Exploratory Missions/Old

Exploratory Missions, introduced in patch 3.1, allow individual adventurers and Free Companies to journey to faraway locations via airship.

Information

• Players can participate Exploratory Missions from the pier in Ishgard or dock in Free Company.

• Mission modes are divided into 3 difficulties Easy, Normal and Hard.

• Players can only participate in Hard mode with their Free Company members and Free Company Airships. Players join PUG groups for Easy and Normal modes from the Pier in Ishgard.

• PUGs in Ishgard can participate as groups of 1 - 8 players. Free Companies can bring a maximum of 3 ships for a full raid of 24 players.

• As long as someone in the Free Company is hosting the airship, players can invite non-FC members to join your FC’s expeditions.

• Loot rules for Exploratory missions can be set Normal, Lootmaster or All Greed if you're departing from an FC dock. However, if you are joining an in-progress mission from the pier in Ishgard, your rules will be set to All Greed.

The Diadem

• Activities for both combat and gathering classes.

• Players are free to change their jobs and classes inside.

• Each mission can last up to 90 minutes. players can choose how long they want to stay there. After each mission, players must wait 30 minutes before participating in another.

• Every 20 minutes the airship returns after being used.

• Each instance of the islands can hold up to 9 full parties (72 players).

• Flying will need to be unlocked every time you start a new mission

• Treasure chests will drop right after defeating the enemy (Bronze, Silver, Gold)