Desynthesis

[Naly]

Am I right to assume that I have to wear a piece of gear in order to be able to desynthesise it?

[Sarojin]

no, you just need to have it in your inventory and have the right class and level to desynthesis the item/gear

[Nei]

I don't think so, you unlock desynthesis at lvl 30 crafting

[Naly]

Thanks! I would have been really annoyed if I had to wear gear I didn't want

[Shinkiro]

You're thinking of soulbinding and converting gear to materia

[Naly]

Originally posted by Br00tal Mclovin:

You're thinking of soulbinding and converting gear to materia

Does desynthesis simply reduce the item to parts while converting makes materia?

[Naly]

How do you soulbind something?

[Ancarius]

Soulbing is done by just wearing it and do stuff with it, like killing enemies with a battle class. That changes an item to a certain type of materia and desynthesis just destroys the item to gives you some items.

[Big Boom Boom]

Desynth reduce the item into base material such as ingot + crystal. Sometimes it will generate a Demimateria instead.

Primal Demimateria are used for crafting glamour weapons
Fieldcraft/Battlecraft/Mastercraft are used for crafting
Clear Demimateria has no purpose other than selling for gil

Culinarian can also desynth certain fishes for high grade Materia.

Spiritbond and convert will ALWAYS make a Materia.

Soulbind is also done when you glamour any two piece of equipment, the base item AND the item that has the appearance on base item you glamour will be both soulbound. You can not buy an item off MB and glamour that look and resell it for almost no cost.

Dying however does not soulbind it. Some people sell untradeable dye by manually trading gears, dye and then trade the dyed item.