I can confirm what Alvorada is saying.
Alexander was suddenly taking silver effects during the NotB...

Anyways... back to the main topic
I'm just a middle player and I spend any cash so far.... I find the pricing way to crazy most of the times.
But I feel this is forcing players to spend.
Especially with the increasing of gold...
Also I can imagine the frustration of most of the players here when you see your precious stack beeing cut in half.

I personally find the addition of toons that are almost unbeatable spoil the fun a bit plus making some PvP battles taking unnecessary long. So adding talismans that can do the same? Really? Then how do players need to reach their next 200 wins for an event if it taked 15 minutes or more? We just have 24 hours in a day in where we also need to do other things....

I like the game... I have patients, so if I can't get something instantly I can wait... that's the downside of not spending cash.
But please don't force us since this will only backfire.

And it has been brought up a lot of times also.... if the prices would not be that freaking crazy then more players would spend. Maybe even me...