2,100 Shards?

[FJerome]

Food is already expensive because of the compounding shard/crystal costs of intermediary ingredients.

There's really no getting around that SE hates crafters. If it weren't for the RMT bots, shards/crystals would be 10x more expensive.

I imagine that the new ventures will essentially turn our retainers into sanctioned crystal-gathering bots. That's certainly what I'm planning to use mine for 90% of the time.