It's just shocking to me to see such consensus among the players. Even on things that the community predominantly feels a certain way about, there's nearly always SOME dissenters. I am seeing no legitimate arguments for the minority here - EVERYONE agrees the VW drop system is atrocious. SE's response is to ignore the one concern people are screaming for and nerf a couple other aspects. Truly mind-blowing.

To me, VW is perhaps the biggest failure in FFXI's history. And the sad part is that it could be fixed with changes to the treasure system that S-E still insists is the BEST feature of the event. I know I'm not alone in avoiding VW completely, and I'm running out of other content. It's like they're begging me to hang it up.

These days it's pretty much Dyna only for me, farming currency and halfheartedly finishing up Relic +2 pieces that I'm not even sure why I'm bothering with. Other than that, finishing a few 99 elemental magian weapons and re-capping exp/merits. I'm not really interested in grinding 100 merits for a sidegrade WS, nor is that the least bit fun. Abyssea provided me a year and a half of great entertainment, but that's running out as I and my friends finish all of our Abyssea goals. I guess I'm holding out some little hope that the new Nyzul/Limbus content will be fun, since those were probably my two favorite past events. It's hard to stick around during this era though.