Quote Originally Posted by Sylvain View Post
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Back in ARR, desyn had some purposes, including (1) Mastercraft Demimateria, (2) Fieldcraft/Battlecraft Demimateria, (3) primal demimateria, (4) Desyn of Silver Bazaar items for Zodiac Weapons and (5) skimpy swimsuits. However, since Heavensward, I have this feeling that desyn has been "abandoned" to a great extent. It's not really required for anything. Sure, we need a few demimateria every now and then, but it's so much easier to just buy the demimateria instead of doing the desyn ourselves.

Back in ARR, I generated all my own Mastercraft demi for making my own crafting tools. In HW, I bought all of them for making my i195 tools... I had a good number saved up since ARR, and then I just bought a few more when I saw the price was low. I never had to desyn anything to obtain something I needed. In contrast, the investment of training up desynthesis is gigantic. You botch a lot of things for nothing to get the numbers to rise. Thus, I never recommended anyone to level desynthesis since HW. Similar to you, I pushed my GSM desyn a bit higher using the i210 accessories, but that's about it. I didn't really work on other classes.

I do not know what's ahead of us. I do not know what SE's plan is for desyn in Stormblood. I hope they have done something to make it easier... and more equal between classes... to level desyn, as well as to make desyn having some real, new purpose(s). But before we know SE's plan, I'd say don't push too hard on it yet... don't overspend time and money on something you don't know if it's needed yet.