Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
Lore reasons. Soul crystals are somewhat rare and precious, so they're not handed out to just any rookie who comes waltzing in. In some class storylines like scholar's they're all but lost and you need to go to a great deal of trouble to obtain them.
Couldn't the fix be to use lore excuses, then? Like, the class guild or whatever gives you a useless, non-magical trinket as a sign of membership and the item changes its name and icon once you reach level 30 in order to become a soul crystal.