Ability to Downgrade Elemental Crystals into Shards.

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Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

How about a shard trader in every major city then? It will still adhere to the "individuality" and "uniqueness" of the item but can simply be traded, like with gil for armor. No need to downgrade/breakdown, simply trade, no need to be disciple of hand. Water to water, fire to fire, etc, to prevent trading for more in demand types.