Airship Guide

[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)

[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.

[Hempen_Kecks]

SC23:
- Is a 5-star Sector, requiring Surveillance 90.
- The base distance is 45, and like others takes 13 distance to survey.
- The music contained there is Faded Copy of A World Apart.
- The airship item is Cassia Log.
- The regular item is Ferberite.

If there is materia in 23, I haven't been using high enough stats to bring it back.

SC21 is also spitting out Cassia Log, in addition to the Quicktongue V and Savage Might V. You likely had that, but I didn't see Cassia Log on SC21's table so I thought I'd include it to be sure.

[Nyalia]

SC23:
- Is a 5-star Sector, requiring Surveillance 90.
- The base distance is 45, and like others takes 13 distance to survey.
- The music contained there is Faded Copy of A World Apart.
- The regular item is Ferberite.

I'll edit this post in about an hour when my ship returns from there again.

SC21 is also spitting out Cassia Log, in addition to the Quicktongue V and Savage Might V. You likely had that, but I didn't see Cassia Log on SC21's table so I thought I'd include it to be sure.

Thanks! The QR sheet hadn't been updated for 3.1, if that's what you mean. I have since updated it to include everything we currently know.

Wait, seriously, SC23 drops Ferberite and not Birch Branches? That's super weird. That shouldn't drop again until SC25. It's the first time the pattern for the garbage mats, which holds from SC01 to SC22, breaks. Hmm.

[Ilmoran]

Some sector 24 results:



(Savage Aim III and Dark Chestnut Branch)

Distance from Sector 24 to Home, and Sectors 1-22:
Home: 28
Sector 01: 23
Sector 02: 24
Sector 03: 25
Sector 04: 31
Sector 05: 18
Sector 06: 14
Sector 07: 17
Sector 08: 10
Sector 09: 5
Sector 10: 21
Sector 11: 14
Sector 12: 30
Sector 13: 10
Sector 14: 22
Sector 15: 15
Sector 16: 26
Sector 17: 17
Sector 18: 7
Sector 19: 10
Sector 20: 12
Sector 21: 12
Sector 22: 20

[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?

[Hempen_Kecks]

Fair point! I didn't take a shot of my previous log and didn't get a regular item this time, so I apologize for that. Misread the previous picture showing it as a 23, when it was a 24. I'm a little new to contributing to this thread, though I've been reading it since the start.