Airship Guide

[Killthee]

Can you post your airship stats pls.

I'm trying to farm zu mounts for my FC and I'm wondering if a high surveillance build is a good idea or not.

Just got our first spoil after finally discovering the island last Friday.



Ship parts are Enterprise Hull, Invincible Proprellers, Odyssey Aft & Fore (Surveillance 110 // Retrieval 122 // Speed 68 // Range 94 // Favor 118).

[Hempen_Kecks]

Can you post your airship stats pls.

I'm trying to farm zu mounts for my FC and I'm wondering if a high surveillance build is a good idea or not.

Hey there! I've had 2 ships outfitted with Invincible - Tata - Tata - Bronco, and so far we're at 3 Iron Voyage Spoils and 3 Tier V Vitality Materia. I just refitted one of them to Bronco - Tata - Tata - Invincible because I determined the extra Range wasn't giving me access to any other sector I had interest in. The two most recent logs both have the note "extremely disappointing extraction yield" on both of the items they brought back - 27 HQ Dark Chestnut Branch + 1x Vitality V, and 1x Iron Voyage Spoil + 1x Vitality V.

Clearly, I need to meld this Vit to my Mammet so he can carry more back.

My naive presumption was that Favor could impact the likelihood of receiving the rarer items, hence my choice to build like that.

[Lilster]

At least 3 of our ships have brought back iron voyage spoils, surveillance 90, 100, and 136. Can't remember if the 4th has gotten any, so far we've got 6 zus!

[THETRUESELF]

I don't particularly understand the way the loot works with regards to the first thing you find and the second thing you find - if they're different tables or something. But I thought I'd share this result!

I can compete with that!


So, it seems if someone is really lucky he can get 4 Iron voyage spoil at once (Two drops - 2 each.)

[Nyalia]

I'm surprised at how few items are in 23 and 24 compared to the other sectors. It's a good thing though when most of them are really valuable - only the tier 3 materia is a junk drop, unless there's zero demand for INT IV or V materia (I haven't checked). I expect the supply of VIT V and Savage Aim V to shoot up due to people spamming 24 for the Zu Horn. I can't imagine the value dropping much though for Savage Aim V... Crit is like the highest weighted stat for almost every class in 3.0, isn't it?

[PROBOUND]

unless there's zero demand for INT IV or V materia (I haven't checked).

Zero demand. Its junk materia like DEX. The only value comes from Materia Transmutation. Save these for when you wanna play the slot machine.

[Nyalia]

Zero demand. Its junk materia like DEX. The only value comes from Materia Transmutation. Save these for when you wanna play the slot machine.

Ah, right, that makes sense. Still, it feels like there are way fewer eye-roll drops in SC23-SC24. Probably because the drop rate was so high for Dusk Leather in SC17-SC22, and for schematic mats in SC01-SC16, and those are all totally useless once you have enough. And, SC01-SC16 dropped crystals quite often. Having all of that out of the drop pool looks like it really helps!

[FJerome]

Somewhat tangential but I just got an antique rug from a wyvernskin treasure map, which surprised me because correct me if I'm wrong but weren't all the previous special crafting mats the airships brought back initially exclusive to them?

[Nyalia]

Somewhat tangential but I just got an antique rug from a wyvernskin treasure map, which surprised me because correct me if I'm wrong but weren't all the previous special crafting mats the airships brought back initially exclusive to them?

At first, that was true, but it appears to have been changed. People have reported getting those from wyvernskin maps earlier in this thread.

[alimdia]

Not all, Wind Silk and Dinosaur Leather were added to both airships and Diadem at the same time.