Why on earth would they change this?

As someone with all crafting/gathering classes leveled, these sources of shards were a godsend. They eliminated 80% of the shards I needed to gather for my day to day crafting.

Now I have to go back to either spending hours a week gathering or buy them from the message board which I don\\\\'t like to do since most are gathered by bots.

Please let us keep our shard rewards SE, taking them away just gives more people a reason to bot.

How about taking out the PvP feather ingrienient award, that\\'s something that would be better off harvested. Removing the shards benefits no one but the bots.