Desynthesis used to be a relatively skippable mechanic in FFXIV that was complicated, grindy, and generally not worth your time. Soon after the Shadowbringers expansion was released, the system saw a revamp in order to improve both its relevance and accessibility.

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What is Desynthesis?

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Desynthesis is a function that lets you break down your unwanted equipment into its component materials and sometimes even obtain rare items. Not all gear can be desynthesized, as you’ll see near the bottom of the item’s tooltip. It will either display the desynthesis level if you can, or an ‘N’ if you can’t. You can also check by right clicking the item and seeing if ‘Desynthesis’ appears in the list of options.

Note that the desynthesis level above is not a desynthesis skill level requirement. The level is primarily used to determine how much experience you get towards increasing your desynthesis skill on that particular crafter, but you can desynthesize any high level item even with low desynthesis skill.

You can unlock desynthesis by taking on the quest ‘Gone to Pieces’ which requires a crafting job at level 30. After completing the quest, you may desynthesize any ilvl piece of equipment as long as you are at least level 30 on the appropriate crafting job. CUL is a unique crafter since it desynthesizes fish instead of equipment.

New Features

One of the biggest changes that came starting with patch 5.1 is that you no longer have to choose which crafters’ desynthesis to max out. There isn’t a collective cap anymore so you can level all of them to the maximum level of 490 (as of patch 5.3).

Also in patch 5.3, they’ve added the option to desynthesize a stack of items (finally!) Simply tick the box before hitting the Desynthesize button and you’re good to go. This will save everybody a lot of time, and make desynthesis a little bit less of a tedious chore.

There’s even a new incentive to get players to try out the system, with the Challenge Log task, “Successfully desynthesize 5 items”. That’s a fairly easy new thing to cross off your weekly to-do list. It replaces the old, “Affix 5 materia” task, which had been a completely pointless 20 second task for quite a while.

What Can I Get From Desynthesis?

The materials you’ll get from desynthesizing an item include one of the base components used to make the item as well as elemental shards, crystals, or clusters, depending on both the item level and which crafter it’s made by. It’s possible to get HQ components even if the equipment was NQ.

You can desynthesize dungeon gear as well, and it breaks down into components used to craft similar level items. For example, the level 73 Voeburtite Ring of Casting from the Dohn Mheg dungeon can be desynthesized into a stonegold ingot because that’s what a Goldsmith would use to craft the similar level 72 accessories.

The Warg Bracelet of Healing from the Grand Cosmos dungeon can be desynthesized into a dwarven mythril nugget because that’s the intermediate component used to craft level 80 accessories. This item also gives wind clusters instead of crystals, possibly because it’s a piece of dungeon loot from a level cap dungeon.

Endgame Crafting Materials

The level 80 dungeon drops can also yield the Sublime Solution as a rare item, which is otherwise only obtainable for white crafter scrips. Interestingly, you can get this rare drop without levelling your desynthesis up to the equipment’s desynthesis level. However, once your skill level is up there you may yield multiple sublime solutions per item.

This ingredient is used in crafting high end equipment for both combat and non-combat Jobs, making it very valuable. That’s why I always roll for loot in the Expert Roulette dungeons: for the chance at obtaining a couple of these from desynthesis.

If you’re looking to get the most of these you can, work on levelling your Goldsmith desynthesis up first. All the level 80 dungeons drop accessories they can desynthesize, while loot for the other crafters is less common.

You may also desynthesize an item from the Anamnesis set or the Shadowless set and get some Dried Hi-Ether. This was used in making stat potions in the middle tier of Shadowbringers, but isn’t quite as valuable anymore. Maybe they could be used as cheaper, slightly less powerful potions for progging the endgame fights.

The newest level 80 dungeons give Spirit Extract, which is used for the most potent tinctures. This is a valuable item for those interested in savage raiding. If you don’t craft, you can sell it on the Marketboard for consistent gil, especially when people are stocking up on pots for their raid nights after the Tuesday reset.

Depending on which set you’re desynthesizing, you can also get various 2 star or 3 star intermediate crafting materials. The material depends on the crafter, so expect a lot of GSM, LTW, and WVR items because those crafters are responsible for desynthesizing the most gear.

Amaurotine Set (ilvl 430 Accessories Only)

Dungeons: Amaurot, The Twinning, Akadaemia Anyder

Rare Desynthesis Items: Sublime Solution

It’s just accessories in here, so the drops from these dungeons are almost entirely GSM (20) items, and the belts are LTW (7) items.

Warg Set (ilvl 445)

Dungeons: The Grand Cosmos

Rare Desynthesis Items: Sublime Solution

You’ll start seeing a wider range of jobs in the desynthesis of the Warg sets. GSM (29) and LTW (21) still have the bulk, but ARM (5), WVR (5), and even CRP (2) can get a bit of desynthesis levelling in here.

Anamnesis Set (ilvl 455)

Dungeons: Anamnesis Anyder

Rare Desynthesis Items: Sublime Solution, Dried Hi-Ether, **Craft Intermediate Materials (e.g. Prismatic Ingot)

This dungeon’s sets are desynthesized by the typical armor crafters. Mostly LTW (23) and GSM (22), then WVR (11) and a few ARM (6) pieces.

Shadowless Set (ilvl 475)

Dungeons: The Heroes’ Gauntlet (Currently in Expert Roulette)

Rare Desynthesis Items: Sublime Solution, Dried Hi-Ether, **Craft Intermediate Materials (e.g. Prismatic Ingot)

Lots of items for GSM (23) and WVR (21) to desynthesize, and some for ARM (11) and LTW (7).

Heirloom Set (ilvl 485)

Dungeons: Matoya’s Relict (Currently in Expert Roulette)

Rare Desynthesis Items: Sublime Solution, Spirit Extract, **Craft Intermediate Materials (e.g. Prismatic Ingot), ***Craft Intermediate Materials (e.g. Duskcourt Cloth)

There are a large number of GSM (23) and WVR (21) items, then some ARM (11) and LTW (7). The Spirit Extract you can get from these is used in the highest tier Shadowbringers stat potions.

Extreme Trial Materials

Extreme Trials also drop gear that can be desynthesized. These pieces have a chance to drop crafting materials. For example, the weapons from The Dancing Plague (Extreme) can result in the Dancing Wing item, which is used in the recipes to craft the Titania Barding and a housing item. Similarly, the accessories from The Crown of the Immaculate (Extreme) can break down into the Immaculate Wingblade item.

Note that these rare desynthesis results are not possible in high-end trials. Current endgame trials will not have their gear desynthesize into these valuable items in order to prevent people from rolling Greed on everything constantly. It gives other players a bit more of a chance to pick up an item they actually plan on using, not destroying.

Once a trial moves from the high-end section of the duty finder to the trial section, then you can desynthesize the drops.

Demimateria

You can also sometimes get battlecraft, fieldcraft, or clear demimateria. The clear ones (yellow) are just for autoselling, but I often hold onto them to turn in at the Doman enclave. This lets me get my weekly gil with just a few high value items rather than scrounging up a bunch of combat materia or NQ equipment.

The battlecraft (red) ones are mostly just lower value autosell fodder since the items they’re used to craft aren’t really useful anymore. However, battlecraft III demimateria is needed for crafting the glowy primal weapons from ARR and HW trials. These ones may be worth keeping so you can make those when you get the drops from trials, or at least checking the marketboard and trying to sell them there to other players.

Fieldcraft demimateria (blue) sell much better on the marketboard since they’re used in crafting some nice glamour and housing pieces, and fieldcraft demimateria III specifically is used to craft items needed for getting the lower level master crafting books in Mor Dhona.

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How Do I Level Desynthesis?

Each crafter has a separate desynthesis skill level, and you level them up simply by breaking down items. You get larger increases in desynthesis skill for items that are of comparable or higher desynthesis levels to your current skill. This means you can’t just buy a bunch of low level gear from a city vendor and use that to power level. At a certain point it will stop increasing your skill.

One of the great changes with 5.1 is that there is no chance of failure when desynthesizing, so you can use any item, even if it’s much higher than your current skill level. Of course, having a higher skill than the item’s level does mean you get a chance at rarer item results so it’s still useful to level up.

This is a very welcome change in my opinion, since it allows you to use endgame dungeon drops to level desynthesis right from the start. So you can continue doing your dailies and simply funnel that excess gear towards desynthesis skill.

Level 80 dungeons will take care of GSM easily, and WVR, LTW, and ARM a little slower. There isn’t much gear in expert roulette duties for BSM, CRP, or ALC, but they can break down various weapons from the levelling dungeons. CUL only desynthesizes fish.

Two very useful items to have while levelling are Bacon Broth and Tinker’s Calm. These increase the amount of skill you gain for their duration. The Tinker’s Calm buff only lasts 10 minutes, while the Bacon Broth lasts for the regular meal duration of 30 minutes and is extended by things like FC buffs. You can buy these craftable items on the marketboard.

If you’re slowly levelling through dungeon drops then it may be worth stockpiling a bunch, putting these buffs on and then doing them all at once. If you don’t have the inventory space, or if you don’t care about spending extra gil on buffs, then you’ll probably go through more of these medicine items.

If you’re using NPC vendors to level, look for the cheapest types of items. You don’t need to buy a chestplate for 40k gil when a 15k gil shield will level your ARM just as well. You may have to do some browsing in menus, but shields, belts, and accessories are less expensive options. Weapons, tools, chestpieces, and pants are the most expensive items, while helmets, gloves, and boots are in the middle of the pack.

Jewelers tend to have cheap accessories for GSM (battlecraft), LTW (fieldcraft) and CRP (tradecraft). The Armorers have belts for WVR and the Arms Dealers have shields for ARM. BSM and ALC usually have to rely on pricier weapons, and CUL has to find fish on the marketboard.

The Tholl Junkmonger in Tomra (Kholusia 11.9, 8.8) has some of the highest level vendor items and will work to max you out. If you’re looking for the expensive, lazy way then go to Tomra, hunker down, and start desynthesizing. You can find cheaper items if you hit up the vendors in the earlier cities first and work your way up as your skill increases. Here are some of the places to look.

Levelling Desynthesis Skill 1-70

The main city vendors have appropriate level gear for you to buy for gil, and you can also trade seals to your Grand Company for gear up to level 70. However, there are also a few level 160 items for CUL, ALC, BSM, and CRP under the Material tab of the GC Seal Vendor.

The GC items can be pretty pricey in terms of seals, but if you find you’re always capped on them anyway, you might as well put some of them to use levelling your desynthesis skill.

Levelling Desynthesis Skill 115-260

There’s a bit of a gap between ARR and Heavensward, but you can just skip straight to Ishgard once your skill gets too high for ARR items. There are four NPC vendors of interest in Ishgard at the Jeweled Crozier. A Jeweler, Armorer, Weaponsmith, and Fieldcraft Supplier. Between them you can find a lot of different level items going up to 260.

Levelling Desynthesis Skill 260-390

The Kogane Dori Markets in Kugane are where you’ll find the relevant vendors. A Jeweler, Armorer, and Arms Dealer.

Levelling Desynthesis Skill 390+

In The Crystarium’s Musica Universalis Markets, there’s a Jeweler, Armorer, and Arms Merchant that should have you covered with level 70-80 gear. Between these and the Tomra vendor you should have everything except Culinarian taken care of. If you have a level 80 combat Job, I strongly recommend just using the Expert Roulette and Level 80 Dungeon Roulette to level up GSM, and maybe even LTW, WVR, and ARM.

Summary

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Remember to keep your Bacon Broth and Tinker’s Calm buffs refreshed, and use your retainers’ quick ventures for more desynthesis fodder. It will take a lot of time (and/or gil) to level these skills up, so just keep plugging away at them.

If you’re looking for one crafter to focus on, I recommend going for Goldsmith first. If you’re levelling desynthesis casually, this will be the fastest job to level because of the abundance of accessories in max level dungeons.

Have you tried your hand at the new desynthesis mechanics since 5.1? What do you think of the changes: better, worse, or about the same? I expect more people will be getting into it now that it’s more accessible. Let me know down below.

Move over, Phantasmagoria Allegory. Your time in the sun is over. Tomestones of Allegory are no longer the weekly limited Tomestone, and have now shifted slots to the unlimited Tomestone. It’s still an endgame currency, and it’s still useful, so I’ll go over all the best sources to earn Allegory.

While you can now farm as much Allegory as you like, you can still only hold 2,000 of these Tomestones at a time. Pay attention to your supply so you don’t overcap. In this post I’ll also talk about the different things you could prioritize buying depending on your in game goals.

How to Get Tomestones of Allegory

As mentioned, Allegory used to be a weekly limited Tomestone, but since the introduction of Tomestones of Revelation in patch 5.4, Allegory is now unlimited. Farm it to your heart’s content.

First let’s talk about how you can earn your Tomestones of Allegory. There are a few different activities that reward these Tomestones, but you will need to be on a level 80 Job for most of them.

Convert Tomestones of Phantasmagoria

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If you had a supply of Tomestones of Phantasmagoria before patch 5.4, those have been discontinued. You can’t obtain any more, and they have no use now except to exchange for Tomestones of Allegory at a rate of 4:1.

Head to Mor Dhona and speak to Auriana <Servant of Splendors> in Revenant’s Toll [22.7, 6.7]. Select ‘Allagan Tomestones of Phantasmagoria Exchange’ and she’ll convert them for you. Make sure you have space to receive them, since you can only hold 2000 of each Tomestone type at a time.

Roulettes

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This is probably how I earn most of my Allegory, since I’m doing Expert Roulette often for the Revelation anyway. If you play FFXIV every day, you’re probably used to doing this as one of your daily tasks. You can also run the Level 80 Dungeons Roulette for the next highest amount in a single duty.

These two roulettes are nice because you earn the Allegory bonus reward on top of the Allegory you get for running whichever duty you land in. You’ll also be earning some high level dungeon loot to desynthesize or turn in for lots of Grand Company Seals.

For other Roulettes, you’ll need to make sure you’re on a level 80 Job to earn the bonus Tomestones of Allegory.

Since you need to be on a level 80 Job to earn Allegory, you won’t be able to take advantage of the bonus combat experience from these roulettes. I usually reserve Levelling and Alliance Raid Roulettes for whichever Job I’m currently levelling, but if you’d rather have the Allegory that day, it’s not a bad tradeoff since the Tomestone rewards are high.

If you’re comfortable playing multiple roles at level 80, you can often get a shorter queue and bonus gil by matching the Adventurer in Need bonus. For Levelling and Alliance Raid Roulettes, you also receive a Cracked Stellacluster and two Cracked Planiclusters for filling the Adventurer in Need role, and you can trade these for Grade VIII and Grade VII combat materia.

Level 80 Raids and Trials

You’ll earn 15-25 Tomestones of Allegory for each clear of a Shadowbringers Extreme Trial or Unreal fight. If you’re farming a fight for weapons or mounts, make sure you don’t overcap on Allegory midway through!

Shadowbringers Alliance Raids will give you 100 Tomestones of Allegory. The Copied Factory and The Puppets’ Bunker also each give you tokens which will be used to help upgrade gear later in the expansion, so hold onto those if you get them.

Finally, Normal Raids (not Savage) in Shadowbringers will earn you a small amount of Allegory as well. To be honest there’s not much reason to run the normal version of Eden’s Gate (E1-4) or Eden’s Verse (E5-8) at this point except when you land in them from the Normal Raid Roulette.

However, Eden’s Promise (E9-12) provides you with tokens to obtain some decent i510 gear to help catch a Job up to harder endgame content. For the time being these drops are weekly locked, so you’ll want to make sure you get them done each week for as much gear as you’re allowed. These fights are worth 20 Allegory each, so that’s nice to walk away with too.

Treasure Hunts

If you can rustle up a few friends or strangers for a couple hours, you can rack up quite a lot of Tomestones (both Allegory and Revelation). Opening the chests in the overworld rewards you with 10-30 Tomestones of Allegory, so even if you’re unlucky finding portals you’ll still earn a hefty amount of the unlimited Tomestone.

This is a pretty chill way to hang out with friends on a voice call since the content doesn’t require so much focus, and it’s fun to play through Treasure dungeons with their fun animations and bonuses. The popularity of Treasure Hunting parties in Party Finder will vary depending on whether there’s some new and shiny crafting loot in there, but lots of people have maps burning a hole in their pocket. Don’t be afraid to start a party yourself.

This is definitely a fun activity worth considering if you’re tired of the Roulette grind. Plus, you’ll also earn a lot of gil from them and their loot drops at the same time.

Elite Marks

Shadowbringers Elite Marks are fun and commonly taken down by trains. A Ranks will give you 20 Allegory, and S Ranks will earn you 80. Join and keep an eye on your server’s Linkshells for Hunts, and help call out Elite Marks when you see them. You need a decent amount of people, so it’s more popular among random players.

If you find the opportunity to fight Elite Marks in ARR, Heavensward, or Stormblood zones, those also drop Allegory (10 for A Ranks, 30 for S Ranks) so they might be worth your time.

All Elite Marks drop Tomestone of Poetics as well (don’t overcap on those either!) making this an efficient activity in terms of rewards, which I guess is why it’s so popular. It’s still relatively casual content, but the variety of all the different Elite Marks makes it fun and helps break up the monotony of duty grinding.

How to Spend Tomestones of Allegory

There are only a few things you can buy with Allegory. You can spend your Tomestones on catch-up gear to outfit your combat Jobs, or you can buy crafting materials for personal use or for selling to other players.

Equipment

Using your farmable Tomestones of Allegory, you can buy yourself the Crystarium set from Aymark <Tomestone Exchange> in Eulmore [10.3, 11.8]. This i490 combat gear is upgradeable to i500 by trading in tokens from The Copied Factory and The Puppets’ Bunker. An average item level of 500 is high enough to enter the first floor of Eden’s Promise (Savage) or Castrum Marinum (Extreme).

Aside from buying crafted gear off the marketboard, this is the fastest way to grind up to endgame equipment.

Crafting Materials

Tomestones of Allegory are needed to buy materials for crafting both combat (Exarchic set) and non-combat (Aesthete set) endgame equipment.

The items at the top of the list are for more recent, higher item level crafts. All of these items sell regularly at the moment (at least on my server), but I expect the Spirit Water to stay high in demand later along in the tier because it’s used to craft consumable items (stat potions). The other items are used for making equipment, which is typically a one-time buy per character.

The other items further down on the list are used for making previous endgame sets, but there might still be interest in those items for glamour purposes. You can check out the Facet set or the Neo-Ishgardian set to see if they fit your style.

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It may be cheaper just to spend gil on the marketboard for these older items or their crafting materials, and save Allegory for selling the current materials – it really depends on your server’s market. Remember that you don’t need HQ items for glamour, NQ is just fine.

Summary

Tomestones of Allegory follow the same routine you’re used to with endgame Tomestones. They’re currently used to buy quick catch up gear to get your average item level up to speed, or else you’ll be buying up crafting materials to use or sell on the marketboard.

Do you often find yourself in need of Allegory, or have you got more than you can spend? Let me know in the comments.