The step isn't hard. And when it was released, it was just an option. Remember how the other i210 weapon was locked behind Savage Gordias until they added the Gobdip as an exchange option for the Void Ark token? Yeah? Cool. It's just an option. It makes complete sense in correlation to when it was released. And again, there are now TWELVE WAYS to get the items. Even before you could literally get it done pretty quickly just by doing Hunts as they gave Poetics, Esoterica, and Seals. So, uh. It isn't hard. It just takes a while. Time does not equal difficulty. The difficult option is the i240 Midan weapon. Savage Midas is hard. Using in game currency you get for completing just about ANY content is easy.