Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Nyalia]

As a followup: If you're collecting Better Crowned Pies for CUL desynth (and you're on my server, no clue what prices are on other servers), the cheapest leves to use (apart from BTN/MIN leves) are:

Class   Item                        Type    Location       Cost
-----   ----                        ----    --------       ----
CUL     Mulled Tea                  Single  Coinach        1,668
ALC     3x Potent Silencing Potion  Single  Coinach        1,764
CUL     Crowned Pie                 Courier Limsa->Coinach 1,914
ARM     Cobalt Plate                Single  Limsa          2,000
ALC     3x Potent Sleeping Potion   Courier Uldah->Coinach 2,024
ALC     3x Potent Poisoning Potion  Single  Coinach        2,024
CUL     Buttons in a Blanket        Single  Coinach        2,279

After that, it goes up to 3.2k (Deviled Eggs) and up from there. WVR is the worst for this, by the way - the cheapest WVR leve level 45 leve right now is 7,886! But anyway, 3.3k-4.5k per r110 desynth makes CUL the easiest class to get from 95 to 110. Assuming, of course, you don't care about your leve allowances.

Alternatively, if you don't want to spend leve allowances on this (or are out), you can also use 3,600 GC seals per Better Crowned Pie. As a 1* BTN and level 50 ALC, you can get 15,825 GC seals every 72 minutes (harvest 25x NQ Trilium Bulbs, Vampire Plants, and Thavnarian Mistletoe and craft them into Madman's Whispering Rods, which you can trade in for 633 GC seals each) which gives you 4.4 Better Crowned Pies per hour, and you don't have to spend the whole hour working for it (about 3 minutes per node, 3 nodes for the harvesting, ~15 seconds per 5-step synth (2-step mat + 3-step item), 25 synths, = only ~1/5th of your time spent doing this). The 6x Water Crystals and 3x Lightning Crystals per synth may get expensive though if many people are doing this (the lightning crystals are already up to 400 gil each on my server). Even if you send a retainer out for the crystals, they can only get 30 per 40 mins, and you're burning through 225 per 72 mins.

Anyway, math!