Airship Guide

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Originally Posted by BonzaiFerroni

Just to clear up a bit of confusion, since sector 22 is the unlocking sector it could even be unlocked by a single trip there, sector 21 isn't important \o/

At least that is what the pattern has been so far, this would be the first thing that required visiting two specific sectors, and that doesn't seem likely.

Keep those reports coming in guys, i'm updating the OP regularly!

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Are you sure? The first screenshot shows it as soon as they arrived in 21. Is the unlock part of the previous sector but a delayed message?

Kind of a bother to get screenshot from my tablet but can add extra confirmation of Sector 21 yielding Wind Silk and we unlocked Diadem Hard as well, but the route taken was 17 >> 21 >> 20. The unlock text did not show up in my voyage log, only in chat log after finalizing the report.

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Originally Posted by Mambo

Kind of a bother to get screenshot from my tablet but can add extra confirmation of Sector 21 yielding Wind Silk and we unlocked Diadem Hard as well, but the route taken was 17 >> 21 >> 20. The unlock text did not show up in my voyage log, only in chat log after finalizing the report.

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Thanks for the info!

5:20]You obtain 2 bolts of wind silk.
[5:20]You obtain 19 craftsman's competence materia III.

was new material from sector 13 not sure what its used in yet ( sent to sector 13 only )

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Originally Posted by SireRyins

Are you sure? The first screenshot shows it as soon as they arrived in 21. Is the unlock part of the previous sector but a delayed message?

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Yep, that's right! This is the pattern it takes in the voyage log:

Survey of Sea of Clouds - Sector 05 complete. Elite performance rated as substandard. <-Sector that unlocked
Elite gains 79633 (+50%) experience points.
[]30h 53m elapsed -------------------
Changing course to Sea of Clouds - sector 4.
Sea of Clouds - Sector 7 discovered! <-Sector discovered

Hmmm, but Mambo's report seems to suggest it is sector 21? Well I suppose this might be an exception! Keep us updated on your results, whether you visit 22 or 21 \o/

http://i.imgur.com/ecB6nHr.jpg

I just got Cassia Logs from a Sektor 13+17 voyage, I just forgot which of both gave them now <_>

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Originally Posted by ladyJ

5:20]You obtain 2 bolts of wind silk.
[5:20]You obtain 19 craftsman's competence materia III.

was new material from sector 13 not sure what its used in yet ( sent to sector 13 only )

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Master 2 Clothcraft Specialist Recipes:
High House Justaucorops=2
High House Bustle=2
High House Breeches=1

Looks like that's all the uses for the silk.

Picked up Cassia Logs and Oriental Grass from a solo sector 14 run.

Oriental Grass is used in an Alchemy synth to make... Oriental Grass...

o.O

I only sent this ship to Sector 22, Discovered Diadem (Hard).
http://i.imgur.com/rtXgueY.png

https://imgur.com/6qKf878.jpg
Got some Dinosaur Leather from sector 19.

Dravanian Motes found at Sector 6.
http://puu.sh/liopV/36f3b6739a.png

Have sent an airship to sector 22 only and guess what... no hard Diadem discovered...

Sent our ship from Sector 21 to Sector 22 to unlock Diadem Hard. Unfortunately it came back today and it didn't discover it :( It looks like we got RNG'd.

In the hopes of unlocking it before the weekend, I sent it to Sector 22 only. Fingers crossed.

Don't see it mentioned anywhere. Potters Stone found in Sector 10.

Its a rare item - Voyage Log said "High-quality potters stone discovered."

I sent two airships. First to 21, second to 22. Nothing to report... *sigh*

Sent one airship to Sector 21 alone, and no discovery.
Sent a second airship to sector 22 alone, and it discovered hard mode Diadem. Good luck on your discovery!

Also sent an airship to sector 22, did not unlock diadem (hard)...

Sent two airships now, one to sector 21 other to sector 22... lets see how it goes... but its gonna take 1 and a half days ; ;

I wish I had taken a screenshot at the time but yesterday one of my airships came back from a trip to Sectors 18 > 21 and both of the sectors gave the message saying Diadem (Hard) was unlocked. Have not yet seen any reports of someone getting it from 18. Tried to pull it up to screenshot but the unlock is no longer displaying when re-viewing it x.x

Personally, I also unlocked it from 22, but it did take 2 trips for me to unlock. Has anyone else considered that perhaps this is one instance where a single sector isn't the only one to unlock something? Since this is Hard and certain surveillance is needed, all sectors that require 90+ surveillance might have a chance of unlocking it.

My Last Airship 50 Alf with max speed and discovery have unlock the Hard diadem the 11 November 21h ^^

High, just thought I would mention I got 2 Potters Stone from sector 10 today to u9date your list

RNG'd here also.
Sent one ship to sector 21, and second ship to sector 22.
Neither of them discovered Diadem hard.

Goign to send them both out to 22 in hopes of having it unlocked for the weekend also.

My airship came back from a 2 days and a half trip to sector 22 and sector 21, no Diadem hard mode discovered, this is totally RNG and unfair from Square Enix. Many people have unlocked it by now and many of us stay behind and can't play the hard mode. I hope this won't take a month like it already did for us to discover some new areas...

My FC's airship sent it off to 17 and 22, and unlocked hard mode. I think it's just 22 with some heavy rng.

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Originally Posted by Phireblast

My FC's airship sent it off to 17 and 22, and unlocked hard mode. I think it's just 22 with some heavy rng.

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I think its a 50:50 chance in the worst case, I wouldnt call that heavy rng

got it during my first trip to 22 too

Yeah, I would imagine those of us who didn't manage to unlock it our first trip should probably have it unlocked on the second trip out, so I'm really not worried about it.
My bugger concern is, why gate an area designated as free company content behind an RNG gate, regardless of the trivial nature of the rng. I'm not sure why it wasn't just am automatic unlock for FC's with high level airships.

It just seems rather silly.

3 airships returned from sector 22 and still no Diadem discovered, #%!& this RNG...

Edit: diadem unlocked, took 5 trips, unlocked with a single trip to sector 22.

RNG maybe but listen guys! Diadem HM is in between 21 and 22. I unlocked it from 21 and then my airship commenced to Sector 22 (22 did not unlock it! it was 21.) Looking at the end of the report does not show that. That end shows what all the sectors unlocked so looking in the report has the info. Save yourselves the trouble and do sectors 21 and 22. Have a decent Forecastle for discovery, Rig for speed and you should not need many trips! I have read a lot of ppl debating. Either your ship will discover it in route from Sector 21 to 22 or Leaving 22 and coming home.

Airship just got back from it's second attempt at unlock the Diadem HM and...no dice. We've been RNG'd again :/

We unlocked diadem hard on day 1. Sector 21 pre-patch flight. When it came back less than a day after maint, diadem hard was available.

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Originally Posted by COSMIC_RENEGADE

RNG maybe but listen guys! Diadem HM is in between 21 and 22. I unlocked it from 21 and then my airship commenced to Sector 22 (22 did not unlock it! it was 21.) Looking at the end of the report does not show that. That end shows what all the sectors unlocked so looking in the report has the info. Save yourselves the trouble and do sectors 21 and 22. Have a decent Forecastle for discovery, Rig for speed and you should not need many trips! I have read a lot of ppl debating. Either your ship will discover it in route from Sector 21 to 22 or Leaving 22 and coming home.

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I did both buddy, sent an airship to sector 22 and 21 and sent another airship to sector 22 alone, and both failed even with a forecastle of 100 and above so what can i say... fucking RNG

Remnants of Cetra discovered Hardmode from sector 22!

I have made 6 trips and no discovery, I wouldn't call it 50/50.

In an attempt to unlock diadem hard, we went to sector 21 and 22. Both sectors gave us cassia logs which were only from sectors 14-16 before the patch.

found Oriental Grass x 3 from Sector 14

My FC has 4 airships, I sent them to sector 6 and 13 mostly to try get the Dravanian Mote to finish up the moogle house skin. So far no luck, it seems to be a rare item... Sector 21 gave 4 Wind Silk. Sadly that's all I have to report for now. :( I'm quite annoyed by the rng bottleneck of needing to get items and Diadem unlock. Good luck grinding and keep the reports coming guys!

from what I have noticed with my FC and some other friends' FCs, I'd say the chance of unlocking diadem hard is around 25% ~ 33% when sending airship to sectors 21 or 22

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Originally Posted by Laeta

In an attempt to unlock diadem hard, we went to sector 21 and 22. Both sectors gave us cassia logs which were only from sectors 14-16 before the patch.

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That's interesting! I think they were the only one of the airship-crafting mats that gained an additional use in the new recipes, although I might be mistaken.

Thanks for all the reports guys!

Has anyone seen a screenshot to confirm that diadem hard can also be unlocked from sector 21? We managed to unlock it after four trips to sector 22 (single sector trip).

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Originally Posted by Xenora

I wish I had taken a screenshot at the time but yesterday one of my airships came back from a trip to Sectors 18 > 21 and both of the sectors gave the message saying Diadem (Hard) was unlocked. Have not yet seen any reports of someone getting it from 18. Tried to pull it up to screenshot but the unlock is no longer displaying when re-viewing it x.x

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This is really interesting XD I wonder if it might just be the case that any sector above a certain rank has a chance to unlock it, that might explain why we are getting reports of it being unlocked from more than one sector.

I haven't read all of the thread so apologies if there is already a calculator.

In our FC we wanted to figure out the best combinations of parts for our airships and their roles. Given that there are so many possible combinations I decided to quickly write a crude script to first generate all possible combinations of airships (with < 61 components) and then filter them based on stats we chose. It turns out that it works really well.

If you raise the stats slowly in order of importance you can quickly reduce the number of results to a manageable amount, even right down to a single ship combination. Yay!

I think others can make use of this tool, so i'll post here it.

http://sandcastle-khadgar.co.uk/medi...hips/index.php

Maybe one day I will have enough time to write a better looking or more functional version.

/Arstas