Gender Locked Items (Lightning Edition)

[Alhanelem]

Of course I can't be 100% sure, but i'm pretty confident that Square Enix won't re-flag the quest again later for people to obtain a second set of lighting/snow gear, it wouldn't make any logical sense.

How does it not make logical sense? If they run the event again, you get to play it again. This was true for many event quests throughout FFXI's history. You can't say with such confidence it won't happen because it HAS happened in the past.

There isn't even the slightest bit of harm in doing it either- the worst thing that can happen is you don't get a reward for doing it the second time.

I guarantee you that next summer you'll be able to get more wet bombard ash and buy more fireworks n stuff with it. In the cases in XI where the event changed from the previous version, the items from the previous version were made avialable for purchase with gil. I understand the cynic in you is telling you SE wouldn't do it just because it would be a nice thing to do, but that is not a valid argument or reason for the opinion.