The thing is that field content is inherently grindy. That’s it intended design. Think 1 set of +2 gear overall costs

-38000 silver
-24000 gold
-15 aetherspun gold
-300 sanguinite

So the idea that the riding map consumes too much silver is just out of whack with the scale of field content’s grind. Also if you don’t like field content then why do you care about spending silver? It’s not like you want the gear anyway. You are fine to not like it and voice criticism that you don’t like it but you also have to understand field content’s scale

The other thing is that phantom actions have more potency than regular actions (you can roughly multiply the actions potency by about 4 to get its true potency give or take a bit based on your gear) so if you get to a fate and it’s dying front load your phantom actions, they do a huge amount of damage

OC has more problems than I can count but if you cannot make it to any fate on time you are doing something wrong and if you are sick of a relic GRIND at knowledge level 13 then you don’t want a relic you want a participation trophy. This is still the second easiest grind we’ve every gotten