Some real issues with Demon's bane weekly ranking rewards - a wasted opportunity for something great

[Ainyann]

In general the ranking rewards are in a horrible spot at the moment

- getting 10 fusion stones from top 30-11 vs 5 synthesis stones +100 gold from top 10 is downgrade for almost all players. 10 fusion stones give 10 tries on accessories and also have other uses for upgrading ancient enchantment levels etc. While 5 synthesis stones don't give you even 1 try on accessory. This not only does demotivate players to not rank up by rewards being mediocre but by also arguably getting worse for most players. Because many need a lot fusion stones.

I really like the idea of weekly ranking rewards and it's an exciting idea, but the reality, at the moment, is far from it.
Me and my friend decided to skip getting top 10 on our character, and I believe we're not the only ones (even though it would've been possible) because the reward was clearly much worse for us.

I would suggest that instead of replacing fusion stones to synthesis stones for higher rankings, you add the synthesis stones as a bonus
So top 10 ranking, instead of getting 5 synthesis stones, would get 10 fusion stones + 5 synthesis stones. 
This ensures that players won't have to worry about getting too high of a weekly ranking for possible worse reward (which feels really stupid and awful)

- As for the Demon's bane challenge tokens - the only real use for them was buying the old challenge mode outfits for some extra ap, but once you've acquired those, you have practically nothing to spend them on.

These are supposed to be something we fight for (of course alongside the other ranking rewards)
And while there is some "niche" use by buying challenger tokens with horrible exchange rate for marginally better Grand Psyches, (now that we get quite good psyches from soul boost)

I feel like everything about the tokens is really outdated and the merchant itself needs a rehaul 
> some possible new rewards would be Skystealer crystals(because we lack a source for these), Starcross crystals, Starcross essences and even accessories, why not a gold box to top it off. I feel like these tokens should have some real power, they are ranking rewards after all, (hopefully?) meant to let us further us in the dungeons, and gold is one of the many resources we need for more power.

Thank you for reading
 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Ainyann

[DenialOfTruth]

Agreeable all around, really. We need a much better source of Skystealer Crystals...I used everything I had to reach +18 Skystealer Ring so I could make my Starcross +14. the 60 or so of each type we get a day is not enough.

[Rhiakath]

6 hours ago, Ainyann said:

- As for the Demon's bane challenge tokens - the only real use for them was buying the old challenge mode outfits for some extra ap, but once you've acquired those, you have practically nothing to spend them on.

 

I still use a lot of them for challenger tokens to be able to fuse new psyches. I don't see how you can have "nothing to spend them on", unless you already had a massive stash of tokens from before.

[808068_1452549836]

Agree that currently I do not want to rank higher because of those 10 fusion stones. It would be nice to have both fusion and synthesis stones on higher ranks. Currently cannot do higher than stage 6 or I lose access to weekly fusion stones and those are much much more valuable. And its really demotivating since me and people I play with would like to challenge those higher stages.

Also agree that Demon's bane challenge tokens have not enough things to use them on and they should be a valuable currency. Please consider adding some nice things to buy with them that would be useful to people that want to challenge themselves.