Crystals & Shards No more

[Brightamethyst]

Yeah. Crystals for crafting was a thing in XI.

[Plastics]

I'd much rather see them significantly increase how many we get for activities, and add other ways to get them. It's insulting that the skills we have to spend GP on yield so few. Why not make them have a high base yield on nodes rather than 1? Why not make the GP skill give 10 or 20 per swing? Why not have reduction give 70-100.

If you make it so it's easy to be self-sufficient on them, people won't need to buy them, and if they're even more abundant, they won't be worth botting. Best of all, this requires no real functional change by SE.

Their nerf of reduction actually benefited RMT because the time value of doing it is tolerable to a bot that plays 24/7.

A lot of people here don't seem to understand the issue either. Retainers and maps and things like that don't give enough to do much of anything. I can easily go through 7000+ crystals a day, and that's at least an hour of aetherial farming. That's why I don't do it, and instead just give gil to bots who do it 24/7.

[Decoy_Wolff]

It wouldn't be so bad if each item only took 1 or 2 crystals but when making one piece of lumber takes 7 crystals it gets a bit insane.

Agreed. This was the issue that made leve crafting for WVR from 70 to 80 a pain was because they would have you craft multiple of the same thread and they would cost an extraordinary amount of crystals to make.

[Granyala]

3. The amount of crystals we get per swing just isn't worth it for people that aren't botters and don't have all day to go AFK auto farming shards and crystals.

No it's not and that's why you use either aetherial reduction for poly's or Crystals or, in case of the shards, you plant them in your garden.

Who in their right mind farms these things the old fashion way. Oo