Availability of HMPs, Riftcinders, Riftdross

[Olor]

I think they should just add single plates to every single NM... and add bags to NMs that have only singles... and add bags to NMs that drop dross etc. That should help somewhat and it will give further incentive to people to join parties to get upgrade items. At this point in the game's life upgrading empys is needlessly difficult. The effort to reward ratio is currently still too low for folks to bother with, even if they have stones to burn. I could solo voidwatch for plates etc to sell but I'd make more money faster by just doing dynamis... and unlike voidwatch, I am guaranteed to make some money... voidwatch I could spend 2 hours and end up with nothing.

That applies to parties too... can't count how many times I did one of the NMs that drops only dross etc and got nothing by vendor junk for my trouble. That's part of the reason people don't want to join parties for voidwatch, because even in a party it's an inefficient way of making gil and it's a lot of fuss and bother besides.

I'd still LOVE for there to be an Adoulin chapter of voidwatch that allows folks to upgrade their old pulse weapons and armor but I know it's never going to happen. But that would actually get people doing voidwatch. We can see now that the primary reason people were doing the event was the gear, money was secondary and upgrading was only a few select people. Now that the gear is garbage, people have no interest.