They ain't coming back.
I'm with you on the minor frustration. I was holding onto them in the event my main "needed" them to get to 120 Necromancy.
I wasn't expecting to only need 6 weeks of moderate amount of gameplay to finish Necromancy (to be fair, I didn't do 100% rituals, and I didn't try to do max XP an hr. I also had everything else at 120, so didn't have too much to distract me from pursuing Necromancy.)
The fact that you had 200 says you didn't prioritize em or you were not using them for a reason.
I get people hoard things, but odds are players were in the categories of
1) using them all the time
2) almost never using them
So devs probably felt that players with more than 20 or 50 in storage was uncommon enough and that it wouldn't impact their gameplay if they were removed.
As the others said, you actually did get some benefit from them as they each gave progress in the current Hero Pass. (Take from that what you will ....... )
So like some of the other currencies and items in game they were converted into a thing for another thing.
With 200 on hand ... it's not like you were using them ... you would have had to have gone well over a year without using 1 to get that many.
We're also like 4 months from the Necromancy lockout getting lifted, so you should be able to get 120 by then. We're like 2 years MINIMUM until another skill comes out (assuming there is another) with an additional 6 month lockout on top of that, so you have that long to make another pile and get an opportunity to use (or not use) them.
14-Oct-2023 23:13:07