Curious if a Dev would be able to answer this. Theorize away...

[KrenianKandos]

You kinda answered your own question, they don't want you to double dip, it's meant to be a long grind so they have time to make more content. Beyond that this is a silly question, go round to your local shop and say why don't you accept leaves for your goods? it's not that i'm too lazy to make money but if you accepted leaves then I could buy more. It's not for you to decide what a shop keeper wants in exchange for their stuff. You pay what they want in exchange or you don't get it.

I kinda did but I would still like to know what their idea was behind the thought process. They did not state they didn't want us to double dip. Thus, why I ask the question.

Not sure why 'this is a silly question'. It's a question posed on a forum where people can discuss every and any manner within the game. Not really sure why you decided it would be best to invalidate my question by stating it's 'silly' when a lot of people don't necessarily dip into other classes and focus on one particular class. As such, after 12ish weeks, I'm done with gearing my character and am sitting on tomes that serve only to gear an alt class I throw into raids and about it. As such, they effectively do not serve me any use other than to spend it on other items.

Question is rather simple: Why not have Umbrite in Lore. You're capped in Lore on a weekly basis anyway, at 450. This means, at most, you can dip into the Lore tomes book once a week. There's no logistical reason as to why this wasn't made and I, in my inquisitive nature, am curious as to why the devs decided to only have Eso tomes be the grind. Adding Umbrite in a capped situation like Lore tomes are really doesn't grant 'that' much of an advantage, and allows people who are done gearing their one class to help out with the Relic.

Would ask that you refrain from calling arguments 'silly' and simply discuss the topic at hand. You could have simply ended it after your first phrase instead of antagonising.

[Malzian]

You kinda answered your own question, they don't want you to double dip, it's meant to be a long grind so they have time to make more content. Beyond that this is a silly question, go round to your local shop and say why don't you accept leaves for your goods? it's not that i'm too lazy to make money but if you accepted leaves then I could buy more. It's not for you to decide what a shop keeper wants in exchange for their stuff. You pay what they want in exchange or you don't get it.

I kinda did but I would still like to know what their idea was behind the thought process. They did not state they didn't want us to double dip. Thus, why I ask the question.

Not sure why 'this is a silly question'. It's a question posed on a forum where people can discuss every and any manner within the game. Not really sure why you decided it would be best to invalidate my question by stating it's 'silly' when a lot of people don't necessarily dip into other classes and focus on one particular class. As such, after 12ish weeks, I'm done with gearing my character and am sitting on tomes that serve only to gear an alt class I throw into raids and about it. As such, they effectively do not serve me any use other than to spend it on other items.

Question is rather simple: Why not have Umbrite in Lore. You're capped in Lore on a weekly basis anyway, at 450. This means, at most, you can dip into the Lore tomes book once a week. There's no logistical reason as to why this wasn't made and I, in my inquisitive nature, am curious as to why the devs decided to only have Eso tomes be the grind. Adding Umbrite in a capped situation like Lore tomes are really doesn't grant 'that' much of an advantage, and allows people who are done gearing their one class to help out with the Relic.

Would ask that you refrain from calling arguments 'silly' and simply discuss the topic at hand. You could have simply ended it after your first phrase instead of antagonising.

I think, less that double-dipping, it has more to do with the fact that Lore is a capped Tomestone and Esos are not. It's supposed to be that Lore is a currency you make critical decisions spending, and Esos are the ones you can just spend away on. For a weapon like the Animus that requires so many tomestones to complete, it simply makes more sense to use the uncapped ones and leave the capped ones for more things that have more impact.