Increase crystal supply

[Godofgods]

I appologise to SE for opening another thread on the subject. But the other one is getting to many posts to the point of ppl jsut reading the first one and going stright to posting about stuff that has already been agreed wont work or not a good idea.

So i wanted to continue the talk of increaseing crystals drops in a clean envirnment. Their is a lack of supply issue since abyssea came out. And while most wont want to see a drastic increase enough to ruin prices for themselves, when it reaches the point of AH's being completly out, something needs to be done.

While many have said 'jsut go farm' that sidesteps the issue of no supply on the AH. People buy on the AH because they dont have or dont want to spend a massive amount of time farming. Thats the reason for the AH. But with no supply, their screwed. And if the demand is higher then the supply, adjusting it so their both somewhat equal wont decrease the price much to sellers.

That being said, it still leaves the issue of how/where to increase. People seem to think adding to abyssea is not a good idea. And from a sellers stand point, their probably right. It also could be considered against the abyssea storyline.

Obviosuly, the only other area left would be the non abyssea areas. Could possibly consider upping the drop rate from mobs while under signet/sanction. Or maybe adding the drop to end game event. Its harder to judge that since several end game/event are being revised. Open to other suggestions as well. Feel free to list any.

[Nacht]

Add clusters to ephemerals + abyssea elementals?

[Godofgods]

i always did wonder how ppl could call them elementals when they dont drop any'

[Glamdring]

a shortage?! I have litterally 300 stacks of crystals or clusters-probably even more (those are just the slots on my crystal mules), and with a 90 could farm 80 more stacks in about 80 minutes in sky (without TH). As it is I look for beastman controlled areas to level in to avoid crystals as I level my <75 jobs.

[Godofgods]

well get your ass over to odin and give me some lol. I pretty much darined my 7 mules of their crystals

[Tsukino_Kaji]

well get your ass over to odin and give me some lol. I pretty much darined my 7 mules of their crystals

No, you come to Siren and get them yourself.

[Zarchery]

That's weird. I've never had trouble finding tons of crystals on the auction house.

I also get a decent supply when I do XP with signet, sanction, or sigil active.

[annewandering]

Getting crystals doesnt seem all that hard. Its like everything else. If its not on ah go get some yourself and that is not hard at all.
With the price of crystals I am not paying for them for my crafting. If they dont accumulate then its off to find some for myself.

[Glamdring]

Precisely my point, schlep on over to sky for an hour, you should come back loaded with whatever you need. This game should require people to make SOME effort.

[RushLynx]

Imo while getting crystals to drop isn't really a problem, I would REALLY like to see crystals stack to 99, or have a key item store them like fewell for synergy... I'm sure non-crafters think the idea of having a "crystal mule" is hilarious, but the sad truth is alot of people really do pay $1 extra a month just to have a place to put their crystals...
Alternatively... make a "Crystal Pouch" item that you can put stacks into... a pouch can hold 60-80 stacks of crystals... even if you have a separate pouch for each element the storage savings are tremendous...
As far as the crystal shortages go, I have noticed the steep increase in crystal costs on the AH due to Abyssea... If crystals were to stack into 99, you could easily make sky gods and stuff drop 99 crystals at a time, or increase the yield of clusters to 99, that would certainly fix that... x.o I'd suggest lowering cluster drop rates to 1 per ele if that should be the case, however... Possibly even not make it 100% drop... Or make an entirely new type of cluster that could possibly drop that will yield 99 instead of 12, or maybe a special kind of crystal that can be used multiple times... like a charged item... The possibilities are endless, really...