The Ash/Cinder/Flux currency creates the illusion that it isn’t a pay-2-win system. Two wrong makes a “right” in the eyes of many players - a bad mandatory chore at least existing means that you can’t simply pay your way to victory, and therefore the fact people are paying gold is somehow “mitigated” in the eyes of many players.
Yeah, I hate this system. It’s just straight up pay 2 win nonsense, it’s potentially the worst feature still included in this expansion.
Shilling for my own thread again, I really think Blizzard needs to just let us buy rank 6s with leggos. Blizzard can fill their pay-2-win quota with Rank 7s, but less hardcore / less P2W players can feel satisfied with their experience -