I know this is an old and tired thread, but I wanted to let SE know that, at least on Valefor, camping VNM for Ochain is still enough to drive you insane.

I got friends to help with Sobek, and we killed sobek and we had good fun and that was fine.

I really don't want to drag friends out for the mindless time dragging by hoping to get an NM. It's not quite the same as claiming Gukumatz (10m pop KI for Sobek) or similar.

Ochain VNMs are still a nasty issue. They're 100% camped all hours of the day. It might be a fruitless effort but I'd love some kind of buff just to make upgrading/claiming a soloable task, even if you have a thf friend come tap it or a mage come speed the game up.