Please bring back Shard/Crystal recipes for Alchemist and Culinarian.

[Pandemonium]

The title says it all, but just in case you missed it:

Please bring back Shard/Crystal recipes for Alchemist and Culinarian.

This will at the very least give fishing some purpose.

[Reika]

SE are too afraid of bots making shards to sell for stupid low prices. Tis why they removed much of fishings usefulness and those recipes in the first place.

[Vyniea]

Please, that'd be great.

Culinarian are nearly useless atm, save for crafting food.

Most people don't care about combat food, being able to make crystals and shards would at least allow us to make SOME money instead of bleeding gil like crazy.

[RenStark]

This would be great. Allowing things to actually be useful instead of constantly being punished because they can't control RMT.
All this anti RMT stuff is ruining some fun.

[Pandemonium]

SE are too afraid of bots making shards to sell for stupid low prices. Tis why they removed much of fishings usefulness and those recipes in the first place.

Bots will be bots will be bots. Every MMO in the history of their making has proved one thing: If people want to make a bot, they will. SE even used that bots will be made as part of their excuse for simplifying fishing/gathering.

So, yeah. If shards come back to recipes, and bots flood the market with them - so be it! I would rather a steady cheap supply than, or a use for all my effort of getting FSH to 50 in 1.0, than a whole lot of wasted time and effort, and a hard time getting shards to finish other crafts.

There are already plenty of bots that are auto-gathering right now, nothing can be done about them, as some are not even that easy to spot.

[Shiyo]

SE are too afraid of bots making shards to sell for stupid low prices. Tis why they removed much of fishings usefulness and those recipes in the first place.

I already see people POS hacking and botting mining/botany. Why is it ok to bot mining/botany but not OK to bot fishing? Why punish fishers because people might bot it but not punish mining or botany because people might bot it?

Pretty stupid decision if you ask me.

[Reika]

Because SE is stupid and will do stupid things in the name of anti-RMT/BOTs. They think they can get rid of them by designing the game against them which only end up hurting legit players. They'll kill off the other 2 gathering classes next, and go so far as to just delete gil and the need for it from the game.

[Trife]

I say any game ever should just block all internet traffic coming from China. The bastards did it to themselves.

[Reika]

Lol well yea there is a reason that China is already blocked from playing on our ARR servers. China is probably to blame for SE's extreme hate for RMT and Bots. "Chinese gold farmers". They will be getting their own servers for the game.

[HealBus]

EDIT: Never mind. Not going to enter an argument with stupid people over the internet.