Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Kiara]

I just leveled LTW from 50 to 80 skill off of just the Bridesmaid's Sandals. It cost me over a million, but gave me ~15 FC3s and ~20 hard hippogryph leather (some NQ, 4 HQ). That was pretty nice. My starting success chance was only 22.5%, but now I'm up to 70%. I bought at least two hundred of those things. Too bad I'm only getting 0.1 skill from each now - it was so nice to get .7 each at first. 0.1 is still good though. I wonder if I can get up to 90 before it becomes totally nonviable to level this way.

Hi Nyalia,

Thanks for the info. So would you recommend the Sandals as the ideal Desynth Level Up for LTW? And at what ranges make the most sense?

Thanks.

[Nyalia]

So would you recommend the Sandals as the ideal Desynth Level Up for LTW? And at what ranges make the most sense?

Depends very heavily on how much you dread the wrath of RNGesus. At first, when I had a ~1/4 chance of success, I succeeded maybe once out of every ten tries. When my chance went up, things were better, but I threw away several hundred thousand gil just to get started. If you can, I'd use Legionary Visors to get to at least ~60 first. If they're 500 or less on the MB, buy them, otherwise, farm them while spiritbonding in any of the Castrums. My favorite farming spot for that is the one NE of Wineport.

At 60 LTW skill, you should have a 30% chance to desynth the sandals. That's not bad, imo. Theoretically, you'll succeed about 1 of 3 tries, and gain about 2/3rds of a level from a success. So, the theoretical cost per level becomes about 6,000 * 3 *3/2 = 27,000. Getting from skill 60 to skill 70 should cost you about 350,000, which isn't so bad. By then though, you're only getting 1/3rd of a level per success, but your success rate is 1 in 2. So, cost per level is about 6,000 * 2 * 3/1 = 36,000. That's about 200,000 to get to skill 75. To get from 75 to 80, you're looking at about 1/5-1/10 skill per success, so that'll cost you about 6,000 * 2 * ~5-10 = 90,000 per level, or 450,000 to get to skill 80. Those are all rough estimates, obviously, but that puts the cost at about 1,000,000, which feels about right.

Oh, and my numbers in the above post are a bit off - I started at 55 (22.5% starting chance), not 50 (15% starting chance).