Airship Guide

[PROBOUND]

Airships are Dead.

After almost 2 weeks worth of testing, with a very large sample size, I have come to the conclusion that airships are no longer a viable source of materia or relevant crafting materials.

This is coming from someone who used to love this system. I'm now spending more money on repair materials and ceruleum tanks than any actual profit or usable items they may bring back. I literally can't see any reason to continue sending them out on voyages with the crap they are returning with.

Need materia for those shiney new ironworks sets? Don't bother sending ships to sector 13 and 17 unless you want to bathe in silver ore and earth crystals. That best in slot airship build you spent months crafting and raising funds for; Sorry stats don't mean a thing anymore when the loot tables are so bad and that capped retrieval still results in less than x5 materia 90% of the time. Have crafting and gathering members in your large FC that need help with melds and can't afford materia? Tough luck, tell them to go spiritbond.

SE has nerfed this system to the ground without telling us, and has devalued all of the hard work FCs have put into leveling and customizing their airships. If you didn't capitalize on the high value items and materia before patch 3.3, sadly your SOL.