Unless Culinarian somehow gets a way to produce Demimateria, it will never be on equal ground.
Bringing back the old fish > shards recipes through desynthesis would have been an amazingly welcome addition. Instead we get fine sand and pigments.
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There's nothing quite like desynthing a 2 star fish and getting fine sand.
I'm ok with fine sand at the lower levels, but when we're getting the same thing at level 80 as we did at level 1, it's rather annoying.