Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
Oh, right, I'm not sure why they didn't keep the mats on the Law tomes, for that matter. In my head, it was implied they would have kept things that way when I was mentioning that above but I wasn't explicit about it. There wasn't anything inherently wrong with the old system. They just needed to delay when we could acquire the "top" gear. They already solved the "progression problem" by increasing the gap between lower tier tome gear and high end tome gear/raid gear, anyway. They took far more steps than they needed to.
I'd have liked a Law tome mat if anything to provide a tome sink and provide a gil stream for non-crafters/gatherers. The accessibility of coke/scheelite/ehcatl sealant as a form of income is what allows non-crafters to afford 1-2 million gil accessories and armor pieces or 40-60k HQ food every week.