WoEs

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The only reason to go after the Emp-WS-only weapons rather than a full-on Empyrean is that you can make progress through the later stages solo. Close off solo access to WoE and there's really no point in even bothering with it. WoE attracts soloers because it is easy; there's no need for a reservation system because it's not hard enough to require anything close to a genuinely organized group. There may have been some traction to the idea of soloers "stealing" ranking at level 80, but now if a soloer beats one of your party members in ranking it's your own fault for thinking you needed more than 3 people to begin with.

I am currently 10-15 coins deep on four different weapons, and I have only once encountered a group larger than 2 people in WoE. That was 4. People who complain about "leeches" are really complaining about people like me: soloers perfectly capable of killing mobs for coins who would themselves would prefer that they could do so alone and in peace. All that's really going on here is that people want coins and see this as an opportunity to force out competition with every bit as much of a right to those coins as they have.

At any rate, I'm not going to stop working on my WoE weapons either way so everybody voting 2 can look forward to being locked out of WoE forever by a succession of me and all the soloing DNC and NIN friends I've made along the way~