First off, I just am returning(Well, 3 days ago..) after many months of not playing. I saw that they are removing TONS appon TONS of items. So, I wanted to ask... Whats going to happen to them in game? I thought at least that I could still use them until they were removed, but I am unsure.

Ex: Old iron ingot. Iron nugget x5 and fire crystal(I think), low armorsmith/blacksmith recipe.

Now, when I put it in.. they arn't available. So, that makes me curious.. What are they going to do with all these items? Am I going to be sitting on 11 stacks of 99 iron nuggets, to have to vendor them? I had planned to mass make them into ingots, but now I can't. Either I'm doing it wrong and am a fool, but the question still remains. What will come of the old items? Poof? Poof+given gil for their npc value? What will happen?

I don't know if this has been talked about in any patch things, or previous things, so please don't complain about "This has been answered".