[Rant] Shards, Crystals, and Clusters...

[bass9020]

i tried it and ive already found the issue. i absolutely hate notes that only appear for a certain period of time and have a certain amount of items. i hate waiting for them to appear only to gather them the one time and wait for the next one to appear. im looking up more popular methods of shard farming and this was never brought up. it boils down to markets and retainers because apparently nobody likes to waste time farming these resources.

im sorry, but this is not helping. i'm still wasting time i could be spending actually progressing in the game.

in the end, i will bring up my original point. farming for shards is a waste of my time and my retainer's progression. im not looking for other options or tips since most of them are either from a try-hard perspective or are simply a waste of time. im looking for concepts to make the system better for casual players.

Ephemeral Nodes are up constantly and only require you to touch two adjacent regular nodes. They are up pretty much around the clock just different elements at a time. Gathering isn't wasting time its a part of the game for some people and rather not get into this with you on that subject. And lastly you only use shards for ARR crafts and pre anything 1-50, after that everything is crystals which yet again is by far the easiest to obtain.

The ephemeral nodes are casual, they were made to get quick crystals because of all the complaining pre HW and for a way to make gathering a bit more involved other than just clicking a node. So either do them or don't.