Leveling Desynthesis and Master Demimateria

[Purrfectstorm]

Hi, I was able to quickly get my desynthesis skills to 60 but now I'm kind of stuck. I don't get much for skill increases even with i55 gear (it's like 56% I think and I was getting around .2-.3) Any tips for leveling desynthesis past 60? How far have you all gotten? How far do you need to get to be able to make the master demimateria? There's 1 on the market on my server right now for 5m! Pricey!

[Xine]

From what I've been reading, Mastercraft Demimateria comes from the i70 DoH and DoL stuff, have fun getting enough of those to desynth into enough Master Demimateria for all 8 tools heh....

[Lobstronomous]

Here's some information and useful tips, specifically for GSM (OP didn't mention what class they were desynthing on).

I'm GSM 78 Desnyth.

The best items to synth from 0 are the WVR Primary tools. The initial levels you can just buy the tools, when you get to Dlvl ~20-40 you can just go out and farm the Sandworm Fang and Wolf Fangs at Dlvl ~40-50 to make their respective WVR needles. The reason I chose these is that they take the least mats to make. 1 Fang and 1 Stone and shards for both of them.

From 50 -78 by far and away your best option is Aetheryte Rings. Forget any of the Militia stuff, basically look for the least amount of mats for your craft. Aetheryte Rings only cost 1 Rose Gold Nugget and 1 Water Cluster to make and the only potential mat you can get back is the nugget. This is pretty win.

Doing the Aetheryte Ring, when successful I'd get the Rose Gold Nugget right back and could use that nugget to make another ring, to get the nugget back to make another ring, until something gave and the desynth failed or I got some demimateria (always Clear II or Field II in amounts of either 1 or 2.) If you're lucky this way you can get stuck in a nice loop, with it constantly giving you back a nugget to make a new ring with the only cost you pay in water clusters, which are really easy to get in bulk if you have some gathering.

This will get you to 78 where they stop giving Desynth XP. To get from 78 - 100 knowing i55s no longer get me any desynth experience, I'm going to have to get there on i70s/2 Stars up to say around level 90 Desynth and then i90s/3 Stars to get to 100.

From what I have seen after doing thousands of desnyths, ilvl50-55 gets you 1 or 2 Battle/Field II or Clear II. ilvl70/2 Star will get you 1 or 2 Battle/Field III or Clear III and the Master Demimateria comes from ilvl90/3 Star. I have not shown this to be true myself (as far as the Mastercraft materia is concerned), but I do know that I have gotten IIs from all ilvl50-55 and IIIs from 70s (and no Masters), so it would stand to reason that the next step up would be Master at i90.

Basically, shit just got serious with the new end-game tools. If we're having to break down i90 stuff to get those Mastercraft Demis it's going to take a long time or a lot of gil (as it can all be bought obviously), not to mention the fact that Demi IIIs are hard enough as it is, seeing as the only source of i70 tools/gear for Fieldcraft is the artisan stuff you get from Talan.

I do suspect you can also get Field IIIs from 2 star furnishings, but again, I haven't personally verified this and that's just from reading other people's results.

Whilst people will definitely QQ about these seemingly harsh requirements to get the end-game tools I welcome the fact it's hard. There's too much of a culture of people getting things done immediately and then complaining about not having anything to do. This really makes sure that doesn't happen. I hope people don't bleat about this too much and make SE change the fact it's hard to get this stuff.

For me to go from 1-78 Desynth in a day is a bit too easy IMO and the same thing took days/weeks in XI, but I suppose that's the kind of MMO world we live in now.

Oh and don't forget, attaching materia to something you are going to desynth (where possible) increases the desynth chance by 5% per piece of materia regardless of type or tier of materia. Personally I don't bother but on the meldable i70s/i90s I can see this being a distinct advantage, so SE did add some things to assist us with this hard slog to end-game tools.

Lastly, if you need easy Battlecraft Demis look to the MNK mainhand for GSM specifically. Least mats to make of all the GSM battle gear.

That's basically everything I know about Desynthing and its relevant demimateria. On my server there has been no Mastercraft Demi placed on sale yet.

Peace out.

[HEC]

Thanks for the detailed info Ronin and - BTW - to bypass the post limitation simply post first 1000 characters and then add rest via edit instead of spreading the info accross multiply posts

[Lobstronomous]

Thanks for that lol!

MAKE ALL THE POSTS!

Good luck in your Desynth/Demimateria trials and tribulations!

[Purrfectstorm]

Hi, thanks for the detailed info! Right now I'm about 65 BSM and 30 GSM. Those are the 2 I'm taking to 100. I mainly play PLD and WAR and I wanted to level a desynthesis skill for items I could generally need on. Both BSM and GSM can make the i95 weapons too so that's why I went that route.

I'm not concerned that the grind is hard/expensive, just that by the time I get i75 tools, i80 will be out But hopefully SE will start giving crafters/gathers other gear like off-hand and armor/jewelry pieces. Right now I couldn't possibly justify using Master Demimateria, not if I could sell them for 5m! (It remains to be seen if the one on will actually sell for that price...)

[WuuTaii]

I haven't seen it mentioned but for GSM PvP Warwolf items are i70 and you can desynth them for skill ups and I imagine they can yield battlecraft III demimateria. Not bad since they only cost 625 Wolf Marks each.

[Sakasa]

question? Has anyone tried desynthing the i80 green gear yet? Not sure if you can but I wonder is it possible this also gives master demimateria as it is a level range gap crafts don't have anything in to test.

[Elasia]

Mastercraft Demimateria has a rate of around 15% or so and field 3s around 25% with the other 50 composed of rose gold nuggets or failures if destroying them with a success rate of mid 70s, Artisan Spectacles of course which is highly likely the only viable source for them atm other than one particular housing item that would need a level 100 gsm to break down, there are some other housing items as well but again would need 100 in their respective craft or face a shitty return rate

[Nyalia]

Remember you can get Fieldcraft IIIs from ilvl 70 equipment component items, like the Astrolabe Clinometer and Vanya Glove Lining. Of course, having mathed it out, it's much cheaper gil-wise to spam Artisan Spectacles, but more expensive time-wise.