Cluster-Maker.

[SpankWustler]

The chef in Windurst could forge crystal clusters using salted caramel and milk chocolate, free of charge, to perfect his "cooking really weird stuff" skills. Works for peanuts, works for pecans, works for walnuts; why not solidified bits of wind and thunder and gloom in the name of modernist cuisine?

In the name of balance, sadly, I suspect he would have a 1/12 chance of going full-modernist and turning everything into a chocolate-foam bubble filled with crystal-flavored smoke.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

this won't help the people who have 25 stacks of the same crystal in the field.

True, but the likelihood of being able to cluster crystals in the field would be low, more likely to be a NPC which to me would be worse.

[Godofgods]

I'm not going to say its a bad idea because its not, but I'm not sure what the point would be?

other than Ice clusters for ifrit's cauldron what other use do the clusters have?

(of course I could be missing quite a bit)

Space, pure and simple. I had a mule with like 100+ stacks of (12) water crystals. After the cluster stacking adjustment, i went from them taking up all the space to taking up like 10 stacks~.

The purpose of OP request will be to help save room. If your a crafter you probably save loose crystals you get randomly. But once u get a full 12 crystals you move on to another stack. (With 8 element crystals the space adds up) If you can make them into clusters, you can still utilize your crystals, while taking up minimal inventory room.

@op - I made the same/similar request when they first announced the cluster update. This does not seem to be something they are planning on doing tho.

[Finuve]

You realize that answer was on like post 4? I forgot clusters stack

Also it would be really nice for this to be something simple likr

Alchemy skill:0 (never fails)
Required crystal: earth
Required materials: earth crystal x11

[Economizer]

Bump incoming.

Now for the hard part...

A Moogle, a Behemoth, a Morbol, and a Coeurl walk into a bar.
(Whichever one of you posts the translation first gets to write the punchline.)

[SpankWustler]

That middle section is a nightmare.

All I can get out of it with my very limited abilities is that they're very carefully considering anything that they do because of possible effects on the market, and that converting crystals back into clusters is involved somehow.

It turns out that "we worry about stuff so banal that our desks come down with autism" is easy enough to grasp even without speaking the language beyond being able to order food, but the exact details are foggy.

I'm sure somebody will do a much better job in a little while, but maybe that's better than what Google would have wrought.

A Moogle, a Behemoth, a Morbol, and a Coeurl walk into a bar.
(Whichever one of you posts the translation first gets to write the punchline.)

"That must have hurt like Hell!" exclaimed the Moogle, "I'm so glad I could just fly over it!"

[Nawesemo]

This would make me sad.....

[vienne]

I like this idea, when i go on long walks with my alt i tend to gather alot of crystals and since the price has risen alot the last years with most people spamming new content and fewer crystals getting on the AH, i'd rather not toss them.

[wildsprite]

The chef in Windurst could forge crystal clusters using salted caramel and milk chocolate, free of charge, to perfect his "cooking really weird stuff" skills. Works for peanuts, works for pecans, works for walnuts; why not solidified bits of wind and thunder and gloom in the name of modernist cuisine?

In the name of balance, sadly, I suspect he would have a 1/12 chance of going full-modernist and turning everything into a chocolate-foam bubble filled with crystal-flavored smoke.

SpankWustler you crack me up I'm still giggling at this

[Sarick]

True, but the likelihood of being able to cluster crystals in the field would be low, more likely to be a NPC which to me would be worse.

I was thinking more along the lines of this..

Stage one syth >>

Item: Inferno Crystal
Element: Fire Crystal
Ingredients: Fire Crystal x5

Stage 2 >>
Item: Fire Cluster
Element: Fire Crystal
Ingredients:Inferno Crystal X1, Fire Crystal X5

The reason 2 stages would be do to the 8 ingredient limit.

Another option would be to give the players a quested KEY ITEM or bought item that allowed them to fuse crystals into clusters with a command.

Elemental Forge, maybe?