I am writing again about the unannounced change in Pet Battle currencies, from Shiny Charms to Polished Charms, and am trying to check if there truly will be a currency exchange added to the game for the older charms??
Just so the HUGE bank full of Shiny Charms that I have now, are not useless…
Please clear this up for me, and Thanks in advance!!
Where did you hear that they would implement a currency exchange? It’s the first I’ve heard of it. Players have asked for it, yes, but I don’t recall any Blues or Devs or any official announcement that it would be coming.
IIRC, they said they didn’t have any plans for a currency exchange. This was prior to BFA, and the option probably isn’t off the table completely.
Yes, I kind of figured that ‘meh’, but just thought I would check and see though…
Didn’t really want to lose all of these older charms I have, and I suppose I will just have to find a different way to get bandages.
Like for instance, I got the Zookeeper shoulder enchant, and will be out hunting down Legion mobs to get some of those bags that supposedly have bandages in them, because the newer charms seem much more difficult to get ahold of!!
You have to be 120 with access to World Quests to get a steady supply of the new Charms. Right now, there are 20 available from a World Quest in Zuldazar.
I thought that the introduction of the new currency and associated changes were pretty clear through the various forums easily accessible to all of us well before the changes were implemented.
As with most expansions there are changes made so that items stockpiled from previous expansions do benefit the current content. Older healing potions are of minimal benefit, the buffs from prior expansions meals are not very useful and this change was their way of ensuring the current pet battle content was not adversely affected by those that stashed away older charms.
I used mine to purchase a bunch of the pets (which you can still do) that I levelled and sold for a tidy profit as I already had a decent stash of bandages.
I do not think that there is much chance of an exchange as the introduction of the new currency was made widely known and the only real change is that bandages and stones became purchasable by the new currency only, which was an open topic of conversation on these very forums in the lead-up to the expansion release.
Not sure if it helps or not, but you can get 25 bandages from Master Li in exchange for 1 Celestial Coin too.
Many of us did not know of the impending changes. Or like me we knew of the changes, but expected them with the main patch, not the prepatch.
I had many thousands of charms, and was lucky to have a friend warn me just hours before the change. I raced to my menagerie that fast, quickly bought bags of leveling stones and ended up with several stacks of stones for each pet type - took hour of watching Netflix to open them all. They’ve only just recently been used up.