Crystal Gathering too Slow

[GakkuPlove]

The point here is its a Major inconvenience to the player if it takes them that long to get 1k shards

[GakkuPlove]

Stopped reading a lot of these replies after it was getting ridiculous, I can mine a 1000 shards in 45 minutes, at level 1, did it already when shards shot up to 60 each on ah. If it takes you 2 hours with the double shard ability at 48.. you are doing something majorly wrong..

Lvl 42 do you even read?

[HecatesLover]

When you have some levels in the harvesting class you start finding nodes with Yield +1. For Miner there is a wind node with this by the Sylph village in East Shroud. I gather Wind Shards and Crystals there, its a pretty significant boost. I am sure nodes can be found with this bonus in other places if people were to look for them.

[DarkWalkJRB]

Stopped reading a lot of these replies after it was getting ridiculous, I can mine a 1000 shards in 45 minutes, at level 1, did it already when shards shot up to 60 each on ah...

1000 in 45 minutes? Could you tell me how you doing this? Much like the OP, for 1000 shards it takes me about 2-3 hours to gather depending on the location and I'm only level 24MIN/23BTN. Then it takes me about 3-4 hours to burn through them depending on which craft I'm using.

[GakkuPlove]

1000 in 45 minutes? Could you tell me how you doing this? Much like the OP, for 1000 shards it takes me about 2-3 hours to gather depending on the location and I'm only level 24MIN/23BTN. Then it takes me about 3-4 hours to burn through them depending on which craft I'm using.

i sense a Bot DarkWalkJRB Report him for that claim or let him revise his statement

[RahlZul]

i sense a Bot DarkWalkJRB Report him for that claim or let him revise his statement

Um, I run between points using sprint for the short ones.. and hop on chocobo between the long ones. You are being ridiculous, if shards are taking so long to farm, take a break from the forums and go mine them, sell the things you make and buy shards with them.. For you to take that long mining shards, show proof that it takes that long, then I can figure out what you are doing wrong, or revise your statement, saying that it takes YOU that long instead of speaking for the community as a whole which you clearly do not represent.

1000 in 45 minutes? Could you tell me how you doing this? Much like the OP, for 1000 shards it takes me about 2-3 hours to gather depending on the location and I'm only level 24MIN/23BTN. Then it takes me about 3-4 hours to burn through them depending on which craft I'm using.

See above.. right outside of uldah, you can also find the lower leve elemental matching the type you want.. they drop 3 at a time, and die in one spell, maybe two.

[Ruminate]

Um, I run between points using sprint for the short ones.. and hop on chocobo between the long ones. You are being ridiculous, if shards are taking so long to farm, take a break from the forums and go mine them, sell the things you make and buy shards with them.. For you to take that long mining shards, show proof that it takes that long, then I can figure out what you are doing wrong, or revise your statement, saying that it takes YOU that long instead of speaking for the community as a whole which you clearly do not represent.

Simple math will prove that it takes longer than 45 minutes.

45 minutes = 2700 seconds
2700 seconds / 1000 shards = 1 shard per 2.7 seconds

In order to mine a shard every 2.7 seconds you would need 2 things:
1.) a speed hack to reduce the 3 second delay between taps
2.) a warp hack to reduce the travel time to zero

[MusouMugen]

If they lower the stuff needed to craft, then by gods, lower the required number of gathers required to level gathering..I feel so excited I need to run to 160+ nodes for 1 level. Not that any lower level gatherable is worth anything decent anyways. So if you lower the required number of items...well hello 1gil prices...

Or change gathering GP so it's more like craft CP. Would actually use GP skills more, not just once every blue moon (time goes slower when gathering :P ).

[Kenka]

Maybe the slow shard acquisition speed is somewaht intentional to create a market for them. At the current state of things you can either spend up to 2 hours getting crystals or just go to the AH and buy them, essentially paying other people that did spend the 2 hours. I don't see anything wrong with that..

[GakkuPlove]

Maybe the slow shard acquisition speed is somewaht intentional to create a market for them. At the current state of things you can either spend up to 2 hours getting crystals or just go to the AH and buy them, essentially paying other people that did spend the 2 hours. I don't see anything wrong with that..

some of us ant very rich with the current economy and gil you get for leves