Essentia - In response to Rex's update
I appreciate the update provided and a few tweaks to values which can be converted weekly. I personally don't believe it goes far enough, but more than that it doesn't address bigger problems and/ or resolves our issues.
What you said
The design of the Trade-In system is intended for there to be a steady drip of Essentia over time, to support the shift to Essentia, so that Summoners with a large stack of outdated resources don't get a major surplus of resources on day 1 compared to those who don't.
My response
Why does it matter? There is a limit to how much Essentia we can hold, as well as a limit to how many of each item is available. Even if someone bought every item on week 1 - how much can they truly progress? And, how many weeks would they be able to continue do this? And once there stashes are converted and spent on Essentia, they're gone - which is something you should want right? Rather than have these old currencies floating around 2+ years down the line, which is how long its going to take at the current rates.
What you said
The trade-in values for Essentia are a bonus on top of the consistent sources you earn from engagement areas where you earned your previous resources.
My response
If this is truly a bonus why take away the existing stores? I earned these resources and should have a choice as, when and how to use them. You've taken that away and are forcing me to convert them to Essentia at an alarmingly slow rate. Therefore I see "no bonus" but rather "no option but to" convert.
For example with Incursion Artifacts. If someone wanted the 7* Artifact Crystal, they would need to save 400K. This is not hoarding. This is a grind which takes time and several incursion events. Someone with +/- 400K now has no option but to convert to Essentia before they can make use of a resource they have worked hard to obtain. How long will this conversion take at the current rates allowed - over a year!!!! That is ridiculous and so unfair!
To summarise -
You're preventing people from using hard earned resources as and when they would like and trying to disguise it as "doing us a favour" by "allowing" us to trade it in as a "bonus" whilst creating a bottleneck in an attempt to throttle how much essentia is being obtained/ spent.
In my opinion -
1) Remove conversion limits or set them way way way higher.
2) Bring back the old stores for next few months, and run them alongside Essentia. This will allow people to spend their resources in those stores now that you've "shown your cards" on Essentia. If people still have resources to convert after this time, they'll be able do so.
