Voidwatch rares--are people giving up?

[Vivivivi]

Most VW shouts on my server tend to be for Qilin or Uptala, although you will see shouts for the mobs that drop Ogier's, Athos or Rubeus pieces, and the occasional path clear.

I think what happens though is one person will really want one piece from VW, and will shout every day for that mob, when or if they finally get it and don't give up, they stop shouting for it.

I think VW is a lot of fun as is, I simply would like for an "add to lottable spoils" option on the rewards.

[Siviard]

I gave up on Voidwatch ages ago. Horrible system, horrible implementation, horrible treasure system (or lack therof in this case), horrible drop rates.

Did I say horrible???? I'll say it again, Voidwatch is horrible!!!

[Vagrua]

Mostly only Qilin is spammed on Bahamut. I do see lots of clear shouts though. Good to know people are trying to get those done. Most people gave up on Pil. I'm around 0/400+ on Tocis. -_-

[Waldrich]

In the near future, Heavy Metal Plates will cost like 300k each!!! Good luck 450mil or more for 95 upgrades!! yay

Square Enix always wait for that time to come out before making changes yay(2)!

[Mirage]

What if heavy metal plates are really common on the continent of audolin? .

[Demon6324236]

I am guessing that the void of which the VWNMs come from is the cause of the Metal being so heavy for its size, it was simply compressed on the other side in some way. If this is the case, the continent couldn't really have much of this metal. The only possible way would be for them to have had rifts in their region, at which point the monsters would be free and roaming over there it would seem. Then again that also would make sense on how strong things have to be over there for this content to really be for lv99 players right now, so could go either way in my eyes, though I rather doubt they have an abundance of it, if its cause is truly the void itself.

[Ryanx]

I think voidwatch should have been done with 1 loot pool but armor had higher drop rates if it just had 1 pool you could actuly do this with a linkshell and decide who gets what peice and go after peices for people.

[Sapphires]

Time is money and voidstones dont replenish fast enough for most people. If you want to make gil and suffer the wait to assemble an alliance for voidwatch then you do Qilin if you value your time and options to make gil with a limited stone supply.

Few can be bothered to setup or even manage find enough people for an alliance for clears so there isnt an influx of new people out there that can attend+have x6 stones+vw teleports lately. People get to Qilin and pretty much dont ever look back as far as going to other vw runs.

Also with a server primetime population of 1k-1200 people, its taking sometimes over an hour just to get enough people for a voidwatch run.

If they removed the purchase limit on weakeners and made more items convertable to pulse cells, i think it would reinvigorate participation some and we'd see people doing some more midrange tier vw.
As an example, I spammed stachysaurus until i got my ogiers hands, but theres no reason to ever bother doing him again, this is how alot of people feel about certain vwnms if there isnt something in the loot pool that can be pulse cell'd.

[Winrie]

On my server it's gone from extremely active voidwatch to nothing but qilin(and very few of them and only one guy is shouting ever) and an occasional kaggen. Jus the other day I seen an aello shout and that's the first I've seen in months, along with jueno t1-2 shouts least once every two weeks at most. Personally I have given up on voidwatch completely due to how many hours I've wasted trying to get pils body and boots, rubeus gear and aces mail ect. Out of months of dedicated spamming I've only come out with a akvan body and kaggens body and were talking damned near 300 kills here. I've run out of stones a few times and had to invest is dust to keep trying. So to answer the ops question, yes I've given up on voidwatch, I think most of my server has as well, sides metal plates which are rapidly decreasing in price. Pulse cells was a stupid concept they coulda did a better job at to make vw rewarding to even those who were done and looking to make Gil or get plates even. Being able to convert shit like Phasmida belt and mantis eye, aliyat chakram ect into one cell wouldn't have hurt no one at all, it would of made getting bodies more realistic, neither would it have killed them to make cells for rubeus, ogiers, and athos ect. Or even something to let us trade gear for metal pouches or something.

[Komori]

They should make cells for all voidwatch exclusive gear and weapons and change it to a 1:1 ratio or a 1:3 ration instead of 1:5 and increase drops across the board by at least 5% or at least remove synthesis/crystal petrifacts from HQ slot or allow voidwatch exclusive items possible to fall into all slots in the chest so that getting blue would actually be useful and would boost people to buy cobalt cells.