Desynthing silver rings is pretty horrible if your not above the items cap. And if your still above it slightly I would look into desynthing lower like brass. The HQ teirs don't seem to apply to desynthing. I'm 51 +1 GS which makes me 20 above cap and I HQ2 like crazy ( 2 ingots). I will get HQ1 animation and still recieve only 1. I remember trying at early 40's and getting not so good results. However desynthing is all about quantity. The more the better.
2.5 hours, desynthed 11+ stacks of silver. yeah, no more farming.
Like OP said Gems by Kshama is a great place. However if your First in Conquest get to the jewelry place next to GS guild. For me they are 100g cheaper a piece then Jueno and I can get Synth support.
These along with mythril earrings and silver earrings can be bought in the jewelry shop in lower jeuno known as Jems by Kshama, located at H-9. There are also jewels like lapis lazui, tourmaline, light opal, onyx, etc there so if you are skilling up goldsmithing I suggest you go there. The prices are much cheaper than the guild's.
And ztj, I suggest that you synthesize these and then desynthesize them and reuse the silver ignots that way. Yes you can still skill up if you desynth them, however desynthesis has a much lower success rate at lower levels then regular synthesis so watch out. You can desynth these with a lightning crystal.
Horlais Peak pond, composite rod, rogue rig (maybe robber...whichever of the two only gets items...), Moghancement: Fishing. Was level 20 fisherman. If you are high enough level Smith, just take a couple of stacks of lightening crystals with you, and replace them with stacks of silver ingots when the day/moon etc. is to your liking. Good luck from a retired fisherman. (Of course, you can pay 1250 for one from Gem Shop, Lower Jeuno, unless you are a penny pincher like I was for a while...)
Edited, Fri Oct 28 03:29:58 2005
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Zaub of Bastok/Cerberus: Taru, 17/20@90 Bone 100+3+Sign/Leather 60+1 Alch/Wood/Cook/Cloth/Smith/Goldsmith 60 GS 51/Smith 53/Fishing 29
Desynth with lightning crystals like all things. Normal split makes 1 ingot, HQ split makes 1 ingot, HQ2 split makes 2. I've done hundreds of these and haven't ever gotten 3 so I doubt that's possible.
you can't get 3 you can only get 2. This is because it took 2 ingots to make it. Just like it takes 1 ingot to make hairpins so you can only get 1 back.
I fished up one of these in Mhaura today, I was a little surprised!
Earlier I watched a a level 40-50 mage who desythesized one of them with a lightning crystal. Unfortunately I didn't talk to him about his smithing level.
I have heard you can buy these from Carmelide (Bastok Markets)-Shop next to Guild. I have never seen them there. But on Titan Bastok is usually in 3rd place... Can anyone verify this?
bastok 3rd place, she sells only copper rings bastok 2nd place, she sells brass and copper rings. bastok 1st place, she sells silver, brass, and copper rings. silver rings cost 1125 per with max fame and bastok in 1st.
yes these can be fished, your best bet to finding them from what Ive seen is fishing in small ponds and fountais (like those in Windurst) but I owuld bet they can be gotten all over. my friends goten 2 in windurst and 2 in mhuara