Shop to sell/trade unwanted characters?

Everyone would. But the game economy, diversity and mechanics will be destroyed.

You think so? Even if the trade-in value was really low? My guess if you get the right ratio the game economy would be fine ...

"wettshoes1;105132" wrote:
You think so? Even if the trade-in value was really low? My guess if you get the right ratio the game economy would be fine ...

You do realize how many toons are pretty much useless, right?

I'd love for them to add a much more robust shard shop. Might sound like a broken record by now but I like the Hearthstone system. There you can break down a card into crafting component at a rate of 1/5 to 1/4 the cost of crafting a card of equal rarity. For example, say a card "rare" care costs 100 mats to craft, disenchanting a rare card gives you 20 mats. But hearthstone is much more generous with giving out packs so 1/4 is probably steep in this case.

The same could apply here but at say 1/2 scrap value rather than 1/4. Characters could be sorted into rarities based on where they can be farmed, and broken down into "neutral" shard shop currency. A GW farmable character is the most common, arena shipment and cantina battle farmable 2nd, cantina shipment and hard only farmable 3rd, and chrome only the most rare. So say Tier 1 common, Tier 4 chrome.

Avergage daily income of shards t1 15, t2 ~5-10, t3 ~2-5, t4 special so say equivalent value of 40:20:5:1 where a t1 is worth about 1/40 of a t4. I set the chrome value arbitrarily, at 5x a difficult farm but theres no real reason for it.

Get the scaling right and you allow fluid transfer of shards between characters at a premium. It's still way more efficient to farm proper shards but if you get a char you really don't want you can put it towards one you do. And then when a char is nerfed CG could temporarily set the scrap ratio for a char to 1:1 so you can siphon shards equally into a new char of the same rarity, allowing balancing without "lost investment" QQ.

@ Azraelrulz

Yea but there are very good characters that I have but will likely never level up or use that I would theoretically love to trade in too...

@ medetec

Sounds like a reasonable way to do it