Demimateria help.

[mayonnegg]

ilvl 25 minimum is my experience.

[Koroem]

I gathered up mats enough to make 100 thousand needles (level 43 and ilvl 43). I've converted 40 so far and have gotten 13 demimateria. Either lucky, or the yield is much improved as a result of randomly getting either one or two demis now. I'll post my final tally when done. Thanks for the suggestions.

EDIT 21 for 80 now.
31 for 120.
42 for 160.
49 for 170.

I started with exact mats for 100 crafts and via the return materials was able to get an extra 70 crafts with (as noted above) the final yield being 49 field craft I demi materia. Much happier with this outcome. Hope it wasn't just luck. Unless something is proven to be better, I'm gonna stick with thousand needles for my field craft I's. Both time and resources seem to be light for the return.

[ArisuChiisai]

I've had pretty good luck with the Electrum Needles. They are high enough level to give Fieldcraft 1's either one at a time or groups of two. I usually gather up the 100 Electrum Ore, 25 Basilisk Eggs, 400 Wind Shard, and 125 Fire Shard required to make 25 Electrum Needles(takes less than an hour). Out of the initial 25, I'll get enough mats to make 10-12 more, then enough to make 4-5 more from those 10-12. Total desysnthesis of about 40 items will yield 8-10 Fieldcraft 1's.

HTH

Chiisai