SE: Let's Talk About The Materia Provisioner At The Wolves' Den

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Once again, devs and reps, we'd love your input on this one. It's not as pressing a matter as balancing, but I see potential for both improvement and increased activity.

Let's talk about the Materia Provisioner at the Wolves' Den. The poor man's been working hard these last few years with such a limited and unwanted inventory of wares. . .

It's time for change!

Let's change him up, maybe move him out of the ship and into a nice new stall somewhere more visible at the Den. How about a name change too? "The Quartermaster" or "The Boatswain"; something cool and naval sounding.

As for his inventory, it's time we expand his operations. We could do something as simple as foods, dyes, glamour prisms, standard materias (grades 4-6 at least), maybe even relic items (when the time comes), or we could think BIG and go with more endgame flair! How about Claws/Fangs banners for housing? Replica Allagan/Icebound Tomeliths for ourdoor furnishings? Tabletop/wall mounted maps of the Frontlines maps for decoration? We could even go bigger and look into challenge-based rewards, i.e. "deal/heal over x amount of damage/HP in a Frontlines or Feast match", "achieve a Battle High/Battle Fever", "successfully hold an A/S rank node in Seize to completion without it being deactivated/captured by the enemy", or "mitigate x amount of damage as a tank/healer in the Feast". Or even special emotes like. . . /step (like you-know-who), /carry (for those matches you really put your back into), or /salt (for good, sportsman like taunting, lol). All this for wolf marks, or tomestones, or Feast tickets (relative to the difficulty, of course).

At this time when many are getting into PvP just for the XP, why not give players more incentives in the form of rewards that (should) drive them to learn more, play better, and obtain some nice spoils. And for the endgamers, making PvP a proper endgame alternative activity for their needs. I'm not saying offer everything, but a little more could certainly go a long way.

I could think up ideas all day, but the poor Materia Provisioner probably has a wife and kids, and he's barely getting by these days with the cheerleader minion and some faded copies of orchestrion rolls. It's time we do right by him. What do you say?

[QT_Melon]

He definitely needs a name change. Who would want to buy from a guy whose name is currently a lie? I'm also a bit surprised he doesn't sell the fireworks you find in Palace of the Dead that show your allegiance with a Grand Company. I would be cool if he also sold Striking Dummies based on items in front lines, like a giant crystal or allagan node.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

LOL an Icebound Tomelith striking dummy! That's genius!

[Cammel]

Or even an option like gold saucer has triple triad function for housing, make a pvp zone for yards please lol

[Krolja]

As much as I like the normalization of stats/gear, I do wish we had some depth based on items in PvP. I actually liked the concept of Morale, it made gearing in PvP feel rewarding. I know that if the system functioned that way people without gear and such would be at a massive disadvantage like PvP vs PvE geared players in WoW, but I would like a system that can find a decent balance. Working for PvP gear always felt good once you finally got it, to me.

[Theodric]

Great suggestions - if nothing else I really want more uses for Wolf Marks as now that I'm done with the Garo stuff I don't really have anything to spend them on.

[Mirch]

Furnishings please and make them untradable & market prohibited.... yes, i know people can still sell em to guild houses or private houses if they are allowed to place furnishings. Anyway.. furnishings please.

[Trinket]

They definitely need to do more with his inventory. A name change is necessary too--since he doesn't sell them anymore. I'm totally behind having him sell furnishings, minions, mounts, and whatever--some people just haves maxed Wolf Marks and would probably love to spend them. PvP in housing yards sounds great too.

[Cynric]

Yes ! Yes ! All the yes!

More things to spend marks on and a rename please! I really like the striking dummy idea, and materia idea. Perhaps a ship in a bottle furnishing of our area?

Also though not related could we possibly get a marketboard added? mount functionality?More reasons to stay in the den?

[Mirch]

Also though not related could we possibly get a marketboard added? mount functionality?More reasons to stay in the den?

Market board only on cities. Mount what for? The area is already small, is it to show mounts? Rhalgar reach aka idyllshire aka mor dhona