Quote Originally Posted by Kimura410 View Post
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 ^^