Airship Guide

[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.

[Hanmerreborn]

Oh look, 4 airships sent out to sector 17, only god damn cassia logs brought back...AGAIN.

At least the ones I then sent to 13 at least had the decency to come back with 3 dravanian motes.

[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.)

[Hailvery]

Confirmed Intelligence Materia V from Sector 23.



Finally Found Sector 24 !!!

A new exploratory voyage destination─Sea of Clouds - Sector 24─has been discovered!

[Imagerror]

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

[Ilmoran]

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

Patch notes did say:
New items have been added, and the drop rate of items has been adjusted.

So, yeah, it seems so

[Xenora]

lately, we only do get mats and nothing else.. every now and then materia.

did they change something within the system?

I am a firm believer that they did change something within the system. Prior to 3.2 I was obtaining materia regularly from all of my airship builds but now I am only regularly obtaining materia from 1 of my 4 builds. The rest are usually just bringing me branches

Here are my 4 builds...

Build 1: Hull: Invincible-II, Rigging: Enterprise, Forecastle: Invincible-II, Aftcastle: Invincible-II


Build 2: Hull: Odyssey, Rigging: Invincible-II, Forecastle: Enterprise, Aftcastle: Enterprise


Build 3: Hull: Invincible, Rigging: Invincible, Forecastle: Tatanora, Aftcastle: Odyssey


Build 4: Hull: Enterprise, Rigging: Bronco, Forecastle: Odyssey, Aftcastle: Tatanora


I have 32 airships regularly running ventures -- 8 of them per build. Here is a summary of my experience since 3.2:

• The 8 airships I have running with Build 1 rarely ever bring in Materia. These airships will almost always just bring me branches and junk materials.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 2 are no better off than the 8 running Build 1.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 3 are beating out all the rest in loot. These airships almost always return with a V materia and often bring in 20+ IV materia just like the rest were prior to 3.2.
• The 8 airships I have running with Build 4 are the 'meh' airships. These occasionally bring back IV and V materia but it is still fairly rare. Ironically this was my best build prior to 3.2

The Build 3 airships have been doing so much better than my 1, 2, and 4 airships that I have actually begun the process of replicating the build across my entire fleet!

I am curious what others thoughts are

[Ilmoran]

I am curious what others thoughts are

You're insane? I wish I had your resources? Oh, you meant thoughts about the airship builds and results?

I've had 3 fully outfitted airships for about a month before the patch, and have been disappointed with their results. I have decided to refit them to all use the same build, rather than varying them so much. Happily, my build seems in line with what got you good results, so I feel like I'm on the right track.

[alimdia]

I work with 7 airships, all of them with different setups, but basically only the ones >=110 surv are bringing materia (mostly V) while the others just bring branches.

Since you have 32 airships I'm hoping you can bring more data, if they made surveillance such a high desired stat I'm willing to sacrifice all other stats for it.