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

[Asdamine]

WP is indeed the best place to farm myth tomestones for those who are geared for speed runs.

Also, I made 15k gil after 5 runs in WP (not including loot drops) making it an ideal place to reduce my repair costs.

However, AK will remain favourable for those people who are still in gear progession (and alt-class) to farm from quest gear - to AK gear - to Darklight gear. (I am leveling another class and I do not intend to farm for darklight gear, just sticking with AK gear, so I will be farming AK also.)

Whereas CM, it is pretty much dead in my heart but some people still run it for some reason. Probably down to individual choice.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with the patch. Just opening up more options.

But when some of you say the patch destoryed the in-game economy... well, I definitely see some changes in the price of philosophy items drop between 20-30% but that's pretty much it, as far as I could tell.