Crystal Gathering too Slow

[DwightParkman]

the amount and time it takes to farm shards and crystals are perfectly fine. stop being lazy or buy them off the market board.

[Shiyo]

the amount and time it takes to farm shards and crystals are perfectly fine. stop being lazy or buy them off the market board.

Remember when you posted this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...iciency-Issues.
Then the lead dev, Yoshi, completely proved you wrong(as well as the entire playerbase, but the lead dev matters more) by lowering repair costs by 60%?

Yeah, you're a troll, and no one should ever listen to you.

[Krisan]

Remember when you posted this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...iciency-Issues.
Then the lead dev, Yoshi, completely proved you wrong(as well as the entire playerbase, but the lead dev matters more) by lowering repair costs by 60%?

Yeah, you're a troll, and no one should ever listen to you.

To be fair, the repair cost was a much more pressing issue than this is. The issue isn't that it actually takes too long to collect crystals either in my opinion, it's that gathering in general is exceedingly boring and tedious. They made gathering ridiculously easy to do, they practically throw materials at you.. to counter-balance this, they made it reeeeeeally boring to do, which I understand.. Personally though, I'd prefer it to be harder to do and entertaining, as opposed to easy and boring. But eh..

I do think the abilities that let you harvest multiple crystals at once are a bit too expensive though.. or rather that GP regenerates at an exceedingly slow rate. It makes no sense at all to me that GP is the slowest resource in the game to regain, especially since it's not even that important in gathering for much else.

[Hawklaser]

I do think the abilities that let you harvest multiple crystals at once are a bit too expensive though.. or rather that GP regenerates at an exceedingly slow rate. It makes no sense at all to me that GP is the slowest resource in the game to regain, especially since it's not even that important in gathering for much else.

As someone that does a nice bit of gathering, if GP came back faster I would be swimming in more materials than I could get rid after a longer session. As either the demand for the items are not there, or would flood a market and risk crashing some of the few markets still worth while. Have to be careful of not clogging my retainers as is due to trying to keep some markets worth while. And if the wards cost less, thanks to people already bot mining, that market would evaporate over night, and would not take long even without the bots.