Submersible Information Thread

[yosment]

If my purpose is to get crafting and gathering materia VIs, what submarine part combination shall I aim for? Is it the same as to get Otter?

[AuricSeagard]

If my purpose is to get crafting and gathering materia VIs, what submarine part combination shall I aim for? Is it the same as to get Otter?

We don't know too much about farming those materia yet but judging from past experience with the airships, yes, you'll want to set up the same as for Otter because those will be rare drops. So go for a high surveillance and favor for best results. You won't need to worry about retrieval as all that seems to do is increase the size of the stack of items you get, and rare drops don't stack -- in general you just get one of those at a time no matter how high or low your retrieval is, so you're not going to get a stack of 10 Abroader Otters no matter what. Take enough range to get to your desired sector(s) and consider speed to be your second dump stat after retrieval.

Can I ask why you want to farm those with your subs instead of just doing red and yellow scrips though?

[yosment]

We don't know too much about farming those materia yet but judging from past experience with the airships, yes, you'll want to set up the same as for Otter because those will be rare drops. So go for a high surveillance and favor for best results. You won't need to worry about retrieval as all that seems to do is increase the size of the stack of items you get, and rare drops don't stack -- in general you just get one of those at a time no matter how high or low your retrieval is, so you're not going to get a stack of 10 Abroader Otters no matter what. Take enough range to get to your desired sector(s) and consider speed to be your second dump stat after retrieval.

Can I ask why you want to farm those with your subs instead of just doing red and yellow scrips though?

I do not have that much time to do scrips cause can only play the game a few hours a week at the moment. However, if I can use the submersibles to collect some VIs for 5.0 then it will be great. As for the build, I used the calculator from this forum and get this one, will this be sth I can experiment? #409 Coelacanth-Class Pressure Hull Unkiu-class Stern Unkiu-class Bow Syldra-class Bridge 49 (Component) 170 (Surveillance) 30 (Retrieval) 70 (Speed) 95 (Range) 120 (Favor)