how to get 150-250 clusters per ephemeral node. Money!

[Kiara]

Might be intentional, a way to kill one of the main revenue streams for RMT.

As an FYI, in FF XIV 1.0, nearly ALL regular Monsters you killed dropped Shards.

For a long time, most players *just playing the game* (killing Dungeon Mobs, not even Gathering) would have THOUSANDS of Shards in their Inventory.

And it worked beautifully: It eliminated any RMT trying to control the Shard market (because any average Adventurer / Player can just naturally get tons of Shards just playing the game, without gathering).

Then Yoshi P changed it and made Shards, Crystals far more rare, which in turn only benefits RMT Botters and those with massive amounts of time. (I think it was a bad decision.)

It worked fine in 1.0 with excess (so that anyone could try out Crafting or sell their excess Shards / Crystals if they didn't care). Sounds great.

[IllyriaKnotfred]

With all due respect to your opinion - 1.0 had less than 50k subscribers within the first month? Maybe 100k? RMT with those numbers is... irrelevant

[Spawnie]

Why can't people keep their mouths shut?

aww some1s salty....

[Hiraki]

Thanks for telling everyone, I mean I didn't wana make money or anything like that -____-

[Lexia]

Is the emergency maintenance because of this?

[Tempting]

Is the emergency maintenance because of this?

very possibly

[ParanoidHobo]

Is the emergency maintenance because of this?

Hope not. That'd be an incredibly stupid knee jerk reaction. Farming crystals etc has always been a boring, garbagey slog and seeing a big wad of crystals pop out of my first aetherial reduction was a pleasant surprise.

[Spawnie]

Is the emergency maintenance because of this?

hope so lmao

[Underdog2204]

Wow... Are people here actually trying to defend an expliot that gives players an advantage and can easily ruin the economy in a MMO!?

Really!?!?

[XLauncher]

It's not an exploit. The way it works, you may as well say that using Bountiful Yield on an unspoiled node is an exploit.