The idea that I'm supposed to do vw exclusively for heavy metal plate gil is retarded. First off i "need" at least 1500 of them to begin with so anyone with an empyrean that isn't complete ass would be selling their upgrade items only to have to buy them back later. The price on hmp is even rising currently for my server thanks to everyone finally giving up on VW logshit ( or they got thier item and are so traumatized by the sheer number of kills that they refuse to go back and kill the NM again)which makes such an idea even stupider.
It's also a horrible way to make gil in the first place. Know what's an even better way to make gil than VW? Selling off the voiddust you'd be wasting on logs and using that to buy money items. I decided to do that to my mule last week and I ended up with 6+ mil for getting the non ex stuff that refuses to drop without even tapping into my AN. Voidwatch is simply not a viable farming option for gil compared to just about anything else quite possibly including the payment of other people to cleave mobs in abyssea for you.
The only true motivation for voidwatch is the armour and even that is starting to approach a feeling of apathy/dread where i have decided to turn on my 3ds and play scribblenaughts instead.
Voidwatch is a system wherein players are deciding that not playing is a better option. That's never a good thing for an MMO.