Just wondering why you screaming. You're level 51 plus a necro so you don't understand the importance of both focus 4 items and FT for other classes like clerics and wizards.
Lots of casters and priests who make level 61+ have their shawl 7 or 8. The effects are too good not to make the effort unless you're guaranteed a spot in a VT+ uberguild. This dragon is not so hard and can be done by small/casual guilds who are strugling through HoT or starting on NToV for instance. Shawl 8 is often very common in guilds like those.
Considering this is the first normally obtainable mana pres 4 item for non-ubers (not counting 100+kpp tier 4 pottery items) it's a very bad choice by SOE to make it for a slot most non-uber players have one of their few super items (earring of sol being another).
All valid posts, save the flamers rediculously out of place and ill tempered rant. In the end though this to me looks to be geared more toward hybrids than pure casters. Most hybrids wont spend the time to do the shawl quests anyway.