Shantotto minion.

[Walfan]

I've always been of the opinion that exclusive items should remain exclusive, but the way it's going, just throw it up on the cash shop. Just throw all the 1.0 items and everything else up on there too and be done with it. That's where things are heading anyway.

I've always been against exclusivity. It has no purpose besides making you feel good about having things others will never have.
You're robbing new or returning players of cool stuff you probably almost never use just so you can feel special.
I have a huge amount of exclusive stuff you can never have back on WoW and a few things on FFXIV like the Cait Sith minion and I wouldn't bat an eye if any of it came back.

It also gets far worse than a minion or two if you think it's a good practice.
The WoW devs know MMO players are thirsty to be snowflakes and started removing whole questlines as a means for people to resub before it's gone. They removed the whole overaching questline of the Pandaria expansion, which means new players can never experience the expansion' story to its fullest without going on youtube (1 hour of quests with voice acting removed https://youtu.be/JNtl0N9byWs).
It gets even worse with WoD, where the removed overaching questline was even more central to the plot, complete with voice acting and cinematics (https://youtu.be/LX208g0W6i4).
Not only do you lose the expansions' stories, you also miss all the development of central and important characters in the world whose stories continue in future expansions.
If nothing has changed since they last said it, they even plan to remove all of the artifacts' additional skins when Legion is done.

Would you want Square to have removed the CT questline and the 50 relics when HW released ? To have them remove the whole Warriors of Darkness arc when SB released ? That's what that kind of thinking gets you.

Think about it 10 years from now. No in fact just think about the years you spent on a specific game. What's more important about them ? The memories or that minion you never use ?
What you have over new players is the experience. I'll never truly know how it was back in 1.0, just like countess players will never truly know how WoW was prior to Cataclysm (private servers just aren't the same), just like I'll never truly know how it was to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj. New players will never be able to experience how high end raiding was when it was relevant, they'll never go through fantastic raids like Ulduar without killing everything in one hit.
That's what you'll remember when these games are dead and buried, not that super exclusive title or mount that made you feel special. Let people have their fun.