I really appreciate the effort you put into the elaboration and presentation Adelion, but do you really have to put a price tag on everything? The game is only designed for 80-100 hours of play anyway, who has 100 Dust to spare (and that 500 times minimum if you want to have the Achievement?)
By the way, I’m at 3.5k h playtime at about 3.7k green, 10k blue and 11k orange… that’s far from the 50000 you would need at least according to this proposal…
Joking aside, I think the decision to spend any resource on the deeds is really questionable, especially for the difficulty level I see it critically.
Furthermore, I always have my problems with solutions that seem illogical to me. This includes brewing heroic deeds in a witch’s cauldron.
Why don’t you just make Deeds a separate queue (I know, not the most elegant solution either), where the difficulty can be chosen freely (including Cataclysm best), where there is simply a vote before the game, 3 options to choose from, which are fixed as long as the lobby exists (at 50/50 the host vote decides) and which can be started as often as you like? My suggestion for the visual aspect of the whole story would be some kind of bulletin board, I think that fits the theme more than the fire bowl and I have a certain aversion to this magical hocus-pocus anyway since the Athanor.