than a couple standard favor orbs on you for filling purposes at any given time.
I have never had more than two simultaneous orbs ever work. The first two work and the third is always broken. It's been like this as long as I can remember.
If you are referring to chaining favour orbs together by getting two orbs, filling the first one, depositing it, getting a third orb to replace the first, filling the second, depositing it, getting a fourth to replace the second, filling the third, and so on then that is still only ever two at a time.
<<The break point depends on your current number of favors. I think I can do 3 from 0, then 2, then 3+.
That could definitely explain it. The most number of favours I've had on a character is around 40 or so, I think, but I've never tried doing more than 3 at a time past around 20, possibly earlier. It might be a fun experiment to figure out where the breakpoint is.
And yes, I forgot that the first 3 can be done at once. That was an exception I completely forgot about.
You may have resolved your issue already, but I received the exact same message when I had tried rubbing the orb immediately after I picked it up. Once I had carried it back to the temple altar and tried it there then everything was fine.
