Crystals and shards

[MrHobbit]

my question is can i make shards out of crystals??? i got my minner high enough to get crystals but im starting to run out of shards can i convert crystals into shards???

[Streetwind]

You could go back to lower level nodes and mine shards instead?

Since you're mining shards/crystals and not the other higher level materials, you don't lose anything by using low level nodes.

[MrHobbit]

That is true and its also what I have been doing I was simply wondering if there was a methode to turn 1 crystal into 5 shards to maximaize my time gathering them but gathering shard themself doesn't take so much time especially when you can get 12-15 shards from one node and that's only as a lvl 29 minner

[Pandemonium]

We used to be able to use Alchemy/Cooking to make crystals. Seems SE have removed that feature, much to every crafters dismay...

[Dallie]

What they really should do is just bring back the random drop amount per node. Even sitting down to smelt 50 ingots eats up a huge chunk of shards, and then you compound the time you already spent mining for those ingots by doubling back and needing to spend another two to three hours recouping the shard loss. Should you have gone ahead and mined the shards with the ore, the time's still spent, and seems mildly retarded in the concept.

My better suggestion would be to make the Wards a toggle ability if they don't want to randomize the shards per node.