Deaspected Crystals...

[Eruantien]

Pretty sure they are related to the upcoming materia system.

A few people have said this, but isnt the materia system in ideas mode right now, they are unlikely to have somethign in place when its just an idea.

And aren't the deaspected crystals, crystals that have already been used to summon a primal making them lose their power, not the other way around. Meaning that a primal has recentally been summoned. Or alot of primals being summoned

[Shai]

A few people have said this, but isnt the materia system in ideas mode right now, they are unlikely to have somethign in place when its just an idea.

And aren't the deaspected crystals, crystals that have already been used to summon a primal making them lose their power, not the other way around. Meaning that a primal has recentally been summoned. Or alot of primals being summoned

The way I recall it was Sylphs wanted to bribe Beast Tribes with "Unaspected" crystals so they could use them ... to summon, I guess. I'm not sure if that was clear. What we're getting are "Deaspected" and I have no clue how they are different. I'd say "Unaspected" never had an aspect (just looking at the word) but the process in which we (the player) made them during a mission speaks otherwise.

[Eruantien]

I just assumed that deaspected crystals were crystals that had lost its power

This translucent crystal seems to have been completely drained of its elemental aspect

meaning it had been used and all power drained from some massive right, whereas the unaspected crystal was a crystal without elemental properties but still with power. Or if you talk to the battlewarden at humblehearth I think, he mentions that its odd that deaspected crystals started appearing after the mobs have gotten bigger. Maybe the mobs have drained the power themselves makign them become larger.

[HunkaMunka]

This:

The way I recall it was Sylphs wanted to bribe Beast Tribes with "Unaspected" crystals so they could use them ... to summon, I guess. I'm not sure if that was clear. What we're getting are "Deaspected" and I have no clue how they are different. I'd say "Unaspected" never had an aspect (just looking at the word) but the process in which we (the player) made them during a mission speaks otherwise.

And this:

I think thiey have something to do with the gm event since that is when ppl satarted getting them. And the levequest counter guy talks of people getting strange items while doing levequests, which is also new.

Save them, or better yet, find a way to send them to me. I'm on Istory. ^^

Big things are in the works. Lore about Gridania's and travellers; GM's appearing on jobs that don't exists for us yet; new dialogue where everyone is sure to see it... I'm interested. I'm even telling my friends who quit that they need to return.

As far as deaspected v. unaspected... I'm unsure. This could simply be another nomenclature issue, or the UN/DE could be of significance.

Totally concur with Shai: If I recall Forever Taken correctly, we had to take 5 crystals to Mor Dhona to have their aspect removed, which I would term a DEaspected crystal, because the DE implies there was some aspect which has since been removed, whereas an UNaspected crystal would not have had an aspect to begin with.

I suspect something is lost in translation. Maybe the un/de does have some significance, or maybe we are just reading too much into some minutia that may not have even occurred as worth consideration to someone who is not a native-English speaker.

C'mon mid-June!!!!!

[Randis]

I much dislike new items that remain without use for months!
i barely have space...
Silver goblets, all the numerous beast coins and now crystals!

If i cant use em, then its waste of space. If items are not planned to be used any time soon then please do no add them.

[Catapult]

If it were something about the nature of the lands around Mor Dhona that caused crystals to be drained of their aspect, it might suggest that whatever happened to Mor Dhona is spreading to the rest of the land, making crystals elsewhere also loose their aspect. aka: Imminent Catastrophe.

Part of the ffxiv theme song:
Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe. The land's alive, so believe.
I'm starting to wonder if the game's theme song is envisaged as having been sung by Mezaya as well.

[Xzen]

I think the Garleans use them as a power source, that's why they hang around Mor Dohna, and the beastmen use them to summon.

[SirEdeonX]

I think the Garleans use them as a power source, that's why they hang around Mor Dohna, and the beastmen use them to summon.

Yeah, maybe that's why the garleans built all those reactors above Bluefog, near to Mor Dhona.

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[Kilta_Firelotus]

But wasn't they recently added when "the storm over gridania" was added to the lodestone? I played just before the gm started poping up and the levequest guys never talk about strange items till after the gm sighting started happening.

[Xzen]

But wasn't they recently added when "the storm over gridania" was added to the lodestone? I played just before the gm started poping up and the levequest guys never talk about strange items till after the gm sighting started happening.

No you first see deaspected crystals in Mor Dohna just sticking up out of the ground. You also get them in a couple of the storyline quests.