You most likely are not alone but this is mostly just to keep people pvping if anything. When you brought up the grind part, I recalled how the system was when it only earned maybe 20 marks back then in wolves den which was supposedly made to keep people playing but people ended up quitting or not even trying instead. Though with FL being as popular as it's said to be, I'm unsure if the prices will really be dropped any time soon.

Maybe in future like it was with the R2x gear?