@monkeyman135

1) I never specified an amount, only the possibility. Three Rings would specify the amount relative to the various stages of collected heat, at all levels of conversion. In attempting to abuse the system, you make leveling take a lot longer, for those with maxed out gear, while it means you can do more runs, those runs give you the resources to speed up your ability to upgrade your gear. While runs on deeper stratums, your revive costs negate this heavily.

2) It reduces time in the clockworks, for a price, a price set by the player, but its an optional price. Its really dependent upon the question: "How soon do I want this item?" It opens up more options for crafting, and those who offer crafting services to others. It also brings in more variance in the gear in the auction house.

3) Unfortunately, those who do a lot of runs even with PUGs will learn that its a waste of energy, and never open them. I can counter the number of times on my hand today that people have opened even one of those gates (3, to be precise, all they got was heat) and they rapidly stop doing it. Sure they will open up danger rooms but that is because everyone knows that danger rooms can be lucrative and reward back more then their cost.

@sirelaggalot

1) I don't go into those gullible idiot traps. Same with 99% of the players I have seen (bar the first day of play guys who stop after the first gate when they notice it really gave them nothing) thus far. This is why the 3rd idea was to make these gates which are frankly... not operating like three rings would intend, at least useful beyond the first day newbie on his first trip into a real clockwork.

Now personally as I have found that if you upgrade individual portions and level them one by one, leveling goes by very fast. In a T1 run I have seen my Angelic Raiment get 2.5 levels per arena, took me 3 runs of dark lion (missed one of the arenas on accident) to get the thing to level 10. Leveling is a breeze done one by one. Only with mass upgrading do you feel like there is so little heat that nothing could be done. But for those at this stage, (as this is only really important for 3*>4* and 4*>5* gear) you are already making enough money that the heat to mist energy conversion would not be an issue to turn off.

2) In my mind, these tanks are basically just like the materials you find, the only real difference is, is that people had to work to make them. They are well and truly option, especially since the first idea could be shut off so that the heat is instead put into leveling the weapon yourself. Heat Tanks are merely an available option, one that can enhance the crafting group of players and bring more 4* and 5* gear into the auction house for sale.

3) Look at it like this: Heat to Mist conversion boosts the newbie getting into the game, by helping to enable him to make money to afford his first sets of real gear that will let him make a lot of money. Heat Tanks enables those who are stuck in limbo (lacking other resources to advance) to have something they can make some money off of to help get them out of limbo, or for those with the recipes to enhance their crafting service by enabling easier creation and trading of higher level gear that would normally take a long time to make.