Submersible Information Thread

[Norri_Matora]

Made a note about this a few posts ago, but I worked out and added a couple more routes for the CUSyC fit:

CUSyC
Route 1: Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) > Sunken Vault (AD) > Stone Temple (AC) = 3 Days, 1 Minute
Route 2: Neolith Island (I) > Deep-Sea Site 3 (E) > Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) = 1 Day, 20 Hours, 50 Minutes
Route 3: Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) > The Rimilala Shelf (V) > Flickering Dip (Y) = 2 Days, 21 Hours, 40 Minutes
Route 4: Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) > The Rimilala Shelf (V) > The Wreckage of the Headway (Z) = 2 Days, 20 Hours, 57 Minutes
Route 5: Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) > Sunken Vault (AD) > The Wreckage of the Headway (Z) = 2 Days, 23 Hours, 7 Minutes


With regards to CUUC for short distance farming, a couple of route options might be as follows:

CUUC
Route 1: Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) = 1 Day, 1 Hour, 36 Minutes
Route 2: Deep-Sea Site 3 (E) > Deep-Sea Site 7 (W) = 1 Day, 4 Hours, 49 Minutes
Route 3: Neolith Island (I) > Deep-Sea Site 3 (E) = 23 Hours, 14 Minutes


Considering the difference between the two fits is a simple swap between an Unkiu and Syldra part, these two shiptypes work really well with each other.


Edit: I guess it's even better that it turned out this way because it makes the leveling guide a lot easier to parse.

Rank 1-15: SSSS
Rank 15-17: UUUS
Rank 17-35: UUUU
Rank 35-45: CUWC (Grind Kamacite Ore)
Rank 45-50: CUSyC/CUUC

[Radaghast]

So question, assuming gil is no object wouldn't a CSySySy be the best overall sub to farm whatever you might want? It's slow but it has 160 surv, 100 retrieve, 95 range, 40 speed, and 130 favor.

I dislike specializing and would rather just have 4 subs i can send out to get whatever with a reasonable return.

[PepperPandemic]

So question, assuming gil is no object wouldn't a CSySySy be the best overall sub to farm whatever you might want? It's slow but it has 160 surv, 100 retrieve, 95 range, 40 speed, and 130 favor.

You are trading a lot of speed for retrieval.

The current theory is that retrieval is really useful for getting the common stuff (crafting materials, lower lv. materia, Company Crafting unlock stuff) but it doesn't seem to affect the rare retrieval yields.

If you are mostly after the rare drops the preferred builds will get to make twice as many trips as yours and will probably find a lot more rares.

If you want to go slow, you need to increase the range so you can hit more zones in one trip. Ideally twice as many(or more) zones in twice the time (or less) as the faster ships.

I don't know if anyone else has done any research here on fast vs slow boats, but I think the most important factor would be how often you will check them. If you are only going to check them once a week or so go slow, if you are going to be playing a lot fast will probably net you slightly more loot.

[Radaghast]

Thank you for the reply, if retrieval doesn't really effect things like materia V-VI's and Kamacite then I'll probably stick to the CUSyC build.

[Arlevous]

Thank you for the reply, if retrieval doesn't really effect things like materia V-VI's and Kamacite then I'll probably stick to the CUSyC build.

It effect things by a liiittle bit. But i do agree that having a CUSyC build is overall much better.