Umbrite post next patch...

[OoglieBooglie]

The umbrite step is worse than I remember. It feels like you put in a lot of time and effort to get a tiny, almost zero amount of progress because it wants such an insane amount of tomes. And the amount of tomes is the same each time you repeat the quest. I don't think these type of multi-week grinds should make you spend 100% the same amount of time on repeats when you go back to do other weapons. There isn't enough content to last through getting hundreds of thousands of tomestones; it is too many hundreds of repeat runs of the same dungeons to upgrade multiple anima weapons. And if we aren't supposed to collect and upgrade many weapons then why is it repeatable and giving unique achievements for every upgrade of every weapon.

Just do what I do: dump excess tomes you accumulate over time into it. I don't bother buying the lore mats, I just dump lore straight into umbrite. I've got a good 30 sitting on a retainer at the moment and it's already at about 81 progress.