Clusters, Crystals, and Shard conversions.

I just made a post highlighting both this thread and the other thread "Revamped recipes don't follow the design plan" in the same thread Camate posted with his quote
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Let's hope if they don't see our posts here, they will see my post over there and we get a response :/

Bumping... Still no response from the dev team (not surprised there...) Does anyone speak Japanese well enough to get Yoshi-P and the real dev team's attention on the JP forum side? I think that's the only way we'll ever get through to them about this issue.

I'm not sure but I really want the shard and crystal conversions. I leveled up alch for this reason and sadly am not seeing my hard work paying off

I think their intent was to convince people to adopt the fish as the new way to convert crystals into shards. What they undermined/failed to address is what goes into crafting the base ingredient (lightning shards) needed for all those fish. If fine sand either could be sold again by vendors OR didn't take 7 synths of legwork just to convert 1 crystal into shards, this issue would probably not exist.

Bayohne, Malboro of doom, I summon thee to feed our backs!

err.. help with feedback, please. lol

Just implement recipes that require entire clusters and crystals to synth.

Yea, I was really hoping to see new Crystal -> Shard recipes in this update, but didn't happen. Another week, another request for even a "we're looking into it" response from the devs. Surely the Japanese players have expressed similar frustration.

I am likewise concerned about this issue and hope it is addressed soon.

I don't mind it so much, it makes it all the harder for the alchemy bots to get our money, i am sorry for the real players that suffer because of this, but i suffer from anti-rmt stuff when i gather. where's the line (that has been addressed in so many posts) that seperates screwin rmt and screwin legitimate players. cuz i know lots of regular players are gettin shafted more and more.

Well as the situation currently stands crystals and clusters have so few functions that they should be eliminated. Also, there needs to be a practical use for things like Bone Crayfish, and other higher level fish that are currently used for crystals.

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Originally Posted by Bocajo

Well as the situation currently stands crystals and clusters have so few functions that they should be eliminated. Also, there needs to be a practical use for things like Bone Crayfish, and other higher level fish that are currently used for crystals.

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There is no need for elimination when the solution lies in implementation of new recipes that conume entire crystals or clusters.