national lottery is 2€ in here. where do you live for 2€ to be expensive ?
You need a streak of luck, 2 per 2 is under 10% chance 8per8 is 45-55% chance. There is no way to garanty 100% chance to get NEXT stage.
Let's say u go the 2 per 2 route with optimistic 10% chance (it more like 8%).
On average, you need 11 blue stone for a purple (9 fail x (2 stone consumed - 1 blue stone back) + 1 sucess x 2 stone consumed)
Then again you need on average 11 purple for a legendary. Thats 121 blue stones total on average.
121 RADIANCE stones x 15 = 1815 radiance stones (i have a headacke and urge to vomit when i see that number).
About ascension stone, its pure gamble, you need to luck out a purple box (never seen one in cs/hm merchant and only 1 in daily reward). and then you need to luck out a legendary.
I let you calculate the time a free2play player need for that given the fact you can only get about 2 to 3 blue stone a day (hint : years).
Please, for god sake stop saying that something can be bought INSTANTLY but takes at least YEARS for free players to be pay 2 progress, it is not. It is the most vicious example of pay2win.
What do you need to stop pretending it is achievable? 10 years? 20 years? 50 years?
Not to mention, there is no way to garantie the evolution from blue to purple and then legendary. For example, this trove i spent 1210 keys (a mix of ncoin key + hmcoin key) and my unity stone did not evolve a inch , no change, nada, zero. And if i try more my odd did not improve.... all the effort and money ive put did vanish forever.
It isn't just tough, it is impossible to get within reasonable time. By the time somebody get close to current max we will already get the next tier of stones ! Thats crazy.
Its been over 3 month and you said it yourself , you only have 3 of them. Thats 1 per month and we need 18 of them ...
Yes we need more blue, much more blue. They need to at least remove the time limitation on it, either make cs/hm repeatable or chance the currency to something we can farm (for example evolved stone or convert the shitload crystals one can get when farming).