Ok, so I wasn't really playing much during the early chapters of VW, and since then I haven't had much interest in doing VW, what with the horrid drop rates. I did however start accumulating stones several months back so I have a nice stockpile of them, and I've completed sandy/bastok (sure wish someone would do a windurst 1-4).
My question is, do you actually have to have the jeuno/zilart/tav/ToAU Stratums to participate in the fights and get loot/atmacites/periapt? What are your restrictions if you just have a voidstone, can't actually do the popping and obviously can't teleport to the zone? I've heard reports that you can participate with just a voidstone but the wiki isn't very clear on if this is true. Also with the stone capacity being 6 now (and I only have 3) can you participate in the extra kills with no stone/stratum?... wouldn't want to join a group that's killing 6 times and only be able to help them for half of them.