I dropped a piece of reforged gear today, and because I already used my "Once per account" recovery I'm basically screwed now and have to redo them again. It hurts me because I reforged a +2 augmented relic piece so it was cheap and now I have to do the real expensive path.

This game is filled with countless valuable equipment that not only takes luck to obtain but many hours of blood sweat and tears to perfect. As I came to post this I saw a thread made by a player who lost their Mandua 119 who like me can not recover his item. His lost item is way more valuable mine and he was left hanging like a nobody. It's not fair and totally unreasonable for him not to get his Relic Dagger back. If I lost my Aegis (that I recently obtained after months of hard work); I would stop playing all together.

I believe one recovery per account is too limiting and unforgiving. I opt that a recovery a year be made available to your hard working, loyal, paying customers. We've been with FFXI for years, we deserve a little slack.