It seems as though SE made a mistake gating off certain items via folklore tomes. Or, more specifically, making them so irritatingly expensive to obtain. 99 tokens is almost unrealistic to get without throwing the whole idea up in disgust and has caused a lot of 2* and 3* materials to become nearly unobtainable--whether due to expense and the risk associated with the synth or lack of supply--and a lot of 2* and 3* items to become needlessly expensive.

In my opinion, SE went a bit too far in catering to hardcore crafters. If nothing else, the folklore tome requirements should be cut to 26 blue tokens, at the most.