When the game was in the hands of SOE, there was an option to buy a Commons only battlegroup for $1.00. Then there was another option to buy another battlegroup for $6.00, which included commons, uncommons and rares. So, for a $7.00 investment you can have a good start in your particular faction you choose. When I started the first thing I did was buy the $1.00 commons battlegroup for all 8 factions, then slowly bought each of the $6.00 battlegroups. This gave me 480 runes to work with and a decent start to this game. I would like them to bring those back.