Airship Guide

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Originally Posted by FJerome

Somewhat tangential but I just got an antique rug from a wyvernskin treasure map, which surprised me because correct me if I'm wrong but weren't all the previous special crafting mats the airships brought back initially exclusive to them?

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At first, that was true, but it appears to have been changed. People have reported getting those from wyvernskin maps earlier in this thread.

Oh look, 4 airships sent out to sector 17, only god damn cassia logs brought back...AGAIN.

At least the ones I then sent to 13 at least had the decency to come back with 3 dravanian motes.

At least 3 of our ships have brought back iron voyage spoils, surveillance 90, 100, and 136. Can't remember if the 4th has gotten any, so far we've got 6 zus!

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Originally Posted by Hempen_Kecks

I don't particularly understand the way the loot works with regards to the first thing you find and the second thing you find - if they're different tables or something. But I thought I'd share this result!

https://i.imgur.com/ffWDmGd.png

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I can compete with that!
http://i.imgur.com/Rjg1ZKZ.png

So, it seems if someone is really lucky he can get 4 Iron voyage spoil at once (Two drops - 2 each.)

Confirmed Intelligence Materia V from Sector 23.

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/o...psk7xihd0n.jpg

Finally Found Sector 24 !!!

A new exploratory voyage destination─Sea of Clouds - Sector 24─has been discovered!

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

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Originally Posted by Imagerror

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

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Patch notes did say:
New items have been added, and the drop rate of items has been adjusted.

So, yeah, it seems so :(

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Originally Posted by Imagerror

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

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I am a firm believer that they did change something within the system. Prior to 3.2 I was obtaining materia regularly from all of my airship builds but now I am only regularly obtaining materia from 1 of my 4 builds. The rest are usually just bringing me branches :(

Here are my 4 builds...

Build 1: Hull: Invincible-II, Rigging: Enterprise, Forecastle: Invincible-II, Aftcastle: Invincible-II
http://i.imgur.com/DpNTlyJ.png

Build 2: Hull: Odyssey, Rigging: Invincible-II, Forecastle: Enterprise, Aftcastle: Enterprise
http://i.imgur.com/nTbU9zk.png

Build 3: Hull: Invincible, Rigging: Invincible, Forecastle: Tatanora, Aftcastle: Odyssey
http://i.imgur.com/3gm9Zkq.png

Build 4: Hull: Enterprise, Rigging: Bronco, Forecastle: Odyssey, Aftcastle: Tatanora
http://i.imgur.com/m583l4i.png

I have 32 airships regularly running ventures -- 8 of them per build. Here is a summary of my experience since 3.2:

• The 8 airships I have running with Build 1 rarely ever bring in Materia. These airships will almost always just bring me branches and junk materials.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 2 are no better off than the 8 running Build 1.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 3 are beating out all the rest in loot. These airships almost always return with a V materia and often bring in 20+ IV materia just like the rest were prior to 3.2.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 4 are the 'meh' airships. These occasionally bring back IV and V materia but it is still fairly rare. Ironically this was my best build prior to 3.2

The Build 3 airships have been doing so much better than my 1, 2, and 4 airships that I have actually begun the process of replicating the build across my entire fleet!

I am curious what others thoughts are :p

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Originally Posted by Xenora

I am curious what others thoughts are :p

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You're insane? I wish I had your resources? Oh, you meant thoughts about the airship builds and results? ;)

I've had 3 fully outfitted airships for about a month before the patch, and have been disappointed with their results. I have decided to refit them to all use the same build, rather than varying them so much. Happily, my build seems in line with what got you good results, so I feel like I'm on the right track.

I work with 7 airships, all of them with different setups, but basically only the ones >=110 surv are bringing materia (mostly V) while the others just bring branches.

Since you have 32 airships I'm hoping you can bring more data, if they made surveillance such a high desired stat I'm willing to sacrifice all other stats for it.