Today's offer (mastery pack)
Historically, this is one of the better offers provided. If you are new to the game / haven't unlocked the right side of the tree / and are willing to spend a bit on the game... its a good deal.
That said... as many before me have posted over the years, we haven't seen any new masteries in a very, very long time (in spite of the screen saying "coming soon". Personally, when I got a pack, I didn't mind "getting an extra bit" knowing that eventually I'd use the extra cores... I should probably have asked for a refund, but that's not my point.
My point is just this: give us a reason to want to use mastery cores (and I don't mean sell them for a little bit of gold). There is technically nothing stopping me from buying more / would have nowhere to use them, therefore its truly a money trap to even offer it to me.
Masteries 2.0... obviously I'd love to see what that looks like / been waiting like everyone else for years. If that has been tabled though, at least give people an outlet to get rid of extra cores.
spitting one simple idea: at least let us sell them for "something" more than a pittance of gold:
Stoney core: 1 T4B
Carbonadium-core at least 1 TB5
class ones: at least 1/4, ideally more of a T4CC (I can appreciate a whole one might be too much)
Its not like I'm going to go an either spend $20 for today's deal and then immediately sell them for the above catalysts and do any better than if I bought a normal daily offer for catalysts, or used the units in the catalyst store.
At least make this a trade in option as part of the Sigil store. Easy place /mechanism to implement, and you could consider appropriate trade in based on progression (maybe Paragon players get 1/2 a T5B for a stoney, and some r4 mats for Carbonadium, and more T4CC / pittance of T5CC).
I don't think any of this would be hard to implement or brank any economy of the game... (and again TBH, I'd still rather masteries 2.0).