3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[Rufalus]

Yeah. That has been the common method for using Wolf Marks since they took Morale out of the game, and, quite frankly, it shows just how dumb and inefficient the system is. We are, quite literally, money laundering our own Wolf Marks just so we can use them for something. Wolf Marks should have an immediate value, not a 3 to 4 step conversion process for a diminished return.

Well I guess they could put in a second kind of higher wolf mark currency with a weekly cap, and that buys stronger gear.

The regular uncapped wolf marks are equivalent to uncapped Esoterics tomes, you get so many by spamming battles until you no longer have an important use for them.

Alternatively, add more substantial rewards to the materia vendor at wolves' den pier. Throw out those status resist materia and replace it with IV + V stat materia like pirate spoil vendors offers. And unidentifiable items for Anima weapon creation.

[Nalien]

Alternatively, add more substantial rewards to the materia vendor at wolves' den pier. Throw out those status resist materia and replace it with IV + V stat materia like pirate spoil vendors offers. And unidentifiable items for Anima weapon creation.

This is what I'd like at the moment, though I believe new Grand Company ranks are coming in 3.3? I'd imagine that could create a lot more demand for seals, I'd certainly love the crap out of Wolf Marks if I could trade that gear in for seals to get Red Scrip materials...

[Februs]

Well I guess they could put in a second kind of higher wolf mark currency with a weekly cap, and that buys stronger gear. The regular uncapped wolf marks are equivalent to uncapped Esoterics tomes, you get so many by spamming battles until you no longer have an important use for them. Alternatively, add more substantial rewards to the materia vendor at wolves' den pier. Throw out those status resist materia and replace it with IV + V stat materia like pirate spoil vendors offers. And unidentifiable items for Anima weapon creation.

You say that until you need them lol. The most recent example are those 4 unidentified relic items, of which you can only buy two per cap of Eso/Poes. That's A LOT of grinding to get all 80 of them, and people who do it spend a ridiculous amount of time not playing PvP. Which brings me to my main point. You're not wrong that expanding the vendor system wouldn't be, in some ways, redundant. It most definitely is. The thing is, expanding the vendor system allows active PvP'ers to stay active without falling too far behind in PvE content. We all want to stay in the game, after all. PvP vendors should enable us to do that without feeling like we're making too big of a sacrifice in our other pursuits.

To that end, I'm totally in favour of adding a token system on top of Wolf Marks. They did it for all the Ex Primals and current Raids, so I don't see why PvP shouldn't have a similar system in place to get high end purchases. Throw in an expanded vendor selection, and we'd be good to go.

While we're on the topic and spit-balling ideas ... Another thing that I'd be interested in seeing is a gambling system of some kind, so that they could tie in Gold Saucer in some way. Feast is basically a sporting event for Eorzea anyway. Sporting events tend to fall hand in hand with gambling. It would be pretty cool if we were allowed to gamble on the outcome of matches, or if there was some sort of mini-game for a fake league, or something. That's definitely a more radical idea, though.