Airship Guide

[Imagerror]

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

After looking over your build i noticed that ours are pretty much outdated,
guess once the workshop is operational again i will build newer ones.

Though Im suprised since the Airship3 - except for the Range - should make an S rank in Sector 24.
And comparing the STATS with your build, i dont see much of a difference in stats.
we decided to give our airships slow speed (3days around per turn) so I can farm enough mats for repairs and such.


Airship 1: S.S. Enterprise
She barely leaves the hanger these days,
we use her to go into diadem and thats basicly it.

bronco - invincible 2 - tatanora - bronco
Surveillance: 140
Retreival: 58
Speed: 112
Range: 58
Favor: 140


Airship2: The T.A.R.D.I.S.
We used her to scout ahead and maybe get 1 or 2 sectors
for - back then - high valued mats

inc2 - inc - inc2 - inc2
Surveillance: 100
Retreival: 108
Speed: 72
Range: 108
Favor: 100
(Brought us decent Tier4 Materia and high value mats all the time, now.. barely anything except crystals)



Airship 3: fAIRy FORCE ONE
just like our leader a bit slow and lazy sometimes,
but ambitious and motivated enough to get the job done

inc - bronco - tatanora - tatanora
Surveillance: 120
Retreival: 140
Speed: 50
Range: 84
Favor: 136
(Brought us decent Tier4 Materia and high value mats all the time, now.. barely T3 crafting mats)

A Rank last trip :
Fire Crystalx80
Empty Clusterx9
Savage Aim Materia IIIx21


Airship 4: S.S. SuperNova
like the two above, we mainly used her to farm materials andto build items in our FC Workshop,
to search for new sectors. We got also nice stacks of Tier4 Materia before 3.2 -- now shes solo sectoring around.

tatanora - bronco - inc - inc
Surveillance: 80
Retreival: 84
Speed: 66
Range: 140
Favor: 64