Something else I want to bring up, unless you spam Ambuscade, have tons of extra gil, or are sitting on literally thousands of voidstones, it is almost impossible to solo farm VW for HMP in any reasonable amount of time. This is a multi-layer issue and I'm breaking it down because the update earlier this month did not do anything to change VW really because even with the campaign (which ends this weekend), the drops are terrible so imagine how it will be when it ends (pretty much back to square one).

1. Voidstone accumulation. This is mainly an issue for new/returning players that have only started VW out in the past year or so. The amount of voidstones they can accumulate is finite and abysmally low compared to the task at hand, making it impossible to have enough voidstones to spawn 1500 VWNMs, much less spawn enough NMs to actually get it to drop HMP/rift. Even if the drops were 100%, 1500 NM spawns is a task enough, given that you have to wait days, weeks, months to have enough stones to participate in the content. Now, you may say "you can buy voiddust and get as many stones as you need you idiot". Yes, I thought of that too. However...

2. Voiddust is not added to NPC stock despite the recent QOL update. Now this may not sound like a big deal. You run out of stones, you use your unused conquest points, allied notes, etc in order to buy ONE VOIDDUST AT A TIME (hint: make it so we can buy more than one at a time and also increase the stack to 99). But eventually you buy a few stacks. Now you've lost precious inventory in order to give the NPC hundreds of voiddust to obtain stones to spam the NMs without going back to town every 10-20 minutes. But wait... What's this? The Galka in Bastok Markets is saying that my Voidstone stock is full... He won't accept my Voiddust into his stock... ?! So now I have wasted all my inventory and the only way to make use of them is to switch back to the old way, making the QOL change completely null and void.

3. Empyrean weapon creation is more of a time/gil-sink than all other legendary weapons except *maybe* Ergon. It's ridiculous, it excludes people that don't have the stones saved up or the gil to buy the currency outright. All other weapons are soloable and given the general shift of this game, Empyrean weapons should be as well.

I don't understand why HMP and rift items aren't guaranteed drops from VW. 1500 NM fights for an empyrean (not to mention all the other trials leading up to the 90 weapon which are ALL NMs) compared to the multiple easy fodder mobs or easier NMs and plentiful currency Relic and Mythic weapons have for their base weapons and the trivial, yet time consuming trials to get them to 99.