Suggestion about shards, gathering them and their yield

[Reika]

Theres no market for very many crafted items at all right now. SE killed it dead by making drops better in the long run. People are going to gather and craft things for themselves. If anything gets sold, it will something that isn't HQ and/or be for dirt cheap.

Also about shards, I came here to make my own thread about this, but this place is appropriate. The ward skills during beta increased yield by +4 on shards, crystals, and clusters, but they ninja reduced it to 2 for launch. Millions of complaints about the gathering speed of shards made them put these skills in in the first place, and +4 was perfect specifically for those items, but now they reduce it again, and they only cost 100gp less than kings yield II.... This also goes along with reduced gathering attempts to 4. They are not using their brains right now.

Just another thing they failed to mention. I don't know why they think they are saving anything, when they already killed the end-game crafter with that bs mat adjustment.

And then there is this shit where the area that a certain type of crystal is supposed, there is only 2 of the 4 nodes has freakin crystals, the rest have just shards.

[Dochas]

My server has a lot of shard listings and when I have put shard/crystals up they sell quick.

You have a choice. If you are leveling up crafting, you can buy them, or if they aren't available, farm just what you need. For lower levels, you can also farm them for money, as they sell better than a lot of the low items since many can be bought from vendors.

You say there is no market for shards right now on your server, I'm assuming you mean there are none on the market. That sounds like a perfect opportunity for you to make a lot of money. If on the other hand you mean there is not much profit to be made because there are so many people listing them, then cheap shards for you and you don't have to gather. Either way, I only see a win for you.