Crystals & Shards No more

[RyuSaarva]

I don't think many people would be upset if they were removed. Maybe purging it would free up some character data headroom for something else like adding more things to the currency window or armory chest.

yes, let's replace crystals with random materials for every class which use 15 more inventory slots, need to encourage people to buy more retainers after all.

[Elizar_Naki]

yes, let's replace crystals with random materials for every class which use 15 more inventory slots, need to encourage people to buy more retainers after all.

I feel like you're either missing or purposefully ignoring what Rufalus is actually saying here. The idea being presented is to remove crystal catalysts and use the equivalent data space to allow OTHER things to be removed from physical storage, such as primal/raid tokens that only serve as currency and probably shouldn't be physically-stored items anyway. Or letting us store more AF/relic gear in the armoire. Or grant us more glamour dresser storage and/or plates. Things that would actually FREE UP inventory space, not occupy more.

[Plastics]

I'd much rather see them significantly increase how many we get for activities, and add other ways to get them. It's insulting that the skills we have to spend GP on yield so few. Why not make them have a high base yield on nodes rather than 1? Why not make the GP skill give 10 or 20 per swing? Why not have reduction give 70-100.

If you make it so it's easy to be self-sufficient on them, people won't need to buy them, and if they're even more abundant, they won't be worth botting. Best of all, this requires no real functional change by SE.

Their nerf of reduction actually benefited RMT because the time value of doing it is tolerable to a bot that plays 24/7.

A lot of people here don't seem to understand the issue either. Retainers and maps and things like that don't give enough to do much of anything. I can easily go through 7000+ crystals a day, and that's at least an hour of aetherial farming. That's why I don't do it, and instead just give gil to bots who do it 24/7.

[Decoy_Wolff]

It wouldn't be so bad if each item only took 1 or 2 crystals but when making one piece of lumber takes 7 crystals it gets a bit insane.

Agreed. This was the issue that made leve crafting for WVR from 70 to 80 a pain was because they would have you craft multiple of the same thread and they would cost an extraordinary amount of crystals to make.

[Granyala]

3. The amount of crystals we get per swing just isn't worth it for people that aren't botters and don't have all day to go AFK auto farming shards and crystals.

No it's not and that's why you use either aetherial reduction for poly's or Crystals or, in case of the shards, you plant them in your garden.

Who in their right mind farms these things the old fashion way. Oo