Quote Originally Posted by MarkovChain View Post
You have a complex of superiority and did not understand that getting an empyrean upgraded has nothing to do with doing voidwatch or being skilled. Just because you do it doesn't mean you have more chance than me at the level 95 empy. It's not enough to kill those NMs just like it was not enough to do salvage for alexandrite. Byrth explained you that you would need 90 fights while each 18 members would give you all their drops. This can't possibly happen as they can sell it and make cash or want to upgrade it themselves. They can also sell it to you but facepalm if you do VW and buy. If you want to farm everything yourself you'll actually need to do 90x18s fights *at least*. I'm not sure if you can build enough stones in on year to get an empy for your whole ally lol.
You can easily get enough stones, you can just buy/farm pouches of Voiddust. See, I can get people to work with me to focus on 1 emp at a time, which in turn will result in more emps completed over time. Not only that, but I can easily come up with a system rewarding for all who participate, it's not like they have to get nothing for help.

Quote Originally Posted by Byrth View Post
I have 28500 Alexandrite that I've collected in the last two months and I still think this trial is bullshit. The supply is low to start with and will get lower when no one cares about Voidwatch anymore. Furthermore, it's entirely dependent on making an alliance to farm incredibly rare sidegrade gear.

It's not like Dynamis, where you can enslave people for years with their dreams of someday owning a RDM AF2 hat and then mentally whitewash it as "people skills" afterwards.

Basically, you appear to have no idea what you're talking about.
If your dynamis LS was enslaving people for years, maybe your ls just sucked. My ls got everyone stuff they wanted and had a simple system to guarantee you knew your place for rewards instead of underhanded asshattery that most crap shells used.

The Supply will go up while demand falls.

Why? Because Voidwatch is just now only half over TOPS since we know there's going to be 4 parts at least to VW. VW is Endgame now. Abyssea is like old Merit PTs and O-hat runs and such, while VW is oldschool kings (but with a better/tiered system). End Game LSes will likely see a new age. This will lead to more plates, supply rises.

The whinier casuals will slowly drop out of the Emp race, meaning less people will be buying plates, demand falls.

The gear is getting better, the drops on gear this update seems to be better, and the fights are intense and fun. The gear progression is essentially the same as the 75 cap days as well. You get most of your good gear from AH and casual events. AF3 is like the new Hauby/Noble's, Dusk, Swift, Turban, O-hat, etc. The new endgame gear won't outright demolish it by the amount that AF3 demolished the previous standard AH/Event gear, just like Homam didn't demolish Dusk.

Things are balancing out, and eventually even Plates will balance out.