Clusters, Crystals, and Shard conversions.

[jwang]

So, new patch with new recipes. The issue on my mind is where are the new recipes for cluster > crystal and crystal > shard recipes? Fine sand and moraines no longer exist in game, so I'd like to see some new recipes to reflect that change. That or give me back my moraines and sands.

[Masamune1004]

Do any of the new recipes use crystals or clusters? They might be getting rid of them.

[Babydoll]

Wondering the same myself. I really hope they are planning to release those recipes with the patch...

[Nyx]

Yeah I leveled up alchemist due to it's ability to break crystals. It's really upsetting to see that I can't convert my crystals into shards, because as of now, I really don't have any use for all my crystals.

[Eyn]

I am still collecting clusters. Getting rid of them upsets me

[Deatheye]

I'm wondering about this too. I tried one of the old reciepts but coudn't even select crystals as ingriedients. I don't know of any use right now for crystals or clusters...

[YukiKoneko]

They did not change the fish -> shard/crystal recipes, nor did they change the recipe for production of fine sand to break crystals back down to shards. And no mention of clusters. I know the devs won't read this, but wouldn't it be nice if Yoshi P could just hint a little at why they chose to remove fine sand from vendors and make it overly costly to produce? I've also noticed a vast majority of recipes use shards, not crystals. I'd have been happy if they changed the recipes for fish -> 1 crystal to instead yield more shards (a lot more...), and lower the crystal outputs of the higher tier recipes accordingly. Again, it's anybody's guess since the devs won't respond to us.

[Signy]

Well the Fine Shard recipe to transform 1 crystal to 16 shards is dated and there is no new recipe similar...

[syntaxlies]

Do any of the new recipes use crystals or clusters? They might be getting rid of them.

tons of new recipes use crystals. mostly high lvl ones.

[YukiKoneko]

Still nothing from the devs? This after Camate posted...

(...) Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out. (...)

That's all nice and wonderful Camate, because clusters are used in... what??? And I just checked the revised recipe changes; it's still not addressing any of this.