Please no more Eureka!

[Reynhart]

And I liked how you skipped over the crafting, materia melding, the books, the light farm and everything else and just reduced everything to tome grind to make your point. Sounds like you don't have an actual point.

Materia melding...ok, the very first step required crafting and materia melding...but also tomestones. To be fair, the first step of the Relic was pretty enjoyable and you know why ? Because it was the only step where content was created for the relic. Hmm, strange.
The Novus step required lots of materia...and Alexandrites, obtained by...tomestones, or once per day by doing a daily roulette.
The books...do you even remember how you obtained those books ?

And yes, the light farm, for which you did dungeons and trials...nothing like what you already do to farm tomestones right ? The exact thing I mentionned just above in my "two steps that don't require tomestones".

Sounds like you don't have an actual point.

Sounds like you have a pretty convenient selective memory.