Airship Guide

[Malakai]

So, I need to ask because I don't see anything about this.

Has anyone noticed some sort of diminishing returns from doing the same mission over and over?

I was going to ask if anyone was trying to do a % on obtaining housing/craft items. Before 3.1 patch our airships were bringing back toy schematics, far eastern coins, dusk leather, etc by the truckload. It was like good hauls all the time. Since 3.1 the day after the patch when people reported 6 + 13 + 17 for drav motes. We have sent our airships out repeatedly to farm those sectors. Over 50 trips now and so far only 1 has ever returned with Dravanian Motes. A months time farming those islands and only 5 motes? That's a pretty piss poor RNG % rate to obtain a glamour item. The MB is hardly ever full of them either. And also it's usually always violent/turbulent winds when collecting from the islands.

[Nyalia]

Over 50 trips now and so far only 1 has ever returned with Dravanian Motes. A months time farming those islands and only 5 motes? That's a pretty piss poor RNG % rate to obtain a glamour item.

I've been doing the same, and have zero motes. The drop rates are just absolutely terrible.

And no, the diminishing returns thing isn't a thing, that's just observation bias. Most FCs have found zero motes in the time you found the amount you did. You happened to get lucky twice early on, and then you got the same terrible luck as the rest of us the rest of the time. Putting a pattern to that is silly - it's like winning the jumbo cactpot on day one and then saying that because you never won it again, there must be diminishing returns on winning the jumbo cactpot.