shard yeilding

[Shadygrove]

In 1.0 we could convert fish into shards and crystals... I never figured they would remove the fish conversion from the game like they did. I want it back badly because I don't enjoy spending hours and hours every day after I'm locked out of coil just on gathering mats for the next week's food supply.
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THIS.

It would also add value to fishing.

[Kaonis]

1 shard per hit is incredibly ridiculous and if you want to get the achievements in higher zones and say want to keep farming fire shards for example, you can't. They have so many empty slots on the gathering spots that could be filled with shards. If I could farm fire shards and water shards all the way through the achievement categories for the luminary btn and min tools I would.

You can actually. That's how I've managed to probably get 2 or 3 of my MIN achievements when there wasn't anything else I needed from an an area.

[zer0patches]

It's hard to justify buying shards when you don't know whether a legit player or someone using bots or RMT players farmed them up. It's kind of a moral grey area.

It's pretty easy to tell. If there are 10 stacks of 4000 shards by the same "Eexdkk" character it's probably a bot. I tend to try to my my shards in smaller increments of like 769 from "Mr. Pickles". =p

[Drako]

I guess they decided not to increase the shard yields at all this update? I haven't tested it but I'm assuming not.

[Raminax]

They haven't, from my experiences.

On the bright side, there's more ways to get a few shards now. Daily quests offer 15 random shards per quest. I also got 80 Lightning Shards from a Treasure Hunt (Toadskin Map). No where near enough for people who regularly mass-craft, but I suppose they'll slowly stack up when you feel like sitting down for an hour or two.

[Fluttersnipe]

I don't think the shard yield should go up tbh. The people that put the work into farming them deserve the coin they get, and I'm more than happy to pay for them, if they're putting in the effort to get em for me .

Some things in life are tedious, not saying games should mirror life, but not everything in a game should be pie to get ahold of!

[Asterope]

I like to joke about how shards gathering makes me lose my will to live. On a serious note, precisely because of the way RMT is allowed to run free, I simply can't justify buying shards from anyone because of the concerns regard to "ethical sourcing", so to speak. So the leniency toward RMT is hardly helping the human gatherers.

[Mhiro]

You can actually. That's how I've managed to probably get 2 or 3 of my MIN achievements when there wasn't anything else I needed from an an area.

This actually works out quite well. Since I didn't need any materials, I got about 10/15 of my botanist achievements by harvesting nothing but shards. And thanks to the trend among Thanalan trees and bushes, it took me about 2 and a half days (if you smash all the time together) to get almost a full stack of lightning shards. But of course that is only if you really want to get the achievements done for the golden weapons. :U