What Have I come back too?

It's way more than 30-50. For the new Maul to be 7star at the end of the era, you need $600 to get all characters 7star, then you need another idk how much but looks like a few hundred to get them from 70-85. Looks like they'll have some mats needed with Maul, but otherwise the only way to level them up is from the store. So yeah, just whaling new toons for the shards is only half the battle. New journeys are now more expensive.