Clusters → Crystals → Shards

[Myrhn]

This was in 1.0 but with fish. People instead of farming shards/crystal were fishing and we end up with ton of shards/crystals in the market.

[Freakiie]

There are already tons of shards/crystals on the market, so I don't really see what your point is. Just that now 90% off the supply comes from bots.

[Myrhn]

There are already tons of shards/crystals on the market, so I don't really see what your point is. Just that now 90% off the supply comes from bots.

That's exactly my point, it would be even more shards/crystals on the market that their value will be dirt cheap.

[Grundy]

That's exactly my point, it would be even more shards/crystals on the market that their value will be dirt cheap.

My OP was twofold. I didn't know there had previously been a Dev response on this, so for that I can only apologise for being ignorant of the fact.

The second point was trying to inject some desirability to Alchemy, which seems undervalued compared to other DoH. At the moment, only TotT and Comfort Zone make Alchemist appealing, consequently it's also ridiculous how cheap and easy it is to level.

[Thorauku]

Breaking down of Clusters into Shard isn't the thing that will make the ALC class relevant, an overhaul to the POTIONS itself will make the class relevant.

Please, don't try fix something that isn't broken.

[Starfox71rt]

Breaking down of Clusters into Shard isn't the thing that will make the ALC class relevant, an overhaul to the POTIONS itself will make the class relevant.

I agree with this statement. I don't know what the right effect duration to cooldown should be but 15 sec for 5 min cooldown doesn't seem appropriate. I could see either 2 min effect duration with same cooldown or same effect duration and a 1.5 min cooldown.