I guess that's just it, though; I view stuff like that more as a "player accomplishment", moreso than the character itself. Like I said, when it comes to Story-related stuff, like the Relic/Artifact gear, I'm all for that being restricted to that individual character. For stuff that's being permanently retired from the game, though, or made completely inaccessible after a certain point, I'd prefer they relax those restrictions by way of making them account-wide.

Plus, consider that they might one day add completely new Playable Races; unless Lightning plans on returning on a fairly regular basis, they're obviously not going to be obtaining that gear, yet it could very well wind up looking good on them.

I mean, the safest bet would obviously be to level up another character to lvl 45 and get the set on them, but I think that's kind of playing with fire.