Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Nyalia]

if you're willing to manmode it for Cul Desynth (or have friends who can fish with you), you can do Takitaro from 70-90 and farm up around 200~300 icepicks (for safety reasons against RNG), you can do 90-130~140 with icepicks alone with Tinker's Bacon.

Great advice, thank you!

I'm not a CUL Desynth, and my wife leveled super fast off the random fish I fished up with my FSH retainer while leveling her. Does anyone have any suggestions about what fish is particularly good for those who fish, rather than making their retainer do all the work, after the ~135 mark?

[Arcticharm]

I think I did the following:

Hedgemole cricket/bubble eye/shipworm ~115's-130s? (I can't really remember well but I basically blew up any and all fish that got my hands on)
Mercy Staff/Snowcaller ~130-160ish?
Illuminati Perch/Hinterlands Perch/thunder eels from ~160-174 (Probably earlier than 160)
Storm Chasers from 174 to 180

[kriskz]

Just finished a WVR Desynth leveling session using Rainbow Sashes and wanted to post my results:

Starting Desynth Skill: 91.52
Ending Desynth Skill: 106.19
Total Desynth Skill Increase: 14.67

Rainbow Sash Quantity: 61
Rainbow Sash Cost: 555,588 gil

Gil to Desynth Skill Rate: 40,559 gil per skill level

Desynth returns (Market Board estimate): 141,149 gil

Gil to Desynth Skill Rate (Desynth Returns Included): 30,937 gil per skill level

I bought all of the Rainbow Sashes from the vendor in Foundation. Added 1 materia to every Rainbow Sash, starting success rate was 14% without Tinker's Bacon, 26.50% with HQ Tinker's Calm and NQ Bacon Broth.

Skillups ranged from .50 to .81. Was successful on 23 of 61 attempts.

Materials Returned

Battlecraft Demimateria x19
Rainbow Cloth x15
Rainbow Thread x6
Wind Crystal x23
Lightning Crystal x23

[ShaunBeezle]

just lvled culinary to 180, imo best fish from 165 - 180 is Storm chaser from Thral Oom Khash, I caught 100 of them with only 200 lures. Be sure to lower ur gathering to around 407- 412. I was getting big bites almost every time. From 170-180 it took 23 successful desyths to max.

[Nyalia]

Thanks for the advice, but why would lowering your gathering help?

[Shadowsun]

Thanks for the advice, but why would lowering your gathering help?

It doesn't its just a myth

[Alistaire]

Stumped on that too. It doesn't save time; you'll still attempt to reel in a high level fish and just get "you don't have the necessary skill" as a message instead of "fish gets away". No time saved. Might prevent you from losing your lure?

[Velisra]

I've read this guide and some other bits around on the Internet--though some of what was said flew right over my head--and I understand that I should level Desynth on three DoH classes only. I've narrowed it down to GSM and LTW based on my playstyle and the DoW class I intend to play most (BRD), but I'm not really sure what the best choice for a third Desynth class should be.

As for my playstyle, I'm a solo player and not a raider. My "endgame" will probably be crafting and collecting things like minions, mounts, achievements, glamour, etc. I'll also want enough decent gear at 60 to make HW overworld content a bit easier and also to run older instanced content, possibly solo or with a friend, to obtain items for glamour.

Am I on the right track with GSM and LTW? Can someone suggest a good third choice?

Thanks!

[Roth_Trailfinder]

It almost does not matter what you pick as a third Desynth. While you cannot Desynth everything, between the two you have you have access to almost all of the items that you can get via Desynthesis, with the notable exceptions of many of the ARR Relic Zodiac stuff, and many of the items you can get from CUL Desynth.

If you are a fisher, as well, I'd suggest CUL, just because of the variety of items you can get from Desynthing fish. Otherwise, just pick whatever you want. There is no real inherent advantage or disadvantage to having any of the others as your third Desynth.

[Velisra]

It almost does not matter what you pick as a third Desynth. While you cannot Desynth everything, between the two you have you have access to almost all of the items that you can get via Desynthesis, with the notable exceptions of many of the ARR Relic Zodiac stuff, and many of the items you can get from CUL Desynth.

If you are a fisher, as well, I'd suggest CUL, just because of the variety of items you can get from Desynthing fish. Otherwise, just pick whatever you want. There is no real inherent advantage or disadvantage to having any of the others as your third Desynth.

I have leveled fishing, but only so that I can get the fish I need for CUL. I've looked at CUL for desyn, but honestly I'm not that interested in anything I'd get from it. Not sure I'd need to worry about the ARR Zodiac stuff either, considering we're into HW now. I'll have a look at all the others again now, and maybe just flip a coin in the end.

Thank you so much for your help!