By slipispsycho 2010-01-24 01:55:40
Of course desynthing is just inherently failure prone, but I have noticed that somethings are easier to desynth then others, even if both of the desynth levels are the exact same.. I don't do much desynthing anymore, because on my current character I'm a cook, which doesn't have any desynth as far as I know... But I used to be a WW, and certain desynths I could do all day with about as much failure as regular synthing, while others, even if they were below the easy ones, would just be fail after fail..
I used to just desynth one of the instruments (can't remember which, been a long time, it gave you parchment though) It worked, it seemed to have a very low fail rate, and the items you obtained from the instrument was actually quite expensive back then (30k+) while the crystals and the instruments to desynth to get a stack of that item cost a max of 7k total.
So in my experience and opinion is that if you keep trying and trying a certain recipe and you just seem to continually fail it, start looking fora new one.. as it's likely it's not just cuz desynthing has a inherent high fail rate, it's the particular item you're trying to desynth that has that fail rate. Try it out, you'll probably be as suprised as I was to see the pattern.