Fine Alumen?

Anyone gotten any Fine Alumen lately? I know it's considered a "very rare" drop from sectors 4/7/13, but I've been hitting up 7/13 for the past 4 months with 4 airships and nothing really but a metric ton of tincalconite, dravanian motes, and crafter materia to show for it. My airships are 138 Surv/126 Retrieve/150 Favor with low range/speed.

Please give me hope.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jeykama

Anyone gotten any Fine Alumen lately? I know it's considered a "very rare" drop from sectors 4/7/13, but I've been hitting up 7/13 for the past 4 months with 4 airships and nothing really but a metric ton of tincalconite, dravanian motes, and crafter materia to show for it. My airships are 138 Surv/126 Retrieve/150 Favor with low range/speed.

Please give me hope.

---

I had some airships going out for them off and on a few weeks without any luck. I gave up and went back to materia farming.

Those types of drops have been non existent for me since the mini update between 3.5 and 3.51. All I get is materia and things like bamboo. No crafting materials at all which is strange because I used to get them more often than not.

I also have seen zero and I have been sending my ships out to those various sectors since the patch.

May I humbly suggest a report in the bugs forum so at least SE can look to see that nobody has screwed up an algorithm or something. Unless, of course, the drops had a weird tie to Diadem & because that's offline the materials are too. Shouldn't be the case but who knows how these things are coded!?

Got our first one in about 4 weeks today and from our worst geared/level airship of all things :/

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by HiroKirito

Got our first one in about 4 weeks today and from our worst geared/level airship of all things :/

---

Do you recall which sector it snagged it from?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dustytome

Do you recall which sector it snagged it from?

---

It could have only have been 4 or 7 as that's all I send the lower tier airship out too sorry I can't remember exactly which if the two it brought it back from in the log.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by HiroKirito

It could have only have been 4 or 7 as that's all I send the lower tier airship out too sorry I can't remember exactly which if the two it brought it back from in the log.

---

Alright, was just curious if maybe they moved sectors from what's previously been reported. Apparently still on the usual suspects, just painfully low chances at'em. :)

Just updating that I switched the route from 7/13 to 4/7, and finally got some Fine Alumen from 4 -_-

Yeah 4 is the magic sector for fine al

Been having the same bad luck from 7 and 13, could it be that it was removed from those sectors?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by alimdia

Been having the same bad luck from 7 and 13, could it be that it was removed from those sectors?

---

I've gotten that feeling for sure. Been getting 1-2 alumen out of 4 ships the past 4 runs doing 4/7 (only getting it from 4) as opposed to none for months doing 7/13.

I suppose I should explore more to see if it drops elsewhere now.

I'm also having no luck getting them. I'm not at home to check (pretty sure 3 of them are going 7/13), but I will make sure all my ships are running through sector 4 from now on.

In addition to this, I was happily farming shrub seedlings and for the last 2 weeks I may get one or two back a week. Used to be 6-8. I wonder if coding was accidentally or intentionally changed for the upcoming Diadem..

Sector 4 is definitely the way to go. One ship just pulled in 1 NQ and 1 HQ from only going after sector 4 today so they changed it for sure.

I've done a series of explorations from sectors 1-15 minus 4/7/13 and there were no changes in drops apart shown on the main airship thread, so I just have a feeling 7/13's drops went awry.

That being said I got 8 fine alumen today from just punching sector 4, so it's not that bad not finding higher yield sectors.

Just adding confirmation, got my first Fine Alumen since patch from sector 4 over the weekend.

Been getting a few from 4, though it's been spotty for me (yay rng). Switched most back to materia still to have some supply for our crafters when the expansion hits, but still have our people carrier out hunting for it until Diadem hits!