k, couldn’t find the screenshot, but someone once asked “why dismantle”, and i did like 60-80 dismantles from a levelling char’s stockpile, showcasing the amount of mats, - suppose you can “extrapolate” that/something similar from the earlier screen shots with 4 mats from 18 dismantles.
I don’t remember the numbers, 25%? 50%? , where you’re trading one rng “farm” for another (15%? drop vs crystal farm+dismantle rng), and to me/i think getting dynamite is reasonable enough to then nuke one’s unused low level epic/legends or duplicate end items. - to me the difference is we’re getting those spare epics/legends regardless of our materia need, so might as well use them/include them as possible to reduce the direct hunt requirement for those potentially same mats.
edit, some numbers
*i don’t know if those numbers/weights have changed since that post