1. Acquiring artisan gear

Gryphonskin Strap

2. Desynthesizing artisan gears

doubles the rare item chance

3. The numbers

a) Time

45 items

40 minutes for 45 desynthesis

b) Money

2750/wrap, or, 110k per 40 desynthesis.

41% chance

244,350 gil for 40 minutes of time.

This article is a guide to farming demimateria that has raised in demand since patch 4.1 has introduced new recipes that use them. The original, more detailed article(by myself) in japanese can be viewed here Since patch 3.1, they can be traded with "trading items" in each class's master recipe book 1. Only HQ items can be traded in.The best item for trading isbecause it does not need any additional item to craft, have an 1:1 crafting (unlike rosegold and darksteel etc) & exchange rate (unlike tomato or spirit of salt) and it don't rely on an unspoiled node.The skin can be farmed at around (27,7) and (32,11) around Singing Shards in Mor Dhona, or it can be bought from the market board.After 4.1, grand company marks can be traded for artisan/forager gear for 5000 marks a piece as well.It requires desynthesis level 73 to desynthesize artisan gears 100% successfully.According to page 169, heavensward crafter & gatherer & goldsaucer official guide (available only in Japanese) to be most efficient, one need desynthesis level 100, as it. each level of careful desynthesis also gives a rare rate multiplier of 1.05 (so 1.3x with HQ Tinker's Calm + HQ Bacon Soup).With straps prepared in advance, aboutcan be desynthesized within the 10 minute effect duration (due to the ridiculous GUI that is obviously designed without keyboard/mouse input in mind) of Tinker's Calm.It takes ~35 seconds to marco-craft an HQ strap, making around 40 seconds costed each including autocrafting the leather.This gives 40*40/60 + 10 =The drop rate of demimateria after 100 skill and HQ tinker's calm is evaluated with an empirical test.6 earth crystals + 11 earth shards + 10 wind shards + 2 black alumen + 2 hippogryph skin = 50*6 + 50*11 + 50*10 + 100*2 +600*2 =After desynthesised 90 gears, the results are:16 fieldcraft demimateria II21 mastercraft demimateriaThis give aboutof getting rare item, and a 95% confidence of the true probability lies within +-10% margin of error.Using the current market price, we get:16*23000+21*18000 = 746k * 0.95 = 708.7k income - 220k expense =Of course, all numbers are estimates from market board and subject to change.