What was Square trying to accomplish with the previous tome patch?

[Calyanare]

Not really sure how these two are related??? unless you mean materia farming which used to be best accomplished in WP... but I mean, more people are hitting 50 and more are going to be going for their relics. I don't really see how it destroyed anything... what "new" weapon was released that replaces your relic?

He/she meant the market for the materials for the relic precursor weapons, which drop in WP. They used to sell for a decent amount, and now on my server some of them are selling for less than the vendor price on the market boards.