Sorry Yoshi, but if you award the best weapon in the game by winning the lottery...

[St0rmchild]

Whether or not it becomes the norm isn't the problem, it's whether or not you /NEED/ the weapon for content, which you don't. That's why these weapons shouldn't be taken seriously, they're not required, it's more of just a 'Test your luck'. That and, the weapon already has a stigma, it doesn't carry prestige like a Raiding Weapon, or the effort of a Relic Weapon.

You still don't understand -- you didn't need this item this time.

The dangerous precedent this sets is that it may be decided that this is a great model to apply to ALL content - dungeons, raids, etc. - and not just end of patch/content, but everything - and that includes upcoming leveling/progression content.

Maybe I should put it like this:
Do you want to buy gear items with tomestones, or are you comfortable with spending tomestones to buy a chance for gear -- that may or may not be what you wanted, and failing that chance be a limit on what you can do or play ?

Because I am emphatically not comfortable with that.
One of FFXIV's awesome features is how small the gap is between the social and hardcore players, and how the game (pretty successfully so far) has integrated both groups in the same content.
One reason for that is the gearing system, which linearly rewards efforts with results.
This kind of RNG does not do any of that.

And that is why this has me extremely concerned.