A desynth question and a furnishing questionFollow

Are skillups on desynth possible? I have never, ever gotten one. Currently crafting Errant Slops as my skillup item, and while I get a normal amount of skillups on the synth, I've yet to see a single skillup on desynthing these in 4 stacks of lightning crystals. Is the desynth level based on the item obtained by any chance? I'm getting silk thread and ram leather, both of which are well below my craft levels and would explain the lack of skillups.

On another character, I just purchased the Carpenter's Kit and placed it in my MH. Do I have to have the Moghancement from that item active to get the benefits?

I always thought you needed to have mog inhancements active for them to work and the stronger the effect is supposed to be better.
Although I am not sure how well this works as people tend to have a belief system in place for crafting like:

"If I face a certain way during a specific moon phase, I will stand a better chance of a HQ"

I don't tend to rely too much on mog inhancement for my crafting and tend to place things in there that looks pretty instead. :D
In any case, crafting at 90+ is very annoying even if your not using desynth recipes to skill up.
The price of crystals might be one thing to factor in to the price of the synth but if you have a job that can solo EP elementals, why not go to sky and try farming some clusters.
(They are much easier to farm then they used to be and they stack so they wont take up your invent like you used to. They are also up 24/7)

So in short:
Regular skill up recipes can take from 5-15 stacks of materials at your currant level.
Desynths can take even more mats then that ><

A few inaccuracies here.


Agreed. I can't remember the last time I actually saw one, but I don't really desynth very often anymore.


This is generally assumed to be the case, but I don't know that it has actually be proven to always be true. I know I've seen a number of recipes on wikis over the years that claim a different level for synth/desynth, but I have never attempted to verify or otherwise resolve these discrepancies. It's a good rule of thumb, however.


A good rule of thumb, but not always the case. The only specific counter-example I can think of right now is Angel's Flute, which is made from rosewood and parchment. Although it has since been changed, the desynth result used to include the possibility of an angelstone. This may have been an unintentional exception, but it is (was) an exception none the less. There are also a number of items which can be desynthed, but for which there is no (or no known) synthesis recipe (sky gear, for example).


This was ninja-changed such that the stall alone gives +5 skill. I have personally tested this and verified it to be true (at least +5, I did not attempt to rule out higher values), and others have claimed such over at BG.