Desynth skillup post 60?

[KuroiOokami]

I've been desynthing a lot of Antican Pauldrons for iron for my upcoming smithing levels in hopes of getting some gains as well as darksteel. They are capped at 76 I believe, but after using literally hundreds of crystals at 74 smithing, I have yet to get a single gain. Now I know gaining skill from desynthing is very rare, but I'm talking over 500-600 synths without a single gain. To me that is pretty much nonexistant. So has anyone else ever gotten a gain on a desynth post 60?

[Icemage]

I've been desynthing a lot of Antican Pauldrons for iron for my upcoming smithing levels in hopes of getting some gains as well as darksteel. They are capped at 76 I believe, but after using literally hundreds of crystals at 74 smithing, I have yet to get a single gain. Now I know gaining skill from desynthing is very rare, but I'm talking over 500-600 synths without a single gain. To me that is pretty much nonexistant. So has anyone else ever gotten a gain on a desynth post 60?

Skill gains are "tiered" depending on your level.

1-50 is fast skill gain. You can get up to .5 on skillups in a single synth in this range if you attempt stuff that's hard enough.

50-70 is slower skill gain. You can only get up to .2 at most, with possibly the very rare .3 if you're trying things way out of your normal range (+11 or more levels).

70-100 is even slower skill gain. .1 is the rule, .2 is rarer than hen's teeth.

On top of that, desynthesis formulas are incredibly stingy with skillups. I think I've received maybe 10 total in my crafting career, after thousands of desynths, and those were on lower level desynthesis recipes (level 16-32). I can't imagine trying to skill up past 60 with desynthesis.


Icemage

[KuroiOokami]

Yes skillups are rare, but without about 10-15 stacks of lightning crystals I was able to get a full level of goldsmithing desynthing mythril ingots. I have used about 5 times that many crystals desynthing pauldrons, and have yet to get even a .1

[Icemage]

Yes skillups are rare, but without about 10-15 stacks of lightning crystals I was able to get a full level of goldsmithing desynthing mythril ingots. I have used about 5 times that many crystals desynthing pauldrons, and have yet to get even a .1

Combination of bad luck + the tiered skill gain above? Also, are you certain about the skillcap on Antican Pauldron? I should note that I've desynthed probably ~300 silver rings between level 28 and level 30 goldsmithing, since I get them semi-frequently via fishing, and only received a desynthesis skillup perhaps twice the entire time, almost all the skill came from synthing the produced ingots back into rings, and using somewhere around 70 stacks of lightning crystals. This is a level 32 synth/desynth, too.


Icemage

[KuroiOokami]

I'm positive about the cap, it's 76 with lightning crystal and 78 with wind. Unless they changed the cap without anyone noticing, that should still be it.