Speaking on behalf of a student at the Art Institute Game Design Program, this donation quest sucks, especially for noobs.
1) The first rule of game design is the player is always right. If something is too hard, change it. If something takes them out of the adventure of playing, change it. If something stalls the flow of the game, change it.
2) A new player will nearly kill themselves to gather the amount resources needed to donate to a shrine. Being confused at first i donated anything i could spare to one shrine. Realizing that that 0/5 had not gone up i went to mine 50 ore. Only after nearly killing my energy level for the ore did the 0/5 go up to 1.
3)Now I'm broke, have no energy to gather materials, and the experience of this game went from adventurous to time consuming tedious.
As a "Game Designer" and player i suggest this quest be changed. Perhaps from 32 points down to 15. Make the less meaningful items worth more points or even change the five shrines to 3.