Quote Originally Posted by Caerliss View Post
I'm not sure if this is working as intended or not because the gear can be purchased later on with centurio seals, but it seems strange to force the purchase with seals when it should've been given anyway as part of the 60 quest. The GM that I reported this too suggested asking around on the forums instead of providing any single answer. If this is not a bug, my apologies. I thought I'd report it just in the off chance that it is.
In the beginning of HW the set was purchasable from tomestones which are not in the game anymore. They removed them to cut the number of currencies ingame and changed how the gear can be purchased. Since then you got it for centurio seals.

With the SB launch they introduced a whole lot of new stuff to be obtained from hunt seals and I think that is why they changed the quests and gave the gear as a reward so newbies don't have to grind the seals. Pre SB there was literally no other way to obtain the gear apart from actually buying it. Sooooo: working as intended.