I finally got my first Arena spin through some seriously hardcore luck (I ended up with -one- pillar out of the twelve in my thirty-card deck on starting draw, when going against a Quanta Denial arena deck. That's bogus).
I got a shard, without a chance to respin any slots. I honestly would rather have gotten a weapon, because I can get Shards through donating if I'm hard-up enough for them.
From what I've heard before from other users, the Special Spin is particularly partial to Shards rather than weapons. I know that myself and TC are not the only people seeing this. Why can't anyone recognize that the system is borked? Rare weapons are practically mandatory in a lot of God-farmers and even Arena-farmers, yet they're hands-down the hardest cards to obtain aside from Nymphs and Marks. You can get Shards with a high rate of success in Special Spin and from any Arena deck that has them, and even if you can't seem to get them legitimately you can donate to buy the upgraded versions (which you can also sell at the store for a hefty penny, allowing you to upgrade cards for the sale costs if you're hard-up enough for electrum).
Meanwhile, Special Spin is the only supposed "reliable" way to get weapons(It's not--whether or not you succeed depends drastically on your starting draws and how they compare to your opponent's deck), yet Shards appear far more often on it. Are you honestly saying that Rare Weapons aren't hard to acquire? If you're saying it's easy to farm the Arena for Bronze, then what deck are you using for it? How many upgraded cards are in it? How many rare weapons? If you need rare weapons and upgraded cards to get more rare weapons and upgraded cards reliably, don't you see how that's an unstable equilibrium?
Rare weapons, at least the unupped versions, -need- to be more easily accessible for newbies. Not necessarily thrown into the shop or anything, but at least appear on more spins, or not practically require special spins if you're that much more likely to get Shards rather than Weapons from Special Spins.