Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
2.0 relics had some form of tomestone grinding as well, along with spamming certain content for light farming non satop.
Let's see...

Building the initial relic required a Raz-at-han Quenching Oil which cost a couple hundred tomestones
Zenith cost about 900 tomestones and buying things with tomestones is literally the entire step here
Atma - no tomestone cost
Animus - the books cost about 500 tomestone iirc and in between there you did a bunch of other content. Total 9 books (4500 tomestones)
Novus - materia and alexandrite. Now you COULD buy alexandrite maps here with tomestones, or you could just get them from FATEs. The big thing on this step was the cash cost of the materia.
Nexus - light farming. No tomestones
Zodiac - dungeon atmas and crafted items
Zeta - light farming with tomestone costs in between tiers - total tomestone cost 2400

So that's the whole process for the 2.x relic. I'm seeing 7800 tomestones spent across the ENTIRE PROCESS. And in between there was a bunch of content farming. Now the 2.x relic did a lot wrong. Atmas are still just about the worst possible idea that has ever happened and the light levels needed were ridiculous.

The Umbrite step of the 3.x relic requires 24000 tomestones by itself. Over triple the entire 2.x relic chain for this ONE STEP. And while it's the largest expenditure of tomestones across the process so far, it's hardly the only one.