Why is the PvP Shadowstalker set unavailable permanently?

Exactly. It's antithetical to what the developers tell us to do. If you don't feel like playing, don't btw we are going to release this awesome fomo armor, and you will have to deal with the fact that you can never get it! I did miss this armor. I'm sorry that when it came out, my guild imploded, and I was at my lowest, so playing ffxiv was the last thing I wanted to do. God forbid. I'm here now. Why can't I earn it now? "Why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?" Sorry, I had to make that Simpsons reference to them lying to our face.

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Originally Posted by Ardeth

Necro bumping thread. Fomo is terrible game design. I'd play your god-awful pvp and unlock this if it wasn't unobtainable. Be better than Blizzard.

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As someone with a t100 reward on my main I actually support making them obtainable again. But IMO it should still only be tied to some kind of high-end achievement. Something like being able to buy one previous t100 reward if you hit t100 in a season.

I wouldn't suffer through CC to get any of the rewards though truth be told. It's gotten much worse than Feast competitively.

although personally I would like to see them come back, BUT NOT WITH WOLF MARKS that would de-merit the time and dedication it took the players from back then to get these armors and mounts that only 600 total people could ever get if they do make a comeback they should only be purchaseable with the new currency that's rewarded only with the 2nd highest and highest rank along with the top 100 not only does this motivate people to actively participate in pvp more often it'll also allow low population servers (like dynamis) to allow more open times to ranked pvp instead of waiting till the weekend to do a few hours worth of pvp (tbh it's really fucking hard to get consistent W in dynamis everyones try harding including me so even though you lost the match you know it was only because the enemy team had a slightly better momentum with eachother instead of you which could happen in the next match and with the way that ranked works you just need to place in diamond or crystal rank then you can forget about ranked pvp for the rest of the season)

-add a new token bought with wolfmarks, 10000 marks per token, call it 'mark of the ravenous wolf' or something
-make these old feast rewards cost X 'marks of the ravenous wolf', eg the mounts cost 50 each

boom now the old rewards are accessible. Sure, they cost 500k marks each, but that's not the point, they're accessible and that's what matters, right?

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Originally Posted by GameMa5Ter2001

although personally I would like to see them come back, BUT NOT WITH WOLF MARKS that would de-merit the time and dedication it took the players from back then to get these armors and mounts that only 600 total people could ever get if they do make a comeback they should only be purchaseable with the new currency that's rewarded only with the 2nd highest and highest rank along with the top 100.

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There should be a full economy with all of these aspects, included wolf marks.

Increase the Wolf Mark cap to 100,000.
Make a trade for 100,000 Wolf Mark x Wolf Collar.

Make a full economy of Wolf Collars: Rewards for 10, 50, 100, 250, 500 and 999 Wolf Collars - In these two last tiers they should put old PvP rewards: 99,000,000 million Wolf Marks for a Hellhound Mount for example.

Give players progression in two ways:
1.- Faster but harder through ranking into top 100 to get into the Commendation Crystal economy.
2.- Slower but easier through farming months, years even, of Wolf Marks/Wolf Collar economy.


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Also "Special Reward" window added to the PvP profile. This profile is only accesible for a whole season after you rank into top 100: And there you can pick and use any of the older PvP rewards BUT ONLY as long you stay in the rank.
If you don't rank into the top 100 the next season all the rewards in this window (and glamour and mounts) remain "unlocked" but get greyed out and you cannot use them again.

This last one will solve two things: First would make the rewards aviable. Second, would make sure only players that are actually active and competitive get to use them and the ranking would get wild with people not wanting to lose their "Champion Belts". No actual competition has "permanent" rewards - You gotta defend your tittles.

Maybe when Square decides to do something about the rampant botting and use of 3rd party tools then we can talk. Until then I advise anyone to just stay away from PVP. The rewards are not worth the toxicity you will experience. It's also clear they have no interest in making the rewards accessible to anyone else.