See where you feel that they can't do kobold and vath the same. In fact weren't the tokens added close to the same time for similar function except ixal. Lets take anima crystals you need 6 different for a total slots total of 18. Would it have been game breaking if each zone dropped the same one and just needed 18. Drop rates and recipe could have been adjusted. Five types of blood could equal one with scaling of need. If the high level mob has 75% drop rate and you need 5 imes as much people would farm the higher one anyways.

I feel that they made a decision to punish(yes punish) players in the current system by making poor choices. I would not feel so slighted if A) they had added more retainer space per account freely or B) evaluated the items in game since C) fixing inventory if it takes even to 4.2 since they said not at launch will be 2018.