Quote Originally Posted by DeadlySwordz View Post
no thanks. don't make this game like WoW has become with badge rewards. That is one of the main reason or THE main reason why I quit WoW. I was able to hit the new level cap and was able to get raid ready gear including some purples in like 3 days cause it was easy to keep doing 5 man runs for badges to buy gear from NPC's. Made the game a bit easy. So again, no thanks on buying drops.
Limbus, Dynamis, Slavage, Einjar, Assaults

Here's a few endgame scenario's in FFXI that have token or currency based rewards that could be exchanged to NPC's for gear. Arguably they also rewarded some of the best gear in the game(look at what it takes to make a relic or mythic)

Having a token based endgame isn't going to turn the game into Wow what matters is the scaling of content, how much players are rewarded, and how much you have to go through in order to complete said content. It looks like you have an issue with the pace of the game and not the drops/rewards