Quote Originally Posted by Alsar View Post
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?