Hahah wait.. are you serious?

[Squats]

There's a difference between grinding for a weapon or.. grinding for that armor that has a X percentage of dropping. But.. im just seeing my tomes go up and knowing I gotta run this X amount of times to get to Y.

I too would much rather go into an instance hoping the item I want drops then to earn tokens which after a while will result in me purchasing said item.

There is a feeling of joy when the item you've killed a boss 20 times for finally drops where as when you are earning tokens it's more of a feeling of "just one more run and I get X, 20 more runs until I get Y...". The later makes the game feel much more grindy imo even if they both could take roughly the same amount of time to complete.