Is selling 27.5k lightning shards on Market board a normal thing?

The ones that really upset me are the ones who somehow get underneath the world to go between farming nodes. You can't target them, but their names can appear at node sites coming out of the walls.

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Originally Posted by Matsume

I get lightning shards for 15gil a piece... that guy is over charging!

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lol there's a pun in there...

Did you try to tell it to the GM? They can do some investigation and clear things out

lol the market is ruined the only way to make good cash is flipping what these cheaters sell.

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What if I tell you it was lvl 10 Gladiator, lvl 12 Miner a month ago, when I first saw it?

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This does not necessarily mean the person is a bot, it could be an alt.

My 1 4 jobs to 50 was fishing, and 3 crafting jobs. I had everything else 20 or lower.

My Botany and Mining both made it to almost 40 before I level my 1st 50 combat job (MNK).

I have since leveled all of the other jobs. However the level of the gatherer vs others does not necessarily make it inferior. Honestly if I was only farming shards on an alt for money I would use the cheapest to repair gear I could get. As Shards do not HQ.

As stated previously this is not a teleport bot. Also those kind of numbers are realistically achievable. I have more than 9999 in some shards and crystals (I store the excess on my retainers. I have recently started dumping some of the excess shards as my retainers were starting to get full.

While it is quite possible this is a bot, there is not enough evidence presented for SE to act on this player as a bot (plus 38 in 3 weeks is pretty slow for a true bot).

well, not to defend bots but...SE really caused their own issue - if shards and crystals weren't so stupidly tedious to get then there wouldn't be a market for them. As it is, if it weren't for bots most crafters would be bankrupt because its the bots that help keep the cost down, if you took away the bots it would probably be a butt ton you pay for those things, I mean farming them for like 15gil a pop? people would be charging closer to 100 at least.
Shards should have been adjusted in lvl to be relevant to each node you are at, so a lvl 15 node has its shards at lvl 15 etc. so that as a crafter you could actually farm them while still slowly getting experience for the most tedious classes of the game

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Originally Posted by cloverkitty

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You're reading it wrong.
I was not accusing him being a bot JUST because his class leveling.


Oh Excalibur? Isn't that a Legacy server. I'm not surprised that you have maximum shards, not at all.

Devs hold bot selling shards for some time. You buy shards for gil. And after that they ban the bot and take your gil out of the economy.
Gil sink profit.