Suggestion - Increase the Quantity of Shards in Higher Level Nodes

[Moglin]

Due to the increased demand for mass crafting thanks to Desynthesis, I think it's about time the Dev Team looks at the amount of Shards a single person can harvest per hour. Crystals are fine where they are, and Clusters are readily available, but Shards... Why can we only harvest 4-15 Shards per node? I can understand low level nodes having that few, but why can I not pull more from a level 50 node? It seems needlessly time consuming, and drums up inadvertent support for the RMT bot farms that mindless toil beneath the hills of... wherever.

[Ardair]

Agreed. If I didn't have thousands of shards from 1.0, I'd have gone mental by now.

An easy fix would be to make all nodes give additional shard yield like they do now in certain sets, not just one.

[Ricky]

Back in my day mobs dropped shards.. and a lot of them to boot!!

[TakKuroda]

Back in my day mobs dropped shards.. and a lot of them to boot!!

This used to be the main way to farm them. Mining was too iffy. At least you knew what type would drop from mobs.

[Yoruichi4478]

Back in my day mobs dropped shards.. and a lot of them to boot!!

I remember those days and miss the mobs dropping shards. I wish they'd bring that part of 1.0 back. It's such a pita to farm them yourself one or 4 at a time depending on the node u hit and your retainer can only farm what? 30 at a time?

[Kimura410]

i agree as well. maybe should toss this on the general discussion for more traffic. I'm sure a lot of people would agree. its not bad using retainers for crystals, getting clusters yourself or buying, bc u only need 1 or 2 per craft, but damn, shards going for 500 a piece sometimes when they used to be 18. somethings definitely wrong with that

[Kyana]

its not bad using retainers for crystals, getting clusters yourself or buying, bc u only need 1 or 2 per craft, but damn, shards going for 500 a piece sometimes when they used to be 18. somethings definitely wrong with that

Well, the price was so low because there were a number of bots farming shards.
And people bought them because they were cheap and because, and that's the important part, they are a pain to farm.

I also agree that gathering shards needs a boost.
Maybe a passive trait for gatherers which increases the yield of the ward skills by 10 for shards and 5 for crystals, giving a total of 11-12 shards per hit insead of 3-4.
I also like the idea of bringing back the ability to break clusters into crystals and crystals into shards.
And Elementals should get a slight increase in crystals and have clusters added to their possible drops (only the high level elementals of course).

Gathering shards is just a mind numbing activity, even for low level gatherers.
Whenever I gather them for more than 10 minutes I almost fall asleep because it's so boring.

[ZakGaiGar]

I'd love for a change like this to be made, would get me back into the crafting game being that shards are the only thing keeping me out of it. I just don't have the gil to spare for the large amounts on the market board, and I don't have the time to gather them for hours and hours. I'm so for this.

[PixelPirate]

I organized a FC event where every member farmed shards for one single hour. Our crafters were supplied with 2-3 thousand of every shard. We did a 2 hour materia farming event that netted 2.5 million gil, we could have bought plenty of shards for our crafters that way. I see no reason to change anything, except to try and urge people in this game to start thinking of ways to work together. You'll find that almost nothing will stand in your way of progress.

[Zarzak]

I organized a FC event where every member farmed shards for one single hour. Our crafters were supplied with 2-3 thousand of every shard. We did a 2 hour materia farming event that netted 2.5 million gil, we could have bought plenty of shards for our crafters that way. I see no reason to change anything, except to try and urge people in this game to start thinking of ways to work together. You'll find that almost nothing will stand in your way of progress.

2-3 thousand wind shards would last about... 30 minutes. its 100 per jewelry set.