Leveling Desynthesis and Master Demimateria

[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.

[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.

[jwang]

For armorer, leatherworker, and weaver (and goldsmith as well in some cases), can't you just run dungeons for i70-i80 gear? This also has the bonus of getting you philo mats to craft other i70 stuff, so even if you don't get the gear you want for desynth, you still get something. If you get gear you can't desynth, just turn it in for seals. This is quite an ingenious way of promoting people to run more dungeons, along with the myth reward increase.

[chidarake]

I will be doing the dungeon drops gear as I get it, but to power level its not exactly time concise..!!

but will be my normal routine was I hit 100...

[Rinaku]

do mastercraft demimateria come from just crafting type gears? or what about i90 battle gears?

[ksufoley]

I've been leveling up CRP and ALC. From what I've seen, those are probably not the best to level since they cannot desynth any gear but weapons and housing items. I will level LTW up shortly just so that it will be easier to get the higher level demimateria. GSM seems like it would be the easiest since jewelry is about 50 percent of your gear and 50 percent of drops in a dungeon.

The field craft and battlecraft come from their respective gear sets much like materia does with spirit bonding from what I've seen. Housing and fish bring in field craft as well.

I can't confirm this but it looks like anything that is dropped from regular dungeons is desynthable. Also CT. I can't confirm ST though since I've only collected Allegan tomes so far. And need to check on coil gear as well.

[Nyalia]

Fish do not bring in Fieldcraft. Fish can only bring in Clear. Housing does bring in Fieldcraft though, I've gotten some that way with the random walls/roofs my retainers love to bring me. (I destroy the evidence for them before the former owner comes looking for it!)

ALC can desynth books, some other weapons (whm, right?), and augmentation items, but not much else. I was originally going to level ALC since I have a bunch of extra primal books from retainers, but I'm now thinking that's a bad idea in the longer run.

CRP can desynth bows, spears, and... err... yeah.

GSM is the best class by an order of magnitude due to design decisions I don't understand. Aetheryte Rings are the cheapest desynth in the game, costing only a water cluster and ~0.3 of a rose gold nugget. It's also a way to magically turn NQ rose gold nuggets into HQ rose gold nuggets. GSM can also desynth all PvP accessories, which are cheaper than other PvP gear, and they can desynth every single Darklight accessory. In addition to all those great things, they can desynth Artisan Spectacles, which are 1/5th the price of any other Artisan item, making them able to generate 5x as much Mastercraft Demimateria as any other desynth class. Not to mention, they can also desynth some primal weapons.

CUL gets you swimsuits, which is cool, but nothing else.

BSM can desynth several primal weapons, which is great. It's pretty expensive to level though. It can also desynth many of the Artisan Tools, if you really want to do that.

WVR, ARM, and LTW can desynth CT gear, I think? Dunno if there's a point to doing so. Also, Divine gear (from the new dungeons), but again, I don't know if there's anything special about it.


I think I'm going to do GSM, BSM, and then either WVR, ARM, or LTW just to see what the i80 armor yields. Not sure which of those, but ARM is tempting since I main PLD.

[Yrusama]

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I hope this makes it clearer for SE how blatantly imbalanced the desynth system is. It's totally biased toward goldsmith (which already has the advantage of being easy to level) and really craps on high-material-count crafts like ARM, CUL, WVR, and LTW. This would be fine if it wasn't such a huge component in progressing as a craftsman.

Even players who have every craft at 50 probably have one or two that they like more or have better geared (unless they're max-melded on everything, in which case good job!) If we all want to be efficient, we're forced to all lump into Goldsmith like soulless drones with no individuality. Oh, thank goodness we can level two others to 100! Too bad they're ridiculously expensive! Many of us won't bother passing 60!

I like that we can desynth our useless crap now. I really do. I just hope this particular version of the system isn't required for upcoming ilvl boosts in future patches.