Dimension Blade clarification

[Sotek]

why would something suddenly be an exception?

Because it's not a piece of gear? It is not going to speed up a players progression in the slightest, the options are iLv80 gear or, assuming anyone will buy it, Gil, which at best gets you iLv70 gear. The whole point of such lockouts is to slow progression, and this crafting material has nothing to do with progression. Just like all the other items, which are exactly the same as this one, it should just drop to a random persons inventory.

XIV has this extremely weird system where endgame progression is relatively simplistic and easy, but anything vanity related is a time sink worthy of the Final Fantasy XI legacy... Behemoth and Odin, Housing, heck, the Lv15 and Lv32 unique looking gear from low level dungeons are rarer than most endgame gear... I swear, there are more Allagan weapons out there than their are Odin/Behemoth items, it's very odd...

It's really sad, if this just had its own unique lock out of one fragment a week (you know, like it has its own unique chest?), it would be incentive to stay in Crystal Tower after getting whatever you want. Philosophy and Mythology Tomestones aren't that much of an incentive these days, given Philosophy are pure trash now, and Mythology can be capped on Duty Roulette alone. "I'll keep doing Crystal Tower after getting my drop for this" was the first thing I thought reading it, now? Back to not doing Crystal Tower after ~Tuesday.