Quote Originally Posted by Sentaryuu View Post
It's the shards I have the least of while all others I have over 1000. Though I am currently trying to level Miner (wish I could collect them with Botanist instead) as well so I can collect my own lightning shards/crystals.
Just want to chime in and let you know that you can harvest lightning shards (you can get all the shards, crystals, clusters) as a botanist. You can get the lightening shards in Thanalan at the following places:
For Logging:
Lv. 10 Spineless Basin
Lv. 20 Black Brush
Lv. 30 Spineless Basin
Lv. 50 The Clutch

For Harvesting:
Lv. 15 The Clutch
Lv. 35 Broken Water
Lv. 50 Sangolii Desert