I hope I'm reading these Patch Notes wrong...

[Seif]

Why cry about that whe soldiery tomes have been slashed -10 tomes accross the board.

Why oh why didn't I endure Barflox longer to get full noct gear X__+

[Everjams]

Why cry about that whe soldiery tomes have been slashed -10 tomes accross the board.

Why oh why didn't I endure Barflox longer to get full noct gear X__+

Your forgetting the slashed them on the three current experts moving them down to High and the three new Dungeons will more then likely be the 45 tomb dungeons

[subteraneanbird]

Why cry about that whe soldiery tomes have been slashed -10 tomes accross the board.

Why oh why didn't I endure Barflox longer to get full noct gear X__+

"Oh man, it'll take more than a single afternoon to cap an entire week's worth of Soldiery. Woe is me."

[Nutz]

Why cry about that whe soldiery tomes have been slashed -10 tomes accross the board.

Why oh why didn't I endure Barflox longer to get full noct gear X__+

I wouldn't worry abou tthat. Soldiery was slashed from 2.2's expert dungeons, but those are going to be in the high level roulette now while the expert roulette gives an extra 10 soldiery (35 instead of 25) and the new 2.3 dungeons probably give the same 45 we're used to, or perhaps even 50.

The cost of the new weapons does look absurd, though I hope at least when they said you sometimes get a rare item they didn't mean that you usually don't get demimateria. Imagine desynthing 30 Ifrit weapons to get the 3 Inferno demimateria you need....