Airship Guide

[Snugglebutt]

Airships are Dead.

After almost 2 weeks worth of testing, with a very large sample size, I have come to the conclusion that airships are no longer a viable source of materia or relevant crafting materials.

Not true, I did quick check and some of the materials still sell for millions and many others just short of that. As long as you have invested the time and gil into having the ships capable of going to those sectors and retrieving them...then despite having RNG involved it doesn't cost much more by that stage to farm them and make a decent amount of profit. Just like leveling a retainer is not a worthless activity despite RNG involved and most of the stuff being less valuable. Some of the things they bring back will be and if put in time and effort to get to the stage where can farm them then it is worth doing.

If you were only doing it for materia then yes the value of them is less now because there are more ways to obtain T4's and now T5's are easier to gain...however T4 gathering and crafting materia is still worth farming and even the generic T4's can be converted into other more valuable T4's or some times T5.

If you think about it, those materias add up faster than what you get from airships, and you get a slight variety.

It's kind of unfortunate. :/

Your coming at it from the wrong angle. Think more along the lines of gaining many more in addition to the amount gain from beastman tribes. You can gain 12 from beastman tribes a day, much more if combine that with airship voyages. It's is not one or the other, it is both together that is how should think about it. As far as I am concerned granting materia from beastman tribes benefited doing the tribes but it did not detract from airship gained ones. It just added to the amount can obtain which is a good thing, especially since I almost always convert T4's to T5's anyways so the more T4's I get then the better the chances of more T5's.