Fix the tomestone "weapon token" system

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

The whole token system is dumb. I only get it because I have been dealing with it since the beginning. But recently having to explain it to newer people has made me realize how terrible the system is.

The entire thing being menu driven is just the start. You then have to deal with 4-5 different NPCs...per expansion...to get gear. The tome weapon as you describe is a perfect example of the failing of the whole system.

Have to talk to someone to get a tome token (assuming you didn’t get a direct drop of the tome from savage). Then you need to talk to someone else to trade in tomes for tome notes....then you need to talk to yet someone else to actually get the weapons. The entire process is insane and the fact that all of this is carried out though randomly named items in text only menu makes it one of the most unintuitive systems I have ever seen in a game.

And really this just starts to describe the undue complexity they have created with their loot systems and the various rules and exceptions they have cobbled together over the years not to mention my entire chocobo saddlebag being full of various tokens that serve a single purpose. Why do they keep doing this?

I remember being annoyed when I got to Idyllshire the first time and wanted to upgrade my gear. But oh no, I bought a bunch of Illuminati Dark Gobcoat not Illuminati Darkest Gobcoat, meaning I wasted all of my tomestones on something I can't even use.

Better luck tomorrow after refilling your tomestones, champ!

Is there a reference somewhere that I can use to determine how this process works? For us new folks it is rather arcane.

Basically, you spend tomestones to get armor/accessories as well as additional items to fluff them up to their augmented form, which need to be exchanged at a second vendor.

As far as getting weapons go, you either need to get tomestones to buy Rowena tokens (or collect seven weekly drops from a Raid) and then purchase an archaic type of tomestone for 1000 tomestones. Then you go to another person and trade that in for a weapon. And then you need to buy the upgrade items, which you then take to ANOTHER person to upgrade that weapon into its superior form.