Vagary (alternative battlefields) are too difficult.

[Alhanelem]

Nah, he's right on this one. There is already a way to make it easier: team up with other players.

Also, he may be popular, but is it popular in a good way?

Aside from the fact that Vagary is being made out to be easier than it really is- As I said: Yes, the best way to do it is to team up with everyone. I never disagreed with that. But sometimes, some of us don't have that option. As I said before, Maybe it's different on Asura, but over here on lil' ol shiva, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone wanting to do Vagary outside of a campaign. In fact that's generally the way things go on not-Asura-odin-bahamut. People do what there's active campaigns for more often than not. If you want that empy armor right now, you'd better be playing a meta job.

Thank you.

What are you thanking him for?

I never disagreed that the best way to do content is to group. Again: SOMETIMES SOME OF US DONT HAVE THAT OPTION. Yes, I do have friends. But they all have their own wants and needs too, so unless they align, it can be difficult to get enough of them together.

And I have to agree with the OP: Doing these fights pretty much means you have better stuff than what they potentially give in the first place. Sure, with an alliance of 18 undergeared players all on meta jobs, it's not that difficult. You could also be ML40, but that didn't exist when this content was at its peak (and is an ungodly amount of grinding.

I think when you compare to the amount of work and effort required for AF/relic armor, I think most people would agree empy is more difficult. You can grind Omen and Dyna by yourself- slowly, sure, but it's easy. For Vagary, there's no escaping that you either need to be overgeared or can get a decent group of friends together.

Also, there is no one else in the world to team up with or no friend to lend a hand?

You need more than just one, really, and no, I rarely hear of or see people doing Vagary outside of the campaigns for it. Now, that's starting to change with the ability to upgrade empy further, but if you cared about empy armor before, well, this week, you pretty much had to wait for a vagary campaign.