Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[HiryoRandgris]

Quad-melding an NQ item (lower meld chance than HQ) with 300 gil materia

Wow lol Our server has ALL materia at 1k minimum. And that 1K is usually tier 2 elemental materia. Tier 1 elemental can hover from 1.5 and up while anything not elemental will be 2k+. If your prices are bad like mine, I'd recommend buying a stack of leather, hempen yarn and hempen cloth, make hempen undergarmets+leather gatherer equips, then spirit bonding on level 7ish monsters as Bard (Foe to collect monsters). You can easily blow through several hundred materia (at 1k each) getting to 100.

[Nyalia]

Ouch at those junk materia prices! Sorry, I can't speak for economies other than the one I work with. Still, I plugged your 1k value into my formulas and it told me that, if my other numbers are right, triple melded cashmere hats of casting are still the best for you. It will cost you an estimated 60k per success, for 120k per level, for 600k to get from 85 to 90. All estimated and theoretical, of course.

[FoxyAreku]

What are the odds of getting waterproof cotton from a Blue Summer Maro? Is it really likely?
I have one but I don't want to have to buy or farm another if it doesn't give me what I want. (Trying for it so I can have Coeurl Beach Briefs made!)

[Nyalia]

I have no idea. I have never tried. I want to, but I have to first convince my wife to level WVR desynth. :P I know they buffed CUL desynths, but I'm not sure about swimwear from other sources.

Also, has anyone figured out yet if South Seas Talismans can yield Waterproof Cotton? I have heard of a couple attempts that yielded nothing good, but that doesn't prove you can't get it...

[Kiara]

Blue Summer Maros are now selling for 20k and dropping, and may be a good way to level WVR desynth to max. I'm not sure what their technical ilvl is, but it should be 70 or 90.

I did some testing and tried the Blue Summer Maros: @ Level 86 Weaver, the Blue Summer Maro was 100% Chance to Desynth with No Desynth Exp Gain. Thanks.

[Nyalia]

I did some testing and tried the Blue Summer Maros: @ Level 86 Weaver, the Blue Summer Maro was 100% Chance to Desynth with No Desynth Exp Gain. Thanks.

Wow, that's surprising. Looks like their rlvl is 56 or less then, likely r55 (really should be using rlvl for recipe level, rather than ilvl, since they're not the same). Ah well, it was worth a shot!

Side question - did you get any Waterproof Cotton from it? <_<

EDIT: Confirmed - the blue swimwear sets (South Seas Talisman, Blue Summer Maro, Sea Breeze Summer Halter, Sea Breeze Summer Pareo) are all r55. This means you have a 100% chance to desynth them at dSkill 85.

[Kiara]

No Cotton. Nothing noteworthy, so I didn't even write it down (more bummed it gave 0 exp). Might need a good 10 - 20 Desynths to see if you might be able to extract that.

[Nyalia]

Wish there was some way to tell the rlvl of items that can't be crafted. It's often the same as the ilvl, but not always.

[Maza]

Awesome guide Nya! Having just leveled some DoL and DoH classes to 50 this is just the thing I was looking for to learn desynthiesis and free up some bag space

[ServerCollaps]

No Cotton. Nothing noteworthy, so I didn't even write it down (more bummed it gave 0 exp). Might need a good 10 - 20 Desynths to see if you might be able to extract that.

some time ago I desynthed 13 of them and got twinthread out of all, no cotton sadly