Stormblood end-of-life cycle and Buyable Weapons

[Raldo]

Dear Square Enix,

This thread has reminded me that some of your token systems can sometimes be obtuse as hell. Please do try to clean that up. Can you please figure out how to make the lady trade you a weapon for 1000 tomes + Military-Grade Tomestone (even better if we can skip the Military-Grade tomestone trade-in step too)? I don't think anyone enjoys buying 10 whatever-tokens from one NPC, trading the items for a Military-Grade Tomestone at another NPC, then finally going to a 3rd NPC to trade all of that in for a weapon. Want to upgrade that weapon? Now you have to visit a 4th NPC (and re-visit one of the previously-mentioned NPCs if you need to trade in the ally-raid currency for the upgrade item).

It's no surprise that some people might be completely unaware that you can even buy weapons at all.

"How would you change it then?" I hear you asking. Simple.

Lady that sells you stuff for tomestones. New weapons subcategory.
[Paladin Sword] - 700 tomes + Military-Grade tomestone
[Paladin Sword] - 700 tomes + 4 Alphascape whatevers
[Warrior Axe] - 1000 tomes + Military-Grade tomestone
and so on...

I feel like the only reason we have the current system is because maybe there's some sort of limitation where the system can't accept both tomes and items at the same time.