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!!

[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.

[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.

[Avalon_Albrook]

Signing this with so much vigor.

[SlugishGoquickly]

I concur... Shards are currently the limiting factor for crafting numerous items. If I gather my own materials, I spend more time farming shards than the actual mats. If I buy the materials, the shards are often the most expensive ingredient.

Since I don't like to complain about anything without providing suggestions, here are a few

• Increase the number of shards obtained by ventures
• Shards from treasure maps go to all party members
• Include the ability to break clusters to crystals to shards as part of alchemy desynthesis
• Introduce a FC action to reduce shard usage for items above a certain level
• Dramatically increase shard drop rate from sprites
• Reduce GP cost of the various gathering "Ward" abilities
• Add a level 50 passive trait to each craft that occasionally returns shards/crystals/(maybe clusters?) to the crafter's inventory unused after a craft
• Add shards as a random dungeon loot drop in chests that typically give potions

[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.

[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?