Lightning Strikes Event

[Sephirah]

The reward is the weapons, at least as far as we know from what we've seen so far. It might be the same reward as you get from lower level fates, but that doesn't mean there is no reward.

@Hyrist: Yes, a very good solution would be to put the costume items on the vendor for purchase with the tokens you get from the fates, just like the past two events.

...you don't understand, the weapons are ALREADY in the game, and you can get ALL of them, RIGHT NOW, with the lowest level fate. There are no mythical lvl 45+ weapons awarded at the higher level fates so I don't know why you think they are being awarded by the higher level fates.

Adversely, if that WAS the case, then this conversation would be the exact same, but people would be complaining why they have to level up to get the "better" versions of the weapons.

So please tell me, if you can get the entire costume at lvl 13, and all the weapons at lvl 13, then why would ANYONE run the lvl 45 fates?

As things are right now, it appears that the intention of this event (aside from the obvious promotion of FFXIII) is:
ALL players will get access to the weapons
To receive the FULL costume you must complete all the fates including the higher level ones.

If you ask me, they are being very generous to the "low levels".