Outside of an active subscription and having the gil on your character, no one should not be spending any more real money on SSD's and the such. It is not incumbent upon the player base to have to go through so many loops and hurdles, this is something the developers of this game needs to fix by making enough wards to meet the demand. It is utter garbage that people have accepted this method of thinking rather than push on SE to do right by their paying customers. Currently on the dev tracker their popular thread (that is being expedited to the dev team) is DYEABLE GEAR and not additional Housing Wards. Why you ask? Well you need to ask SE why DYEABLE GEAR is such a high priority vs. housing.