Lightning on the Horizon!

[white_mage]

Its clearly for vanity purposes, why would they release content/rewards that are only available to players who have been playing since launch, and lock out new players from this 'fresh' (for a lack of a better term) content.
Sure you won't be using it as a main weapon on your 50, but for now it will help with trying other classes if there's a weapon you want, and give new players another questing component. My only hope is that the reward system for these Lightning quests will allow you to collect all of these weapons rather than your particular class. Although, they are rewards for the lvl15 component of the questing which I guess isn't hard to achieve for any player, new or old.