Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Alsar]

Has anyone found a good way to level up desynth beyond l180? The i150 vendor item only give 0.01 exp and eso gear/dungeon drops have a very low chance to desynth.

[Nyalia]

Has anyone found a good way to level up desynth beyond l180? The i150 vendor item only give 0.01 exp and eso gear/dungeon drops have a very low chance to desynth.

I've done no research and have only logged in for an hour or so in the past few months, but I'd guess your options include grinding A1-A4 and then trading in the tokens for Gordian equipment to desynth and the Eso for cheapish gear to desynth. If you go this route, be sure to use Tinker's Bacon! At dSkill 180, you'd only have a 40% chance to desynth the Prototype Gordian gear, raisable to 55% with Tinker's Bacon. Not amazing, but you should level very fast. You'd want to hold on to the Eso gear until you were closer to dSkill 200, where you get a 65% chance with Tinker's Bacon (50% without).

The new dungeon gear is r195. I would not recommend desynthing them until closer to dSkill 200, but sooner than the Eso gear if you're dealing with that as well. The gear from the 3.1 dungeons is a better bet at r185.

If you play PvP and are working on ARM desynth, consider the Shield of the Behemoth King. I don't know how expensive it is, but it's r180 and should be the cheapest at that tier.

If Dawnborne Aethersand is cheap on your server (which I kinda doubt, but I dunno how markets have changed), then I perhaps someone should check out the former Specialist Anima Weapon recipes for the four classes that do the initial craft, like Blessed Fletching for WVR, Moogle Miniature for GSM, etc. The only expensive mat is the Dawnborne. That said, those might only be r160, I'm not sure. If so, they aren't worth it. Actually, come to think of it, if 60* items are all r160 and 60** items are only r180 (which would fit the established pattern), that means crafted items are pretty worthless for desynth leveling.

Every crafter class has a new 60** crafted item in the Master Book IV that is really easy to craft and quicksynthable (with crazy Craftsmanship), seemingly perfect for desynth leveling.... except they are all non-desynthable. Very annoying. Those items seem to only exist for spiritbonding the i170+ crafter/gatherer gear.


Honestly, I don't know what else to do for desynth... None of what I posted above is particularly good. Anyone have any good ideas?

[Alistaire]

Has anyone found a good way to level up desynth beyond l180? The i150 vendor item only give 0.01 exp and eso gear/dungeon drops have a very low chance to desynth.

Depending on the synth you can get law gear now for centurio seals pretty cheap, 40 for shields, 55 for belts/accessories, 70 for some other pieces.

CUL has it the easiest. Buy blue scrip fly bait and go to Tharl Oom Khush fishing hole at the north end of Churning Mists. Catch Storm Chasers (i180) and Nycsaurus (i200? 210?). Storm Chasers nibble in literally less than a second and are the most common fish for this bait. Nycsaurus have a typical nibble time for big fish. Both are direct bites--no mooching.

Not even just that. Hinterlands perch value went up due to materia conversion and you'll get a ton of those going for the blue scrips to buy brute leeches, and those still give .02 a shot @ 180. Both basic red scrip fishing holes have i180 fish to take you up to the higher levels and thunderbolt eel spot now has amber salamanders that are past the 180 stage (30% @ 190 skill).

[Nyalia]

thunderbolt eel spot now has amber salamanders that are past the 180 stage (30% @ 190 skill).

30% at dSkill 190 should mean r210. That indicates that FSH rlvls go:

fish level 59 = r148
fish level 60 = r150
fish level 60* = r180
fish level 60** = r210

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Hinterlands perch value went up due to materia conversion

What do you mean?

[Alistaire]

What do you mean?

Materia transmutation at the goblin, the % chance to go from a tier 4 to a tier 5 went up, and the value of tier 5's went up along with the value of a lot of tier 4's. It used to be that if I got a heaven's eye IV from the goblin I'd trade it right back, they were like 7k each along with the elemental resist IV's.

Now that's really changed and any red materia is much more valuable than the junk ones, so much it's even driven elemental resist materia to 3x their price before 3.2.

So now while the quickarm IV from that fish desynth before was worth 7k that's at least tripled and you could more easily end up with a materia selling for millions than before. And even crafting tier 4's went way up this patch for other reasons, but in the end it all inflates the value of any tier 4 because of that transmutation process.