is no longer part of the Plate alchemy path, the recipes no longer appear at vendors, and is only obtainable with Almirian Seals.
Ancient Plate
Can you provide a source for this claim? Are you sure that you're not just having trouble finding the recipe? (...I've certainly had bad runs at times)
You had trouble with Volcanic Demo, right? But you at least found the helm. Not one Ancient Plate recipe has shown up for anyone in all of Guild. That's nearly a hundred people, each with more than fifty tier 3 terminals passed without spotting one.
Until someone presents evidence it is a recipe still, since no one's seen one since release, the wiki should reflect the current status, not the preview event status.
Actually, we eventually found volcanic demo, after poking a dev. So the disappearing recipe may have been an oversight (all we know is that they promised to take a look, and the next day, copies were everywhere). Hence the disappearance could be a bug, or it could be a new official policy.
The fact that no one can seem to find this recipe is good information, but based on past experience, rarity may not = an official decision... see if you can poke a dev or GM for details. Meanwhile, thanks for the tip. Based on the info provided, it sounds like a "status unconfirmed" message on the item page would be a good middle road.
All three recipes vanishing wouldn't be an oversight.
Also, surprised no one's fixed it yet!
Magnus, we've all been waiting for the results of whatever question you were going to ask the devs. But if you want to add a temporary note ("status unconfirmed") to those pages, go ahead- it's a wiki, not a drive-thru.
It's a good thing it's a wiki, and not wikileaks, and that I already confirmed it.
To use a wiki saying.