I hope you guys are using the word "easy" very loosely because when it comes down to it, it's not the difficulty as far as effort is concerned, it's what's more time consuming. Right now, making a WoE half emp weapon is more time consuming than than KI and NM farming for pure emp weapons. No one wants to spend 4x as much time making a weaker version of an emp weapon if they really want it.

At this point, until coin drops are fixed, or at least have a store npc and/or a trade npc like for seals and crest, you either go big or not at all on an emp weapon.