It's soon to be two entire expansion-tier content cycles old, yet it still costs the combined wealth of a handful of third-world nations to purchase.

For a less exaggerated figure of it's cost, simply do the math. It comes out to a total cost of 5,540 Allied Seals for a single job's set, which takes 11 weeks (3 months) to farm up if you do every applicable hunt for the duration.

You can sort of grind A and S rank hunts as well to make it take a bit less time, but that's pretty much impossible to really math out due to the many organized linkshells clearing them out on the timers.

Considering these sets have zero usage aside from glamour, there's no reason they should be this tedious to acquire. It only gets worse if you try to go for more than just one set, although it gets a little easier if you don't need a full set.

Even if you just want the body piece (which is the most bang for your buck, so to speak), that's still 1,000 Allied Seals. You can get up to 548 Allied Seals in a week, so that's two weeks just for the body piece.

This is absolutely insane, you could fully gear every job on a single character in actual gear that's Stormblood-ready in a week or two for vastly less effort.