Crystal shards for crafting suggestion

[Welsper59]

Would be so expensive considering how much you need if you craft a lot. Aside from just gathering it yourself, you can have a retainer gather crystals for you too.

Agreed. Retainer gathering is honestly one of the best ways to go about it. This is particularly true if you have a retainer high enough to reduce the gather time and yield (60 I think). If you have multiple gathering retainers, all the more faster to build up the need. (Yet another) If you also decide to bother gathering shards yourself, you just increased the yield per hour dramatically.

It really isn't difficult, nor time consuming, to gather a mass amount of shards in a small amount of time spent actively getting them (this means seconds of effort going only the retainer route). It's just tedious... but MMORPG.