Crystal Gathering too Slow

[Rhas]

I kill sprites for shards. Those low level wind sprites in La Noscea will drop up to five shards at a time.

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Spend time crafting a few HQ leve items and turn in for profit. I manged to HQ 13 of my last batch of 17 on single turn ins with level a 15 leve and went from 26 to 28 in minutes (not including crafting time) using so few shard I found it pretty quick and easy. I mean what else am I spending my 99 leves on