What I don't get is the purpose of making materials for Philo stones..yes it's been 5 years lore wise but why did minium we did have turn into cinnebar? I'm no specialist, but I know a lot of minerals don't suddenly turn into something else, especially that quickly.

People praised Yoshi and said he wouldn't make a grindy MMO, but uhm - Even in XI we had multiple ways to get certain materials, some harder than others but we weren't stuck doing just one content for one material, i.e cashmere you can get multiple ways, in XIV terms you'd only be able to get cashmere with mythology stones. What they need to do is bring over some content systems from XI, like Desynthesis.