Only Ice Crystals and Earth Crystals can be easily farmable in HW content?

Seriously? You can get the Ice and Earth Crystals easily from gathering points as they're always there, but you can't gather the other crystals just as easily in the HW content like the other two?

What?

I mean you CAN get the other crystals from the old pre-HW content at their Level 50 nodes, but only half of the nodes have them instead of all the time like the Ice and Earth Crystals have.

Why is that? Why neglect the other crystals from being easily farmable in the HW content? I could see the Sea of Cloud place an excellent spot for Wind and Water Crystal to farm and then there's that Dravanian Forelands place where the Dragon's burial ground are that's perfect for some Fire Crystal to grab and even the Helix could have farming spot.

True there's the how Collective Abilities to desync items into the Crystals and Cluster, but I'm currently Level 54 on my Miner and would like to get some Crystals along the way to it.

Any one else thing they should add the rest of the crystals to gathering nodes in HW content as well aside from only the Ice and Earth Crystal ones?

Unless I missed something here and the other Crystals ARE in the HW content but only the Ice and Earth Gathering Log has them displayed up to Level 60 places and I have yet to see the others listed there as well which is odd as in the pre-HW the Log updated to show you the other places you can farm for mats. Did I overlook something or is there really just Ice and Earth? Even the Gamerescape site doesn't have them listed anywhere in the HW content places.

Aetherial reduction is how you get crystals in heavensward.

You need all DoL to be able to get all types of shards though.

Miner: Fire, Lightning
Botanist: Wind, Earth
Fisher: Water, Ice

If you're just leveling, unless you need these crystals immediately for a crafter or something, then I wouldn't worry about it. Just do your Leves and collectible turn ins and you'll be 60 in no time.

If you really need the crystals right now, just buy it from mb or send your retainers out for crystals.

Well I'm sending my Retainers out now for Crystals as I'm need a big chunk of them to crafting for my Company Deliveries to help level up my Crafting Classes.

Right now I have Miner at 54, Botanist at 52, and Fisher at 55. Slowly but surely getting to 60 for them. I've brunt out the Weekly Challenges for them, waiting on them for the next Company Deliveries and trying to get those HQ items. Sadly I also wasted my money for the crystals and Lv55 gear for my Gathering Classes so a little broke right now. I was curios if you can get the other Crystals from other nodes and just found it so strange that only Ice and Earth Crystals were the exceptional to this.

Personally I would make getting your DoL to 60 a first priority and then worry about your crafters afterwards.

Having all your DoL at 60 makes getting your Doh to 60 so much easier. Also make sure you're working on getting a battle retainer or two up to 60 as well. It's much easier to send your retainer for the monster dropped materials than it is to go farm them.

Well I plan to max out my DoL classes first to 60 before DoH as the DoL classes are by far the EASIEST class to level up in the game.

I plan to do the Company Deliveries here and there with even normal quality items to have my Crafting class a head start a bit for their leveling.

And I got 3 Retainers that's Battle Classes and 3 Retainers that's Gathering... though Fishing doesn't farm for Shards sadly.

Well thanks for the advice I'll work on getting my Retainers to 60, but I need to get my classes that ARE 50 to 60 first like Monk... though that's the only Battle Class I need to work on for one of my Retainers.

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Originally Posted by VirusChris

Right now I have Miner at 54, Botanist at 52

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That's your main issue.

At 56, botanist can get water crystals, and miner can get lightning crystals from Sea of Clouds on regular nodes.
At 56, botanist and miner can get fire crystals just south(MIN)/south-east(BTN) of Anyx Trine (Dravanian Forelands).
At 56, botanist (I might be wrong about botanist, but I know miner can for sure) and miner can also gather wind crystals from Dravanian Hinterlands at the respective nodes.

There are likely other spots for various crystals but I can't remember them off the top of my head right now, and of course you can still get ice and earth using the methods that you know of.

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Originally Posted by VirusChris

I'm currently Level 54 on my Miner and would like to get some Crystals along the way to it.

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honestly, gather something else, sell it and buy crystals

they became less worth than shards with 3.0 and I'm sure there are plenty of things with atleast 10 times of its worth which you could gather...

As previous poster stated. I spotted the fire crystals on miner near anyx trine myself and have no doubt the others are also out there in hw areas.

I got a change to check the gathering log. Have you checked all four categories?

Eventually you can gather them all (I think), but mostly you can get massive amounts from aetherial reductions after 56 I think. Basically you farm aetherial nodes (which spawn on a timer) as collectibles and use a new action for aetherial reduction to convert the items you just gathered into large amounts of crystals and clusters (and at very high collectible ratings/ purity dawn/ dusk aethersand -- though only 1 at a time). Sending retainers out for 30 is still good to do if you need crystals, but you cna farm them much more quickly (at level 60) than you could in 2.x.

my last crystal farm run is months ago but I think I did 2000 to 3000 crystals in 20 minutes

aetherial reduction is the way to go

If anything, I would bemoan the fact that Fishing is inferior to MIN/BOT. You cannot guarantee that your reducible fish will bite, and Patience does not address the lack of fine control over the desired purity value of your catch.

Should you need ice/water clusters, Mor Dhona is still mypreferr

*mutter grumble* My tablet is conspiring against me.

Mor Dhona is still my preferred site for ice and water clusters. For crystals of the same elements, I resort to mining/botany ventures.