So, I guess in the name of convenience, they're creating a family-wide crystal system.  I hope this is something we can opt-out of.  It's unreal, and impersonal.  It is another step towards ruining the immersion.  It makes sense to have crystals in specific gear, for specific characters.  The more they make things unrooted, and impersonal, the less immersive the game becomes.  Ok, so in the name of convenience, why don't they just make monster-grind arenas in cities, where you pay in bucks, grind the mobs that generate, and afters an hour, boom, you're done, you don't have to go anywhere, you got your loot and exp, and don't have to travel anywhere!  So convenient!  And if they can have a magic, cyrstal collage powering your people from some crystal nexus based in who-know-where, why don't we do the same for gear?  Make it as impersonal and convenient as possible.  Why even have seperate characters at all?  Why not just change character skins and types at will, and have one major grind character for all money and exp?  The more they impersonalize things, the less sensible everything else becomes.  In the name of convenience, let's destroy the graphics, music, geography, culture, personalization..... WHAT IS NEXT?

I do not support the plans they have for the crystal system.  They're going down this rabbit-hole that feels more and more like a nightmare. I feel they're ruining the playing experience for the sake of convenience.  The more life becomes convenient, the less adventurous and livable it becomes.

It's been asked for by a lot of players for a while now.  Even the top content creators, well known players, and top geared players have been asking for it.  What's great about it is the fact you're given more freedom in crystals which are very, very impactful for PvE and PvP.  It greatly influences builds.  I know some players who prefer to main one class and who tag two of the same class -- one for PvE and one for PvP -- because of the restrictivenss of the current system.  I think Sonii does this.  This new system will allow players who do this the ability to tag other characters since now they can swap crystal sets on their main.  Not only that, but it's a QoL that all players can enjoy.

For me, I like it because of the flexibility it offers.  I like versatility and this new system will allow me to have a much greater grasp on the customization of my builds, at any given time, for any given scenario.  I can mess around with different crystal sets without crafting Extraction Tools or paying money just to do this, which I believe is stupid.  Experimenting with builds and customizing them is important to the MMORPG experience IMO, and the current limitations (silver or IRL money costs) resitrct this experimentation / customization.  They could've just made crystals extractable for free, that'd be cool too IMO, but they chose this preset system instead.

It's been asked for by a lot of players for a while now.  Even the top content creators, well known players, and top geared players have been asking for it.  What's great about it is the fact you're given more freedom in crystals which are very, very impactful for PvE and PvP.  It greatly influences builds.  I know some players who prefer to main one class and who tag two of the same class -- one for PvE and one for PvP -- because of the restrictivenss of the current system.  I think Sonii does this.  This new system will allow players who do this the ability to tag other characters since now they can swap crystal sets on their main.  Not only that, but it's a QoL that all players can enjoy.

For me, I like it because of the flexibility it offers.  I like versatility and this new system will allow me to have a much greater grasp on the customization of my builds, at any given time, for any given scenario.  I can mess around with different crystal sets without crafting Extraction Tools or paying money just to do this, which I believe is stupid.  Experimenting with builds and customizing them is important to the MMORPG experience IMO, and the current limitations (silver or IRL money costs) resitrct this experimentation / customization.  They could've just made crystals extractable for free, that'd be cool too IMO, but they chose this preset system instead.

Nah, all they want to do is min-max to gain advantage and abuse the fact that the crystals are terribly unbalanced in generall. Crystals not supposed to be just changed on demand, a.k.a when you run into an eva player to gain that juicy extra accuracy... We already have acessory swap, offhand swap, artifact swap, we ain't need a 4th system to swap for gimmicks.

Crystals in equipment supposed to give small bonuses that ain't gamechanger, but oh well PA only does bandaid fixing as usuall...

see it on the bright side, the more ppl are dissatisfied with pvp the higher the chances that PA will do something about it.

True PA already did plenty of things, but sooner or later it might be good?

Nah, all they want to do is min-max to gain advantage and abuse the fact that the crystals are terribly unbalanced in generall. Crystals not supposed to be just changed on demand, a.k.a when you run into an eva player to gain that juicy extra accuracy... We already have acessory swap, offhand swap, artifact swap, we ain't need a 4th system to swap for gimmicks.

Crystals in equipment supposed to give small bonuses that ain't gamechanger, but oh well PA only does bandaid fixing as usuall...

+1 to you! Fair enough.  I'll grant that I do not do enough PvP and I don't do enough with crystals, as I'd rather not have them break, and having a couple extra points here and there doesn't give much edge in PvE.  So, I can't appreciate what a boon this will be.  But seriously, what is the limit for QoL improvements?  They seem to be making least common denominators the rule, thus robbing the world of its magic.  If they want us "shfiting" builds all the time, when are they going to just make "Family gear" and "Family characters" so we can "shift builds" at ease?  At some point, all identity and class advantage will be leveled for the sake of convenience.  Oh well, I'm just so gun-shy at all these changes they're making.  It's not my game, after all, and I am but one of many players.  I hope this change greatly helps everyone, and I hope the gamers' experiences only improve.  Alas, my experience with this game has been slowly degrading as major changes have been implemented.  The game is losing its magic, I feel.  And I wish to stoutly defend it.

Crystals aren't small bonuses and can quite literally make or break a build.  Very noticable difference in tankiness using Hooms + Jin Harphia, esp with Muskan's, Leebur's, Kutum/BS, versus full RBF crystals, for example.  But, OFC, if you're always on your back, you'd never know the difference.