Somewhat interesting, unless this drops off another mob somewhere else that has yet to be discovered, that it is Recommended for 68, is no drop, and yet one must be 69 to enter RSS. Oh the irony...
it's incase you died shortly after getting 69 and this sword. There were tons of problems with people retrieving their corpses after raids in Time and KT if they LDed and raid was over and they deleveled to 64 (time and KT are required 65 to get in) Which is probably why they made RS 69 not 70 so if u do delevel there is a better chance of being able to get your corpse back with out having to bother a GM.
But with DoN expansion, that's no longer a problem period. Instead of begging GMs you get to beg players for 200pp(for corpse summons). Haha, EQ has come along way.