I just logged onto the forum specifically to tell Blizz how much I hate valor stone. Why do I have to farm 2 currencies AND if you make upgrading a piece of gear not cost crests if you already have a higher piece, WHY DOES IT STILL COST VALORSTONES!!! Worst ever. BOOOO!!!
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Valorstones are essentially Conduit Energy but for gear upgrades. Nice marketing trick to associate the mechanic to Valor, but I for one am not fooled.
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Valorstones can’t die fast enough. Pull the plug.
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Just want to echo the sentiment that Valorstones should be deleted. Or at the very least greatly increased in the amount dropped. I’m constantly starved for them and yet swimming in Crests.
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I’m pmuch always capped on valorstones.
For me it’s always crests I don’t have enough of.
I’ve missed out of thousands of valor stones cuz I couldn’t get the crests to use them.
So yea, might as well get rid of them.
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Was just talking about this. Valorstones are only good at being capped when you don’t care about them and making people annoyed when you do. They need to go.
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Better yet, replace crests completely with valorstones.
Use your upconversion rate (currently 15x) to differentiate the cost of upgrading veteran/champion/hero/myth gear.
One upgrade on myth would cost 15x the valorstones of an upgrade to hero.
One upgrade on hero would cost 15x the valorstones of an upgrade to champion.
One upgrade on champion would cost 15x the valorstones of an upgrade to veteran.
And then tie the valorstones dropped at the end of the dungeon to the loot that is dropped.
If the dungeon rewards veteran, you get 15 valorstones.
If the dungeon rewards champion, you get 225 valorstones.
If the dungeon rewards hero, you get 3375 valorstones.
totally agree. Blizzard please do this. Make it just crests needed to upgrade. Adding valorstones into the mix is just another grind.
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This 100%.
Requiring two currencies to upgrade gear is just convoluted and annoying
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In regard to the making of sparks I can see the need for a currency like Valor Stones but yes, needing two different currencies to actually upgrade gear is not only silly but tedious. Especially with alts and having to do all the same content over and over just to simply farm them up as we are drip fed them.
The crests are sufficient enough for gear upgrades.
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theres value in having a currency the comes from all content, but their current use isnt a good fit.
i think they would work a lot better as a catch all currency to buy cosmetics. this would turn them from something you either dont care about/are frustrated by into a currency you always want because you can actually get something with them.
I think other currencies already fill these gaps, think resonance crystals, the delve currency and siren isle currency. I’m not sure another one of those would be necessary but combining all of those types of currencies to serve a similar purpose wouldn’t necessarily hurt the game.
yea resonance crystals serve a similar purpose. valorstones could be unique in that it can reasonably be seasonally reset so if they do a season cosmetic refresh you dont have people hoarding from an earlier season.
flame blessed iron is also different in that its not part of the seasonal content and can have its own ecosystem of rewards. the three of those would have distinct enough use cases to justify not just combining them all together imo.
little effort can get you 400-500 an hour, not much work involved except taking the hour or two to get them.