I personally like speed run but I don't mind if it's normal run either. But I do hate the token design. Even the lowest token item such as rings or necklace cost 375 tomes. Let's see what WP gives for tome: 50 (I think or was it 55)? So in order to get just a ring, I need to run it 8 times successfully. Having to repeat the same thing day in and day out is really no fun. I don't do AK yet cause I still can't get lvl 50 SMN wpn drop from WP, I don't like to gimp party. And I can't buy GC wpn because in order for me to buy it, I need to finish AK duty. There's no other lvl 50 wpn except if you craft, so I have been crafting. It's very costly to get crafting to lvl 50 and we have no real way of making gil. You ask why not Ifirit hard mode? Well, I do that too but I have never seen a SMN wpn drop yet. But having to grind WP for 100 times to get all darklight = no fun.