On my server, I've been noticing fewer and fewer Voidwatch shouts for any monster except Qilin. There is however a mighty plague of Qilin shout groups upon the land, and I'm sure if I wanted to I could kill Qilin all day. Coincident with this trend, the price on heavy metal plates just keeps going down (to around 90k each at present). It seems that people are killing Qilin over and over simply to farm heavy metal plates, at the expense of killing anything else. I am guessing that Qilin is the victim of this because he is the easiest one of the heavy metal plate pouch dropping mobs to kill; Aello is a horrible shrieking bitch who strips you naked and takes a nasty bird crap on your ability timers, and while I have never gotten a chance to fight Uptala, he sure looks unpleasant.
Now, one of the criticisms that many players, including myself, made of the Empyrean level 95 trials is that once people got all their Voidwatch rares, the supply of plates would dry up, and Empyrean weapon holders would be stuck where would-be Mythic weapon holders are now. Could it be that we got it backward--that people have given up after going 0/several hundred, and now only do Voidwatch for the plates to make money? Or are my observations skewed, or my server atypical, or are people just that more desperate for Coruscanti and Fajin Boots than they are for anything else?
Because if I am correct, having most of Voidwatch nearly dead due to discouragement sure seems like a bad outcome. That's a lot of wasted content. It's certainly a bad thing if you were gone for 10 months and never got a chance to do most of this stuff. Should the drop rates be loosened up somewhat?