Castrum grind might stop me from subbing

[Millerna]

dunno why i bother looking for real answers in a forums always the same cookie cutter replys

That's mainly because the replies are to cookie cutter complaints

As for CM being the only viable way of obtaining tomestones, not really. You can get more tomestones per hour in, for example, a good Garuda HM group, with the added benefit that you can farm Garuda weapons.

That said, I do wish there was a bit more variety as well (which is hopefully coming with 2.1), and that trash has a chance of dropping a couple of tomestones so it doesn't feel completely useless killing them