Quote Originally Posted by Raldo View Post
Sand was removed because they changed it to use fish when breaking crystals.

Why would you turn your fish into sand, sand into other sand, and then sand into shards, when you could just turn your fish into shards? 1 brass loach = 8 free lightning shards (costs 4, makes 12).
not even close....

i dont know why sand was removed exactly, but using fish DOES NOT turn crystals into shards like sand did


thats the whole issue here, with fish you can....
turn shards into more shards
turn shards into crystals

but you cant backtrack



now, as for the issue the OP brings up, no, shards will NOT be in shortage, there are still so many people who just do not craft that they sell tons all the time.

my concern is moreso how little use crystals and clusters now have that they have been taken out of most recipes. while im sure when we get a cap raise we will see many more uses of these, but til then they sit, and they stack up even moreso since its not worth the time to break them down since we have to go through so much crap with sand recipes to do so.


the shards cost being lowered was nice...but when they took away the crystal cost and made it low shards, it just killed the use of crystals in general(im looking at you gems, ore, and yarn recipes!)