I know this is a crazy idea - to get rid of crystals, shards and clusters completely but hear me out here:
1. Most of the gil bots spam ephemeral nodes to gather crystals in order to sell them on the marketboard. Since they're bots, they can do this all day every day. This is their chosen method of making gil. If you get rid of crystals and shards - they have one less venue for making gil to sell in RMT transactions.
2. Honestly it just makes no sense. I realize that it's a time sink - but, IRL we can make the same items and we don't need crystals to...craft...furniture?
3. The amount of crystals we get per swing just isn't worth it for people that aren't botters and don't have all day to go AFK auto farming shards and crystals.
In order to just get enough Sublimes for a gathering and crafting set, I have to gather over 1200 lignum vitae logs, 400 dimythrite ore and 100 mythrite sand. (OH BUT THAT'S NOT ALL) Even after I do that (Which even with auto gathering has taken over a full hour to gather.) Now i have to gather 3500 wind crystals and 700 ice crystals. That's going to take me another 2-3 hours of mindless farming to get since no one will be on to do Diadem with. And that's just for the sublimes you need to craft the set. That's not including the THOUSANDS of crystals to make the sets themselves.
I think crafting is plenty a time sink as it is, without having the crystals and shards involved IMHO. It wouldn't be so bad if each item only took 1 or 2 crystals but when making one piece of lumber takes 7 crystals it gets a bit insane.
Seriously though: It'd stick it to the gathering bots.
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1. Most of the gil bots spam ephemeral nodes to gather crystals in order to sell them on the marketboard. Since they're bots, they can do this all day every day. This is their chosen method of making gil. If you get rid of crystals and shards - they have one less venue for making gil to sell in RMT transactions.
2. Honestly it just makes no sense. I realize that it's a time sink - but, IRL we can make the same items and we don't need crystals to...craft...furniture?
3. The amount of crystals we get per swing just isn't worth it for people that aren't botters and don't have all day to go AFK auto farming shards and crystals.
In order to just get enough Sublimes for a gathering and crafting set, I have to gather over 1200 lignum vitae logs, 400 dimythrite ore and 100 mythrite sand. (OH BUT THAT'S NOT ALL) Even after I do that (Which even with auto gathering has taken over a full hour to gather.) Now i have to gather 3500 wind crystals and 700 ice crystals. That's going to take me another 2-3 hours of mindless farming to get since no one will be on to do Diadem with. And that's just for the sublimes you need to craft the set. That's not including the THOUSANDS of crystals to make the sets themselves.
I think crafting is plenty a time sink as it is, without having the crystals and shards involved IMHO. It wouldn't be so bad if each item only took 1 or 2 crystals but when making one piece of lumber takes 7 crystals it gets a bit insane.
Seriously though: It'd stick it to the gathering bots.
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