Ability to Downgrade Elemental Crystals into Shards.

[Taliph]

It is not difficult to put it into the game. Take a cluster, put some other mat to it, start the synthese and turn it into some crystals. Not more difficult then putting any other new recipe into the game.

Don't have plans to do it =/= Can't do it

Also, this type of recipe got already removed during 1.20. It's more about not to flood the market with shards if the amount of earned clusters get increased in future.
This would be also the reason why normal enemies don't drop shards anymore, leves don't include the needed shards+mats anymore and don't give shards as bonus reward anymore, because the devs thought there were too many shards in the market at the end of 1.23. The shards got thrown at you literally.


You can get 60 - 120 shards each hour while running a dungeon at the same time.

I go thru over 10000 shards in one 3 hour sitting making demimateria... 60-120 per hour is not anywhere near reasonable when one crafter can burn shards that fast.