Submersible Information Thread

[DarkCometII]

Just had my first sub get back from Purgatory and it unlocks ship #4 (no surprise, really).

Expected, but handy to have confirmed. Care to share your drops? ^^

I was just wondering if anyone had come up with some decent builds for 40 yet. I have an idea but before I start crafting all these curious what other builds other folks were looking at!

Its a bit early to say. Its reasonable to assume based on airships/subs to date that optimised rare runs will be where the actions at, we need to be a bit surer about whats where to determine needed range and optimal build. Concealed > Kanayama > Purgatory may be a short option(Rug/Chest/Salvaged > Boule > ???).
Personally, I havent built any new parts since patch - my all unkiu's were 40 in 3 runs and I have enough shark and unkiu parts in the company chestTARDIS to fill and level the 4th slot.

That said, a few possibilities jump out;

All Colecanth could be a possibility, but at 80 range is probably a bit limited for getting that far up the map. If Komura & DS5 turn out to have something else decent on them Neo > Kon > Ds5 may be worth it(dont know about other servers but abyss & slab are still reasonably priced on moogle)

C/U/C/C (175/20/80/95/100)
Sacrifices retrieval for max surveillance and decent everything else, probably a good rare farmer if we can find a <95 range run for it.

C/W/C/C (175/40/50/110/90)
Keeps capped surveilance and sacrifices some favour for a probably quite usefull little nudge up on range, at the expense of going at snails pace.

U/U/W/C (110/90/50/105/105)
Could be a good generalist with some chance at rare and adequate retrieval, if you want pockets full of rubbish, but is again painfully slow.

C/C/W/C (130/95/80/70/115)
Another more generalist build with better chance at rares and the speed issue fixed but at the price of even lower range. This is the current highest statted build at a total of 490 stat points.

Heres a summary of what we know so far:

[StouterTaru]

I was just wondering if anyone had come up with some decent builds for 40 yet. I have an idea but before I start crafting all these curious what other builds other folks were looking at!

        Surv	Retr	Spd	Rng	Favor
CUUC 	170	30	110	50	110
CCWC 	130	95	80	70	115
UCWC 	105	115	55	90	105
UUWC 	110	90	50	105	105
CCWW 	75	100	65	130	105

[PepperPandemic]

(we still don't know how much Surveillance we really need for the Rare from 40 yet)

Do we know what the rare is for the 40 zone from the patchnotes / looking at the marketboard? That crystal boule looks too easy to get and I think acquisition will quickly outpace demand. I expect prices for it to tank fast. If the lv. 40 zone doesn’t have something really nice (mount, minion, new song, etc) I doubt it will be worth the effort to upgrade our subs. Housing stuff is a fun change for rewards in SB but not as in demand as the other stuff.

[Kazgrel]

Do we know what the rare is for the 40 zone from the patchnotes / looking at the marketboard? That crystal boule looks too easy to get and I think acquisition will quickly outpace demand. I expect prices for it to tank fast. If the lv. 40 zone doesn’t have something really nice (mount, minion, new song, etc) I doubt it will be worth the effort to upgrade our subs. Housing stuff is a fun change for rewards in SB but not as in demand as the other stuff.

I suspect that many who are sending subs out are just now clearing Purgatory for the first time. That, and it's possible not many have the new parts/builds set up yet. I suspect we should know something within the next week, though!

[Kazgrel]

Expected, but handy to have confirmed. Care to share your drops? ^^

Nothing fancy this go around:

[PepperPandemic]

Oh boy guys, Ambient Abyss drops from Deep Sea 5
XD

[PepperPandemic]

More "exciting" finds.
Dinosaur Fossils from Purgatory . . .

[DarkCometII]

More "exciting" finds.

Raw Celestine and Intelligence V from purgatory this morning, riveting stuff :-\

[Khalithar]

So I take it we still can't go to the NE section of the map yet?

[Eldeniel]

So far i'm very disappointed by submarines, nothing really big to win from it, except items that you can sell for like 30k/each, and not many materias unlike the airship. I think i will mainly send my airships to get me materias for crafters and gatherer than anything else...