Hello,

Since the spawns and excavations rework, and the addition of the quasi-entirety of gen 7 dex (plus a part of gen 8), some items are becoming quite rarer to come around, for a good reason : They have little to no accessibility at the moment.

There's a few items that are concerned by this, not naming the ones unavailable right now : good examples of this would be Shiny Stones (only available in PVE shop) and Ice Stones (basically a once a year thing, or a rare reward from bosses). And while they are not Evolution Items, a case could also be made for the Gen 8 Fossilized parts.

Those items, useful for quite a few sought-out PVP or PVE mons, are quite rare to come by, more often asking for RNG to be kind with them while going for Dig Spots... Or waiting an entire year for the one specific event shop to be open (looking at you, Ice Stones).

So, what could be done for those items ? There could be a simple fix : Add them to the Artifact shop in Hoenn Excavations. A lot of items are already available for purchase here, a new section for Evolution Stones could be made, as well as adding a few lacking Evolution Items that could only be bought with PVE coins for the moment. And who knows, maybe the Metal Alloy and Alcremie Sweets could be added there eventually, once the time comes.

If you have other ideas concerning this, share those here if wanted, or if you have more to add to it.

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I’m okay for shiny stones being pve shop only as at some point you can just get more than enough shiny stones to your liking.

However, I think ice stone is the only evolutionary item that isn’t easily stackable (either by having a lot of PvE/PvP coins or by using thief for Metal coat for example).

I don’t know if adding them to exca shop makes the most sense but there should definitely be a way to get those items rather consistently (even if it’s through daily PvE stuff like augurite&peat blocks in sinnoh exca).

If anything I’d also be okay for some items to be exclusive to guild island (like some of the TM’s we got) to kill two birds with 1 stone (and make guild island relevant again) but that’s another topic tbh I don’t want to drift away from initial topic.

About the missing evo items that we would expect from the new spawns we got recently, maybe we should just expect a rework of the PvE shop soon to fix both the lack of ice stones & introduce the new evo items there or a new PvE related NPC to help us get access to those new items (same way sinnoh underground introduced Hisuian related evo, we could get gen7+ items like ice stone, metal alloy etc through another area/content)