@YaBoiMattyK I’ve made a similar rant before on the forums. In GW2, Rux was accessible by only coins because coins were the singular type of currency to buy things, with Stars and Rainbow Stars being for chests and miscellaneous content. You could purchase rare items from Rux by playing the game however you wanted.
In BFN, Rux is exclusively rainbow stars, pushing coins into total irrelevancy after clearing out the Reward-O-Tron and purchasing Wizard. Not only that, but you can’t earn Rainbow Stars by playing the game the way you want to.
Let me say that again: YOU CAN’T EARN RAINBOW STARS, practically the primary currency in the game once coins are dealt with, BY PLAYING THE GAME THE WAY YOU WANT.
You don’t get a small amount of Rainbow Stars every game of the weekly event like in GW2, you are restricted to a few weekly challenges that don’t refresh until the following week. You only get about 250 a month from the prize map, and you get a maximum of 500 from grinding through the tedious drudgery of Battle Arena which a majority of players can’t or won’t do. Not only that, but Battle Arena rubs salt in the wound by having a majority of the rewards be an INSANE amount of coins that you will NEVER USE.
Rux was a breath of fresh air in GW2 because you could get rare and exclusive items by paying up the same way you’d pay for a sticker pack. Now he seems like a slap in the face, especially since they keep adding more and more to him with no compensation in the gain rate of Rainbow Stars or any form of conversion with Coins.
We are getting a good amount through the Lost and Found event by playing a few times a week, yes, but it’s also a little insulting how we only got 100 stars for Birthdayz. The 11th anniversary of the FRANCHISE. Not only that, but this is a one month event, and we don’t know if it’s ever happening again.
It’s baffling how they will continue to add ways to get coins regularly and consistently while never giving us anything to spend them on. Excluding Wizard, WE HAVEN’T GOTTEN ANYTHING TO USE COINS ON SINCE LAUNCH. RUX IS UPDATED MONTHLY.
Ugh.
