Ability to Downgrade Elemental Crystals into Shards.

[Grimmel]

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The Dev's did not give a precise reason as to why we cannot downgrade Clusters into crystals and crystals into shards. This VERY same method was used in 1.0; the early version of Final Fantasy XIV and they opted to remove it. Why?


I'm simply asking to undo this change and make it to where they are convertible again. Please re-read my OP as RMT is NOT the main reason that I want this to change. The main reason of my original post is to help SE see how damaged and flawed this system is. RMT combating is one reason among many that I have been pointing out through out this entire thread.

You've also failed to read over the many wonderful suggestions offered by players to help Square realize there is indeed a problem with the current gathering of shards in comparison to the amount of shards used via crafting as your crafting levels up further.

Tell me.. how much do the low level crafted materials and items from a lvl 1 crafter go for on your server? Not much I presume.. so where is the market for low level crafters?

I would also like confirmation of a thread where players of this games community have said they like the current system of crafting/gathering in terms of shards gained and used.

Please SE; give us this alternative to gaining shards, as our current means of gaining them are slim and too far apart.

This right here is the main reason for this thread. Because our means of gathering shards are too few.

[Nicobo]

... This VERY same method was used in 1.0; the early version of Final Fantasy XIV and they opted to remove it. Why?
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So what was the "converting ratio" in 1.0? And what is your suggesting ratio?
In my server a shard around 100g, a cluster around 1000g, will you break a cluster to 10 shards?

You've also failed to read over the many wonderful suggestions offered by players to help Square realize there is indeed a problem with the current gathering of shards in comparison to the amount of shards used via crafting as your crafting levels up further..

There were many players complained the market was dead. I think SE just let players convert clusters to shards by trading thru the MB.
TBH, I read those "many wonderful suggestions" maybe wonderful but actually not really helpful.
If the problem is "amount of shards used via crafting as your crafting levels up", then they should simply decrease the shards required.
They will not do that because the required shards affect the cost of those crafting products, that's why ppl will not craft those products like free.

...Tell me.. how much do the low level crafted materials and items from a lvl 1 crafter go for on your server? Not much I presume.. so where is the market for low level crafters?..

I didn't mean making the market for low level crafters.
Appereantly "make low level crafting relevent" would mean "make low level material/recipes still relevent to end game crafters"
for example, a 4stars everything will still need to stock some shards but not only clusters.