Can we just remove shards from the game?

[Kimura410]

Shards seem too expensive. A level 1 item should not be 40-50 per shard. Im glad I leveled all my crafts when they were 9 gil a piece. They are 5 times the price now. Crafters should really be able to craft these themselves. Keep the clusters on gathering nodes, maybe even the crystals.

[Xandim]

Shards seem too expensive. A level 1 item should not be 40-50 per shard. Im glad I leveled all my crafts when they were 9 gil a piece. They are 5 times the price now. Crafters should really be able to craft these themselves. Keep the clusters on gathering nodes, maybe even the crystals.

If there was a class to craft shards, they would need to make a whole new crafting class just for that, and even then they'd still need to have a material to craft that.

I think its fine the way it is, unless you grind for some reason (logs, achievements?) you only need a couple of shards. Just take a few minutes and you have enough shards/crystals for a couple of crafts. Or you can have 2 gathering retainers and let them gather the shards/crystals for you ^^

[Synestra]

Shards seem too expensive. A level 1 item should not be 40-50 per shard.

Whaat! D: On my server im not selling any shards less than 120gil each and that is usually the normal price for high-demand shards(like wind and lightning). But anyway have you tryed to use DoL specced retainers to go for some shard ventures? they should bring approx 200 shards in hour or so.