Quote Originally Posted by Gabbelgak View Post
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.
If they are so easy to get . Why gillsellers started to botfarming and sell them for irl money?