You know, I kinda like this version. You are slowly turning into my favorite poster here on the general forums. I'm totally fine with having guaranteed useful loot via tomestones. Although I'm getting bored of Allagans so naming the tokens dunno mhachi scrolls of something would be and improvement. So I am against doing away with tokens.
But balancing actual drops in a way to make them as useful as tomestones is a great idea. It shouldn't be that hard to implement anyway because you are doing the same dungeons anyway. It is essentially wider horizontal progression without the need to create more content for a single dungeon tier.