Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Nyalia]

i205 PVP gear, and then switch to the i230 gear you can now get with Poetics in Idyllshire. After you do the i230 for awhile, you can switch to the i260 which is also sold for Poetics in Idyllshire.

When you are ready to switch to r260 stuff, you can also start on craftable whites bought from vendors or the MB that require level 61 to equip. Those are either r255 or r260, generally (some might be r265). Since they were given out as quest rewards, they might still be super cheap on the MB. There are vendors that sell them though, in either Kugane or the Reach. It depends on whether you want to spend money or poetics.

Do unique(blue) items give more desynth exp than whites?

That's an interesting question. We'd have to compare r260 crafted gear (the level 61 crafted gear with a difficulty of 1400) with Shire gear to get a good comparison. Unfortunately, when you gain ~1 dSkill per desynth, and with exp being so volatile it's hard to compare! I'd say someone (probably me) should alternate between Shire and the r260 whites and see if there's a clear difference in exp gained.

To me it looks like exp is increasing up until a certain number of levels before the item (peaks above 1), where it starts decreasing to below 1, and then levels out for a bit.

Hmm. I desynthed an item so far below me, I only had a 20% chance to desynth it, and I got 0.74 exp from it. Just before that, I desynthed an item in the same class that had a 100% success rate and earned over 1.0 experience. Even accounting for the high variability of desynth exp, that implies that doing high risk desynths just aren't worth it. I think you're right that either blues give more exp than whites, or the exp "ramps up" and then down after a certain peak.