Quote Originally Posted by gornotck View Post
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.