Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
The gear is just to prepare people.

At some point they will release onion hands, which will make people more curious...

After several years FFXIV will introduce the quest for the Onion Sword, thus unlocking the Onion Knight (class) and people will start going insane leveling it. (It will be FFXIV's version of the Maat Cap)
This actually sounds like logical reasoning. Also what is strange is that obtaining these gear pieces are through r20 faction leves. and at r20 Glad recieves the ability Onion Cut.