Can we just remove shards from the game?

[Kimura410]

in half 50 gear my botanist still gets 30 shards per 40 min. when i had full 50 gear that my forager botanist wears, i could get 30 crystals for 40 min. in the half 50 gear, it only got 15. so if you want crystals, give your retainer some really good gear. shard numbers stay the same even with less gear.

so glad our retainers can do this mindless activity for us lol

[AerysDarkstrike]

Indeed. I get almost all my shards/crystals from my retainers (and from treasure hunts) these days.

[Xavier_Fanesthre]

I used to think gathering shards was such a chore until a friend in the FC suggested I use the wards while doing it. Prior to that, I thought the gathering rate on retainers didn't justify them collecting shards. Retainers gathering crystals on the other hand is leaving me with a plentiful supply...

[EvianEverdeen]

I used to think gathering shards was such a chore until a friend in the FC suggested I use the wards while doing it. Prior to that, I thought the gathering rate on retainers didn't justify them collecting shards. Retainers gathering crystals on the other hand is leaving me with a plentiful supply...

What wards? I don't have a gathering retainer leveled up yet, so I'm not sure what you mean.

[gornotck]

What wards? I don't have a gathering retainer leveled up yet, so I'm not sure what you mean.

Between leveling Botanist and Miner, not a retainer, you get six Wards that increase their specific aetheric attribute shard collection (and eventually crystal and clusters) by 2 for 400 GP. So it increases the amount of shards you can get from a single node to between 12 and 15 as you get 3 shards per gathering action.

[LukeStuz]

Between leveling Botanist and Miner, not a retainer, you get six Wards that increase their specific aetheric attribute shard collection (and eventually crystal and clusters) by 2 for 400 GP. So it increases the amount of shards you can get from a single node to between 12 and 15 as you get 3 shards per gathering action.

or if you're like me, when i gather shards, i use the elemental gathering bonus that some nodes give so i can get 16 as you get x4 shards from 1 node, and i believe you can do that with crystals but cannot confirm that, but what i would love is a way to get x4 of the clusters since they are a timed node and i hate having to wait for them when i have dailies to do which can take upto 3-4 hours if i do all my beast tribe quest, DR bonuses, and then trying to do my coil / ex primal farms / win.

[Xavier_Fanesthre]

I'm working my armourer at the minute (with blacksmith left to go). I should look into this elemental gathering bonus as I am desperately short of ice shards (and a little cash at the minute, trying to finish overmelding my GSM).

[Xavier_Fanesthre]

What gornotck said! Just add the second set of wards as cross-class skills to the class you're using!