Request: Please give us alternate ways to obtain PVP armour and weapons

[Kohdo]

To be honest I'm perfectly happy earning it through PVP. I enjoyed PVP, even after the skill revamp. This isn't a "give me an easier way to get it" post, more of a "make it possible to get it" post. I know it isn't the same situation in all datacentres, but on Gaia queues aren't popping at all, regardless of the role you queue as. I'm currently queued as Healer and have been waiting 45 minutes. I haven't actually managed to get into a match since last year. Some of the armour and weapons obtained with wolf marks look great but when you can't get into a single match, there's no way to earn them.

If this were a year ago, I would have recommended adding more incentive for people to PVP so the queues pop faster (or at all) but queues are dead despite easier mechanics and the addition of Rival Wings. The devs have gone out of their way to add incentive for people to PVP, and although there was a temporary increase in interest, it hasn't lasted.

I'm not asking for obtaining them to be made easier. I know they're incentive to PVP in the first place and giving people alternate means to get them might cause some to worry that the PVP population will decrease further, but I think those who PVP do so because they genuinely like it, and they aren't going to stop if you let people grind for the gear elsewhere. We already have the Makai stuff in the Golden Saucer, so you could just put it in there.

I'll reiterate that I'd really prefer the gear be left where it is, but for many people there's zero chance of obtaining it, and I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to increase the PVP population.