I did the original grind for 100k and that was torture.
I have to give credit to the devs that the improvements made to the event is excellent.
Having the store instead of a renown track is huge, having the new stuff cost 39k instead of 100k is also a massive improvement.
Choosing your starting location also amazing.
I will say I do wish practice mode you could freely and easily choose from all abilities to see and test the new ones out, but otherwise great.
Good job to the devs who made the changes.