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    Can anyone recommend a good leveling fish? Desynthesis increase seems to go off the vendor value rather than the item level, but I was surprised to discover that Northern Pike, with a vendor value of 11, seem to give me skillups.
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    92.38 CUL desynther here.

    Quote Originally Posted by DarkDedede View Post
    Got to about 75, myself. Besides crystals, haven't really gotten any results to get excited about for stocking up on all that fish ahead of time. It's still a faster way to collect shards than botanist of miner.
    Mostly water shards/crystals with a few earth mixed in, and clear demimateria, large quantity of pigments (in not too much variety), TONS of fine sand, and some dark matter.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sordel View Post
    Can anyone recommend a good leveling fish? Desynthesis increase seems to go off the vendor value rather than the item level, but I was surprised to discover that Northern Pike, with a vendor value of 11, seem to give me skillups.
    Increases with fish item level

    Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
    Gotten water and wind shards/crystals.

    Also blacklip oysters have occasionally desynthed to black pearls.

    Clear demimateria III off a silver sovereign nq.

    Tons and tons of pigments.
    The black pearl is interesting, I haven't seen any random items like that from fish I've desynthed yet. Similarly, I've desynthed some 100 silver sovereign and not seen a single clear demimateria III yet

    At this point, I regret all the time I spent on desynthesis since CUL desynthesis seems extremely limited. The thing I regret most is that 100% success desynths don't yield shards/crystals. (Guess I was just unlucky, I was able to get a shard from a low level fish today... must've been a bunch of fish which never yield shards) This means leveling desynthesis to be able to obtain shards is not practical unless you're constantly going to rotate crafts to intentionally de-level and re-level desynthesis.

    Despite being able to get shards, it still seems somewhat useless since shards could be obtained much faster on MIN or BTN much easier and faster.
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    Last edited by Nie; 07-11-2014 at 09:59 PM.

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    M'ete'leskum B'leskum
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nie View Post
    92.38 CUL desynther here.

    The thing I regret most is that 100% success desynths don't yield shards/crystals.
    It does for me (curently just over 80) - I get lot of shards and crystals from 100% success desynths so I'm not usre what are your statement based on exactly?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HEC View Post
    It does for me (curently just over 80) - I get lot of shards and crystals from 100% success desynths so I'm not usre what are your statement based on exactly?
    You're right; I'd desynthed a variety of low level fish yesterday and not got one at all, must've just been a really unlucky combination of fish or something. Desynthed a different iLv22 fish today and did get a water shard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nie View Post
    You're right; I'd desynthed a variety of low level fish yesterday and not got one at all, must've just been a really unlucky combination of fish or something. Desynthed a different iLv22 fish today and did get a water shard.
    Fish under L 22 do not yield shards.

    Fish L 44 and over yield crystals.
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    Neri Feralheart
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadygrove View Post
    Fish under L 22 do not yield shards.

    Fish L 44 and over yield crystals.
    I believe i90+ fish would yield crystals, as other i90+ items yield crystals for other classes. However, there are no fish above i80 as of patch 2.5 (not even the legendary Nepto Dragon).
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    (The links below are sadly outdated. I hope to get around to updating things at some point.)
    Desynthesis Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivdesynth

    Airship Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipguide (\v/) Airship Quick Reference: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipqr
    Airship Logsheet: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshiplog (/|\) Airship Builder Tool: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipbuilder