Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Shunio]

For the exp yield I have some partial data based on the leveling I did from level 5 -> 58.
It includes my current level, which item was desynth and how much exp did that yield.

I'm not sure it can be properly used though, but I included it in the sheet as an additional page just in case

[lvicious]

Very minor detail but for wvr you wrote:
"When your skill is a bit higher, grind on Linen Halfgloves. All of their materials can be bought from the Sylphic Vendor for a total of 597 gil (note: they also take five shards)"

It's actually 4 lightning and 3 wind. Anyway, thank you for the guide^^

[Bellandy]

Hello, I can confirm that Battlecraft demimateria III can also be obtained on primal weapons:

http://i.imgur.com/xbVyevl.jpg

[Nyalia]

Okay! OP updated using the success rate formula to get the cheapest way of leveling (on my server) at skill level 75. Spoiler: it's the 2.2 i90 stuff. ALC is SoL on this front since they don't have any ANY 2.2 i90 desynthable items. Not even housing items. BSM and CRP both have no meldable 2.2 i90 items, so they're a good bit more expensive and chancy to level at skill 75. But, the i90 stuff is still the best. Check out the numbers if you care!

I don't know other server prices, but the Hunt totally tanked the myth mat market on Faerie. No complaints here! Cheap desynth experience for me forever!

[Nyalia]

I have shared my cost calculation spreadsheet (well, a slightly stripped-down branch of it, anyway) if you want to see what the best desynths are on your server for experience and demimateria. Follow this link for a Google Doc that calculates the cost of desynthing various items.

To use it, follow these instructions:

1. Make a copy of the doc so you can edit it (File -> Make a Copy)
2. On the "Desynth Skill" tab, enter your desynthesis skill in each class.
3. On the "Raw Materials" tab, enter the price of the prices of each Raw Material on your server's MB in the MB field. Do not edit other fields on that page.
4. If you want to add a new raw material, add it to the bottom and include the MB price or the crafting mats required as shown.
5. On the "Desynth Items" tab, you can see the prices of desynthing each item, which tells you what's cheapest to use to level or get demimateria.
6. To add a new item, enter the crafting materials as shown, the desynth class, the clvl (recipe level) of the item, and the number of materia slots it has.
7. The "Desynth Chances" tab has the success chance table (unneeded since I now have the formula) and the scratch area for tracking exp gains.

Let me know if this helps or is confusing!

[Windfall]

I was wondering has any one else gotten stuck I'm at 86 in cooking and i fail every desynth that is not 100% and am getting sick of seeing and 79% chance when really there is a 0% or maybe .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of success. i fear it is my extremely bad luck and should just give up.

[Burrmanchu]

A trick to getting only fish of a certain ilvl from a fishing hole relatively quickly is to look at how your rod moves and listen to the sound when you hook a fish. Different ilvls look and sound different. If it isn't what you're looking for, wait for the fish to go away and cast again. This burns through bait quickly, but if you're using lures, you only go through ~5 an hour or so. This trick more than doubled my Silver Sovereign fishing rate.

Excuse the ignorance here but how is this so much faster? Letting the fish get away is that much of a speed boost from just reeling it in? Am I missing something?

Great guide, thanks for taking the time!

[Jeykama]

Excuse the ignorance here but how is this so much faster? Letting the fish get away is that much of a speed boost from just reeling it in? Am I missing something?

Great guide, thanks for taking the time!

It generally takes around from 5-10 seconds to hook a fish, and another 8-12 seconds to reel it in. Legendaries have a unique sound/animation on the tug so once you can ID that, you can cut out the 8-12 seconds reeling time by simply cancelling, then immediately recasting. You tend to lose a good amount of lures doing this - I went through about 24 yumizuno over 5 hours fishing sovereigns cast-cancelling.

[Burrmanchu]

Ahhh gotcha..Just lettin them depop hehe

[QuCont]

Note that fish can never desynth into any Demimateria except Clear Demimateria