The Tragedy about Manderville vs Brilliant Relics

[ChrysOCE]

Yeah, sure. . . "earned". Have the gear, press the macro 60 or so times, collect weapon.

Let's not pretend this is hard.

As DiaDeem said, you still need to acquire the crafting mats.

And you still need to have the gear to do the macro in the first place, which in itself was something that was time and effort required (unless you had the gil to just buy it all, i suppose). I didn't do that. I gathered, crafted and melded every pieced of gathering/crafting gear that I have, that allows me to macro the components to 100%.