One of the lesser problems with Fractals at the moment is that Shards of Crystallized Mist are very useless. Their only real use is to infuse Rings and minor mystic Forge recipes. With HoT and the new fractal system, no real additional use was added as new items such as Stabilizing Matrices were added instead. Consequently for people who have run fractals for years prior, we have stacks of Shards of Crystallized Mist with no easy outlet of clearing them.
These are ascended crafting material, so they should be treated as such. I suggest that either a crafting or mystic Forge Recipe be added that converts Crystallized Mist into either Dark Matter or Balls of Dark Energy. This would allow Crystallized Mist to always be useful for crafting either Ascended or Legendary weapons and armor.
Clearly, there would have to be some balancing like 1 Shard per Dark Matter but 25+ shards per Ball of Dark Energy, but that is the raw idea.
thats a very good idea must say it hurt a little salvaging an accessory and not getting the annoyingly new dark ball material.. had to salvage an alts weapon in the end