New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Atomic_Skull]

1500 metal plates is not fine at the current drop rate.

I think it is.

Plus, when VW inevitably dies (and it will when the people leading the runs get the gears) the price and rarity of the plates will spike up, similarly to how Alexandrite has behaved.

It won't die so long as there is a market for the plates similar to how Dynamis is still active because there is a huge market for the currency. Unlike salvage it's simple enough to just spam a high tier VW mob all day for plates. People don't do Salvage for alaxandrites because there really aren't that many Mythic upgraders to begin with and it's a fairly complex event compared to Dynamis and VW.