I completely agree with you dutch, but my situation is even worse than yours. I am level 100 sitting on 16 milion gold and the count of my 3* shards is 31 red, 43 green, 15 blue, 32 yellow, 49 purple and 118 rainbow, yes 118!!! I have just evolved 2 chars to 100 just because i was running out of shards slots, and maxed like 10 talismans from level 1 to five. I have opened more than 400 rare souls counting trooper souls and just got 2 5* chars, corrupt general in the begining and the great visions eddie, hu. This is ridiculous, ah dont forget my 5 stacks of 99 regular souls sitting in my book of souls unopened.
Yes, it would be a bit better if getting better chars was a bit easier because now for me the point is only farm for rare souls in rift and more money.