RMT are now advertising crystal/shards - Shards need changed

[worldofneil]

In ffxi the only way to get crystals was off Elementals (Sprites) that spawned in various places under certain weather conditions and every crafter needed 1 crystal per synth just like this game...

Erm, sorry to correct you, but it was way easier than that. All you had to do was have signet/sanction on you and then crystals would drop from *any* defeated enemies. It was made even easier by being able to buy Signet Staffs so you could get signet at any time if you forgot to get it and then you could just carry on doing whatever you wanted and getting crystals was a by product you didn't even have to think about

[Ryios]

Erm, sorry to correct you, but it was way easier than that. All you had to do was have signet/sanction on you and then crystals would drop from *any* defeated enemies. It was made even easier by being able to buy Signet Staffs so you could get signet at any time if you forgot to get it and then you could just carry on doing whatever you wanted and getting crystals was a by product you didn't even have to think about

Yeah I forgot about signit etc. When the game launched though you got maybe 1-2 crystals from mob and they didn't drop all the time. Elementals dropped whole clusters.

Imo it was still harder than mining in FFXIV. I can mine up 999 shards in FFXIV in an hour or two tops.

It's been more than 6 years since I last touched FFXI.

[Meimei]

Man... Ever played FFXI? In ffxi the only way to get crystals was off Elementals (Sprites) that spawned in various places under certain weather conditions and every crafter needed 1 crystal per synth just like this game...

Have *you* ever played FFXI? I quit about two years ago and even I remember that EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME dropped crystals as long as you had Signet/Sanction/whatever up.

In this game, only Miner and Botanist get crystals. It doesn't compare.

[Macka]

Have *you* ever played FFXI? I quit about two years ago and even I remember that EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME dropped crystals as long as you had Signet/Sanction/whatever up.

In this game, only Miner and Botanist get crystals. It doesn't compare.

Actually anyone at any level can get Shards from Elemental Sprites and and get clusters and crystals. But yeah eveyone can get crystals starting at level one from any mob in FFXI also weapons and armor from other mobs I wish it was that way in this game instead we get one gil lol.

[Conradus]

Have *you* ever played FFXI? I quit about two years ago and even I remember that EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME dropped crystals as long as you had Signet/Sanction/whatever up.

In this game, only Miner and Botanist get crystals. It doesn't compare.

Not true. If the mob was <<Too Weak>>, you got no crystals from it, so there could be some some difficulty soloing them once you were past the very first levels. And anybody can be a Miner or a Botanist that can gather crystals; all you have to do is visit the guild and you can go out and get shards more easily than you could get crystals from mobs in FFXI.

BTW, the one you're forgetting is Sigil. Signet in the original FFXI areas, Sanction in the Aht Urhgan areas and Sigil in the Crystal-War-of-the-Past areas (Wings of the Goddess). Looking things up, I see that Seekers of Adoulin has apparently added "Ionis". I weep for the loss of the alliteration.

[Rex]

What?

So your saying crabbing a pick axe as a level 1 miner and farming 300+ shards an hour is difficult and not efficient?

Man... Ever played FFXI? In ffxi the only way to get crystals was off Elementals (Sprites) that spawned in various places under certain weather conditions and every crafter needed 1 crystal per synth just like this game...

This game is 100000* easier when it comes to getting shards...

"Give an inch, want a mile" I guess.

Didn't they drop off enemies that were even match and above too?

[Callence]

What can be done to stem the tide of the gill seller spam? They are somehow able to send /t to us players and spam goldseller sites - Normally they get blacklisted, but something has to be done now to end their annoying spam.

Please assist.

[Leknaat]

There's actually situations where the blist filter gets overwhelmed and the shout/tell gets through because they're spamming it so fast.

[Maku]

FFXI Crystal Farming = Sky where all elementals are up all the time.

Plus, everyone who had signet/sanction got a crystal or crystals for killing mobs. The AH was usually bursting with them. I just got lvl 20 Botanist and can use an AMAZING 400 GP to get three shards per swing. 400 freakn GP. You know how long that takes to regen? FFXI Crystal Farming was far FAR easier.

[Panthur]

I really miss signet, sanction, sigil, whatever era the buff from guards were issued. That would help a lot too if we could get some kinda gaurd buff similar.