Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.
Can us Alchemists get a dev response as to just what exactly we are supposed to use to break down clusters into crystals and a better way than fine sand to break crystals into shards? As far as many of us can tell, the new recipes do not address this!

Revamped Recipes don't seem to follow the design plan

Clusters-Crystals-Shard Conversions