Crystal Gathering too Slow

[GakkuPlove]

For all You crafters/Gatherers out there how long has it taken you to gather enough shards to craft Efficiently ?

For me it takes 2 hours with Miner LVL 42 with the shard yield abilities to get to 1k shards i personally think that is too slow

i can think of some solutions
*Make the shard yield Fixed @ 2 or 3
*Make the Shard gathering abilities cost less around 100GP-150GP
*Add a trait that Increases yield total for each Shard Gather ability
*Have all enemies drop At least 1 Shard/Crystal per kill with a 75% chance (Like 1.0)
*Have alchemy class create crystals (Like 1.0)
*Make GP like CP
*Make Shards a Fixed sell-able rate say around 5 gil a piece maximum

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