Culinarian Desynthesis

[Nie]

92.38 CUL desynther here.

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.

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

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.