Airship Guide

[Nyalia]

There's no way to confirm anything 100%, but all evidence points to unlocking sectors being pure RNG. If you care far more for the unlock than the loot in the unlocking sector, I recommend using the best rigging you can and worst Aftcastle. Here's possibly the best ship for working toward unlocking sectors 23 and 24 at the same time:

The Ninja Locksmith - maximum speed, minimum surveillance for rank 50 sectors, low range, minimal retrieval

• Hull: Invincible II
• Rigging: Viltgance
• Forecastle: Enterprise
• Aftcastle: Bronco

• Surveillance: 98
• Retrieval: 46
• Speed: 154
• Range: 88
• Favor: 86

That's literally the fastest ship you can make that will be able to hit both sectors (Route: 21 > 19) at once.

Once you unlock one sector, if you like the remaining unlocking sector's loot at all, you can swap to the following for hitting just that sector. It'll go a little slower, but your loot should be much better:

The Lightning Thief - almost maximum speed, moderate surveillance, low retrieval, minimal range

• Hull: Bronco
• Rigging: Viltgance
• Forecastle: Invincible II
• Aftcastle: Enterprise

• Surveillance: 104
• Retrieval: 74
• Speed: 146
• Range: 46
• Favor: 112

The Airship Builder in my sig has been updated to include Viltgance parts. The Airship Builder in the Airship Quick Reference sheet has also been updated. I'm working on updating the item list in the Quick Reference sheet when I have time. I'll do the master log sheet later - I haven't had a chance to open that sheet in many months, so I have no idea if people have still been using it or what people are doing about reporting the new sectors there.

I'll update the images in the OP soon too.

[Nyalia]

Question - has anyone obtained Grade III materia from sectors SC18+ since 3.2 hit? Also, has anyone tried farming SC17/SC22 for Grade V Crafting/Gathering materia? And, what materia have people found in sectors 11-17 since 3.2? Not the type, the grade. I highly doubt the types have changed, just the grade range.

It used to be Grade II-III for SC1-SC10 and Grade III-IV for SC11-SC22. We need to find the new breakpoints for the grade shift, and what the new ranges are. Is it IV-V, or III-V for the last group? Are Grade II materia still obtainable from early sectors (they were always super rare)?


(EDIT: Also, there is no Mind materia in SC21. The person who reported that misread their report. Their screenshot shows they went 21->19, finding Platinum Ore and Savage Might III in 21. That leaves Mind V and Cassia Logs to have been found in SC19, which is where Mind materia has always been. Also, on that note, I've answered my first question - grade III materia is still obtainable in the same sectors that grade V materia is found)

[Tyrn]

Question - has anyone obtained Grade III materia from sectors SC18+ since 3.2 hit

Got 9 Grade III MND from sector 19 today.

[FJerome]

Question - has anyone obtained Grade III materia from sectors SC18+ since 3.2 hit? Also, has anyone tried farming SC17/SC22 for Grade V Crafting/Gathering materia? And, what materia have people found in sectors 11-17 since 3.2? Not the type, the grade. I highly doubt the types have changed, just the grade range.

We've gotten Grade III Quicktongue from Sector 21 and Grade III Craftsman's Command from Sector 17 since the patch.

[Nyalia]

Well, I sat down and updated everything that I could without doing more research than is in this thread. If someone is interested in doing research elsewhere on the internets, ask around among other FCs who do lots of airship stuff, and so on and let me know what you find, I'd love to have the rest of the info.

One thing that many people don't think is interesting but would really help is the common drops from SC23 and SC24. Does SC23 drop Birch Branches and SC24 drop Dark Chestnut Branches like the pattern suggests? Do they drop Cassia Logs like SC14-SC22? Do they drop Deep Color Clusters like SC11-SC22? What about the materia types in SC23 and SC24? I'm expecting INT, VIT, Heaven's Eye, and Savage Aim, especially if SC14 and SC15 (the latest sectors to have those four) can't drop grade V materia. Each will have a primary (INT/VIT) paired with a secondary (Heaven's Eye/Savage Aim).

(EDIT: Oh, someone reported VIT V from 24. I wonder if that means INT V comes from 23? That'd make 3 sectors with INT IV when most others have only 1, but if not, I dunno where INT V comes from)

[Nyalia]

I <3 you, Ilmoran ^.^

I'm not going to put Ferberite down for 23 unless someone confirms it. It'd be so weird for SC23 to break the pattern when SC24 follows it...

[Ilmoran]

Compiling some other sector 24 results from earlier in the thread:



Cassia logs (can be seen just below the Iron Voyage Tooltip) and Vitality Grade V.

[Hempen_Kecks]

Glad that Ferberite and Cassia Log from 23 could be confirmed. Took a peek under the hood, so to speak, and there are only 2 new sectors, 23 and 24. Nothing else to be found, yet.

Since Ilmoran presented those distance values for 24, I thought I'd do the same for 23! Now what's the distance between them...?

Distance from Sector 23 to Home, and Sectors 1-22:
Home: 45 (This is just distance -from- Home as well, right?)
Sector 01: 39
Sector 02: 43
Sector 03: 35
Sector 04: 50
Sector 05: 36
Sector 06: 29
Sector 07: 36
Sector 08: 29
Sector 09: 23
Sector 10: 40
Sector 11: 23
Sector 12: 48
Sector 13: 16
Sector 14: 29
Sector 15: 11
Sector 16: 42
Sector 17: 32
Sector 18: 25
Sector 19: 8
Sector 20: 15
Sector 21: 22
Sector 22: 27

[Nyalia]

Thanks for the distances! But, where's the confirmation of Ferberite?

[Mjollnir]

Thanks for the distances! But, where's the confirmation of Ferberite?

Heeeyar!



EDITED LIES: 9x of those 18x Aetherochemical Fiber were found in 23 as well.