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Day 319 - Guide to Desynthesis in 2.3...
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What I am going to post below is how to get the most out of the new Desynthesis feature in the 2.3 update. There seems to be a lack of information, so this is from 1st hand experience. I have Leatherworker @ dlv 74.17 & Goldsmith @ dlv 79.57.
First order of business is choosing Goldsmith as your Primary Desynthesizing class... I can't stress this enough. Not only is it one of the easiest classes to raise your desynthesis level it's one of the only classes that can make gear to desynthesize for the coveted Fieldcraft III Demimateria.
Raising your dlv is almost like starting the crafting class all over again, you start creating lv 1 gear that you can buy from the Supplier. Then desynthesize it to raise your level. You can make up to ilv 15 gear from the supplier... so there is really no problem there. You will notice when you approach dlv 30 the gains become smaller and smaller. Once you reach dlv 30 you will buy Marble Eye from the Vendor & Aldgoat Horns from the Kobold Vendor to make and desynthesize "Goathorn Staff" both items are relatively cheap compared to your other options. The real cost will be the 3 Wind & 3 Fire shards... which have skyrocketed since the 2.3 update.
Desynthesizing The Goathorn Staff will yield some Battlecraft I Demimateria, which is good if you want to acquire your Desynthesizing Master Recipe Book, in 1 week it will probably be worthless. For the Master Recipe Books you need 5x Battlecraft I Demimateria & 5x Fieldcraft I Demimateria. Next at dlv 50 or so you move onto Mythril Chocker which is ilv 39 and the Mythril is easy to farm as well as the Toad Leather, these on occasion will yield a Fieldcraft Demimateria I which is what we REALLY want as a Crafter / Gatherer to create the new ilv 55 Accessories such as Dodore Belt & Rose Gold Chocker... each require 10x Fieldcraft Demimateria I.
Then at dlv 60 you begin desynthesizing Electrum Ring of Crafting ilv 47... this will on occasion yield 2x Fieldcraft Demimateria I... and it only requires 1x Electrum Ingot & 1x Basilisk Whetstone... again the 6x Wind Shards & 5x Fire shards is what will kill you in gil.
Now for the loophole... at dlv 70 with a ~ 65% chance to convert an Aetheryte Ring, the loophole is that there is only 1 ingredient, Rose Gold Nugget and when you desynthesize you can get 1x Rose Gold Nugget / Fieldcraft Demimateria II or Clear Demiateria II. If you just keep converting to Rose Gold Nugget the only cost is the Failed attempts and 1x Water Cluster.
You can use this method to reach dlv 78.00 before only gaining +0.01 - +0.02 and lowering your other desynthesis levels by the same amount.
Next what you need to do is Brayflox Longstop HM and collect useless Darklight Jewelry... convert them and you can get a Battlecraft Demateria III... at first the chance for sucess is ~ 65% but each converted it will raise your dlv by 0.15 - 0.20.
There are currently 2 pieces of gear that when desynthesized can yield Fieldcraft Demimateria II, the Forager's Hat that you trade in Gathered items and requires Weaver and Artisan's Spectacles... that requires Goldsmith. Happy Hunting!
holy crap, how did you figure this out so fast??
In my 1st comment I meant to write Fieldcraft Demimateria III not II. I think you can also get one from Exploration XIV they added to Ventures and Quick Exploration.
I spent most of the day yesterday Desynthsizing :)
Jade is amazing like that!
Thanx Fenris, I wish I went with Goldsmith 1st... I lost about 1 level of Leatherworker in the process. But it's better this way.
Hmmm, thanks. I think this will come in handy!
I'm fairly surprised actually. I thought that there would be rare materials available for breaking down Primal Weapons. Have you done BSM? have you tried breaking down any of the extreme primal accessories? I'm interested to see what they offer.
I levelled my ARM to 40 over my lunch hour. I do see that it has definitely stated to slow down. I'm planning on doing GSM & BSM so i'll have ideally) 100/100/85/1/1/1../1
There are rare Materia based on the Primals, those are used to forge new ilv 55 Blue Rare gear that you can HQ. There are also Mastercrart Demimateria... I think you will have to desynth an ilv 90+ piece for that.
I meant to write ilv 95 Blue Rare Weaponry.
Aren't you better off with WVR? After all, you will be able to desynth the forager's hat, which at least is attainable without spending anything (but lots of time). The spectacles take a ton of seals to make, IIRC.
If you collect HQ Volcanic Rock Salt you can make get the Spectacles that way, or make the CUL Spicy Tomato Relish. You can harvest the tomatoes in the same area as the Volcanic Rock Salt, I can make 30 HQ trade-ins in about 25 mins. If you get 3x HQ Umbral rock per hour it will take 10 hours.
It's also be noted that the ilv 70 "Casings" can yield Fieldcraft Demimateria III as well, such as Rose Gold Clasps or Astrolabe Clinometer. I haven't confirmed it myself, but others have.
Speak of the Devil, just desynthisized a Rose Gold Clasps and got a Fieldcraft Demimateria III :)
It's confirmed.
Great quick guide, thank you! I just hit the 30s. Something I've found that's good to desynth as GSM is Coral Rings (100% success at dLV32). Cost 349 at NPC yields White Coral 50+% of the time. Also gives wind shards and Mudstone Whetstones.
Those Coral Rings can also yield Battlecraft Demateria I...
Crabshell Hora seems like a great alternative to Goathorn Staff. Green Megalocrab Shell and Hippogryph Sinew is really cheap and it only takes 1 more Wind Shard.
Good find Petite, I always forget about the NPC vendors. Maybe today I'll get my 3rd Mastercraft Demimateria, then it's all about trying to get the 10x Fieldcraft Demimateria III
Yo, this is pretty sweet. Thank you.
Yeah damned helpful. I was charging ahead with BSM. Then read this. Thanks so much. (3 days, the bonfire of the mats - lost count about 10,000 shards ago)
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Any tips on how to get the Mastercraft demis?
I got a very low dlvl returns from electrum crafting ring at around 65% - I had 70% chance on aetheryte ring at that level.
Woot! Thanks for telling me about this post, Jade. I'll definitely be watching and trying this when I'm done spending so much time gathering. Miss you guys in Lumi!
Tried testing this out with 6 aetheryte rings and only yielded one rose gold nugget with all successes. Not very efficient seeing as the nuggets are almost 5k a pop. there still has to be another way..
Don't buy the nuggets, if you use Kings Yield II on the Gold Ore node @ 9am Ezorean in Eastern Thanalan time you can get 25x Gold Ore... that's 8 Rose Gold Nuggets. You can also try your luck with Brayflox HM for Darklight jewelry.
And if you don't have miner buy gold ore instead of the nuggets, will cost you half as much
Just an FYI desynthd a piece of darklight and got a battlecraft demimateria III worth almost 500k.
Nice. Might be worth even more if you craft something up with it.
Any ilv 70 DoW / DoM class gear will yield Battlecraft Demimateria III, if you desynth a craftable ilv 70 gear, for each piece of Marteria you meld prior to desynthesizing it will add 5% to the success rate :)
If the 0.01 you occasionally lose from one skill is chosen from a class at random, it should make sense to keep a point or two in all 8 classes. You can't lose from a class at skill 1.0 as far as I've seen. If you focus on only 3 classes, then you will definitely lose from a favored class when you gain elsewhere. If you have all 8 above skill 1, then your chances are 2 in 7.
The gear you desynthesize, does it need to be spirit bonded to you ?
Merlin. No, it doesn't matter if it's spirit bonded or not. It also doesn't matter if it's NQ or HQ.
I got a Mastercraft from artisan specs Jean. No luck on i90 desynths yet but I'm almost there, if anything interesting pops up I'll swing back to update.
With myth tomes being given out like candy lately I have done a fair share of desynthesizing the ilv 90 Gold Spectacles and one of the possible items to acquire is 2x Battlecraft Demimateria... but there are too many ingredients to be consistent.
From my experience of getting yo dlv 97.87 Goldsmith Mastercraft is only available through desynthesis of Artisan trade-in gear.
I've got three mastercraft from artisan specs. And 3 FC IIIs. If that ratio continues I'll have my first tool in a month or so, but be very very rich. Mostly nuggets though, which I'm recycling into aetheryte rings and the occasional FC II. Not sure how many specs I've desynthed but probably less than I imagine :) dlvl somewhere in the mid to high 80s now.
Can also get Fieldcraft Demimateria III from parts of iLVL70 items. Like Vanya Silk Coat Lining or whatever it's called.
I wish the Grand Company Seals mats like Peacock Ore weren't so much gil or I'd try for a few Rose Gold Clasps to desynthesize into Fieldcraft III Demimateria. I wonder if the Alchemy "Augmentations" desynthesize into Fieldcraft III?
As a note the shard counts are higher if you are crafting your mats. The mythril choker are 13 wind shards if you count the 4 for crafting each ingot. Plus the shards for making the leather. ( I had a small stockpile) the comment about the carb horas is really something to look into because you don't have to craft the mats. Haven't gotten to the high stuff yet.
There's a Tortoiseshell Armillae piece that uses adamantoise shells for the level gap before needing rose golds for one star ring desynths. I had a stack in storage from MNR hoarding for supply runs and it helped boosts the success% a bunch on the one star rings.
I wrote this before the massive increase in shard prices... I thought 40 gil was high, man I hope it cools down in the coming weeks.
In most cases now it's just better to buy NQ items from the vendors. lol
just a quick question Jade and everyone else. currently leveling GSM and nearing 60 now. so guessing from the layout you wrote up, if i want to get battlecraft demimateria II, i'd want to desynth i55 battle accessories? (want to get these to craft ruby accessories)
Sorry, didn't see the last comment until now. I would craft the Militia Earrings since they require 2x Rose Gold Nuggets and 1x Basilisk Whetstone, the eggs are pretty cheap compared to Hippogryph Leather or another Rose Gold Nugget.
oops, sorry as well! took me a while to get back to you. and good point. thanks so much! makes sense and i'll probs get started on that now.
I think this post is linked on Reddit and the FFXIV forums, I have made other blog entries with useful information on Desynthesis, please check them out as well :)
Can anyone let me know if it is better to desynth hq or the yields are pretty much the same and so is the xp?
From my experience I see no difference in desynthing NQ or HQ, so to save time & gil I suggest to desynth NQ's :)
Anyone know what blacksmith item is best to desynth for Fieldcraft Demimateria I? I was using steel sledgehammers, but they cost about 2k each to make and the chance to obtain the demimateria doesn't seem high enough to be worth it, since they're 10k each. Does desynthing a HQ item increase the chance? And what about increasing your desynth level? I'm only around desynth level 40 so it might give me a better chance if I raise it some more.
I'd suggest Cobalt File or Cobalt Mortar, depending on which is easier to come by... Rosewood Lumber or Raptor Leather. Cobalt on Ultros is relatively cheap to make because players trying to get to lv 50 Miner eventually mine hundreds of it to level. These two have the ability to produce 2x Fieldcraft I Demimateria as a Goldsmith there are a few options in the ilv 45 range that only require 1x Electrum Ingot + 1 Basalisk Whetstone.
Thx!
