Quote Originally Posted by Daisansha View Post
This is so wrong. You are not penalized, you do not get 1/18th the drop rate. You are only one person, whether killing the NM by yourself or in an alliance. Go kill the NM 18 times and you get the same drops whether you are solo or in an alliance of 18 people. You do not get the drops from the other 17 people in an alliance, they do not belong to you. There is no reason whatsoever for SE to improve the drop rate just because you want to solo the fight or are unable to get others to fight with you. All of the VW fights are pretty easy to solo, you just need to go do it.
While what you say is true, as a solo player you have to kill the NM 18 times, whereas 18 people can kill it once together for the same result. Having said that, the number of voidstones expended per drop is the same regardless of the setup. And that seems to be how they wanted it to be. X voidstones consumed = Y desired drops.