As for having (a very few) items/achievements that can't be gotten guaranteed in the space of 2 weeks, you probably have to thank your fellow players for that who have been crying "new episodes only ever last for two hours" quite loudly. You can create longterm rewarding/repeatable content without making something absurdly rare to get though. Fractals do this quite decently, especially with Account Augmentations. There's a guaranteed way for people to get these, it just takes time and effort.This helmet is so rare, that there has been one listing on the trading post so far. And it's gone again. Those are both locked behind gold ( or gems ). The helmet is so rare, that it was listed once. If it's so rare, that there's no supply of it on the TP, even if it would cost thousands of gold, then it's bad.Besides, this is the first piece of cultural armor we have gotten in years, after people had been asking for new cultural armor for the longest time. And now aside from the charr-only aspect, barely anyone will ever get to see it anyway. If it was a general thing like an infusion, I would understand. But this feels quite mean to any player who had hoped to get some new cultural armor at some point. Like "here you go, but you still can't get it."