Shard/Crystal/Cluster Convertion Recipes, Please Re-Instate

[Wulfies]

You are incorrect.

You can get shards and crystals from elementals. I killed several of them and got reliably shards and crystals.
I killed the water ones near gridania and got watershards and i killed the wind ones in the south shroud and got crystals.

Those might not be enough for you but there is a second possibility.


(I'm lvl 26, i couldn't check if lvl 50 ones drop cluster, but it is most likely because FC members placed clusters in our bank, and these member only fight)

Do you always get crystals and shards? I have not always received crystals and shards from the sprites/elementals. I personally have not tried to hit the 46+ elementals but xivdb says that the only way to get the clusters are to mine them form the mining/logging "unspoiled nodes" in Mor Dhona.

I'm 50 Botanist and do a ton of crafts and really don't see the point. Shard farming gives lowbies a viable method of obtaining gil from us higher players. If I could effectively change 1 cluster into 144 shards they would instantly lose all value.

I don't even farm shards, I buy all mine but a 144 conversion rate I would certainly farm them. Can get like 15 clusters an hour from a single node, 2160 shards for < 1 minute of farming? And 3 nodes spawn per Eozora day = 6,480 shards from a grand total of < 5 minutes of farming at 50? Where do I sign up!

This would be bad.

In 1.0 i was able to turn 1 crystal into 4 crystals (Alchemist) with 1 red "something" (looked like a red lobster) or the 4 lightning shards for 12 lightning shards with a malm kelp or the 4 lightning shards for 12 shards of a different elemental aspect.

I really could care less about the shards/crystals, I am more interested in converting to clusters (most high end crafting stuff requires clusters clusters and more GD clusters). So do not allow backwards breakdown, only do creation to a higher level. Again, I have not had the time to farm the "un-spoiled nodes" in Mor Chona, so I do not know how many clusters you recieve each swing of the axe/pick (based on your math above you get 3 clusters per swing? I will assume that what it is.)

Again, with both points, this WAS avail in 1.0 but now, no longer. So the next question is, why? To make the current content last longer?