Lightning and wind crystals

[AdamZ]

I find the HW nodes are generally better than the SB for crystal farming, believe it or not.

I believe, I tested out both. I think they are close, but it could just be my personal preference. The one factor to considered is the plus 1 and plus 2 gathering on the level 70's that are not on the level 60's. Likely influencing me is not wanting to be gathering in HW zones anymore, lol.

[AdamZ]

Thank you so much for your detailed analysis! I haven't done much gathering for a long, long time. And you just gave me a summary of endgame gathering since patch 3.3, the reasons why certain aetherial reduced items are more expensive than the others, existing problems, as well as suggesting a solution. 10 likes for you!

senpai noticed me!

[DarkDedede]

I am all for removing these from the game altogether, they really don't serve a purpose other than a gil sink. They should go the way of carbonized matter!

They should at least phase out shards. The current shard prices are concerning.

[Alisi]

I believe, I tested out both. I think they are close, but it could just be my personal preference. The one factor to considered is the plus 1 and plus 2 gathering on the level 70's that are not on the level 60's. Likely influencing me is not wanting to be gathering in HW zones anymore, lol.

Yeah, but those are rare and you need all your luck to get the same cross the board results with IE2. You're not going to get any that give you 15 if you don't use DE (or more than one if you do.) You're basically guaranteed 4 with the max number of crystals every time plus the off ones when you're waiting for your GP to regen (another two or thee) will be the same quality, while the other is relying on RNG. I mean, I have good gatherer gear, with all the new available stuff. I'm pentamelded and all that (save my miner weapon.) The miner has a 62% chance to proc DE and my bot has a 68%. Better than 50/50 but not by much. It's even on days when you have decent RNG. I still do them both though, since lightning crystals is my bane and the SB one is right before two lightning ones and a final wind one in HW.

edit: I forgot to mention that the HW are 100% and SBs are 99% at most. Which basically means you have a 50/50 shot at it missing... xD Alright. I kid. But I have had them miss and I had having to use the extra GP to ensure they don't.