Quote Originally Posted by Zaft View Post
Alex Normal is intended to be an easy raid, one that you do so you can experience and enjoy the storyline without having to put in the significant amount of work that Coil required. Alex Savage is the actual raid.

Anyway, the weapon would likely drop from the final boss if anything, and wouldn't be a token.
Basically this. They would have been better off calling it Alex (Easy) and Alex (Normal) imo