nope never finish, followed a few guides that said to get a mordant something and a behemoth knife and then spam it and take it out without finishing synth blah blah blah, regardless it didn't work well. They all said it could take you 1-40 or something, I don't remember that well since it was a lil while ago. I likely could have done more research and figured it out more but with xiv on the horizon Ive had no want or need to sink that much time into this game for something like synthing anymore, so... lol