Desynthesis Endgame Guide

[Lemuel81]

guess first page needs to be updated. Says artisian gear can be desynthed.

[Pyros]

For information, the new Aetherial Wheels are desynthable and are i70. They're pretty cheap to make, cheaper/as cheap as Giantsgall weapons, so semi decent way to get up to 80ish skill. Sadly still nothing for 80-110 other than Perfect Pounce or farming drops and Perfect Pounce is still kinda expensive on my server. "Positive" side I guess is that you don't need high level alchemy for anything since there's nothing good to desynth anyway.

[Kiara]

Has anyone found good items to level up for Weaver and Goldsmith to get from 100 to > 110?

[Nyalia]

So is there a reason that you can't desynth any of the new artisan gear? I bought the gown thinking you could desynth them like the glasses but there's no option. Had someone buy the CRP shoes too and same thing.

Wait, what? Seriously? What the heck? That makes no sense >_< Sorry for the bad info in this guide - I assumed the logical, that these were introduced so all desynth classes (except CUL and the unloved ALC) had access to MCDs.


EDIT: OP updated. Sorry again for the misinformation! I really don't get why this decision was made, and I sincerely hope it changes in a future patch. While I'm a GSM/BSM desynth and not affected by that decision directly, I loathe spamming turnins for MCDs and just want the MCD market to crash. That way, I can buy them cheaply off the MB and make the other half of my artisan/forager tools :P

[Nyalia]

Has anyone found good items to level up for Weaver and Goldsmith to get from 100 to > 110?

GSM: Hero's jewelry (r90) from 2.4 dungeons, new r100 jewelry from the 2.5 dungeons, First Coil jewelry drops.

For crafted items, you could try the Carbuncle Chronometer again. That should cost about 30k to make. The Garden Ponds aren't a bad choice either, but depends on how much 4x Terminus Putty is on your server. The best bet though is likely the Furnace Rings - the Belah'dian Silver is practically free on my server, it's not that hard to get Aged Eyes of Fire, and Basilisk Whetstones are pretty cheap to get/make. The items you get back from it though are usually garbage from what I remember. If I get home before someone on my server reads this (or has thought of this), I'm going to buy out all the belah silver and try it :P


WVR: Myth gear (r90) from the 2.4 dungeons (SCH/NIN hat, MNK/BRD/WMN/SCH/SMN body, WHM/SMN gloves, almost all pants (not PLD/DRG)), new r100 gear from the 2.5 dungeons (BRD/Healer/Caster belt, BRD hat, Healer/Caster body, all non-tank pants), some ST gear (BRD belt, BRD arms, Tank pants).

You can also spam Turn 4 as a Healer or Caster as there are two drops for each there that are r90 WVR desynth.

For crafted, what's the price of Dress Materials on your server? Spring Dress Shoes may be great if Dress Materials are cheap enough. They're just a Hard Hippogryph Leather, Dress Materials, and Twinthread. On my server, they should cost about 20k to make - not bad for an r90 desynth fodder. Perfect Cloth may be even cheaper. That's just 2x Pumice and 1x Stained Cloth. No clue what the prices for that are though. Perfect Cloth will likely give you back random garbage from what I recall.


Also, keep in mind that you can go run the 2.3 dungeons (Hulbreaker, Tam-Tara HM, SV HM) for r80 items too. r80 won't give you as much as r90 or r100, but you will have a greater desynth success rate.


When I have some time to test stuff, I'll throw up the 100->110 recommendations. Basically, at dSkill 100, you should get 0 exp from r70 items (if this is wrong, please let me know!), about 0.05-0.1 from r80, about 0.2-0.3 from r90, and about 0.3-0.4 from r100. r80 has an 85% chance, r90 has a 70% chance, and r100 has a 50% chance. r90 is likely your best bet.

[rojen]

Anyone know if bridesmaid's sandals and best man's gaiters are still the best for FC3's or am I just having incredibly bad (and expensive) luck?

Hi Mycah. I can definitely confirm that FC IIIs still come from wedding gear. Went home at lunch and bought almost 100 sandals and desynthed them. Got 20 FC IIIs. RNG stinks sometimes. Maybe lunch time is the secret.

[Nyalia]

Hi Mycah. I can definitely confirm that FC IIIs still come from wedding gear. Went home at lunch and bought almost 100 sandals and desynthed them. Got 20 FC IIIs. RNG stinks sometimes. Maybe lunch time is the secret.

Just be warned that, at least on my server, people who appear to be bots have started desynthing these. Or at least, people running bot/autoclick programs - extremely precise timing and motions, there 24/7, in "Busy" status, does not respond to chat, etc. It's very noticable when they have idle animations set - at the same precise point in the idle animation, they do a given action, exactly every time, such that coming back eight hours later, it was still the same timing. No human is that precise.

MB value has dropped on my server to 30k due to massive oversaturation by this one possible-bot. My math says that they cost on average 36k each to make, minus whatever you get from the other stuff you can get like Hard Hippogryph Leather and Spruce Lumber/Undyed Woolen Cloth. Getting 20 FC3s out of 100 tries is actually better than what I think is average still - I see average as 1 out of every 6, and that's 1 out of 5.

[Bardox]

I can confirm Aetherial Wheels can drop FC IIIs, but not sure about the drop rate. Crafted about 30 of them and got 4 FC IIIs, so it may be bad luck, or low drop rate.

[Nyalia]

I can confirm Aetherial Wheels can drop FC IIIs, but not sure about the drop rate. Crafted about 30 of them and got 4 FC IIIs, so it may be bad luck, or low drop rate.

While slightly below average, that's well within the variance for all other r70 items. Average would be 5 FC3s from 30 wheels.

[DeorNitengael]

Is there a reason to use WVR to desyn those wedding stuff over LTW? I have 70 WVR and I don't really feel like wasting my time leveling up LTW.