Seriously, is anyone else sick of getting crystals instead of shards? I almost never use crystals. If I'm bothering to level a unit past 20, it's because I actually want to use them, and in that case I'm going to level them by hand because I want to milk them for every last SP I can get. (Plus it just feels wrong to pay to automatically level a unit that I'm actually going to use.) Meanwhile, I use shards all the time when I need to promote 3* units to 4* for the purpose of skill inheritance or merging. But my stock of shards has been diminishing at an alarming rate lately, because apparently the developers have decided crystals are more desirable and they're giving us fewer and fewer opportunities to replenish our shards. Why do they hate me???
I basically never use shards since it takes very little time or stamina to level a unit to 20 through training tower, but I occasionally use the crystals for units I dont really want to bother with, for things like quests.
They dont seem that useful in general, shards just seem useless to me, and you need so many crystals to level a character up that you basically use up like several months worth on one character.
That's fair. I think the fact that crystals are so hard to come by is another reason why I never got in the habit of using them, actually. Meanwhile, it only costs a little over 5k shards to level someone to 20, so it seemed pretty easy and painless to do that rather than waste time and stamina levelling them by hand. I've got to wonder if the increased number of crystal rewards are really helping anyone, because people who prefer shards aren't getting enough anymore, and from the sound of it, people who prefer crystals *still* aren't getting enough.
I don’t have a problem with Crystals since they help with some of the heavy lifting for Sacred Seals and GHB quests. I also find that I never care about what my rewards are from training tower, I just care about the SP or quests.
But I do feel you, they just pile on forever with very little usage while Shards are nice to save a little extra time and stamina for Inheritance fodders, as you mentioned. But I dunno, I’m just lazy when it comes to stuff like that, otherwise I would find both of them to be quite useless if I’m honest.
I'm with you generally, although I have found that I never really run out of the yellow (non-specific shards) for purposes of leveling-up SP fodder.
It would be nice if they just gave us a conversion mechanic from crystals to shards and vice-versa, even if its not at a great return. I will never use the ridiculous stack of crystals I have.
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