[Jamibian]

regarding desynthing pauldrons to ds ingots i have a couple of thoughts. i always found that providing i farmed the pauldrons i would make a killing when desynthing them. yes it is time consuming but time = money in my eyes. im not prepared to risk 10-20k on a pauldron at AH when im trying to get as much money as possible to help funding further skilling. if you want to cut costs further there is the option to go farm lightning clusters in delkfutts or wherever you like to farm them.

I found that a few of the higher level smithers will take attempts at desynthing pauldrons but as usual desynthing is anything but predictable. everyone who desynths has their own method to desynthing day/direction/moon etc as do I.

As regards demand for iron, there is always demand for it (on my server anyway). it is a founding ingredient for many synths. hell, im using iron ingots to skill with kari arrowheads (caps at 79). sheets can be used to synth nodowa for skill or even made into scales which are used in a particular ninja tool synth. iron can be bought from craft guilds for 675g and once you hit some of the HQ tiers can be made into another ingot. obviously it is easily mined and in my earlier days i always found it good to mine in zeruhn for it.

Hope this helps! drop me a pm if you have any other questions. i may be able to answer!

Good luck!