Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Lyrinn]

I'll be very surprised if Thav Silk isn't from the highest maps, just like Dress Materials were from Peisteskins.

They are.

[Gil_Knght]

No demimateria from the level 60 dungeons yet, I'll keep you updated.

[Gil_Knght]

Got Clear Demimateria 3 (drats!) from a Valerian wizard's robe. (ilvl 160 from the lvl60 dungeons)

As well as 2 wind clusters and 2 lightning clusters.

[Nylisa]

I've been Desynthesizing over 500-600 lvl +51 fishes so far nothing worth mentioning Besides the fact that they are a fantastic source of Crystals,1 to 3 crystal each and most of them drop two type of crystal (water crystal guaranteed) and my Desynthsis lvl is at 162.92 now.

It appears there are no new swimsuit or any type of new clothes available from Culinary Desynthsis Yet,then again we barely have any rare/hard to catch fish available in this patch.

[Nyalia]

It appears there are no new swimsuit or any type of new clothes available from Culinary Desynthsis Yet,then again we barely have any rare/hard to catch fish available in this patch.

We know from datamines that there are no new glamour-only items beyond the Spotted Spencer (from the new Odin-like FATE), the Thav sets (and we've established that the mats for them come from Dragonskin Maps), and the Wild Rose set (which is from Veteran Rewards). So there's no reason to look for swimsuits - they aren't out yet. The thing to look out for with FSH desynth is rare mats, high grade materia (some 2.4 legendaries gave grade IV materia, so more new fish could too), and, err, that's it really. However, there aren't any new "green" fish yet, and all interesting items have always been obtained from "green" fish. I suspect those will be 60** and 60*** fish that will be added in 3.1 or 3.2. Leveling FSH and CUL Desynth now will get you ready for when they do release new stuff, but it's not here yet.

That said, FSH/CUL is the only desynth where you can send out a retainer for 10 high level desynthable items an hour, and where you want to do that anyway to level the retainer. I handed my wife a stack of 100 Ice Faeries at one point. She partook of the Tinker's Bacon, and leveled like, 30 times in ten minutes. She's ~150 CUL Desynth now, with little effort put into fishing. I'm 55 FSH and she's 53 FSH and we only fish for the daily GC turnins right now. That's some easy leveling!

[Alsar]

Dreadwyrm gear drops i110 crafting stuff, desynthed a belt (wvr) got 2x arachne velveteen and a ring (gsm) and got a platinum ingot

Edit: desynthed another belt and got BC3. Tried to desynth IW gear and got BC2

[Jinglybell]

Hinterlands Perch - Quickarm Materia IV
Ice faerie - Grade 3 clear prism
Cometoise - Cloud Mica
Sky faerie- Opal
Scorpionfly -Silencing potion
Whilom Catfish- weak paralyzing potion
Whiteloom- Porcini
fountfish - Dragon Blood

Also at 168.xx cul desynth skill the tornado shark only has a 27% desynth chance
I have more but I forgot to keep track. Got some allagan silvers/gold (I think the gold was from a hinterlands perch) also various pigments which no one cares for. Ill edit this post when I find more.

[Sigmakan]

God bless all the players putting up quest reward gear on AH for cheap prices.

[Nyalia]

God bless all the players putting up quest reward gear on AH for cheap prices.

^^^ This. What I did over the weekend: Every now and then, checked the MB for Wyvernskin and Dhalmelskin armor for LTW as well as accessories for GSM and hardsilver weapons for GSM (the GSM desynthable ones).

And then my wife and I sat in Asah and desynthed one hundred items each, me desynthing "Dhalmelskin Belts of ..." and her desynthing "Ramie Trousers of ..." before we realized we were being dumb and there were better choices. The crafter/gatherer items were cheaper and higher ilvl. All told, we leveled about 10-20 each, and obtained several million gil in mats. We got back about twice the money we spent, but crashed the Dhalmelskin, Ramie Cloth, and Holy Rainbow Cloth markets in the process. But, now that we have much higher success rates than when we started, we can do it again and if we sell the mats for half what we sold them for before, we'll still make at least 40% profit off of the sales. Especially if we use the better items. You can get up to dSkill 155-160 or so this way for LTW, WVR, and ARM.

I'll update the guide when I get around to it. Most of our findings are recorded in the desynth database though. Basically, the c51+ items appear to have a flat 33% chance to drop 1-3x worthless grade 2 demimateria. The other items appear to be evenly distributed. When there were two mats, we obtained one mat 1/3rd of the time, the other mat 1/3rd of the time, BC/FC demimateria 1/3rd of the time, and clears about 1% of the time. If the item had 3 materials in the recipe, it still dropped demis 1/3rd of the time, but the rest were dropped ~2/9ths of the time. I suspect this is because the mats were all of relatively equal ilvls. I've long suspected that the drop rates for items from desynth were weighted by their ilvl, which is why you get so much fewer Hard Hippogryph Leather than Spruce Lumber when desynthing Bridesmaid's Sandals. These all felt pretty equal, and the mats were pretty equal.

Also, our yields supported my theory that the number of a given item that you get is a random number between 1 and the maximum possible, each with equal probability. So, if you're getting Battecraft Demimateria IIs from an item and it can drop up to 3, you get 1x 1/3rd of the time, 2x 1/3rd of the time, and 3x 1/3rd of the time.

More testing is required, obviously.

[Sigmakan]

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Yeah I went from 100 -> 160 LTW in about two hours just off the market board. Spent about 2mil, but I made 2.5mil.

Looks like from 160+ its going to the serpentskin belts that are sold by the Repository Node (11.8k each) and expert dungeon gear.