Shard & Crystal Locations

FIRE

Shards: Mining Ul'dah (+++), Mining Limsa Lominsa (+), Plains rat (LL), Ladybug,

Crystals: Fireflies (LL), Beetles(LL,ULD), Ladybugs(LL,ULD), Chigoes (LL), Evergreen Firefly (Grid,leve)


WIND

Shards: Mining Limsa Lominsa (+++), Lost Ewes (LL), Puk Hatchling (LL), Dodo,

Crystals: Dodo


LIGHTNING

Shards: Puk hatchling (LL), Dodo, Ladybug

Crystals: Spriggan Collector


WATER

Shards: Mining Limsa Lominsa (++), Dodo, Errant Soul (Uld),

Crystals:



EARTH

Shards: Star Marmots (ULD), Sewer Moles (LL), Plains Rat (LL), Thistletail Marmot (uld)

Crystals:



ICE


Shards: Thistletail Marmot (Uld),


Crystals:


Ok guys... Time to flesh out this list. I'm starting this off after waking and before my morning coffee... so my memory's kinda foggy.

When submitting a monster, please state in what city-state, and when designating a harvesting type, let us know whether this is a frequent, somewhat frequent or rare drop as well.

I'll organize with regional sub-sections once the lists get populated enough.

Fire Crystal dropped from evergreen firefly (the guildleve ones) in gridania yesterday. I believe Grangel or Vjad got it.

Wind shards from honey bees in (G)

ive been getting earth crystals from the star marmots around Uld. ive noticed ive been getting them since i poured points into earth, i have about 9 from about 15~20 fights.

So many different theories on what attributes do, and the droprates of shards. I wish we knew the truth! I'm going to play with attributes as much as I can today when I get off. I will be maxing fire and testing damage from red lotus and the # of fire shards/crystals I get...

well my 2 highest stats are wind and fire however i mainly get fire and earth shard drops in G, however my friend who came from LL had mainly wind and water. I think shard drops are mainly mob and area dependent. who knows though.