Crystal Gathering too Slow

[Earendur]

I need 12000 wind shards, you expect me to mine up that many? How long would that take when you get 4~6 shards a mining point? You expect me to do nothing but mine shards for 3 months 8 hrs a day? Oh but wait i can buy them right? Oh but wait Gil is being evaporated at an alarming rate. Ok so i buy 12000 wind shards for a couple of mil, then what do i do? I'm broke cant craft anything because i cant buy the materials. Oh i can go farm them you say? Hrmm i could but i would have to run that dungeon that drops the pieces i need for days on end and maybe il get one.
Welcome to the twilight zone where logic is thrown out the window.

[FutanXIV]

I got to 38 Blacksmith, 33 Carpenter and 33 Leatherworker with just the shards they give you with the starting quests. I'm just now running low on earth and fire. Still decent on wind and ice. If you're grinding instead of using leves and the crafting log, then that's your own fault for wasting crystals. /thread

EDIT1:

Or you could be using Leves for a Land craft, like I am, for the slightly faster EXP. It takes a lot longer to level Botany and Mining, even with the limited shards, than it does the Hand crafts.

I've done the same(Mining 38, Botany 37). However, I've learned that it's definitely better both experience-wise and monetarily to grind the gathering jobs and leve the crafting.

Find what's most efficient and do that. Think instead of brute forcing your way to 50~

EDIT2: Oh, I forgot to mention provisions quests. Extremely easy exp a day.

[CyrilLucifer]

If you're grinding instead of using leves and the crafting log, then that's your own fault for wasting crystals. /thread

Or you could be using Leves for a Land craft, like I am, for the slightly faster EXP. It takes a lot longer to level Botany and Mining, even with the limited shards, than it does the Hand crafts.

[Felis]

I need 12000 wind shards, you expect me to mine up that many?

The cap is at 9.999

12 shards per run every 6-7 node is nothing compared to the 1,100 I need to make one stack of food.

4 shards each node. That would make 12 shards per every 3th node.

Say you would need to start gathering, get all 4 shards and run to the next node ~ 20 seconds.
1100 shards = 275 nodes = ~ 1,5 hours